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Plus it might be worth waiting for more information on Steam Trains for TSW2 when we eventually hear more. Personally, I would recommend TS2021 if you want longer routes and Steam Trains, though I recommend watching some videos on YouTube to see how it compares with TSW2 which I personally prefer. As for Trainz, I cannot comment as I haven't played it. Content is regularly added with far more being available than in TSW2. TS2021 does include Steam Trains and generally speaking has longer routes, though due to the fact that the original TS2021 has its roots well over a decade ago now with the original Railworks (What TS2021 was once known as) being released in 2009, the game can have a more dated feel to it, though it regularly receives updates too.
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Train Simulator 2021 is the current 'version' of Train Simulator which is updated annually with the name being updated corresponding with its latest annual update (which is free I believe). It crashes sometimes when you try to quit, but that hardly matters at that point.Click to expand.Steam is not yet included in Train Sim World 2, though is on the horizon with a game engine update. I bought this as I played the original Trainz waaaaaay back when it came out and trains / model trains are fun, and this is definitively a cheaper alternative to building a proper model railway, but unfortunately, it also turned out way less satisfying, mostly due to really really really bad optimization, and I cannot stress this enough - the game is optimized absolutely terribly, to a point where the framerate is 80% of the time barely passable, and the remaining 20% of the time single-digits slideshow.
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Ran the game on multiple different PCs to try and figure out the problem, only to conclude it's just the game being crap. The graphics were okay when Trainz first launched, which was Oct. 2001, but they are really bad for a 2011 game. A lot of scenery is 2D / sprites, not 3D, everything is low poly / low pixel count textured, lighting is very very basic, and there are barely any improvements over the first game in the series, though overall, at least the train vehicles look decent, albeit individually the quality is inconsistent - I will get into that a bit later, though. They are okay, overall, some of them are low bit-rate or not mixed properly, but there is a bunch of ambient sounds available, and for the most part, the world does actually feel lived in in most scenarios with solid ambience in stations and strewn about the maps/tracks. The physics - well, there is some, there wasn't almost any in the original game, so that is an improvement, as much as having a slice of apple while starving is an improvement over starving and not having that one slice. It's pretty poor, honestly, and pretty unrealistic even on realistic stability settings. I suppose, considering the minimum requirements, a lot of sacrifices were made to make it run even on, even at the time, terribly outdated hardware. Then again, from what I heard of the newer games, they are not much better despite having considerably higher listed HW requirements. The GUI is, pretty bad honestly, very imprecise - both the train controls and the game menus, and do not work well in widescreen. I had to mess around with setting for quite some time to get it to actually recognise where my mouse actually was. The quality of the scenarios and vehicles present varies greatly.
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The quality of exteriors mostly varies between good to great, but interiors are quite different, and quite literally varies from fantastic to craptastic, and this is not even consistent - you will have locomotives with great exterior model with interior being literally unfinished mess with missing textures, etc. Again, this applies to sounds as well, the scenery assets, the scenarios themselves (for example, some may have faulty scripting which does not switch signals properly, etc.). You can build a fun layout in minutes, faithfully recreate a railroad from days gone by or develop a fully-fledged. Trainz Simulator 2 for iPad includes everything you need to build and operate your own dream railroad.
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To me, it looks like the devs tried to push the engine way further than it could take, with few - if any - optimizations. Based on the successful PC & Mac franchise, Trainz Simulator 2 allows you to Build and operate the railroad of your dreams.