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Reviews (35)
Feb 21, 2008
Good for Older "Railroad" Fans and Soon to Be Fans
I bought this for my 12 year old son. Both him, and myself have become proficient on the older Railroad Tycoon II and when we saw that a new "Railroads" came out, I bought it for the both of us.
"Railroads" graphics are the big standout in the Railroads game. I have a 2003ish clean running Pentium 4 @ 2.66GHz with NVidia graphics card and 1GB of RAM and I had to turn the graphics on this game to minimum in order to get keep the picture from being herky - jerky. It asks a lot out of the graphics card.
The older Railroads II game can go deeper into "complexity" or "Realism" than the Railroads game does, but that is ok because the graphics are like eating desert to the eye and there is plenty of strategy in the newer "Railroads" version.
Having read some of the reviews listed here, I am reminded of the commonly made comments heard when a really popular book is made into a movie. Railroad Tycoon II and III set a high standard for a deep simulation strategy game that takes tens and hundreds of hours to master. Most of the "grand masters" of RRIII most likely started with the original Railroad Tycoon and progressed through the different versions on their path to proficiency in RRT3. With the newer Railroads game, I can see a new generation of younger gamers getting hooked on Railroads simplier game play and graphics. Then when Railroads II comes out, I suspect it will attempt to bring this newest series of Railroad simulation to the level where Railroad Tycoon III left off.
For the time being, I can see a Sid Meier Railroad simulation fan playing both versions depending upon how much time they had for a game and how deep they wanted to get. So far we have not played RR II since getting the newer Railroads. ;)
Feb 26, 2017
Did Buy Again
I liked the first one enough to buy a second one to use when on trips.
May 09, 2009
This was a Good Buy
1 of 1 found this helpful I did a lot of research before buying a new camcorder. My previous camcorder, which broke, was a Digital tape. To transfer an hour of tape to my PC took an hour. With the hard drive camcorder it is minutes. The available pixels with this CCD was high. The still pictures are at least average which is good for a Camcorder taking still pictures. You can take stills while recording. I REALLY like the slow speed feature. With this feature, I can have the camcorder pointed at my son in a baseball game and wait until he is involved in action. At the end of the action, I can press the record button. The camcorder will then take the PREVIOUS 3 seconds of action and record them into a 12 second slow motion with great resolution video clip. I also coach a football team - I wish this feature would record the previous 30 seconds and I could adjust it to a 60 second playback. That would give this camcorder 6 bars for a review.
This brings me to the one thing I don't like. After I purchased this camcorder and tried using it on football plays and then slowing the video down in my Adobe Premier Elements 4 editor. I could not get a "smooth" slowed down video like I could with my Digital Tape Camcorder. I found out that "all" the newer hard drive camcorders provide the video already compressed into MPEG-2 format while the camcorder with digital taped video is brought over to the PC as DV.avi format. The bigger file DV.avi format is better for editing in effects like time stretch. It is not a big visual difference, but it is noticeable.
Since I bought the camcorder used on eBay for a lower price, I don't feel that I cheated myself on the lesser quality video after using time stretch. The good news about getting the video in MPEG2 format is that it is DVD near-ready. If you get a video editor for MPEG2 files, you can cut and paste and put together a good video with a minimum of having to re-encode the original camcorder file since it is already DVD-MPEG2.
The quality of the video (horizontal lines of resolution) is better than my previous camcorder, but still falls noticeably short of the VERY much more expensive camcorders.
Just to share some of the knowledge I learned;
- This web site was the best for "tell me what I want to know..." type information on digital video.
http://videoexpert.home.att.net/
The MPEG2 Video Editor I ended up buying was Wombles Video Wizard DVD.