Developer: City Interactive
Release Date: October 3, 2008
ESRB Rating: E for Everyone
Pros:
- nice graphics
Cons:
- No strategy involved
- Win game without using all cosmetics
"Beauty Factory" Features
- Develop and sell cosmetics, including lipstick, perfume, and eyeshadow.
- Upgrade and manage the office, research, production, and marketing departments.
- Set the price for products sold.
- Pick a marketing campaign, more money spent = more exposure.
"Beauty Factory" Review
In this case, it's very easy. "Beauty Factory" is easy to learn, to master, and conquer. At the start it appears "Beauty Factory" will involve much strategy and time. There is a research department, production, and marketing departments that need your attention and hard earned money for upgrades. Only a few moments is needed in each department for each week.
Marketing is decided upon on much money you want to spend. Pick a dollar amount and you are all set. Change the product prices and find out next week if sales plummeted. The last changes needed to be made are the product ingredients based on trends. You change the ingredients based on whether the trend is high, average, or low. Some trends depend the fruity smell of a perfume to be high, other times it's a flower scent the population is looking for.
Changing the ingredients is not rocket science. Low desire means you put the ingredient level at 1 or 2, average means 5, and for high an 8 is usually good. Your goal is for the product to have a high rating, and it only costs $5 to find out if your recipe will work.
Even the teenage girls the game is targeting, need more variety and difficulty. I can't recommend "Beauty Factory" for anyone. There are so many more tycoon games available that offer depth. In comparison with "Beauty Factory" wouldn't take that much.
