Player Affinity writes: Here’s a quick disclaimer before this review gets under way; I am not a train enthusiast, and a videogame train simulation sounds like my personal idea of hell. With expectations duly lowered, let’s take a look at Train Frontier Express, which is available on Xbox Live as part of the Indie Games Summer Uprising for 240 Microsoft points.
It’s difficult to call Train Frontier Express a game when it doesn’t really present itself as one. Upon hitting "New Game," you aren’t given any kind of introduction to the game you’re about to play. No instructions, no intro cinematic, no information of any kind to give you a clue about what you’re actually supposed to do – just a big, green, empty map and a nagging feeling that you need to do something train-related.
Dealspwn reviews the last five games of the Xbox Live Indie Summer Uprising: Take Arms, SpeedRunner HD, Train Frontier Express, Chester and Redd: The Lost Temple.
"Trains, trains and more trains! The two man crew of Team Train Frontier brings us a rather unique Xbox Live Indie Game called Train Frontier Express. Their approach to train simulation is to make it a game about creating and playing with a toy train set, not scheduling and managing mass transit like many of the train simulators on the market. To this end, you are given complete control of the landscape. Making hills, valleys, rivers and lakes is as easy as pressing one of the face buttons and moving the cursor."
If you’ve sunk hundreds of hours into the depths of PC simulations, this might be a little basic, but if you’re a bit curious, this is the perfect place to start.
