Product Description

Take the controls from the engineer's cab with thousands of tons of freight behind you and exciting challenges ahead. From steam engines to diesel to electric, immerse yourself in the sights, sounds and adventures of trains.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2102 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: B87-00002
• Released on: 2001-06-07
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• WINDOWS 98/ME/2000/XP

Amazon.com Review
Train Simulator takes the obsessive realism of Microsoft's best-of-breed Flight Simulator games down to earth. Six real-world rail lines are included from throughout history, including the Flying Scotsman line of 1920s England and the modern Odakyu Electric Rail commuter line in Tokyo. Attendees at the National Model Railroad Association's August 2000 convention marveled at the game's painstaking attention to detail. But this game is not a model railroad game; it simulates the real thing. The game's developers traveled across the world with cameras and microphones in order to authentically capture the trains in their natural habitats. Train Simulator lets you experience the world's greatest trains in all their glory.

Train aficionados can drive the train, run the rail yard, or dive in with the terrain editor and create the rail lines of their dreams. Or you can just sit back, relax, and admire the beautiful scenery and dreamy click-clack of the tracks. --Andrew S. Bub

DailyRadar Review
UK developer Kuju has announced it is underway with Microsoft Train Simulator, a game which will put enthusiasts in the cab of a variety of locomotives -- including Japan's high speed bullet train. As well as a variety of engines, the simulation will include hundreds of miles of realistic track recreating a variety of famous train routes around the world. Routes on offer include the Santa Fe Railway, the mountainous Hisatsu line on Japan's southern island of Kyushu and the Orient Express route across the Alps."We are pleased that Microsoft is giving Kuju the opportunity to develop Microsoft Train Simulator," said Ian Baverstock, business development director at Kuju. "Kuju's established reputation in creating high-quality simulation software is crucial in helping us deliver Microsoft Train Simulator to the same high standards Microsoft Flight Simulator has set." The game will make its public debut at the National Model Railroad Association's National Train Show, held between 4-6 August 2000 in San Jose, California, USA.

Customer Reviews

Great simulator, lots of fun for train fans. Crashes occasionally, it's Microsoft afterall...
It's a great program, the graphics and simulation are great! It's a job well done, no question about that. The views from inside (forward, or to either side) or form outside, birds eye view are great and all the gauges and control gear inside the cab of each train is designed realistically after real trains. My son loves it and I find it very interesting as well.

It's a good tool to give us a flavor of what it's like to ride a train and what all the engineer has to be aware of and pay attention to. It's great that it gives you a number of options on what engines to ride, which routes to take and what to do on those routes. You can just check out the route with an engine or do real jobs of pulling freight, for example, with tasks along the route like picking up and dropping off cars or switching cars at a particular place. It includes the manual for engineers to teach you how to run each of the engines in the game and do all the jobs that are there. I suppose there may come a time when one masters all the routes and all the jobs and there is nothing new to learn after that, but we're not to that point so for us it's still learning something new.

We run it on W2000, but have plenty of processing power an memory, but it still crashes once in a while. It's a bother, but given that it's Microsoft it's no surprise. I do recommend this game for anyone interested in trains and wanting to get the experience of being the engineer.

Excellent
My son loves trains and is an expert at them now because of this product while only being in kindergarden. But the program is so large it sometimes causes my system to crash while trying to load up.

jake's trains
My mom purchased this game for me. We got online and checked out other train simulator games. When we read the reviews for the games we looked at, they refered this game as the best. I really, really love it. You can pick the train, the track, the season, the weather conditions and the cars. The game is very good because you drive the train, control the speed and the brakes. It also simulates the scenes in the engine and out of the engine, all the way to the caboose. I also like it when it simulates a crash when you make an error. You can observe it in the cab and out of the cab. Very great game worth buying.