Train Simulator
by Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Train Simulator
Customer Review: Where's The Fun?
Summary: 4 Stars
With Microsoft coming out with Train Sim., I wanted it instantly. The first thing I noticed was the amazing graphics. It was easy to start the train, but only certain trains can go on certain tracks. It's fun at first, yet gets old easy. All you do is drive a train. Don't waste $30 like I did! This game is one of the very rare swings and misses by Microsoft. Customer Review: Junk
Summary: 1 Stars
Save your money. It won't install properly and keeps crashing (the program, that is).Customer Review: What simulator?
Summary: 1 Stars
I installed the game, only to have it crash everytime it got past the "loading" screen. My drivers are up to date on supported video and sound cards. I also disabled all programs running in the background and got the same result.
So I uninstalled the program and attempted to reinstall it. That was a mistake - about one minute into the install process, I got a BSOD. Everytime I've tried to reinstall, BSOD.
What simulator? I can't even install the program now to find out how good or bad it is! My real mistake was purchasing this program. BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Customer Review: Buggy software
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this game in eager anticipation of the beautiful sites I would be passing by on my way to exotic destinations around the world. Didn't happen. I have tried many of the different scenarios and the game always crashes after about 5 or 10 minutes of playing. I've tried reinstalling the game several times to no avail.
I am disappointed because I paid around $30 and I feel like I wasted my money. I am also surprised Microsoft released such a crappy, buggy product. I am not at all accustomed to Microsoft softwares crashing on a regular basis. Microsoft is after all, a software company.
I will say this, for the few minutes that I am able to get the train up and running it is fun looking at the surrounding landscape.
Customer Review: Mostly just crashes, Software crashes that is.
Summary: 1 Stars
Being a rail fan, I was happy to see a simulator for trains. I was hesitant because it was from Microsoft. My reluctance was well founded. The game is well meaning, but it is so riddled with bugs that it is virtually unplayable.
When the game does not out right crash or freeze it is plagued by serious simulation errors. Incorrect parameters in the physics setting of most of the rolling stock and track cause endless, random derailments and broken couplers.
If you visit the fan support sites you will find countless threads about these problems. Some of these bugs can be fixed by editing the simulation files ... long winded hand editing of hundreds of files required to fix the careless QC of the developers is not fun. These fixes also take away some of the realism. Because of the bugs you have to enter impossibly high breaking forces for couplers to keep them from randomly falling apart.
If you manage to survive all those bugs you will find many of the activities are so poorly designed that they can't be completed. The train orders may tell you to go west when the destination is east.
The activities are supposedly editable, but the tools included for editing the activities (routes, cars) are so incredibly unstable that I can't imagine the original designers actually releasing them, much less using them.
This game was a real disappointment. I had hoped for a realistic simulation. It could have been that, but the quality is just too bad. The only reason I give this game 3 stars and not one is because I love trains. Were it not for that it would be a 1 star because of the awful playability.