4/20/2023 0 Comments Ticket to ride review![]() Ticket to Ride is set in the early 1900’s and tasks players with connecting railway routes from city to city in North America in order to collect victory points. Though today, I will simply be focusing on the components, mechanics, and my overall thoughts on the base game itself. Ticket to Ride went on to win the Spiel des Jahres (German Game of the Year) and Origins Game of the Year Award in 2004 and has seen countless expansions in the eight years since. Moon (whom would go on to design another great transportation title Airlines Europe in 2011) successfully combines rail expansion with card drafting, set collection, and a secret objective mechanic. Still, if you’re looking for a way to experience a classic board game on your PS4, Ticket to Ride offers exactly that.Īsmodee Digital provided us with a Ticket to Ride PS4 code for review purposes.“I think I’m gonna be sad, I think it’s today, yeah….The girl that’s driving me mad is going away….”ĭays of Wonder has built a reputation on producing titles with simple gameplay, yet underlying depths of strategy, and their 2004 release of Ticket to Ride is no different. In fact, just about the only reason not to get Ticket to Ride on PS4 is if you’ve played it to death elsewhere at a much cheaper price - which, to be fair, is probably a lot of people. ![]() It’s easy enough that you could play with almost literally anyone, and it’s challenging enough that you won’t get bored by it, even if you’re playing solo. It’s not a complex game (and if I made it sound like one, that’s because I’m terrible at describing things), but that’s what makes it so fun and so addictive. New York to Los Angeles, or Seattle to Miami) wins. Whoever lays down the most track while also creating certain lines (i.e. You draw different-coloured cards, and race your fellow players to collect enough colours to claim lines connecting cities. ![]() It’s become a classic board game for a reason, and the fact that Asmodee Digital have transferred that experience onto the PS4 without losing anything deserves to be celebrated.įor those people who haven’t yet been fortunate enough to play Ticket to Ride, here it is in a nutshell: it’s a puzzle game in which you’re building a railroad network on a map. Of course, if you have played it anywhere else, you’ll realize that there’s nothing really wrong with that. If you’ve ever played the game anywhere else, this version probably isn’t going to wow you. In other words, you’re paying a PlayStation tax for an experience that’s not really any different than you can get on a variety of other devices at a much cheaper price. For that matter, it’s twice as much as you’d pay for the Xbox 360 version, which, again, is almost exactly the same, only the 360 version doesn’t let you/require you to control the game with your phone (and, obviously, looks a little less clean and crisp). While it’s not a full price game - which is roughly how much you’d have to pay to buy a physical version of the board game - you’re still paying significantly more to play Ticket to Ride on PS4 than you’d pay to play it on your iOS/Android device, even though the experience is mostly the same. ![]() It’s important to focus on the good when it comes to talking about the PS4 version of Ticket to Ride.Īfter all, if you don’t, it’s easy to get bogged down by its flaws and nitpick it to death. ![]()
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