Imagine the scene: It’s family game night and you’re playing Monopoly. Your younger sibling hands you over his last belongings with tears in his eyes. Your parents look on with disapproval, but they are powerless against the absolute law of the rulebook while you gaze proudly at a game board entirely controlled by you. And it’s good. Unfortunately, the families of many of us no longer get together for intense Monopoly games. Maybe it’s difficult to get everyone in one place, or maybe your family is just cowardly to your superior capitalist intellect. Anyway, you can feel that thrill again in a competitive game for money and materials: railway empire 2!
Similar to those old-school board games, you get to choose one of six characters in the game. However, this is unlike Monopoly, where these characters offer no real gameplay other than style points (and therefore the best character to play with is the Top Hat – fight me). railway empire 2The six individual characters each offer advantages and disadvantages in the game. While the engineer may be a master at constructing and maintaining railroad tracks, he does not have quite the persuasiveness of a gangster when it comes to acquiring factories at auction. The professor can haggle for cheaper locomotives, while the wily entrepreneur can make the most of the staff who run her empire.
Once you’ve decided on the character of your choice, it’s time to start playing! Start with a fledgling town and begin to connect and expand with the game’s intuitive yet complex track creation system. You’ll have to decide whether it’s worth building an expensive bridge across choppy waters, or taking the long detour that will slow down the route but save valuable cash to build more tracks or resource-building factories.
Factories and warehouses, like hotels in Monopoly or a fianchetto in Chess, are long-term investments for your empire. These give you economic advantages over your opponents by producing sophisticated goods and efficiently distributing them between cities.
But you will be richly rewarded for supplying a city with these complex luxuries, as the city will grow, providing you with new customers who will rely on your company to transport them and feed their ever-growing appetite for the good life .
So while railway empire 2 You may not be able to traumatize your younger sibling, but it will still encourage a healthy competitive spirit. You can slowly buy out your competitors before eventually absorbing their empire into your own. Alternatively, and unlike real family members, you can gradually buy out their businesses – meaning their profits, even if they appear to be in competition with you, still flow into your coffers. This is, after all, the golden age of the locomotive, the birth of the railroad system, and a perfect opportunity for a savvy entrepreneur like you.
Grasp railway empire 2 on Xbox Series X|S or play today through Xbox Game Pass.
railway empire 2
Kalypso Media
$49.99
Board the express train to fortune and fame in Railway Empire 2! Put yourself in the shoes of a shrewd entrepreneur, take over a small railroad company in the early 19th century and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your business into the continent’s largest railway company and outsmart your competitors by connecting cities and businesses with an ever-expanding network of railways, bridges and tunnels. You have 60 iconic locomotives at your disposal, all pulling freight and passenger cars, heralding an era of historical importance during the Industrial Revolution. Railway Empire 2 features larger, more detailed and more vibrant maps than ever before. All of the US and continental Europe are covered in two huge, expansive maps, while more detailed maps focus on specific regions of each continent. Improved railroading helps you focus on important decisions while driving the economy and helping cities grow. Signals are placed automatically, bridges can contain more than 4 tracks and the expandable stations can now have up to 8 tracks. Choose from 6 different characters to run your railway company, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Play the 5 chapter campaign or choose one of the 14 different scenarios. Set your own difficulty in the fully customizable Free Spins mode or build the perfect railroad track in Build mode. Face the competition of your railroad empire together with friends in co-op multiplayer mode. You can also board one of your trains and watch the scenery go by as the iron horse races across the tracks while you sit back and enjoy the view. Features: • History is Made: In 1830, at the dawn of the railroad age, build a great railroad empire from the ground up and choose from 60 detailed, historic locomotives that you can customize with your favorite colors and company initials. • An expansive landscape: Huge and detailed game world covering the entire US and Europe on a single map each, as well as more detailed regional maps spread across the US and Europe. • Endless Possibilities: Choose how you want to play from the 5-chapter campaign that stretches through famous regions of Europe and the USA, 14 scenarios, the customizable free play mode, the relaxing building mode and the co-op multiplayer mode for up to 4 players controlled by the same railway company. • Improved Track Construction: Laying tracks is easier than ever with auto-placed signals, bridges that can hold more than 4 tracks, stations with up to 8 tracks, and new station fortifications to customize your stations. The terrain also adapts to your route as your routes traverse mountains, valleys and plains. • Enjoy the View: Ride your train and watch the scenery rush by from inside the carriages or from the front seat in the steam locomotive cab.
