The main menu now offers the Driver and Scenarios choices for train play, Surveyor for scenario creation, the Railyard for viewing your collection of cars and locomotives and the Trainz Exchange, a direct link to online resources. It's all fine and dandy and looks nice enough, but really, are you going to buy it? Thought not. Controls areĮither simplistic (twiddle the knob to go forward or back), or nod towards proper simulation by letting you sit in the cabs and pull the various levers.Īlternatively, if you're power-crazy you can go all managerial and assign remote drivers to different tasks - yes, the time has finally come to fulfil those long-held dreams of being a railway supervisor. You drive trains, all manner of the buggers, around pre-built tracks - or build your own layouts and create your own worlds of make-believe. Trainz 2004 takes that much-loved boyhood/middle-aged pastime of building a model railway in your attic and crams it kicking and screaming into your CPUs. Seriously, is there any non-computerised hobby left to us that hasn't been digitised, virtualityarised and interactivated? (Stop makinguperising words Presley - Ed). What's left then? Virtual Kite Flying? Interactive Frisbee Simulator? No, got it - Hill Walking 2004: The Dales.