The player is asked to name their transport company, choose the colour of their vehicles' livery, select a gender and face for their transport manager and place their company headquarters somewhere on the map 3. Factors influencing difficulty in 'custom' mode include:Ī map is then generated by the computer. To complicate this simple choice, there are also four levels of difficulty: easy, moderate, hard and custom. Upon loading Transport Tycoon, the player has four options: begin a new game, load a saved game, play a multiplayer game 2 or view a tutorial. With perseverance a new copy of the game may be found, but it is unsurprising that many fans now obtain the game second-hand from online auction sites or download it illegally, under the justification that the game is 'abandonware'. The success of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, an update of the original version, has meant that few retailers now sell the standard Transport Tycoon release. While planning bus routes and laying train track may not sound very exciting, Transport Tycoon can prove highly addictive. The player has a simple objective: make profit and build up a company by using a variety of methods to transport resources. For a game that is now over ten years old and requires less than 10mb 1 of hard-drive space, Transport Tycoon has both remarkably good graphics and a high level of complexity. Designed and programmed by Chris Sawyer and released by Microprose in 1994, Transport Tycoon has come to be regarded as a true great of the strategy game genre.

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