Rating: This game is NOT intend to let you win,
Good idea, poorly designed, mechanics and considered YOU'RE THE PREY.
Everything is hunting you down and want you broke.
90% of random events are bad things.(if you don't trans weapons and alcohol, 80%)
The background is Civil War, just background; your story is NOT RELATED with Civil War, FOCUS AT YOUR F__KING SHARE WAR.
Some mission is intend to fail, or in the far place.
You've saved 30k for new train? Toll stations and share events will drain your dollars dry; what a F__KING nice, you need earn money, but the game will try to put you at the edge of broken,
Annoying random negative events to keep player busying at FARMING reputations, BUT rumor attacks ruined your reputation, more and more reputation damage.
The Share War campaign, would force you win at 51% vs 49%, that's why many events are always against you and AI could have it shares with only rumor warfare, so F__KING FAIR!
The battles are even more s__ts and unreasonable.
Real railroad bandits are so kind, they didn't lead a platoon of troopers encircle you and made a lot of FIELD WORKS near railroad and counted where your turrets are hard to hit.
AI build strong roadblocks and let your locomotive crashed at it, restrict your firepower.
(because there is only 1 man at locomotive)
Even your train could run through, dozens of curves awaits, speed limit is 10-30, consider you're driving a light rail train.
In any battle, AI fire 1st, even you've aim artillery 1st, AI could give you 1 or 2 precise strike before their gun been destroyed.
The 1st battle, have 7 enemies, 1 vs 7, in late game, 5 vs 25+, enemies have unlimited dynamites.
All mail events you have to accept, if you ignore them, you'll lose share war very SOON.
When you have around 10k money, toll stations will open everywhere, pay 4 broke or fight many armies, your squad have to deal with many platoons.
Hidden events(most are toll stations) was fixed by table of random numbers
The only kind in the game, is when you're the MOST WANTED and been busted, 60 days in jail, whoa that's really kind like Dem judges; not sent to shot or hang, what kind of this most wanted??
I'd happy to fight CS army(weaker than bandits) when entering their city, use their blood to build up my way.(The game is still friendly with Northern, it's almost unplayable if you want to side with Southern)
Most of music tracks are playing at the title screen, but only 2 tracks in game, WTF!
簡評: 這遊戲不打算讓你贏.
什麼鐵路大航海時代? 根本是海盜船上拉出來的屎, 最近讓我罵最多髒話的"遊戲".
點子很好, 但是設計, 節奏跟機制亂七八糟; 而且把你當"獵物"對待, 每件事都要搞死你, 讓你破產.
90%隨機事件都是壞事, 如果你從不運酒或武器, 80%.
背景是美國南北戰爭時期, 你的故事與南北戰爭幾無關聯, 操他媽的"股權戰爭"才是你要注意的事.
當你存了三萬塊想買新火車? 放心,收費站和事件會馬上把你的錢搶光,因為遊戲試著要把你維持在破產邊緣.
電腦隨時可以用事件壓你的城市聲望, 想要怎麼打壓就怎麼打壓, 你只能忙著農聲望, 不能反擊.
當你手上超過一萬, 隨機收費站會四處都是, 你付錢等破產,
戰鬥是一團大便, 沒有合理性可言, 只是要整你而已, 海盜船砲戰絕對碾壓.
大部份的攻擊只是拼骰子, 但老樣子, 你的手下, 命中率永遠比帳面上要低, 我看過炸藥丟到敵人身上還會miss
真正的火車大盜比這個遊戲仁慈的多, 牠們不會"帶一個排的軍隊來包圍你",
敵人會在鐵路沿線上做滿野戰工事, 工事還會算你的砲塔死角(吃相真他媽的難看)
路障擋住火車, 你沒機會逃(路障維持時間30分鐘,事實上,3分鐘內你沒取得優勢,滅團就是時間問題), 只有打到全體陣亡或敵全滅.
就算沒有路障, 除了開場就給你一個煞不住的急彎, 後面路段也充斥著輕軌級的急轉彎(速限10-30).
跟強盜硬打,就是"軍隊戰",動輒一個班打一個排.(你最多5個人, 敵最多25人,加上工事保護)
敵方炸藥無限, 你可以看到敵人丟出來的炸藥比裝備欄位還多.
電腦有絕對先攻權; 砲兵可以立即瞄準並射擊, 無論你摧毀敵砲兵的速度有多快, 至少能準確砲擊你1-2次.
遊戲裡最仁慈的, 是當你被登上懸賞名單時被抓的時候, 禾斗禾斗, 只要關六十天耶, 不是被抓去槍斃或是吊死(讓你重來), 好棒棒, 真是感恩民主黨的司法; 這是那門子的"懸賞"啦??
遊戲設計還是友好於北方(美國), 如果你想站在南方(邦聯), 遊戲會幾乎無法進行.
音樂安排可笑至極,標題畫面有很多曲目, 但遊戲中卻只有兩條曲目.
標題有(都是曲,不要問我為什麼認的出來):
美國國歌
英國國歌/My Country, 'Tis of Thee
Battle hymn of the Republic
Yankee Doodle,
