Transport Tycoon Deluxe

aka: TTD, Transport Tycoon DX
Moby ID: 535
DOS Specs
Conversion (unofficial) Included in Original

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Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an enhanced re-release of Transport Tycoon which introduces single-direction signals, three new landscape environments (arctic, tropical, toy land) with unique challenges, and an in-game time span from 1950 to 2050. A scenario editor is included, but the Martian environment from the Transport Tycoon World Editor is absent.

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  • トランスポートタイクーンDX - Japanese spelling

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22 People (21 developers, 1 thanks)

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Critics

Average score: 86% (based on 8 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.9 out of 5 (based on 108 ratings with 4 reviews)

In one line; A Great Game

The Good
Just about everything. The detail in the game is great and the music is the best I have ever heard in a computer game.

The Bad
The only thing I didn't like about this game was the fact that only the player and AI vehicles are shown on screen. To make the game seem more realistic, other vehicles such as cars could be shown (remember not everyone will want to travel by public transport)

The Bottom Line
Overall just a great game. Once you get your transport company up and running you can just sit back and watch the vehicles going about their business. Very enjoyable indeed.

DOS · by James Walter (271) · 2001

An all-time classic

The Good
Perfect blend between realism and playability. You always face new challenges whenever you start a new game. This, coupled with the fascination of watching all your little vehicles move around and checking the charts to find possible trouble-spots, makes for an enormous replay value. Two-player mode is even more fun, but it's not always you have two computers and someone to play with. This is definitely one of the five games that I've enjoyed the most and spent the most time playing in my 17 years of computer gaming.

The Bad
The speed could be a problem on one of the slower 486:s, but that's not an issue anymore. There are also certain limits to the number of vehicles which may become irritating. The AI is somewhat weak and compensates this by cheating a little (ie the AI doesn't have to pay for leveling land, since it's so bad at it that it would be ruined by the fees). At a certain year you can start building monorail. At this point you usually have an extensive rail network, and the game doesn't provide good enough tools to make the process of replacing the old rails with monorails easy. It's a very tedious task. However, the unofficial patch fixes many of the weak points of the game.

The Bottom Line
A brilliant game that could easily keep you occupied for hundreds of hours if you let it.

DOS · by Fredrik Ramsberg (25) · 2002

A minor upgrade to a truly great game. The best transport management sim out there.

The Good
This game is fundamentally the same as the original Transport Tycoon (so go read that review) - the same cool graphics, great music and stunning gameplay. It is time consuming, but utterly worthwhile.

The Bad
Once again - same game, same problems. The game still has no speed control, it still has really crap AI, and the bus drivers still don't stop at railroad crossings. Apart from that, it's a damn good game. And if the AI really annoys you, just play without any competitors. It gives you more room, and they're not really a challenge anyway.

The Bottom Line
This is a very minor upgarde to the orginal, adding a some new worlds with varied graphics, and a few minor updates. It's still a brilliant game and well worth buying, so no change there. If you don't already have this game, you may as well get this version. In fact, I don't think you can even get the original anymore. For more information, go read my review on the original Transport Tycoon, since the games are virtually indistinguishable.

DOS · by Steve Hall (329) · 2000

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Trivia

Remake

The fan remake OpenTTD from 2004 updates the game for later computer and mobile platforms.

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Game added by robotriot.

Windows added by Brolin Empey.

Additional contributors: Andrew Hartnett, Rebound Boy, Brolin Empey, analoguedragon, Patrick Bregger, ticky.

Game added December 5, 1999. Last modified February 15, 2024.