Recent reviews by Purno

Even on the easiest difficulty this game is too challenging for me.

I don't like the concept of town, wish I could just farm diamonds on the farm without the need to visit the silly town. I could do that in FT1, so that's a step back now.

Still the best train driving experience I can find. Realistic enough not to be a silly arcade game, but accessable enough not to have a steep learning curve.

I love the art style and theme, but the game offers very little content and strategy options. Only a handful of different towers and limited points on the maps you can place them, offer very limited ways to play the game. I like tower defense with a little more freedom and options to fit ones prefered playstyle. Early economy also leaves little room for error. Interface is OK but misses a few things like clicking the minimap to scroll to that part of the map. I was defeated at 3rd level with actually no clue what I could've done better, so I'd say this game isn't very friendly to a more casual playstyle. Menus and options are very basic. I wish I could display enemy health bars for example, a feature most tower defense games have. Art style is amazing though, absolutely love it, but doesn't quite make up for the flaws in the gameplay IMO.

Not a bad game for the price tag, but not as good as I expected. No clue how this game gets that many high reviews, certainly misled me and I probably expected too much of the game. Gameplay is okay-ish, still feels a bit clunky.

Several years ago I played this game quite a bit, enjoyed it for its PvE mode, although its economy made progressing pointless. Wanted to try it again, first, I found my account reset. No clue where stuff has gone, but I'm in a new account. Ok, well, I guess staring from scracth won't hurt, considering I haven't played the game for several years... but then, I queue up for the first PvE mission, the only one available for a level 1 account, and after 10 minutes, still queued up with no estimated duration available. So either this game is dead, or the matchmaking is messed up. Shouldn't take 10 minutes for an online game to find a few people for a PvE match. Either way, I guess there's no point in me playing this game... Shame, used to have quite a fun time several years ago, and it's one of the few games which had decent PvE content.

Signals are dark but still can result in a SPAD. As if running 120km/h tops on a high speed line designed for twice that speed, in the dark and lots of tunnels, isn't boring enough, it is also bugged.

The one-time grant to own any car from the Autoshow could be used on a car in any price range. Most expensive one is 143M credits. ;)

The Gift Player house is one you could buy for 1.5M credits. If you've already bought the house, you get nothing.

What exactly is the Car Pass?
I was wondering that before purchase, didn't get a clear answer, but now I purchased it I know. So to anyone who's stuck with the same question as I did:
The Car Pass is basically a bundle of all the car-DLC you could purchase seperatedly. You also get access to the cars in the game immediately (so no need to purchase them with in-game currency). I assume you cannot obtain the cars ingame via other methods, without buying DLC, but I'm not 100% sure on this one.

I bought this as part of the Deluxe Edition because it seemed good value, but it does take away the fun of starting with a small collection and slowly expanding the collection of cars while you play.