Railfan Gaming > Rails Across America

http://www.flyinglab.com/rails/

I just ran across this a few minutes ago. It looks pretty good, until I hit the multiplayer part. If I read it correctly you can only play on a LAN, not even over the internet. Hopefully the AI will be a bit better than in RR Tycoon 2.

heracles87 wrote:
> If I read it correctly you...
> can only play on a LAN, not even over the internet. Hopefully
> the AI will be a bit better than in RR Tycoon 2.

Hm. They'd have to work extra-hard to make it /not/ work over the internet. I gotta check this out...

You were right, from their website:
"Multiplayer currently works only over a LAN, not through a modem connection."

Man, I hope that's not vaporware (I've never heard of that publsiher or any of their games, although I'm not much of a strategy war-gamer).

It looks very cool. It'll eventually be playable via the internet; it also says on their site that the demo will have 4 people max. and be played through Gamespy.

That looks really cool. Good catch on finding that one!

<a href="http://www.flyinglabs.com/rails&quot;&gt;Link to FlyingLabs site</a>

-A4T

http://www.strategyfirst.com/ is marketing the game. AFAIK, Strategy First is a European company who finds interesting projects like this from small developers, then publishes them. I have a number of Strategy First titles, and have yet to be dissapointed.

The screen graphics, options, etc.. look very similar to TD2.

Paul De Luca
An addicted TD2 and TD2 - The Second Century player..

Paul,

What is "TD2 - The Second Century"?

Rob

Rob,

Oops!...my mistake. I regularly play "Railroad Tycoon", and Railroad Tycoon - The Second Century".

I also enjoy playing TD2 (Train Dispatcher 2). I wrote 2 or 3 of the simulations for TD2 using the "Track Builder" program. I have not purchased "Train Dispatcher 3" yet, which I hear contains many improvements.

I'm teething to p/u a copy of MSTS in a few weeks...

Paul

Sweet guys! I applied for the Beta testing and it looks like I was accepted! Anyone else interested can apply at the link in my 1st post. This should be fun.

Positive reviews for the beta so far....Agressive AI....You can play multi player over the internet.....looks good.