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Not sure I can add anything....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit that I don't know if I can add anything to what the other reviews have already stated. This game sucked, plain and simple. The graphics were not great. The game play was difficult to understand. Controls were confusing and didn't function as they were supposed to. Everything was so random. You could build the prison but it didn't really seem like you had much control over what the prisoners did. You just watched as they basically chose for themselves what they were going to do. Any attempt to control or influence their actions seemed pointless.

Slow, choppy and not nearly enough options.

Cute - and you can rotate the camera!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I read a lot of camera comments, but no one ever seemed to google the game name to find this: http://www.valusoftsupport.com/KBArticle.asp?kbid=4874

You can rotate the camera, it's just an odd method - click the mouse scroller (if you have one) and move the mouse, strange but true ;)

I think it's fun, and I'm an avid gamer, nice change of pace.

Oh Hum

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am glad I never paid for this game. Great thing was I installed the game, I have never needed the disk again. Woohoo, so brother-in-law gets his game back and a sorry you wasted your money. I only knew of one cheat code. (enter,type sleepworker, then hit m-key) The money code. 10,000 a pop not bad. hated having to hit ctrl key to change camera angle with mouse. BLAH. Name sounded cool, graphics not to bad, loved being able to pick up one of the fighting inmates and drop somewhere else, kept my fighting at 0 for a few years until I got to many inmates to watch them all. If it was not for money cheat you run out of money an can never recover once you have a few things in place. Oh well, like I said I did not waste money on it. ;-)

The creators of this game should be doing some time.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow...That's the last time I purchase a game before reading the Amazon reviews. They are mostly dead on.

It's a really interesting and out of the ordinary concept. I couldn't wait to install it. Now I weep for my wasted 10 bucks. Wjile the graphics are only "ok"..the game really falls into the abyss when it comes to gameplay. You could spend hours waiting for anything to happen. There also isn't enough room to work with as far as building your prison. It just all around sucks.

If there was a "Watching Paint Dry Tycoon"....it would be more exciting than this.

Borrrrrrring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I used to work in the prison system here in Texas as a correctional officer and I had to quit because the stress of the job nearly killed me. Dr's. found evidence of a heart attack I never knew I had while I was working there and after playing this game I have to say that it was more fun working as a corrections officer than it is playing this game.

OMG..don't buy!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was a total waste of money and hard drive space. First off, like everybody else said...this game had terrible graphics...you cant rotate the screen. I wouldn't buy the second one. I want to take it back and get my money back but you can't. This game actually looked pretty cool to play until you get to the screen. You only get 3 places to buy your prison. You can't control the prisoners..they do what they want to do. Its hard to break up fights...I wouldn't recommed this at all.. go buy a different game.

Worst Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's an insult to call this game a "tycoon" game. Operation is incredibly slow... as if I was playing off a 5 1/4" floppy from 20 years ago. The controls are infantile in comparison to the real Tycoon games, Rollercoaster and Zoo. Please save your money, don't buy this.

Boring and unstable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First time i played the game, it froze up just loading the freeplay. Then again, and again. I thought maybe it was my notebook, but it seems many other share the same problems. Corrections is my livelyhood, so i thought this would be a humorous look at everything. but i was very dissapointed. the way that prison life is run hints at how real prisons are, but pretty unrealistic. its not like flight simulator x is to really flying. but for 10 bucks it is entertaining when the game runs correctly. the controls are horrid just like the gameplay. and the lack of space and different views makes it near impossible to maximize the tiny plot of land you have to build everything on. there just isnt enough room. all in all its a pretty crappy game, but then again most games found in the bargin bin are there for a reason.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Put it towards something better. humm lets see the list: First it crashed my computer. 4 times. Finally went to the older computer [2003] to load it. It crashed it. Ok I restarted and stripped out anything running. It finally installed. oh wow. Started the game. It crashed. Started it again. It crashed. Finally it started. Graphics? If you have played Sims2.. PT doesn't make 1. Extremely rough graphics. Takes forever to load. Controls are really bad. To change camera angles use the center mouse key or cntrl and left mouse key but mine only work if I use cntrl and center mouse key and then it jerks me all over the place. Really bad angles with very little control. Figuring out how to run it from the directions was pure hades. I lucked into a very good walkthru on the net. Delete is hidden in a control that gives you no sign it is delete. I still haven't figured out how I [or the game] did what it did. You are going to spend a lot of time wondering around in the dark. It would have been much much better if they had taken a page out of Sims2 instead of the bad interface, lousy controls and bad programming. And it does all this on two computers that loads and runs Sims 2 without a problem...

Avoid a headache... Buy something else.

This game is underated

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is really a much better game than people are giving it credit for. I found a Prison Tycoon strategy guide written by Soldyne online. It really showed me how complicated and fun this game really is. If you're thinking about buying the game do a search for the guide & see all the possibilities. If you've already bought the game and aren't enjoying it then you really need to look at his guide.

I've been playing this game for days and got tired of the music after about an hour so just turned it off in Options screen. Usually do that in games I play anyway.

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