You’ve had your chance, SubwaySim 2. Although you come with nicely modelled EMUs, attractive ribbons of Hamburg and Berlin, a replay-friendly timetable mode, imaginative scenarios, and exemplary tutorials, because I can’t seem to get you to run smoothly and look decent simultaneously, there’s a good chance you’ll be gone from my HD by the end of the week.
I’ve tried various things in pursuit of fetching ‘n’ fleet visuals, but nothing has worked.
When screengrabbed in ‘photo mode’ this £30 sequel looks rather lovely. However, in motion, blurriness and stutters in busy spots steadily sap my enthusiasm.
If good train and urban transport sims were rare things, perhaps I’d put up with the performance issues. Unfortunately for SS2, I’ve got Diesel Railcar Simulator, Train Sim World 5, Train Simulator Classic, City Transport Simulator, Derail Valley, SimRail, Railroader, and Back In Service (to name but a few) competing for my attention.
Part of me hopes Train Driver 2, the Steam-bound rail sim pictured below, turns out to be awful. It would make life simpler.
