Sean Bean Narrates Train Simulator 2014 Launch Trailer

[Andy Chalk]

 

[saintdane05]

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OT: WOO! Yeah! Fuck! I love these games!
Does anyone know the starting loco list? Specifically, if it has the GWR 57xx?

 

[Abomination]

OT: WOO! Yeah! Fuck! I love these games!
Does anyone know the starting loco list? Specifically, if it has the GWR 57xx?

I think I speak for everyone when I say

"Wat?"

 

[IamLEAM1983]

One of the few gigs Sean Bean doesn't die in.

Who knows, maybe he's contractually obligated to have someone garrote him as soon as he steps out of the voice booth.

Don't you get it? Sean Bean *has* to die, or the UNIVERSE WILL COLLAPSE!

Seriously, though; this seems like a nicely developed toy for rail fans who don't have the sprawling basement to devote to a detailed miniature.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

**snip**

A trailer with no gameplay footage?! For shame, Train Simulator 2014! All the Sean Bean narration in the world won't doesn't prove that this will be a good train simulation game!

... what? That's what we're here to talk about, right?

 

[Gerishnakov]

One does not simply ride British rail

British Rail does not, simply, exist.

 

[GundamSentinel]

*wipes away manly tears*

Beautiful. I'd almost buy the game for this. Almost. I'd be curious if Sean Bean actually is a rail fan himself. Does anyone know?

 

[RicoADF]

My dad will be going nuts right about now. First day purchase for him ;-)

If he has TS 2012/13 then it's a free upgrade, I have it and didn't pay a cent. Ah gotta love these guys.

 

[Skeleon]

If I had to wager I guess I'd say it's a distinct possibility that it's made by a company more akin to Crytek, whose main business isn't in video-games but still produce related technologies that can easily be adapted to video games.

Perhaps a company producing real training simulators for actual train companies which they then adapt to a consumer version for sale as a 'game'.

Huh, good point. I didn't even think of actual simulators. Do you think something similar applies to aircraft-training simulators and the simulator games, then?

 

[Hagi]

If I had to wager I guess I'd say it's a distinct possibility that it's made by a company more akin to Crytek, whose main business isn't in video-games but still produce related technologies that can easily be adapted to video games.

Perhaps a company producing real training simulators for actual train companies which they then adapt to a consumer version for sale as a 'game'.

Huh, good point. I didn't even think of actual simulators. Do you think something similar applies to aircraft-training simulators and the simulator games, then?

Decent chance I'd say, albeit somewhat less certain.

The main thing about Train Simulator is that it seems to be releasing on a yearly schedule now, at least I know there was a 2012 version as well as a 2013 version. Not sure how great the upgrades are exactly but even so you need some serious backing to pull off yearly releases. Which I'd say makes it quite likely that there's a dedicated company behind it, the only company I could imagine being dedicated to train simulators is one that's making well... actual train simulators...

Not sure what the release schedules and amount of content are for other simulators, not really my type of game. But a team of fans and hobbyists might be able to pull of a single good simulator release for whatever niche market exists, however if those games bring out new stuff anywhere near the frequency as this series does then I don't think that can be done by anything but a dedicated company.