Rails Across America
Brand New
Factory Sealed Retail Box
Rails Across America is a game of railroad
empires in North America, covering the period from 1830 to the near
future. It is a real-time strategy with a "sim" flavor. Rails allows
hundreds of tracks with thousands of trains crossing the continent.
Players must focus on strategic decisions: Where to expand, where to
compete, and when to call in favors from government officials, unions
leaders, and other powerful figures.
Contains over 60 different engines and cars. Cause financial panics,
start investigations into rival companies, instigate strikes, and more
along with sophisticated cargo routing system enabling large-scale play
with hundreds of tracks and thousands of trains! Find out about the 18
different historical and "What If?" scenarios!
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The
feel of running a big, Class 1 Railroad (Players run hundreds of
routes with thousands of trains across the entire US)
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Sophisticated cargo routing "sim" models (One change can have a
ripple effect throughout an entire region)
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Great Multiplayer play (Up to 8 players all wheeling and dealing)
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Victory isn't a zero-sum affair (Your competitors in one area of the
map can also be your partners in another)
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Handsome graphics (Players get to compete across a map of the entire
US, watch all the different engines running on their tracks, hear
authentic sounds of the engines, see geese flying overhead, cargo
ships coming into port and watch cities produce goods)
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Cities evolve over time (Growing and shrinking according to actual
historical population records. Major cities will have well-known
landmarks)
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Prestige (Many games use money as both the victory condition and the
fundamental unit of expansion, which means that when one player
takes the lead, they keep the lead. Rails uses Prestige, which can
come from a variety of sources, such as building the most track in a
year, completing the trans-continental, dominating a region,
engineering an investigation into one of your competitors)
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