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Rails across America

Tom's Review: The year's most original strategy game is also the cleverest game about money since Stardock's unsung Entrepreneur/Corporate Machine, which was itself the cleverest game about money since M.U.L.E. Rails is about war in brass-and-mohoghany board rooms, where the wounded bleed green, where track and trains spill out of the disemboweled, and where a bankruptcy is as good as a gib. All the while you're covering an unspoiled virgin map of America with railroads, the pulsing veins of commerce and prosperity. Elegant, exciting, superbly paced, unique, challenging, and addictive. Dani Bunten would have been proud.

Read Tom's full review in the December issue of Computer Games Magazine.

Publisher: Strategy First
Developer:
Flying Labs
Genre:
streamlined strategy
Requirements:
understanding that this ain't Railroad Tycoon

January 8, 2002

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