The text can be hard to read on older TVs (like mine) though I’m sure it’s perfectly legible in HD. This is a handy reminder to focus your attention back on the game we ran into problems with Catan and online players not realizing it was their turn the vibration help with that Perhaps the best innovation in the game, and one that others on Xbox Live should pick up, is that the game controller vibrates whenever someone’s turn begins. The rest of the map looks fine, and the interface is intuitive my five-year-old picked it up in no time. The interface is straight forward and faithful to the print version of the game the text on the destination cards is a little small on my old low-res TV, but I’m sure it’s fine on a larger HD one.
It offers Artificial Intelligence players as well, rated “easy”, “medium” and “hard”, and medium and hard ones will certainly give you a run for your money. The Xbox Live version of the game supports up to five online players or four local ones. Luck plays a part - if you don’t get the color tickets you need to complete routes, you can find yourself quickly running out of railroad - but at the same time, you need to plan ahead, pick destinations that work with your network, and do the occasional strategic block of an opposing player. It’s a good mechanic that makes for a fun, challenging game. Plus, you need to balance the need to score big with destinations against the hit you’ll take if you end the game without completing them the value of any uncompleted destinations is subtracted from your point total. The game ends when one player runs out of tickets, which adds another strategy element to the game: not only do you need to complete routes and reach destinations, but you need to it in the most efficient way possible. Each destination is worth a certain number of points relatively short-haul ones might only score six or eight, but long ones - like the Los Angeles/New York run - can yield upwards of 20. The rest of the game sees players vying to complete these destinations. Seattle to New York, Los Angeles to Miami - and then pick two. At the start of the game, players draw three destination cards - e.g. The long game involves completing completing enough routes to reach a destination. Most routes require one to six tickets to complete, though a few are grey, and can be completed by any color tickets (though you still need the right number of said tickets).Ĭompleting routes scores points, but that’s just the short game. Players draw different colored tickets from a deck each turn, which can be used to complete the corresponding routes. The game board features a map of the continental United States with its major cities connected by different colored train routes. The Xbox Live version of Ticket to Ride is a faithful port of the popular board game, recreating the train-themed game on Microsoft’s game console.
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