Trainz Driver is an authentic and fun Android train simulation

Believe it or not, I am a fan of train simulators. No, that's not weird. Trains are fun. And Trainz Driver, the mobile version of Trainz Simulator, manages to be a fun experience while not quite looking as good as we want our train simulators to look.

If you've never driven a train before, know that it's not that complicated. You have a throttle, and you have your brakes. Well, you have a few different kinds of brakes. The point is though, that you don't have to be a genius to figure it out. But if you want to be good at driving a train, you have to have patience, as impatience will have you rolling through the countryside at a high speed and risking derailment.

You have to pay close attention, but you do have time to enjoy the scenery, and that's what Trainz Driver lacks. I like my train simulators to make me feel like I'm actually rumbling through the world, but Trainz Driver is to o primitive, graphically, to provide that feeling. You will see plenty of texture pop-in as the game loads the areas you're traveling through while you play, and that's a big distraction.

What I can say is that Trainz Driver, at $2.99 is a good place to start if you think you might want to play a train game. It's much better to risk that smaller amount to see if you like this type of thing than to drop $20 on a PC game first. Trainz Driver is an authentic enough experience, driving-wise, that I can say does work as an entry-level train game. if you enjoy Trainz Driver, though, you'll probably want to move on to a higher powered experience rather than obsess over this.

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