Microsoft Train Simulator 2 also adds dynamic weather in a living-breathing world complete with people, vehicles and animals roaming the countryside. Taking cues from the exacting standards of quality and realism associated with the Microsoft Flight Simulator product family, this latest edition of the Microsoft Train Simulator series charges full steam ahead from where its predecessor left off. Virtual engineers will be able to take trains around the historic Horseshoe Curve on the Pennsylvania Railroad circa 1946, or on a high-speed romp through Germany on the world-famous Deutsche Bahn AG. With five new, highly detailed routes, Microsoft Train Simulator 2 provides the opportunity to command a 200-ton modern diesel locomotive or operate a steam-breathing behemoth from the past.
Microsoft Train Simulator 2, the follow-up to the number one best-selling train simulation PC game, * will be available in stores this fall. Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Microsoft Train Simulator 2 will be shown for the first time at E3, the annual video game convention in Los Angeles, May 14-16. Via Scoble, who just outed himself as another train nut.All Aboard! Microsoft Train Simulator 2 Rides The Rails To E3
So those of you with an interest in the new version of Train Simulator will have a lot to keep track of. Other blogs linked to from the new Train Simulator page: Sim Elations, TSEngineer and Mavyryk’s Place. Rick Selby is the lead game designer and a certified (or is it certifiable?) train nut. Mike Gilbert is the lead program manager for Train Simulator he’d previously worked on Flight Simulator X. In the meantime, its developers have started blogs to talk about their little project, and have posted “now-it-can-be-told” introductory entries. MSTS Bin - MSTSbin is an unofficial patch to the core code in Microsoft Train Simulator while other add-ons are limited to using whats already there in the basic product MSTSbin actually provides a whole new set of features as well as a number of fixes to some issues in Train Simulator. No word yet on features or a release date, but more information is promised later this year. But the game itself is neither lost nor forgotton: third-party add-ons, such as new locomotives, rolling stock and routes, are apparently still being produced.īut on Friday came word that a new version of Train Simulator, based on the Flight Simulator X platform, is now under development.
Since then, other than some bug fixes, not much has happened: a planned sequel, Train Simulator 2, was cancelled in 2004, and the game was given over to Atari for publishing as a jewel-cased value game, no longer published by Microsoft itself. Microsoft Train Simulator came out in 2001.
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