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Collision! Collision! Collision! This is not so much a game as a collection of error messages and vague economic models. At first glance this game seems to provide a much needed graphical boost to the ancient Transport Tycoon series and its open source sequel OpenTTD. Gone are the square blocks and 45 degree corners. It looks pretty. But then you try to upgrade a dirt track railroad crossing and can't because of endless collisions that can't be fixed. Road bridges are near impossible to build. So your transport network grinds to a halt as highways are bottle necked by dirt roads you can't replace. The economic models is unclear to say the least even on the official forum people seem to be guessing at how to increase a city. And for a game called train fever, buses and trams seem to fare far better. A simple problem is that traffic demand never increases to the point you really need trains. Cargo demands especially are so low and close together it makes more sense to create a trucking network then a rail network. Each city has a limited demand for goods. Why send a train capable of moving 100 goods if demand is 30. Supply chains are simplistic, deliver raw good to factory, deliver produced goods. The game in theory has potential but the game devs need to learn that error messages in a game are bad, especially an engineering game. The real world is filled with countless examples of engineers figuring out how to build seemingly impossible bridges, tunnels and roads. You shouldn't get endless error messages just trying to have a road cross a railroad track at right angles. Or trying to build a bridge or a tunnel. Even if these issues are fixed, the game will remain very basic. Switches are simplistic, signaling the most bassic, trains can't use multiple platforms, train stations are all the same model. For a game, the mechanics are to finicky and unclear and for a building game, the building is to awkward. If you want to simulate this game, start up an online game and cancel your internet subscription. You will have more success doing that then trying to build anything beyond the basics in this game.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Ages ago, strip poker programs were popular... until the Internet came along and gave us as many images of naked women as we could possibly want, and without a rather poor poker game to contend with. In real life, a strip poker game is NOT about winning, if you are lucky both sides WANT something to happen. The game is played for all players, to win. Not in "Seduce Me". The game of seduction both play, in this game, you play annoying made-up "card" games where the odds are all over the board with the other player, the AI but also the female you are trying to seduce seemingly not WANTING anything to happen. The game is your enemy with card games that are just the wrong side of random. Strategic dating game? Where is the strategy when a roll of the dice can change everything? The flirt game has you raise cards on a pile, requiring you to place a higher value, a 5 on a face card or pass. 5 removes points 6-9 add their value, 10 removes points, jack stays the same, queen rounds up to nearest 50 (51 becomes 100) and king raises to nearest 25 (51 becomes 75). Enemy plays two queens, 100 points difference and you just lost 2 popularity and 2 intimacy like that. You can't see your enemies deck so strategy becomes just playing the 1 or 2 choices you got and hoping you get a lucky roll OR quiting the game and resuming which restarts the card game. If this was JUST the card game without the sex, it would have been slammed into the ground for being piss poor. The sex isn't good enough to raise the score. What you get is a comic page with low rez graphics depicting a sex scene. The 3d engine looks okay but is just filler, it hasn't any use. Every single Japanese dating game is superior to this. Had they used real poker, it would have been far better. At the moment, your progress is random, where encounters are is random, what scenes you come across is random and the games are far to random. This game only hope for generating sales is the sex angle and it just ain't hot enough, look at the supplied screenshots, THAT IS IT, ALL of it. No animation, no deeper scene, one page comic pages with each panel appearing on a click (the click point moving around for no good reason).