November 11th, 2008
Trainz 2009 Goes Beta!
If I look back and think about Trainz, there are two things instantly showing up in my mind. Well, maybe three - Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Trainz, and Railroad Tycoon 2. No, I won't say anything more than just those names, because each of them has a pretty long history behind it - at least for me - and I don't want to write a "Gaming Bible" here and now, all right?
Trainz 2009 is going into beta, as over 1,000 registered members from TrainzDev.com have been invited to join the test group, with more to follow. Tony Hilliam, Auran Games CEO, said "We're thrilled to have reached our Beta milestone, and the early feedback from testers has been extremely positive. We have built up a fantastic community over the past 8 years since Trainz began and everything is pointing towards Trainz 2009 being our best ever version."
The list of new features in Trainz 2009 looks like this:
- The largest ever collection of quality routes, locos, rolling stock and scenery.
- Twice the detail - trains, terrain and textures in higher resolution.
- Optimizations allow twice the scenery detail as well.
- New ground clutter and decals add gritty realism to your world.
- More tools in Surveyor to allow easier terrain deformation and track laying.
- Improved physics and easier re-configuration of locos and rolling stock.
- New user interface and Help system putting Trainz power into the hands of everyone.
- Improvements to Content Manager Plus to make organizing your content even easier.
- Embedded web browser allows more interaction, more information, more immersion.
- Trainz Exchange Community Portal for online chat, blogs, wikis and "scrapbooks".
- Screenshot and video capture functions to help capture and share your experience.
- Enormous content update to ensure maximum compatibility between versions.
If you hurry up and pre-order, you will also get access to the Beta, as well as a 60% discount for Railroad Lines, Bus Simulator and Ship Simulator, as well as 20% off to purchase Engineers Edition. Pretty cool, huh?
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Published by: Codrut Nistor in Simulators
2 Comments on Trainz 2009 Goes Beta!
Posted by vec2 11/13/2008 1:48 pm
I'm testing Trainz 2009 and I have found the Harlem sessions crash the computer, and also I find it strange to see snow falling in side the tunnels in some of the winter scenes, but enjoyiny the wide range of tasks. One disa ppoint ment I do not understand some of the tasks, because the instructions are in a foreign language, being English did not understand what I'm supposed to do. Graphics are much better tha 2004 and 2006
Posted by Codrut Nistor 11/13/2008 1:54 pm
Hmmm...better graphics, you say? That's great! Regarding those tasks in foreign language, you could use Google Translate to turn them into English...