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RailWorks is a train simulation game. Developed by Rail Simulator Developments. It is a successor to Rail Simulator, and was released online on 12 June 2009 and in stores on 3 July 2009.[1]

RailWorks 2 was released on Steam on 24 Sep 2010. It will be released on DVD later this year.[2]

Since the game's release, Steam has been used to deliver exclusive routes, locomotives, updated ex. Rail Simulator content and fixes. Examples include the fictional Rascal & Cottonwood route from All Aboard and packs of the LMS Jubilees and the GWR 4900 Class locomotives.

Critical reception

Metacritic reports an average score of 70 out of 100 or "Mixed or Average Reviews".[3] IGN gave the game an "7.0" or "decent" citing that the game doesn't "bring a lot of new stuff to the genre" and graphically lacks the "flair" of a normally developed game.[4] RailWorks has been criticized for having a substantial amount of payware downloadable content and an almost complete lack of freeware content (over $1000 worth as of February 2011).[5] However, if you have RailWorks, you can get a free download of RailWorks 2 off steam. Also criticized by the high amount of bugs, and flaws, unimplemented or badly implemented features that are still in game since the release or Rail Simulator, which means incomplete and unrealistic traction physics, the switch render problems, or low performance of game (what is caused mostly by single CPU core usage, and by the lack of route preloading), etc.

References

  1. ^ http://www.railsimulator.com/en/node/5938
  2. ^ http://store.steampowered.com/news/4505/
  3. ^ "Railworks Review!". Metacritic.
  4. ^ "Rail Works IGN Review". IGN. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  5. ^ "Railworks DLC Complete Pack on Steam".