Addicting game I have played this game many times and still want to play it more. You're building cruise ships.. adding sleeping areas, restaurants, discos, stores, outdoor entertainment, etc. Each time I play it's different. And you have different modes you can play in... Career mode, quick action, challenge, etc. But you have to keep and eye out for rocks or serpents or land.... or you could lose!!!
Cruise Ship Tycoon will challenge players to establish and run a mighty cruise ship empire. The entire fleet of cruise ships is in your hands -- take it from a single ship to a huge worldwide fleet that makes you a fortune!
REVIEW
Fun Game This game is very, very fun game. One suggestion = before buying the game, e-mail or contact your computer company and ask them if the game will work with your computer. Otherwise, it is the funnest game I have every played. I could play it for hours and I wouldn't get board.
Luxury Liner Tycoon gives you the chance to sail the oceans in complete luxury -- and for a fee, provide that luxury for others. Use your business acumen and financial skills to create a true world-class luxury liner!
REVIEW
Possibly Great If you're a fan of Tycoon games it's worth checking this one out. There are a few caveats, however.
Game summary: purchase a cruise ship and outfit it with all the stuff needed for a fun ocean voyage. Build cabins, manage crew, provide services, and organize activities. There's lots of stuff to build and do.
(+/-) The graphics and sound are okay. The graphics for the ship on the sea and in port are great but the animations of the people are a bit rough. Not too bad as to distract you from the game but not that realistic either. The sound is rather weak and I didn't notice anything that was catchy or helped to increase the atmosphere.
(-) Gameplay: the tutorial is horrid. Finding out what all the buttons do and how to navigate the game is pretty much up to your volition. You'll have to just jump in, pause the game, and click through all the menus to figure out what they do. This is a serious problem when it comes to managing some of the finer details of the cruise.
(+) Performance: the game runs very well on my system and I think the requirements on the box are a good estimation of what is needed to run the game. If you have some problems reduce the game's resolution or detail levels. I noticed that resolution above 800x600 may cause some distortion or problems.
(+) Entertainment: once you wade through the interface and figure how to manage everything the game pays off. It is fun watching your guests interact on the boat and trying to manage your company. I suspect it may get boring if you play it a lot which is why you should have multiple tycoon games on your computer - switch it up every once in a while!
Vast Potential, but Someone Dropped the Ball Being a fan of simulation games, such as Theme Hospital and Age of Empires for instance, I saw this game and had to have it. I like traveling, I like vacationing on cruise ships, I thought the game would be awesome. Boy was I wrong.
Cruise Line Tycoon is a simple game. The player starts with a small ship. The player must design the ship from the ground up, set pricing, and make enough money to purchase the next larger ship. Once captaining the next ship, a captain for the smaller ship must be hired. This cycle occurs until the largest ship is obtained (about 6 ships total I think).
The problem is the game is overly simplistic. All the components of the ships are pre-designed. Nothing can be customized. Changes in the overall ship design can be made based on passenger feedback, but it seems that no matter what is done, the passengers would complain about the same things over and over again. As other reviewer's have complained, the screen seems eternally dark. Despite another reviewer's suggestion on how to fix the issue, I was never able to remedy this. Also, the game became even more annoying as it seemed to run as slow as molasses in January when it is run along with even a single other windows application. This was happening despite running the game on a 2.2 GHz PC with 128 MB of RAM (where only 64 MB of RAM and a 500MHz CPU are required)
The game could have definitely benefited from some additions. Disasters and obstacles such as hurricanes, a dockworker's union strike, maybe a case of Legionnaires disease on board, on board crime sprees, corrupt foreign governments, economic downturns, etc. The possibilities could have been endless, and I think it would have made the game awesome. At the very least, I think allowing the player to make their own cruise routes would have made the game tolerable.
I recommend staying away from this game. It is entertaining for only a short while. Save your $20 and go buy something else.
