MAGLEV METRO: MAGNETIC LEVITATION RAIL

A TRAIN GAME REVOLUTION

One look at the cover art for Maglev Metro and right away you know that something is different. It’s dark, futuristic, and sleek — the antithesis of Ticket to Ride. Opening the box confirms this aesthetic: recessed game and player boards, stylistic passenger meeples, translucent metal trains, clear plastic track tiles, and impossibly thick station tiles. Even the name is strikingly different. Maglev is short for Magnetic Levitation, a technology that allows for super-fast, silent rail travel with trains literally floating on a cushion of air above the rails as they take passengers between stations.

In Maglev Metro, players build track between stations delivering robots (for new and enhanced abilities) and commuters (for points). One of the most unique aspects of track building is that players may build track exactly where other players have their track, without obscuring either of them. This is thanks to transparent plastic track tiles, which have colored track printed on them to allow up to four players to run track along the same path.