Hier ein Review von Ars Technica, ebenfalls in englisch. Werd hier nur die Zusammenfassung posten. Das ganze Review findet ihr unter folgendem Link: http://arstechnica.com/reviews…omotion/locomotion-1.html
ZitatAlles anzeigenThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly are about to depart the station
The Good
- It's the spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon Deluxe. 'Nuff said.
- The scenario editor is very promising.
- Game mechanics are virtually unchanged. That's doubleplusgood.
- Very low system requirements allow everybody to get a piece of the action.
- At $29.99, it's more forgiving on your wallet than most games out there.
- Seeing independent devs still doing their thing. Keep on truckin'.
The Bad
- It really doesn't seem like almost ten years have passed since TTDX. It's simply not evident at all in-game.
- The graphics may be too busy and not really attractive to some.
- There 's a problem of scale. Vehicles look cartoonish. Particularly trains.
- The terrain is needlessly difficult to work with sometimes.
- Lack of a directly-configurable "'sandbox" mode when you don't want to play a scenario.
- No depots? Inconceivable!
- Vehicle reliability issues + lack of refit option = me back to lay the Dawn of War demo.
The Ugly
- Rollercoasters and trains don't mix. The building method is the single most difficult obstacle to overcome.
- The lack of an alternative, click-and-drag building option for those who might prefer it.
- Tile-based terrain is so 90s.
- Features from TTDX absent for no good reason.
Bugs encountered
A very small, dead spider in the box. I kid you not. Other than that, the vehicles' reliability seems to be out of tune.
Multiplayer
The game comes with an option for two-player games via Internet or a LAN, where each player controls a different transportation company on the same scenario or map. I couldn't try it, since I only bought one copy.
And even if I had bought two, well… who am I going to play with? Things are not so hot with my wife right now, thanks to the whole running around naked deal.
Box contents
- The hopes of reliving my late teens, crushed into little pieces on the bottom
- 1 CD, neatly packed into an elaborate cardboard contraption along with the manual
- 1 small, but surprisingly comprehensive manual
- The aforementioned spider
Final score
A six is about right. It's not a bad game. It's just a good game that, in my opinion, is severely hampered by its track laying method and the characteristics of the terrain in some scenarios. It can become frustrating. Locomotion keeps the core game mechanics untouched from previous games, while attempting to go into a few new directions. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes not. Still, here's the transport sim fix for us genre junkies, despite some curiously missing features and an apparent lack of polish. A six is not a bad score at all, but what's especially painful to me is that the previous incarnation was an eight or a nine. It feels like a step back.
Konnte das Bewertungssystem nicht finden, Punktemaximum scheint aber 10 zu sein.
