Trainz a New Era is coming out soon!

[PerRock]

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Trainz a New Era (or TANE) is coming out on May 15th. You can preorder it now, details below.

TANE's features include: Full world generated shadows, Procedural Junctions, Train motion, Locomotive tuning, the easy to learn & use Surveyor, multiplayer, and much more.

The purpose-built "Reality" engine delivers full world shadows, 15km draw distances, post-processing effects, 64 bit processing and multi-threaded architecture for better performance.

Includes more then 400 miles of built-in routes, including the East Coast Main Line in the UK from Edinburgh to London (393 miles alone!), the C&O Hinton Division running thru West Virginia, Healesville from Australia, and many more. Plus of course the thousands of routes available on the Download Station.

Get On Board.

http://www.trainzgetonboard.com/

Preorder includes:

6 months VIP access to the DLS

2 New DLC locomotives

Save 20% on the game

 

[George K]

Any feedback on this program?

Being a Mac user, I'm short on options, and I don't want to throw money at something that's mediocre.

 

[PerRock]

The general opinion is 'meh' by most. Give it a few service packs and I think it could be a good game.

There are a lot of bad reviews out for TANE, most are from long-term Trainz users who are quite angry as to how N3V is handling things with this release. The biggest being the introduction of DRM (aka if their servers aren't online you can't use the game) and the breaking of essentially every piece of content made for previous versions, despite N3V promising that everything will work.

For a Mac user Trainz Mac 2 (same company, older version) appears to be a decent game. I've heard very little bad things about it.

Peter

 

[George K]

Thanks for your thoughts, Peter. I'll look into it.

Ratings on the App Store are good.

Out of 504 ratings, 331 are five-star.

 

[Palmetto]

It seems to harken back to the glory of yore. Steam, SD40s and the like. I could care less about that sort of thing, although I know a lot of fans eat it up.

I guess I prefer to run a train in the current reality. YMMV.