Head for the hills, the practice station’s on hearth.
Because the resident practice man at Nintendo World Report, I used to be very excited once I heard that Railway Empire 2 was introduced and coming to the Change. Taking part in the unique on the Change, although it was launched years after the PC model, was an excellent expertise and scratched the recurring Railroad Tycoon itch. And now it was moveable, which was even higher! So when it lastly got here out, I made positive to leap on reviewing it.
Sadly the port of Railway Empire 2 to Change is so buggy, it’s principally unplayable. I used to be delaying writing the overview in hopes of an replace to make the sport work accurately, however as of this writing, I haven’t seen an replace. The massive problem is that the sport randomly crashes the system, requiring a tough reset. It occurred twice throughout simply the tutorial ranges, which then pushed me to only strive beginning the marketing campaign, and that then crashed within the first degree after about 20 minutes in. One other, smaller problem with the tutorial is that at sure occasions, it could require you to put sure components in a selected spot, however relying on the way you laid your monitor beforehand, it could not will let you lay that component. This wouldn’t be an issue, however the tutorial at this level doesn’t allow you to again out of that menu to repair the monitor’s placement, (which you may do within the regular sport), requiring you to restart the tutorial degree.
Except for the preliminary bugs, the graphics are horrendous, in a method that makes this Change port appear a long time behind. I went again to the unique sport (operating on the identical precise Change) simply to verify I wasn’t fooling myself, and whereas the graphics within the unique sport aren’t wonderful, they’re lightyears higher than Railway Empire 2’s graphics on Nintendo’s hybrid.
The sport has some shiny spots, although I didn’t get to discover it an excessive amount of due to the aforementioned glitches and crashes. The trackbuilding has been reworked to require much less micromanaging, with enhancements such because the station gridiron, which is a monitor component that features a collection of switches and a sign bridge going over parallel tracks that routinely direct trains into an empty spot on the station. This may be dropped as a single component in entrance of the station, as an alternative of getting to format all of the monitor switches manually. The sport additionally makes it simpler to sign and direct trains by routinely putting in alerts on parallel tracks. This could make it simpler to concentrate on the extra financial components of the sport, however in truth I wasn’t in a position to play it sufficient to see if my concept was right.
Total, until an replace comes out to repair the glitches, both go purchase the sport on one other platform or simply return to taking part in the unique Railway Empire on Change. With graphics the way in which they’re, it in all probability shouldn’t be well worth the frustration of attempting to get it to work. It’s a disgrace as I see that they put work into bettering the monitor laying system, however it simply doesn’t seem like they put work into the Change port.
