Traffic Giant

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $19.98

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Customer Reviews:

One of my favorites [Posted on 2003-02-15]
Hey-The first day I got this, I spent 2 hours playing and got past 2 levels. Its challenging, but not that challenging that you get so frusterated that you cant bea tthe level....Its 5/10 on how hard it is-Fun, i give it a 9/10-Let me get you better understanding on what you do-Your the manager of a citys transportation-You can sit and watch the city from overview and watch where people go and all that junk, or you can build bus routes. This means you but a bus stop at every spot you want the bus to stop. So basiclly your making the route. You buy the bus and then you set the ticket prices, how much you pay the drivers (the more you pay the better driver and the friendlyer they will be)-You see if one stop has 40 people and another has 2, you can build another bus route in that same spot to make waiting time lower. You do the same exact things with trains!!! Overall, I highly suggest this game, i am having lots of fun with it, it was completly worth the money! Randy

Great game! [Posted on 2004-05-27]
So few good games these days have such low system requirements: 233mhz, 32MB RAM, 2MB Video, 4x CD-ROM, 240MB space. I purchased this game and installed it on my 800mhz, 320MB RAM, XP Pro system and it works perfectly. Though I haven't attempted to install any of the patches/updates yet. Great job JoWood! You may have a new return customer.

Crashes for me too [Posted on 2004-07-17]
I just bought it - it crashes. It happens when I am trying to build the more advanced transportation (trains, trams, etc). I wish there was a fix - it was a good game up until the constant crashes. What a dissapointment.

The detailed & urban version of "A-train" [Posted on 2004-08-22]
If you like Mass transit and traffic and all that, then you'll love this game. I've read many reviews where they said the computer kept crashing, or it would crash when a new mode of transit would be available, but aside from that (because I never faced those problems) it is a good game for the "trafficly minded".

First off, they got so many different missions each mission is different in a way that it makes each city feel unique. Depending on what mode you choose, they start you out with a limited number of Mass transit vehicles, each with different passenger capacities. As the game progresses and you start making more money and making people happy, more advanced vehicles start coming in. They have everything from 10 passenger transit vans to 20-40 passenger basic buses, 30 & 45 passenger hydro-diesel buses, 80 passenger double decker buses, even a special 15 passenger hydro electric shuttle bus (way later in the game), different types of LRV's (Light rail vehicles--trolleys, trams, etc...), Heavy rail, Monorail, and suspension trains... you name it

Missions include making a certain amount of money in a certain period of time, or reaching a certain company value in a certain time period and stuff like that.

Buildings come from all over, they have lots of medieval looking buildings that give some of the cities a unique blend because they do a good job mixing the historic with the contemporary (modern). As for city types, they have so many different types and sometimes, they'll give you only a certain district of a big city to play with. But overall, there are urban areas, suburban, industrial, tourist-oriented, downtowns, residential areas, some residential areas with tall co-op apartment buildings with hundreds of people trying to get on your buses, rural areas with small towns spread out, I can't name them all off the top of my head but there are a lot.

Of course, the more buses you have on your map, the slower the speed will run. The computer I use to play this game isn't all that great, but the game works perfectly on it. When I start having about 25 bus routes, with maybe 7 buses on each route, thats when it starts slowing down. Another good thing though is that you even get to name your bus routes, and the route name doesn't have to match the name of the street the bus travels on so you can use your imagination.

In a way, this game can help you in real life with things like budgeting or how hard it is to keep a transit system running well. Like in the game, you do have the choice of placing only a sign at a bus stop outside a large apartment block or a heated bus shelter near a farm... its up to you but obviously one would be a big waste, the other- a big nusciance. Another big (real life) nusciance is waiting 20 minutes for a "frequent" bus and then 3 of them come in a row. The game even lets you control things like this so each of the buses come evenly

The bad part. Only things that suck about this game is how when you have too many buses on the screen at one time, it starts slowing down [but i guess that depends on the computer].
If you play this game for the first time, then its gonna be kinda tough getting used to the menus and all because the instructions are all in symbols but its simple tho.
Also, they need a part 2 where everything, includin the graphics, would be advanced and it would be even better if you'd be able to create your own city. The graphics ain't bad now, but an advanced version would be better. But overall, I like the game.

Good game, but needs some fixing [Posted on 2005-02-02]
In Traffic Giant, you get to run busses, trams (streetcars), trains, suspended monorails and mag-levs. The cities are very detailed and the game is hard to tear yourself away from. It is similar to "SimCity" (so I have heard), but Traffic Giant focuses on the transportation. I had always wanted a game that combined trains and buses into one, and I guess I've found it. The videos are cool, too, and many times I just want to watch the videos and nothing else! But the game itself is very fun.

I would have rated this game 5 stars overall except it has a few problems. The main one, as you have read in other reviews, is that it freezes constantly. There isn't any reason for it crashing, either. You're just playing the game and then right out of the blue, the sounds stop and everything freezes. You can't activate any of the buttons or even get out of it with CTRL-ALT-DELETE! So you have to shut down the computer the wrong way and of course that's bad. Although different times the game does different things. Sometimes it freezes and sometimes it doesn't. But I've observed many times that Traffic Giant freezes at the year 6, EVERY TIME, preventing your step-up to trains, monorails and mag-levs! So I had to go into the game's files and change them so all the vehicles could be bought at the year 0. It's a pain, but it's not that bad when you're expecting it. I also heard that the patches on trafficgiant.com don't fix it either. I havn't tried any of them, but they probably don't.

Don't get this game. Wait until Transport Giant comes to this country. It's about the same thing, it's got more to offer, and it looks extremely updated.

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