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- MicroProse announces
- TRANSPORT TYCOON: WORLD EDITOR
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- MicroProse, leading publisher of high quality leisure software,
- is proud to announce the release of Transport Tycoon:
- World Editor for the IBM PC and Compatibles. Transport Tycoon:
- World Editor is an add-on disk to the highly successful
- Transport Tycoon, the strategy masterpiece from Chris Sawyer.
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- Although the original Transport Tycoon product is still
- needed to run the World Editor, it is specifically designed to
- extend the gameplay and options of the original title by
- offering the player a new challenge and new freedom to create
- the starting conditions for gameplay. Rather than starting in
- randomly generated 3D worlds, you get to control and build your
- own world from scratch. You get to create the terrain, seas,
- lakes, rivers, mountains, towns and industries. There is also
- a modem option added to increase the options for gameplay.
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- At the beginning of a new game, the player is given the
- opportunity to create a scenario. They are presented with a
- bare sea-scape with no land or other features on this map.
- They can then utilise the series of icons at the top of the
- screen that allow them to:
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- * Build terrain on the map in any position they desire,
- the size of the areas of terrain they lays down are
- variable.
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- * Place towns on the map. The size of the towns can be
- varied indefinitely. Towns can of course be named by the
- player.
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- * Place bridges on the map.
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- * Place industries and farms on the map
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- Once the player has created their scenario they can save it,
- exit the editor and then play the scenario as a normal game.
- The most visual feature of the World Editor is the new world
- graphics set. The world is an alternative Mars theme, or to be
- more precise, what Mars would have looked like it had it been
- colonised in the year 1930. The look and feel is very much a
- Jules Verne -Steam-punk- look with earthy rust colours, bolts
- and rivets on the vehicles and gold and silver on the
- buildings.
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- Transport Tycoon: World Editor will be available in March 1995
- for the IBM PC compatibles.
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