Later in the game Zack can ride the same train between Midgar's Sector 1 Station and Sector 5 for free.įinal Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus - Towards the end of the game, Vincent ends up in the ruins of the Train Graveyard area of Midgar from the original game, and has to dodge and weave his way amongst and through the wrecked carriages to avoid enemy gunfire.įinal Fantasy VIII - trains are a major form of transport in the game's world, with lines snaking all over the main continent, which Squall and his friends can ride for the not so low price of 3000 gil a ticket.
A later stage of the game features a runaway coal train, with Cid and his party having to fight their way along the train to the locomotive in order to stop it from crashing into a small shanty town at the end of the line (if you fail the train crashes in a spectacular movie scene).įinally there is a strange cable car (which runs on rails at stations) which uses propellers for propulsion that runs to a large amusement park in the sky.įinal Fantasy VII: Crisis Core - appropriately for FFVII's prequel, the game's opening features Zack having to defeat a group of enemy soldiers who have hijacked a passenger train (identical in design to that from the original FFVII). Cloud later dangerously jumps onto the roof of a moving passenger train from an overhead bridge in order to escape from the law, and ends up inside it.Īn actual area of the city of Midgar is called the 'Train Graveyard', an appropriate name for a place that resembles a scrapyard with wrecked carriages and rusting locomotives lying forlornly everywhere. The train in question is rather odd looking, with really antiquated carriages and a locomotive that appears to be a strange kind of articulated engine (like a Mallet).įinal Fantasy VII - the opening movie to the game features a streamlined steam locomotive hauling a train of tank wagons which Cloud and the AVALANCHE resistance group ride on. I'm gonna stop now, I've spent almost an hour on this single post.:hehe:Ī significant number of Final Fantasy games feature trains in one form or another:įinal Fantasy I 'Dawn of Souls' - The GBA remake of the very first FF game featured the 'Phantom Train' monster from FFVI as an enemy to fight in one of the special areas.įinal Fantasy VI - features the 'Phantom Train', a ghostly train that transports the newly departed to the afterlife, which Sabin, Cyan and Shadow ride on (and have to fight the locomotive in order to alight from it - amongst other things it throws it's wheels at them!). I was actually thinking of RollerCoaster Tycoon, trains are a good attraction to place. You will be saying 'Well duh Captain Obvious, Railroad Tycoon". Minecarts feature as a hepful feature in this game, not much story I guess but yeah. In command and Conquer 3 you can also find a futuristic tram thingy which rides through a half pipe although the actual train isn't featured. I found one image but it was 30x30 pixels.
There are some trains featured in Command and Conquer, most notably in Generals and Generals: Zero Hour. They also exist on Medal of Honour and Call of Duty as ffar as I know, in Medal of Honour: Rsing Sun, you can go multiplayer on a map focused on a train wreck on a bridge, btw it's my favourite map in the game.
You can also find some pretty well-detailed trains in Battlefield 1942, with one map being fully focused on a Russian train yard. I would have taken my own screeny of a train in Battlefield 2 but a massive tank was parked infront of the loco, blowing the heck out of me:(
I like seeing Trains in games, here are a few examples:īattlefield Series and other first person shooters