Train Sim World 3 and its various predecessors are deeply realistic simulators, with an outrageous eye for detail when it comes to railway machinery. The release of the Holiday Express is unexpected, then: it delivers a festive route set in a 1980s themed living room, complete with a Famicom on the floor and a classic CRT television.
Indeed, instead of navigating the intrepid stretch of track between Gravelly Hill and Erdington, you’ll be travelling from the fireplace to the sofa – in a miniature toy train! “[The add-on] sees players shrunk down in size as the driver of a miniature train set, threading its way between living room landmarks bathed in the warm glow of the fire,” the press release reads.
But there’s more to this expansion than meets the eye: “Players will have to hunt down a mischievous elf, causing mayhem in the final hours of Christmas Eve. Presents and batteries lie scattered around the room in need of tidying and the naughty step awaits once the elf has been captured. With the clock ticking down to midnight, using the train set to travel around the room will require setting the quickest route with points and switches to get to where you’re needed to save Christmas.”
As is the case with other Train Sim World 3 content, you’ll be able to import any other locos you own into the festive environment, so you’ll be able to drive a classic steam engine through the living room if you like. At just £7.99/$9.99 this is significantly cheaper than other add-ons, and should provide a welcome change of pace over the Christmas holidays.
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This is the kind of thing decent devs give away to their customers for xmas, especially when it comes to a game where literally every part of it is paid DLC, which a lot of users would have spent large sums accumulating.
The cynicism of this 'festive add-on' is unbelievable, and yet entirely believable.
This was also released years back for the original Train Simulator on PC
Well this is insanely cool.
@Gamer_Guy To be fair, it's not free to model and design all these assets. I get what you're saying, but I'm sure a lot of work went into this.
Should have been free. Mainly due to the fact that the game is still bugged, they keep promising an addon manager for PS5 TSW3 but yet to deliver. Some companies would have released something like this as an apology for a promised fix. All DTG seem to do is keep releasing DLC without fixing the game so you can actually play the DLC. This is another DLC that is useless if you own all other DLC, unless you uninstall other DLC.
As to this requiring them to create new assets etc, as an example Insomniac kept releasing new Spiderman costumes, Little Big Planet are still releasing FREE costumes. These still require artist and developers to sit behind a computer and do new assets/textures and use company resources at no charge to the consumer. Or are DTG employees better/more superior than these other companies employees?
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