Ticket to Ride Europe finally arrives on XBLA

The choo-choo train left right on time.
A ticket cost only your mind.
The driver said hey man, we go all the way.
Of course we were willing to pay!

choo-choo train? I think we're done here.

"Yeah, but..."

It's not quite as convenient when you're trying to plan your routes at a glance of the entire country map. Having to "click" into each one is just annoying.

You can also zoom in and out with the L/R Triggers.

Zooming doesn't work. Clicking them is the only way, and agreed it's annoying, but when you become obsessed, you do it anyway

I have 2400 MS points. Do i wait for Braid/Castle Crasher reviews (i might also buy Geo Wars 2), or just fuck it and buy this? Hmm......

I am a programmer with GUI experience, and actually wrote to the developer yesterday to complain about the color-distinction issue and offer my suggested fix:

1) When hovering over a track, highlight any matching cards in the player hand or in the draw deck.
2) Allow D-pad selection of hand-cards which would highlight any matching track segments or matching draw pile cards.
3) When drawing cards, highlight any matching track segments and hand cards.

This consistent feedback reinforcement loop would go miles towards making the game more playable for both color-blind and normal sighted players, so I hope that they use my suggestion in a patch.

Yeah, must suck to only have 3 cones and the highest rate of red-green colorblindness! Girl power! *scampers off*

The achievements listed refer to winning without playing any Stations. . . so from this I'm figuring it's the TtR: Europe rules and gameplay. Can't verify for certain since, now that it's been released, I have to run out and buy some more MS pts :) .

I concur! There's nothing like actually getting to physically lay down your Stockholm to Petrograd tunnel piece by piece while cackling menacingly at the other players.

Yes. Especially if you like Catan and Carcassone. the gameplay isnt the same or anything but they all have that good old german board game feel to it.

You should try it before you buy it... There is a free version of the game at (www.daysofwonder.com). You have to sign up but it is free. Click on PLAY and it is the first game. There is one catch... You cant START games. Ony people that bought the board game can START games (a code from the manual is required to unlock that feature). But you can join any game for free. It is NEVER hard to find a game, but with a lot of free gamers camping out, waiting for a created game to pop up, it is up to you to be fast and get in there before someone else does.

Still even on the worst days, it has never taken me longer then 3 or 4 minutes to find a game. Most times you can do it in under a minute.

They have both boards availible so check which one the game you want to join is. and dont forget...

2 or 3 players and the double tracks are disabled. They are only for 4 and 5 player games.

Thanks a lot. We ended up downloading it and loving it. I still have yet to get the longest route card, and I haven't seen a single person online yet, even with the Europe expansion.

Great game though!