Step into any Train Sim World cab and you’ll be greeted with the same sight as any engineer – banks of controls ready for your command, giving you power over every aspect of your locomotive’s operation. Fight your way up Germany’s Spessartrampe incline, navigate the sprawling underground station at New York Penn or simply gape at the cavernous wonder of Manchester’s Victoria Station – and on every route you’ll find true-to-life regional signalling systems and a brand-new set of challenges. Powered by SimuGraph®, Train Sim World locomotives accurately recreate not only the appearance of their real-world counterparts, but also under-the-hood physics, cabs, control desks, sounds and even the feel of the trains.Īll of this is set on a collection of real-world routes from around the world.
The ‘Journeys’ feature will guide you through over 24 real hours of scenarios, tutorials and service timetables for each route – plus a new progress tracker will highlight hundreds of railway jobs available for you to complete as you master the routes. Balance your brake pressure, control your speed, manage refuelling, switching, yard work and more. Train Sim World puts you in the engineer’s seat of breathtakingly authentic machines. Take to the rails with the brand-new Train Sim World 2020 Edition and find everything you need to master new skills, from general to advanced operation of locomotives as you operate smooth passenger and freight services, scenarios and much more. This game is not worth the money you spend.Train Sim World is an immersive first-person simulator perfect for everyone, with complete in-cab interactivity, accurate detail on locos, real-world routes and hours of gameplay. Get over that fact and you will notice that the core game seems to have fewer trains and tracks-then you realize that the best stuff is attained via the downloadable content, which they charge you extra for. No matter where you buy it, the cost is still stupidly high. This punishes the buyer, and this game takes punishment to a whole new level. The cost of this game is often higher for a niche area because they need to make their money back with a smaller target audience. The level of quality differs place to place when you travel, and they force feed you adverts for their downloadable content whenever they can. Sounds are very similar from train to train in some cases, the downloadable content is overpriced, and there is a variety of bugs that the developers haven’t bothered to fix. The game may even micro-freeze when loading a new tile.
The frame rate can get pretty bad some times and can dip below 20 because of a lack of multi-core support. Many people say it is not really a simulator since only around five of the buttons in the cab actually work. A lot of it looks the same, and things such as the 3D clouds or more rain on the screen is hardly noticeable. The developers promised a lot of big changes from the 2014 version and they didn’t deliver.
You are not going to need a big instruction book on how to play, plus, the workshop expands the playtime hugely. There is a fair amount of downloadable content, which may seem like a good thing, but is it fair that they ask you extra money for it, especially when you consider the high prices they charge? The game is pretty easy to understand and start playing right from the start. The game was greatly anticipated, but reviews of it so far have been mostly negative, and this review is no different because the game is not worth the money you spend on it.
You can buy Train Simulator 2015 on its own, or you can update your 2014 version. A train simulator that is on the right track.