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Mall Tycoon is a waste of money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Out of my own curiosity, I picked up Mall Tycoon at my local [store].... The cover on the box for this game looked exciting and thrilling. I could not wait to go home and play it. When I loaded it up on my computer, I was not a very happy camper. This game literally [stinks]. I don't know why they put this game on the market. It takes up tons of memory, and if you don't have it, you're pretty much [out of luck].

The graphics and music on this game are very cheap looking and sounding. You can tell that they really didn't test this game far enough before releasing it to the market. The instructions are only about 20 pages long, and they don't help at all. What amazes me is that there is almost no way to contact the manufacturor, who is some company called "Holistic". On the website,... there are no links or anything for direct help/support which is messed up. You're basically stuck with the game since you can't return it for already being opened out of it's package.

Don't even waste your time or money buying this game. It is horrible. You will fool yourself.

Don't waste your money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I, like others, bought this game because of the nice graphics on the cover of the box. It looked like a pretty fun game, so I picked it up. I got home to discover that not only is it not like the cover of the box, it is the most boring game I have ever played! I played it for 5 minutes straight, before taking it out of my CD-ROM, and never putting it back in since. I would NOT recommend this game to ANYONE.

extremely disappointing tycoon

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is not as good as it looks like on the box. For the money, The Sims is much better. There are known bugs in this software that cause the game to crash and lose all of it's settings. No patches have came out to improve the game or fix the bugs, and tech support is basically non-existant. Steer clear if you are looking for a good simulation game. You'll end up with a headache instead.

Mouse Trouble

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Love Simulation Games but this one really slows down the mouse. It skips and jumps so much you don't know where you are at. When you try to get to the toolbar on the right side, it makes the game scroll as well so you keep going back and forth, back and forth, it's very frustrating. (I have never had this trouble with any other simulation games.)

WORST GAME EVER!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Seriously folks, save your money and buy something worthwhile. This game is not even worth one star! I have played a lot of games in my life and this is seriously the WORST GAME EVER!!!
You are forced to deal with choppy and unclear graphics, poor mouse control, limited control over the game, sloppy and uninteresting game-play which is mostly controlled by the computer. Example: there are vandals in your mall, hire more security guards - well, there are security guards every three feet it seems, but still the vandals are taking over - you have zero control over the characters you put in your mall.
The whole idea was great, and I was very excited to buy the game, but what a disappointment - to top it off, I emailed the company right after I bought it to ask if there was some reason that my game was so bad, and I am still awaiting a response.
I took it to a second-hand game dealer and he will give me $5 for it, so at least I can salvage that much back from it - unfortunately, the hours I spent trying to play the unplayable game will never be returned to me.
DON'T BUY THIS GAME - I repeat, it is not worth a nickle and should be pulled from any store shelves.

A BIG disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I saw this game in a store and thought it looked great. I enjoyed Roller Coaster Tycoon, and wanted to try a new type of simulation game. All I can say is that I really feel it was a waste of money. The malls are simple enough to build (especially if you run the tutorial once), but there just isn't that much to do. The mall never seems to make much money, and the messages at the bottom of the screen are repetative. At one point I had about 15 security guards (They actually call them Men in Black), but there were still a lot of criminals in the mall. There is no way to direct the security personel, or the janitors, so even if you see a problem you have to wait and see if it will be taken care of.
I am sure that with enough time I could figure out how to turn a profit. The trouble is that the game is so boring I don't really have any interest in playing. The graphics are cute, but the whole thing gets old very quickly! If you like a game with a variety of options, and want to have control over the scenarios, this game is NOT going to be enjoyable to you.
*Save your money and go to a real mall instead*

A low blow to the Tycoon games.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love Tycoon games.Whenever a Tycoon or Sim game came out, I would be quick to pick it up.Alas, I have finally found a game that I can call merely "average." Mall Tycoon can be fun if you are (a. Really young and think everything is great, (b. Really bored, (c. Can't get great games to work on your computer, (d. have amazingly low expectations, or (e. Love management games so dang much that you will blind yourself to the obvious problems with this game. There some 3D graphics but all the people are 2D, making everyone look like paper. Not all the people are people. Some aliens will shop in your mall on rare occasion, which is obviously a cheap attempt at humor. If your mall has too much trash on the floor, aliens invade it and eat your customers brains, causing extreme fustration until your lazy janitors get around to doing something about the trash (or if your customers that are left learn how a trashcan works. Also, why are trashcans in the scenery menu?).There is a tutorial, but it does not help too much. It doesn't even cover mall security, setting rent and paycut for stores, or customer needs. When you don't know about those, the game can get fustrating. Plus, there are 3D people in the stores, but they just keep doing the same thing over and over, never leave, don't affect the mall, and are there when you place the store. Researching things doesn't have too much of an effect and is a useless part of the game.Securirty is important, but shoplifters look like zombies. They have their arms stuck out, and dress in black and white.However, it is still a mangement game and it has its strong spots for people who like management games. Mall Tycoon can be fun, but your money can be better spent.

Mess Mall

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The real problem with Mall Tycoon, is the fact that it is not very interactive as far as gaming goes. You purchase store space of different types and then watch your customers go inside them.
When you open up a store, in your mall, you will notice that it already has a customer preloaded with the store! Sometimes you will see the same animations in a loop, like a kid jumping on top of a bed mattress or playing with toys in a toy store. you can place maintanance and security guards and all they do is walk around doing their loop animations. You cannot set paths for the workers- they just roam around like fools. You cannot purchase items for the stores, or choose the layout design inside them. Everything is premade and non-interactive=non fun. The music, sound and graphics and animations were very poorly done. Do not buy this game.

Mall Tycoon or Unemployed Manager

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this hoping it would be better than the first and so far I am disappointed. At first, it wasn't compatible with my TNT2 card and it took them nearly 3 months to come out with a patch so I could actually play it and now that I am, I wish I hadn't gotten the patch. The graphics are angular and buggy (go into first person mode and watch your shoppers walk through each other, yay!) There is no tutorial for the game, only sandbox and scenario modes which don't teach you anything except that no matter what you do, you will soon lose all your money and the game will end abruptly. The only way to make money to survive is to boost rent and profit takes from each store, but when you do this, they all go under and leave the mall and you're back to square one. In order to get customers to boost your mall rating, you have to continually research new items (which of course costs lots of money) and still, your mall will fail.
It would have been better if they would have included some sort of tutorial mode or hints page, but there are none. Even the online manual does nothing but tell you what all the buttons do. It does not tell you what each employee does or what their signifigance is. In all, this game is not worth the money or the frustration and until some working money cheats become available, its not worth playing.

**WORST EVER!**

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game dosen't even deserve the one star I gave it! I saw this game at the store, and bought it considering how attractive the packaging is. I can't believe I wasted my money on such a piece of junk! First of all - if you're still ignoring all these horrible reviews, go to the official site (URL) and download the DEMO before you even buy this worthless piece of junk. I was so disappointed with this game - the longest I played it was for 10 minutes. I have better things to do then watch some horribly animated people walk around my computer screen and wait 5 hours for my mall to make any money. Save your money and buy a REAL game!

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