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hotel giant

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THis game is for people that have great interest in the field of hospitality. I'm also in the hospitality industrial, therefore this game is a great experience for me. this game is also fun for other people as well as you'll enjoy the strategy behind hotel operation. This game is more of a kick back ,have a cup of coffee and camp.

DO NOT BUY!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games ever created. I feel ashamed and hurt to have bought this. I spent 40 bucks on a piece of turd. I tried sooo hard to give it away. Noone wanted it. Face the facts. It flat out sucks. There are too little options. The rooms feel akward and dont make sense. The graphics are horrendus and there are very few objects. It almost makes me cry that I spent time playing it. The controls are flat out awful, it took me nearly an hour just to figure out how to place an object. DO NOT BUY!!! DO NOT ACCEPT AS GIFT! DO NOT PLAY! DO NOT LOOK AT!!!!! Trust me... you dont want to play.

An Average Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of SIM games, I have played pretty much every single one I could find. I thought the idea behind Hotel Giant was fun, so I got it and checked it out.

Personally, I found it very boring. You spend a LOT of time putting together rooms. It is time consuming and monotonous. For those who LOVE building their homes in the Sims, this would probably be fun for you! I found it fun for the first few hours.. but then I was so bored I had to force myself to finish and get to the fun stuff!

The game did have its good points though. The graphics are fairly good for a sim/tycoon style game and there are a LOT of item options you can choose from when desiging your rooms. Also, once you design one hotel room - you can reuse the same design over and over to get rid of some of the monotony involved in building so many rooms. Once you finally get out of pause mode from building, it is very fun to watch your guests (once they actually arrive!).

The staff controls are minimal at best .. you can't do much more than change salaries and outfits. You also can't hire maids (what kind of hotel has no housekeeping??). I would have liked more control here and more interactions.

In Sim/Tycoon style games I get more enjoyment out of managing all the little things than I do from designing, so this game wasn't great for me. For those who really love the design aspect, it would be MUCH more appropriate!

hotel giant is the best!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game I couldn't wait to play it. It is a really fun game to play if you like hotels. It is very realistic and the graphics are great. You get to watch your guests and see what they do in your hotel. There are also places you could build like swimming pools, restaurants, bars, meeting rooms, etc. One thing that you can't do that got me mad is that you can't hire maids. Also, when you want to build a hotel in a certain city, it only offers you one at a time. It is still a great game and I suggest that you buy it if you like these kind of games.

Not like The Sims...not supposed to be

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: August 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Being a huge fan of simulation games, I picked up a used copy of Hotel Giant with low expectations. I used to play Sim Tower years ago, and expected this game to be sort of like that, but with just the hotel elements (and better graphics, of course).

My used copy didn't come with a manual, so I installed and ran the game, hoping I could figure everything out. The tutorial to the game was excellent. I learned everything I needed to know about building my hotel quickly with a hands-on approach and without having to read a drawn-out manual.

After the tutorial, I played a few of the scenarios and met my goals easily. Then I decided to go on my own and build in a hotel of my choice. Designing the guest rooms in the hotel is the best part of the game, in my opinion. You can create one room and then use it over and over, or you can make every room different. You can look up what kind of rooms your potential guests are looking for and cater to their needs in order to get more people into your hotel. And if a guest staying in your hotel thinks they aren't getting their money's worth, they will tell you what they think needs improving.

One aspect of the game that I really enjoy is the different camera-angles you can view your hotel in. You can follow your guests around, seeing the hotel from their own eyes, or you can view it from a more Sims-like perspective.

While this game will keep you entertained for hours on end, I think that there is some room for improvement, or at least, expansion. You don't get to interact with the staff very much, other than managing their salary and choosing what their uniforms look like. There's no housekeeping or room service, and I think that a gift shop would also make a nice addition, as well as help you make more money (which I am finally doing after building my third hotel).

While many people like to compare this to the Sims, I do not. The two games have completely different objectives. In the Sims, you mainly control the lives of people. In Hotel Giant, the focus is on designing and maintaining a hotel that is profitable. Overall, I do highly recommend this game to people who love simulation games, as I do.

GOOD SIM GAME IF YOU LIKE DESIGNING & MANAGING

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In this game you design the interior of your hotel and run it. My sister had origionally purchased this game, but was diasappointed when she saw that you couldn't design the outside of your hotel, so I played it, and liked it. This game is not GREAT, though, like Blitzkrieg (awesome game). It is kind of akward, because the items you can place in your hotel are all different sizes, and the things you really need to put in your rooms, like baggage tables etc., are very small. This makes your hotel look weird, almost too big. The items also don't match sometimes, but you get over it. This game can be very time consuming but enjoyable. The graphics, in my opinion, are better than the Sims, and the objects are very realistic. I would only buy this game if you want to spend a lot of time designing your hotel, and not that much running it. Overall, 4 stars. Or, out of ten, 7.4
Hope this review helped!

Boring, don't waist your time!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game I thought that you would actually be able to create your own hotel. (Inside and out!) But all you get to do is build the rooms, but not the outside. When you are finished, you have to wait about 5 minutes untill just 1 person comes! No matter how appealing your hotel might look to you, only about 10 people (max.) will come. It's not worth it! And, it can be very frustraiting. For example, if you want to put a chouch in the corner it will put it somewhere else. It takes about 3-4 tries to get it where you want it! I hate games like that! Don't you?

Or you could watch grass grow...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: March 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought the idea of the game sounded fun, but it turns out it's not that interesting, long term, to sit around and watch hotel guests! I like the idea of building and running something, but I found "Tropico" (where you set up a tropical island and run it) much more fun because there is so much to do! (Setting up agriculture, industries, housing, entertainment, bribing enemies, firing workers, bulldozing tenements....) I even enjoyed Zoo Tycoon much more, since building a zoo and watching the animals is more fun than watching hotels guests. This game just doesn't live up to its potential!

Sigh... yawn... sigh

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sims gone WAY too slow, without the control of the sims. I do love simulation games, but this has got to be the slowest sim game to start. You will spend a lot of time building rooms, mostly while paused. I would spend 4 hours on layout, realise I've spent so much time on it and never get around to playing much after opening the hotel.
Now, if you like building hotel rooms, boy is this the game for you. Having not played the 20 or so hours it takes to finish even one scenerio, I can't comment on how easy or hard it is to complete a level... really, I'd just lose interest after hour 12 of gameplay.
This is definately a game for someone that has absolutely NO life outside of sim gaming.
Graphically, I liked it. You get so many options for walls, floors, lighting, layout, ammenities and pricing it's a wonder that I disliked it so much. :(

A good simulation game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because the box caught my eye -and I don't regret it. I haven't had any of the technical problems that some people have complained about and the game provides a lot of amusement and challenge. Building a hotel, making sure it has all the amenities and trying to keep your guests happy (as well as trying to lure in the unsuspecting passer-by) It's never the same twice. It's different from the Sims in that you don't control what people are doing. My only complaint, is that the furniture selection is extremely limited and there are no complete furniture sets (so sometimes your rooms just don't look quite right...) Other than that, the game is a lot of fun.

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