Railway Empire 2 Evaluation – Evaluation

Because the resident practice man at Nintendo World Report, I used to be very excited after I heard that Railway Empire 2 was introduced and coming to the Swap. Enjoying the unique on the Swap, although it was launched years after the PC model, was an amazing expertise and scratched the recurring Railroad Tycoon itch. And now it was transportable, which was even higher! So when it lastly got here out, I made positive to leap on reviewing it.

Sadly the port of Railway Empire 2 to Swap is so buggy, it’s principally unplayable. I used to be delaying writing the evaluation in hopes of an replace to make the sport work accurately, however as of this writing, I haven’t seen an replace. The massive concern is that the sport randomly crashes the system, requiring a tough reset. It occurred twice throughout simply the tutorial ranges, which then pushed me to simply attempt beginning the marketing campaign, and that then crashed within the first stage after about 20 minutes in. One other, smaller concern with the tutorial is that at sure occasions, it will require you to put sure parts in a particular spot, however relying on the way you laid your observe beforehand, it will not assist you to lay that factor. This wouldn’t be an issue, however the tutorial at this level doesn’t allow you to again out of that menu to repair the observe’s placement, (which you possibly can do within the regular recreation), requiring you to restart the tutorial stage.

Except for the preliminary bugs, the graphics are horrendous, in a means that makes this Swap port appear a long time behind. I went again to the unique recreation (working on the identical actual Swap) simply to ensure I wasn’t fooling myself, and whereas the graphics within the unique recreation aren’t wonderful, they’re lightyears higher than Railway Empire 2’s graphics on Nintendo’s hybrid.

The sport has some brilliant spots, although I didn’t get to discover it an excessive amount of due to the aforementioned glitches and crashes. The trackbuilding has been reworked to require much less micromanaging, with enhancements such because the station gridiron, which is a observe factor that features a sequence of switches and a sign bridge going over parallel tracks that robotically direct trains into an empty spot on the station. This may be dropped as a single factor in entrance of the station, as a substitute of getting to structure all of the observe switches manually. The sport additionally makes it simpler to sign and direct trains by robotically putting in indicators on parallel tracks. This could make it simpler to deal with the extra financial components of the sport, however honestly I wasn’t in a position to play it sufficient to see if my principle was appropriate.

Total, until an replace comes out to repair the glitches, both go purchase the sport on one other platform or simply return to taking part in the unique Railway Empire on Swap. With graphics the best way they’re, it in all probability isn’t definitely worth the frustration of making an attempt to get it to work. It’s a disgrace as I see that they put work into bettering the observe laying system, however it simply doesn’t seem like they put work into the Swap port.