Train Empire (Windows CD)

Good game great graphics and music. For turning the track pieces on your mouse use the wheel button between the two big buttons on your mouse.

This game is good, and you do want to keep playing (keep saving though as it is quick and you can soon run out of money). It is interesting watching the cities grow and new ones appear; and just as you think you have it mastered, it stats again and moves up a level (more modern trains and more stations). Yes there are a few bad points, but the only one that is really strange is that trains go into reverse when thay come to a stop signal! Other irritating points include the train detail (no tentders behind steam locomotives); not being able to build track where you want (at certain places), the user guide says these are pieces of land reserved for future stations; and you can position points at the end of a tunnel and not be able to see the switch control clearly enough. For anyone interested in 'railway things', it is worth getting.

It is a good game but you have to be fast enough to be able to get pass the first fases as you run out of money pretty quick if you don't work out how to build your railway tracks fast. You end up start it all over time and time again which makes the player looses interest after a while making it ever so frustating. In my opinion, it should have had a better progressive level to allow those less capable to work out the game and learn it as the level increases the difficulty slowly. Overall, the price for the product contributes to the fun of the game.