Trains for iPhone: For lovers of Flight Control, except with trains

I have a particular affinity for trains. My father and grandfather both worked on the railroad, presumably all the live-long day. When a train rolls by, I'll make a comment about the engine or trucks or what-have-you, and my girlfriend will madly clap her hands together and yell yay twains! in a dumb voice. I love her so much.

Anyway. ZAGG, the same people who make the unscratchable Invisible Shield films for various devices, released Trains, a game not unlike Flight Control, where you must route freight trains, drop off cargo, and avoid collisions.

Flight Control itself recently had an update, and now includes new tropical and aircraft carrier levels. Having lost hours of time to the original level, I was thrilled to have more places to land. (My high score is 103, by the way: Post yours in comments.)

Trains, on the other hand, takes the same approach, only with -- well -- trains. You must tap the switches to create a route for each train through the cargo depot of the appropriate color, and safely off the screen. You can let trains pass through without dropping their cargo, but you won't earn any points.

Of the two, I think I prefer Flight Control, only because there's more flexibility in determining where exactly the airplane goes by drawing a path with your finger. Switching train intersections accomplishes the same goal, but is somehow less satisfying than drawing a flight path freehand.

Trains, though, is good fun. It's on sale for 99 cents until June 15. After that it will be $1.99. Flight Control is also on sale for 99 cents "for a limited time." Both Trains and Flight Control are available from the App Store, and are well worth the money.

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Source: http://www.zagg.com/support/apps/trains.php

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Jimmo

Trains. High score 189. My peve is that you get crashes off the screen!!
I feel that the field needs to be pushed out a little further. you can't redirect a train once it is off the board. Most of the 'off board crash' does not even show the 'train approach' sign. BUT, I am hooked, have always enjoyed playing trains.

June 29 2009 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jeffj

Haven't tried trains but now I will. Thanks for the tip.

Flight control scores:
299 classic
215 beach
56 carrier - got frustrated and haven't been back to it yet

I keep thinking that beach is the easiest. Yet I continue to manage higher scores on classic. I think it's because classic has more room to circle planes once there's "too much" going on at one time to find direct landing routes.

FC tip: always land the fast jets immediately. If necessary reroute the slower ones to make room. It's hard to circle the fast jets but it's relatively easier to circle the slower ones.

June 23 2009 at 7:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

RealtorBen

My high score on trains is 263. Although I have only been able to get to 200 since then.

June 15 2009 at 1:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Trains sounds interesting, I may have to check it out. thanks for the review.

Flight Control is my favorite game - sooo addictive and best value by far out of a 99cent purchase.

my high score:
125 (Classic) - after weeks I still can't pass this!
154 (Beach) - IMO the easiest level, lots of clear flight paths to use
109 (Carrier) - very tough level, no room for error! originally I thought this level was impossible, but then I got lucky (once)

June 12 2009 at 1:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter

High score: 78. You rock.

June 11 2009 at 4:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

High score on the classic level: 1036.

June 11 2009 at 2:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

On the classic level I've got 176, on the tropical one: 145, and on the aircraft carrier (which is freakin hard) I've got 74.

June 11 2009 at 2:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben

High Scores: 127 on original field, 113 on tropical, and 16 on aircraft carrier (that one is hard)

June 11 2009 at 1:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply