It’s an impressive collection of tutorials that shows you how to use the buttons on the trains instead of the simplified overlay system I became accustomed to, which makes you feel like you’re actually controlling the train instead of just pushing floating levers.
The mode gives you detailed breakdowns of all the controls, leading you step-by-step through all the different types of locomotives and how they work so that new players can really learn how to control the game and drive the trains effectively. The other new addition is the Academy mode, a training mode that is now about four years too late to really make an impact in drawing in new players. It’s more like a trailer for the game than an introductory video to get you excited for what you’re about to experience, and to be honest I’m glad it only appears during the first start-up under the new name. It’s an incredibly schmaltzy affair, featuring choice lines like “quick! Read the signal! No room for mistakes!”, which is frankly laughable and feels slightly at odds with the more serious nature of the rest of the game.
#LET S PLAY TRAIN SIMULATOR 2014 MOVIE#
The new intro movie looks very slick and stylish, featuring a voice-over by professional fatality Sean Bean, who manages to miraculously sound nothing like himself and stay alive until the end of the video. I’m not sure that’s necessarily enough content to warrant a whole new release, but I suppose that’s the problem with putting years in your game’s title – miss a year and you’ll look foolish. The biggest additions in terms of content are a new introduction video, a long-awaited full-sized tutorial section called the Academy, and it now comes bundled with three routes and six locomotives that were already available separately. The sexy new look is still there, the gameplay is exactly the same, and the trains are still trains. I’d like to start by saying that, in essence, Train Simulator 2015 is the exact same game as Train Simulator 2014. Train Simulator 2015, therefore, must only provide a good experience, since it cuts out the nuisance of human beings and focuses on the journey one must take. Stick a group of people together for long enough and eventually they’ll want to kill each other. And yet they’re also incredibly aggravating, filled to the brim with other people being noisy and irritating, and just generally being in my presence. On the one hand, they’re a relatively serene, mostly well-organised way to travel, with very few opportunities for things to go spectacularly wrong on your journey.
I have kind of an odd relationship with trains.
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