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A Fun, yet Vulger, game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: July 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that I am getting such a kick out of this game. I have been waiting for a program like this to be relesed forever. Finally, it has been, but there is one problem. This game is incredibly vulgar! Almost anytime anyone in the entire game speaks you are greated at least one F word per sentence. Luckily this game is rated M, and rightfully so. If it wasn't for the uneeded language this game would have a five star rating. Deffinatly recommended from me, but not for younger players by any means.

You get what you pay for....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game has a good concept, but isn't fully developed. At first the game is very fun, especially the in the studio mixing of songs. Unfortunately I quickly worked out that no matter how well I mixed a track that it basically had no game effect. By halfway through the campain I had gotten the fun of mixing down to a few seconds and still producing #1 hits.

The interface is annoyingly slow and cumbersome. Once you find your way around the city you'll find yourself repeating step after step just looking for the basic information that could much better be displayed on a single information page.

Each senario is won basically the same way - buy song, record demo, get record contract for smallest advance and highest royalty, design album cover, send demo copy to radio/magazine/newspaper, 5 days of maximum affordable advertising before releasing album, do as many gigs in the city as possible, give all the band gifts to make them happy, do as much of a world tour as you can do. Repeat.

Most of the available band members are interesting and well rounded. The game play is basically too easy. I was all done within 5-6 hours.

The game gets 3 stars because it was so reasonably priced.

Fun, Easy to Play Sim!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is easy to learn, fun to play, and doesn't require half of your life as does another popular game you may have heard of or played (Sims anyone?). While quite vulgar, it is fun to play the different missions and try different things. It is a very reasonably priced title, so it is well worth the ($$$) to pick this one up.

Fun, easy to learn and reasonably priced

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun and as the other gamer said, its easy to learn. The concept is great and dreamcatcher did a good job setting it up so the concept and the actual game would both be good. the different missions are fun, some hard some easy, but i like mixing the songs the most. so heres the overview of the game- hire band members, buy a licsense to a song, record it any of 4 recording studios (of course you have to make your way up in order to record in the best studio) make an album cover, you may make a video as you go through the missions, and you advertise. you eventually play to the grand capitol, new york by going on a tour. a tour is fun because theres all kinds of different equipment you can use...example-small medium or big lights. small medium or large speakers. tv screens behind the stage. smoke makers, laser designs, or even fire! its really a good game until you beat it, then you just go back to your favorite level and do it all over again! i suggest this item for ages 14/15-any age!

I like this game, but it's too short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You can pass the whole game in about 3 hrs. Some of the scenarios are not much of a challenge but it's still fun. These characters are very colorful.

I hope a longer more detailed version comes out in the future. I wouldn't mind a movie star version of this game.
This game is fun.

Fun but Short-Lived

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: October 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Rock Manager is an insanely fun game where you can take a band of headbanging thrashers or soda-drinking popstars and do pretty much what you want with them. Everything is possible, from scheduling live concerts, to staging the misfortunate deaths of your sometimes annoying band members. Seriously, you will be amazed at just how many things are possible in this game. Rock Manager is not the king of graphics, realistically speaking, but the colorful character animations and the brilliant songs give the game tremendous personality. Musically speaking, there's something here for everybody. Pop, rock, dance, metal, it's all there. However, there are only 8 rather easy objective-based missions, and a ninth one that pretty much lets you do your own thing. This shortens the lifespan of the game, as after a few days you'll find that the number of performers and songs at your disposal are sadly limited. In that case, all you can do is wait and hope for a Rock Manager 2. Besides that, there seems to be nothing wrong with this magnificent game, and I highly recommend you give it a shot.

A Good Laugh for very little

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game can be had for fairly cheap, and I highly recommend getting it. as a rock manager you get a variety of different missions(get the rich producers ugly daughter a recording contract, help an 80s band make a successful comeback without breaking up) that involves a cast of funny cliche band members(including the Oasis inspired Golander brother). Also you mix the songs they record often with very funny results.

In the end this game gives you enough options so that it is replayable, and entertaining enough to be worth the low amount it will cost.
-cjw

Very fun game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The most fun PC game I have played in a long time! The characters are very humorous (some cuss a lot, this is not for kids) and being able to mix songs in the studio is a definite plus. It has every aspect of the rock music business, from choosing band members, recording and mixing songs, album cover design, public relations, marketing, booking concerts, band interaction, touring, scandals and rehab. My only complaint with this game is that the eight different scenarios are a little too easy. I really hope someone creates another game like this involving the rap or country music business. I highly recommend this!

Cute and fun, but juvenile and unrealistic.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I read a positive review in the Philadelphia Inquirer on this game and searched the mall high and low for it when it first arrived. While the game is fun for a little while, its cutesy cartoon graphic format is not the sort of (simulation) game I expected.
And as for producing and mixing music, which I really looked forward to, don't get your hopes up. What you'll find are little knobs and levers, but not a re-creation of what its like to mix in a real life studio.
The rest of the management game is very much a game, so... perhaps that really IS realistic.
This is a very simplistic game with an average level of challenge to it. Truth be told, my interest didn't hold out long enough to make it past the fourth level. Worth the 20 bucks though, ...I guess.

Keep Your Receipt

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: March 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I ran across this game one day had to give it a try. I love simulation games and, in this one, you manage a rock band doing everything from choosing the members, giving them a name, picking the songs, mixing the tracks, bribing radio DJs, scheduling gigs, designing album covers, etc. The first time I played it, it was a lot of fun. I was able to put together a punk band and got them on the Top 10 charts with the song "Kids Gonna Riot". The music you have to choose from is actually pretty good. I find myself humming them. Next I put together an 80s style band and had them play the same song (it sounded just like a New Wave band doing a punk cover). I then got the punk band back together to do a soppy love song. It's fun to hear what can come out of bands playing songs outside their style. The characters are cartoonish and fun with cool accents.

Now, why only 3 stars? Well, after I played it once, the graphics were never the same. They looked like those posters with hidden 3D images. You could kind of make out the characters, but the colors were patchy. When I returned it, I found out that others had problems with the disc. The clerk said if your computer only has the minimum requirements or near the minimum requirements for the game, problems in the graphics and play can come up. My computer is about five years old and just has what is required to play the game. I figure, if I had an updated system, it would be fine. My advice: if you don't have an "up-to-date" system but would like to try this game, buy it from a company with a fair return policy and keep the receipt. I found this game to be tons of fun for the brief time I played it. It's worth the try.

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