Locomotion (PC)

It's now been 5 years since Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (CSL) is released. On that eventful day on 7th September 2004, possibly the best business strategy game since Transport Tycoon (and of course its successor TT Deluxe) was released. ---the BASICS--- CSL is a business transport strategy game. In this game the player is presented with a map with several cities and/or industries and is challenged to connect them with trams, buses, trucks, railway, planes and/or ships. The aim of the game is to make as much money as possible, or to fulfill the criteria set by the scenario creator (e.g. transport xx units of cargo by xx time). ---the ...  Read the complete review

Having played Transport Tycoon for the best part of a decade – I think I started playing in around January 1996, the question of whether or not to purchase the “spiritual sequel" was a pointless – of course I would, not least because the game had an inflation busting EUR 19.90 price tag - I'd expected that it was going to retail at closer to EUR 50. In the intervening period, Chris Sawyer has produced a number of games – basically all of the same genre – namely management simulations with an assortment of different flavours (e.g. rollercoasters, theme parks, railroads) and Locomotion is yet another in the series - indeed the engine behind it I believe is ...  Read the complete review