In Airport Tycoon 3 you'll bring an airport to life, and make into a bustling center of commerce! There will be problems galore to face -- everything from weather delays and overbooked flights to aircrafts collisions. Deal with these and keep your airport running and profitable, no matter what!
REVIEW
Pretty fun game.. if it dosent crash I went against the reviews and bought this game, because I love aviation and liked the first airport tycoon. It takes awhile to get used to, and you have to do a bit of waiting, but once you get it its pretty fun. The only proplem I have is it crashes alot, there could be a fix to this I have to look. Other than that I would recommend this to people who really love commercial aviation and airports. If you arnt in one of those it might not be a game you like.
In Mall Of America Tycoon, you're in charge of the world's largest enclosed shopping center. Turn the America's largest mall into a bustling center of national commerce -- and keep the profits rolling in!
REVIEW
Poorly written I agree with most of what the other reviewers of this product have said. I did figure out how to move the camera around and zoom out, although it is cumbersome. My first clue that this game would be a disaster was reading all of the grammatical and spelling errors in the tutorial. It sounded like the person that wrote the tutorial had translated it directly from their native language (NOT English).
I had some fun with the game, trying to do well enough to unlock the next part of the mall. But eventually I tired of creating the same stores over and over. The program eventually started putting things in odd places and not fully deleting the stores that closed down. I ended up with red-colored stores all over the screen that couldn't be replaced.
Now you're the CEO! Design routes, oversee security, manage your staff, set prices and keep passengers safe in the skies. Create and customize your own fleet of planes and make sure flights are safe & on-time!
REVIEW
Fun Fun Fun This game works PERFECTLY and it is very FUN and ADDICTING. I have a Pentium 2 233 Mz. drive and it works like a charm! It only slows down when it is changing songs. It is challenging, too. I cannot get past the 3rd level where you earn 5,000,000 in profits. I can't stop playing it!
I read the reviews in the other version of the Airline Tycoon and I downloaded a patch so it dosn't ask for a manual check. (...) It is the only site that has the patch.
DO NOT BUY THIS Just installed this game, thinking I'd get a nice dose of nostalgia mixed in with a pretty solid business sim...only problem is it won't run properly on Windows XP SP3. No sure what the problem is but the tutorial...crashes. Hovering over the toolbar at the bottom left in a random game...crashes.
And don't bother trying to get a patch. This was published by JoWooD, a well-known German publishing house that publishes unfinished games and barely if ever supports them. The German game development model is to churn out a game and move on since patches don't pay the rent. The patch that exists out there on JoWooD's site will make the game 100% unplayable (it keeps saying the wrong disc is in the drive).
I now have a $10 coaster. Thanks JoWooD! Thanks Enlight!
School Tycoon -- the game that challenges you to make higher profits off of higher education! You've decided to build a private learning academy -- try to manage it effectively and turn the largest profit you can!
REVIEW
Read me The premise for the game wasnt bad, the graphics could have been better. THE THING I HATED THE MOST; DISASTERS!!!! Once you got ahead of the game, got some cash and students, BOOM! earthquake or tornado. Who thought that up? You CANT turn them off either, i tried looking for cheat codes. Its a lame game, its not a good (im bored, need a good tycoon game to pass the time)so think before you buy, if its for a child, they'll get bored with it or pissed off.
Restaurant Empire takes you on a journey from junior chef to major player in the restaurant business! Create the restaurant chain you've always dreamed of with this fun simulation!
REVIEW
In dept and clever! - Very well thought out game. Covers all aspects of running a restaurant, at least as much as a video game possibly could.
- Little bit of micromanagement here and there, but it's relatively easy to pick up as long as you have common sense.
- Again, very clever game. Definitely for people who enjoy a bit of planning and micromanagement, mostly people with strategic minds. Not for those who only enjoy mindless shoot'em up kind of game and pretty graphics. And even though I too enjoy FPS games, I really enjoyed Restaurant Empire and play it almost on daily basis.
- If I was a video game magazine editor I would give it 4 stars out of 5. But with personal preference I give it 5 out of 5.
