Whether you're routing planes, laying track, bulldozing land, building canals, shipping cargo or moving passengers, Transport Tycoon offers an amazing level of gameplay and detail within an easy to use environment. Graphics and animations are detailed and include nice touches like a vapor trail from jets, navigational buoys for your shipping lanes, eight different tree types you can plant and sign placement (you name the signs). Manipulating resources, building structures and general gameplay are handled through a simple point and click mode.
Detailed charts are available to help in areas of vehicle costs, maintenance and capacity while financial charts help to monitor progress against rivals and provide your company information such as operating profit, income, cargo payment rates, delivered cargo, etc. Keeping track of the many aspects of your empire is done through the use of windows, several of which can be opened simultaneously with each allowing you to keep an eye on some facet of your empire's management. The interface is simple to learn and use and four tutorial demos are included to make it even easier. Game options include customizing the music by choosing between old or new styles from the Jazz Jukebox (or turning it off - it does tend to get repetitive), adjusting the difficulty level (easy, medium or hard which affects your initial cash balance), color scheme, detail level, distance units (miles or kilometers), town name language (English, European or American), currency (dollar, pound, franc, deutsche mark or yen), whether your vehicles drive on the left or right side of the road, building appearance (solid or transparent) and even the face of your empire's president.
Revenues and working capital can be acquired by dealing with town councils who offer subsidies (requiring special routes) and establishing routes to move products such as coal, wood, oil, steel, livestock and grain. You'll need to upgrade these facilities as time marches on while managing your finances by borrowing, repaying loans, appropriating funds to buy, maintain and upgrade your transportation empire assets and keeping abreast of your competitors' status. To support these modes of transportation, you as the manager will have to acquire land and use bulldozers to mold it to your purposes, construct airports, ship depots, docks, roads, bus stations, truck terminals, railroad tracks, train depots, signals, tunnels, and bridges.
Chris Sawyer, the game's developer, has beefed up the original idea of a train empire to include airplanes, buses, trucks, and ships. In a game inspired by Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon (according to the designer's notes), Transport Tycoon carries the concept of transportation management to new heights.
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