Though all of the game's terrain has a colorful, pastoral look to it provided by completely separate rendering technology that the Firaxis team has developed for use with the GameBryo 3D engine (an engine that also powers Firaxis' outstanding 2005 strategy game, Civilization IV), each of the different territories has a different look and feel. So, if you want to hunker down and carve a railway empire out of the American Northwest from 1831 all the way to 1970, you can, though you can just as easily play through only 30 years or so of a certain time period, which can take about 30 to 45 minutes of playing time. Each of them can be played during different time periods that can be adjusted easily at the start of each game with a slider.

The game's scenarios will take place in the four corners of the USA, as well as in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Railroads! will offer multiple lengthy scenarios that will let you build up a railway empire by purchasing the fastest trains for the job of transporting mail, freight, and passengers by being the first to lay out tracks into new territory by controlling the flow of expensive goods throughout the land and even by doing a little corporate raiding as you attempt to buy out your competitors in the stock market. Sid Meier's Railroads! will let you build your very own railway empire. This new game from developer Firaxis and publisher 2K Games promises even more in-depth economic strategy and an even more picturesque tableaux to use as a giant virtual model kit. Much of the same talent behind that classic game is back at work on an all-new project, Sid Meier's Railroads!. As it turns out, these model trains are a really good subject for computer games, too-consider the original and well-loved 1990 MicroProse strategy game Railroad Tycoon, for instance. Then, some time later, a bunch of guys started using die-cast metals and plastic trees to make tiny train sets that reproduced these noble scenes in miniature. There was a time in the world when captains of industry tamed the frontier, carving prosperous towns out of unspoiled wilderness with the aid of the iron horse.

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