You can also download other people's content and then further customize it yourself to fit your needs. Players can customize trains, including the paint scheme on them. Users can create their own landscapes, lay out train tracks, and set up rail routes. There is a download client that comes with the game which connects you to a centralized repository for the content, so you don't have to go browsing the net for add-ons and landscapes. Lastly is the Content Manager/Downloader feature, which gives the player the ability to go online and download additional developer- or user-created content. Plenty of information about using the surveyor mode can be found on community-supported web sites, but it would have been nice to have more in-game tips and instructions. The surveyor editor is quite complex with a myriad of options, and the instruction manual explains very little. Several of the stock scenarios feature tutorials, but unfortunately, the tutorials only focus on the driver mode and leave the surveyor mode without instructions. The scenarios you can play through vary from cargo hauling missions to passenger transportation. Also you have to take into consideration how much load the train is hauling, and you have to make sure to not go too fast around turns to avoid derailment. You need to be concerned with things like brake pressure, cutoff valves, engine fluid levels and other arcane details. The Cab control mode is a more realistic control scheme that puts the player inside the engine cab with the engineer's point of view and lets you control much more about the train. You have a few other buttons for turning on the train lights and honking the horn. You have a dial for speed turning it to the right accelerates the train forward and turning it to the left accelerates the train in reverse. DCC control puts you in an external overhead viewpoint with a simplified control scheme, similar to controlling a train on a model set. When you start a level on the driver mode, you have the option of selecting DCC or Cab control mode. This adds a great deal to the variety in the scenery, since you'll almost always have new tracks, train routes, and landscapes on which to play. You can play on one of the many stock levels, or any of the levels that you or other users create. The Driver mode allows you become the engineer for one or more trains. This is probably the best feature for the true railroad enthusiast. After you are comfortable with designing and setting up landscapes, tracks, and scenery, you can recreate almost any desired locale. The cities are not quite as well done as the rural areas, and they lack many of the accustomed sights and sounds associated with densely populated areas. You can lay down trees, buildings, water, mountains, tunnels, bridges, and nearly everything else that you would see in an urban or rural setting. There are a plethora of objects to which the user has access.
Surveyor mode allows you to design landscapes and train routes it's basically a level editor with a high level of detail and customization options. There is also an option to view Trainz Exchange, which is just a bulletin board of current and upcoming community events and content. Railyard is just a viewing mode which allows you to look at every train in the game and read a historical technical description about it. It is essentially a virtual train set to play with.Īfter going through the tedious process of installing the game from 5 CDs, you will find several main game options: Surveyor, Driver, Railyard, and a Content Manager/Downloader.
It is quite possibly the most complex and realistic train simulator ever created, and it is also quite likely to be the only train simulator out on the current market. This is version 2.5 and the newest iteration of Auron's train simulator, which initially debuted in 2001. Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006 is the ultimate railroad/train simulation game that allows the player to drive, modify, and customize trains.
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