Railway Empire 2 Recaptures The Ambition and Joy of Your Childhood Strategy Board Games

Picture the scene: it’s family game night, and you’re playing Monopoly. You’re playing Monopoly with your younger brother or sister, who has tears in his/her eyes. They may be disapproving, but their power is limited against the law that you have set. This is also good. Unfortunately, many families don’t play Monopoly anymore. Maybe it’s difficult to gather everyone in one place, or maybe your family are just cowards to your superior Capitalist intellect. You can feel the thrill of a game of material and money competition. Railway Empire 2!

Like the classic board game, you have six choices of characters to choose from. However, unlike Monopoly where these pieces offer no real in-game features apart from style points (and thus the best game-piece is the top hat – fight me) in Railway Empire 2Each character has advantages and drawbacks in the game. Whilst The Engineer might be the master of building and maintaining tracks, he doesn’t have quite the… persuasive abilities of The Gangster when acquiring factories at auction. While the Professor has the ability to bargain with the manufacturer for cheaper locomotives and the Entrepreneur is clever enough to take full advantage of those working in her business, she can also use them as leverage.

Once you’ve decided on your character of choice, it’s time to get into the game! Starting out with a fledgling city, you begin connecting and expanding with the game’s intuitive-yet-complex track creation system. The game will ask you to choose between building a bridge across a troubled river or taking the longer route, saving money to construct more tracks and factories.

Like hotels in Monopoly, or Fianchettos in Chess – factories and warehouses are long-term investments for your empire. You can gain an economic advantage over your rivals by distributing goods efficiently between cities and producing refined products.

You will reap the rewards when you provide these complex luxury items to a growing town. The town will grow, providing you with more customers that will depend on you for transportation and who’ll sate their increasing appetite for the high life.

While Railway Empire 2You may not be able to traumatize a younger sibling but you will still feel that competitive drive. Then you can slowly buy your rivals out before absorbing the empire. Alternatively, and unlike real-life family members, you can slowly purchase their corporation – meaning that even while apparently competing with you – their profits are still coming into your coffers. You are in the golden era of locomotives and railroads.

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Railway Empire 2

Kalypso Media

☆☆☆☆☆
120

★★★★★

$49.99

Railway Empire 2 is the fastest way to fame and fortune! Put on the coat of an entrepreneur and take control of a railway in early 1800s. Your steam engines will become the mainstay of your economy. As you grow your business into the biggest railway company on the continent, outsmart competitors and connect cities with a network of tunnels and bridges. You can choose from 60 locomotives that pull freight cars and passengers during an important era in history, the Industrial Revolution.

Railway Empire 2 has more vibrant, detailed and larger maps. In two massive, sprawling map, the US, continental Europe and the world are all covered. More detailed maps concentrate on particular regions in each continent. The improved track construction allows you to focus on important decisions while driving the economy and helping the city grow. Automatic signals, more tracks can be accommodated on bridges and expandable stations now allow up to eight tracks.

You can choose from six different characters, all with unique strengths and weaknesses. Choose from 14 scenarios or the 5 chapter campaign. Customise the difficulty of Free Play in order to suit your needs, or construct the ideal rail network using the Construction mode. Co-op Multiplayer lets you and your friends compete to build the best railway empire. Alternatively, you can board your train and watch the landscape pass by while the iron horse races along the track.

Features:
• History in the making: In 1830 at the dawn of the age of railways, build a grand railway empire from scratch and choose from 60 detailed, historic locomotives that you can customize with your preferred colors and company initials.
• A sprawling landscape: Huge and detailed game world covering the whole of the USA and Europe in one single map each, as well as more detailed regional maps spread all over the US and Europe.
• Endless Possibilities: Choose how you want to play from the 5-chapter campaign set across iconic regions of Europe and the US, 14 scenarios, the customizable free play mode, the relaxing construction mode, and co-op multiplayer for up to 4 players controlling the same railway company.
• Improved track construction: Laying tracks is easier than ever with automatically placed signals, bridges that can hold more than 4 tracks, train stations with up to 8 tracks and new train station attachments to customize your stations. Your track will adapt to the terrain as you cross through mountains, valleys, and plains.
• Enjoy the view: Ride along your train and see the landscape rush by from the inside of the wagons or from the front seat in the driver’s compartment of the steam engine.