The Bottom Line
- choose which features are available in your game
- your choice of contracts that dictate what type of games to develop
- difficult to learn
- boring gameplay
- tutorial is not easy to follow
- PDA feature not fully utilized by giving hints
Description
- Publisher: Tri-Synergy
- Release: March 2006
- ESRB: For ages 10+ (Suggestive Themes)
- It's 1982 and you are competing with friends to make the best game development studio.
- Choose one of three characters (2 guys, 1 girl).
- Eleven game development related missions.
- Characters are animated as they speak.
- Complete the development process for the game, starting with getting a loan to promoting it.
- With each year deal with different customer desires and economic situations.
Guide Review - "Game Tycoon" Review (PC)
Developing a game and the game engine is simple. You pick the features, the programmers, and other artists, and tell them to get to work. There's lots of dragging and dropping, and picking check boxes to get the the game developed, published, and promoted. Granted, a lot of games are just a bunch of clicking, but this process isn't even close to being fun in "Game Tycoon."
The problems start out in the tutorial. Instead of getting hints, when you can't figure out how to do the task given, the tutorial guy just keeps giving the same instructions. Repeatedly as if to mock your misery as you hunt for the answer. I would have thought that there would have been a help file linked the PDA. Instead, it just gave me messages with no details on how to follow through. This process of having to do something and attempting to figure out, becomes increasingly frustrating.
The graphics, the gameplay, the overall style of the game, doesn't take advantage of technology that has come out in the last few years. You don't even get to play your game you developed. Do yourself a favor and don't bother even trying to figure this one out. Because once you do, you'll find it wasn't worth the effort.
