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Not much of a game...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Hi. I'm a 15 year old here to tell you about this game. When I bought School Tycoon at my school book fair a few years ago, I thought I would actually be able to CREATE my dream school. Boy was I wrong. Sure there's classrooms, teachers, students, the basic stuff. But the creators left out one thing for this game: CUSTOMIZATION.

*Pros*
- You can create different types of students with distinct personalities.
- The teachers (especially the scrawny nerdy one) talk funny, like,
"Multiply the tax by two and you shall have the proper tip," and my favorite, "If my calculations are correct ...the world will end... in 1997," which is the funniest thing about the game.
- The deluxe classrooms and the gyms look nice.
- The Autosave feature (when the bus arrives, your game is automatically saved).
- You can direct students to go to the nurse, goof off, go to detention, or even expel them.

*Cons*
- The classrooms are BUILDINGS
- The stupid natural disasters kill your morale and it's almost impossible to bring it back up no matter how much you fix your school back to the way it was before.
- It's almost impossible to attract more than 40 students to your school so you have to keep creating new students.
- The paths get dirty really fast.
- There are objects in this game you would never find in a real school (what school would have a go-kart race track or a rollercoaster?!). Plus, the students don't even ride them - they just sit on the benches.
- Unless you use the cheat code, you can't have enough money to unlock everything to get the good classrooms.
- Everyone is silent except for the teachers. The only sounds you would hear are the "boops" from clicking on the game icons and the school bell.
- Most of the classrooms look like school buildings itself.
- You can't change the look of the classroom or any other building, no matter how stupid it looks.
- It's impossible to find a teacher with a high fun rating, a medium strictness rating, and a high skill rating.
- The graphics are a little blocky

I wouldn't recommend this game to anybody, except if you're a game designer that can fix it. It's not the worst game ever created, but the designers really could have done a much better job.

Worth the money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

School tycoon is fun. I've been playing it for 2 months and I am not bored of it yet. School Tycoon has it's ups and downs.



The ups:

-Make landscapes!

-Choose classrooms like english, math, social studies, library, etc.

-Pick teachers and other staff wisely, making sure they are fun and have high ability and they can't be too strict.

-Create students and decide their personalities.

-While you wait for a game to load, you get hints and tips on how to play.



The downs:

-Every 10-20 minutes your school faces natural disasters like "fires" and "hurricanes".

-The tutorial helps only slightly.

-School pathways get dirty so quickly, you need lots of janiters.

School Tycoon?Is this another tycoon just thrown together by the devolepers or is it thoughtout?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Seems like a very good idea.I saw it and i downloaded the trial. I thought it was very good (it was the 1 hour trial), i did have a tornado and a fire but I just thought it happenes only every once in a while.SO i go ahead and buy it....
Frist of all i find out it happens ALL THE TIME.Every 30 mins there is some sort of disaster,i dont think it happens that much in the real world at one school.IT gets realy annoying when your school is big,and there is no fireman or anything to help it on this game.This would of been a better game without it or at least not all the time.The graphics are clear yet cartoonish.The game is fun.The game is not realy cutting edge in anything realy.
The good:clear cartoon graphics,very fun,you can most likey find it lower than $20 bucks,not too conplexed yet not to simple
The bad:DISASTER happen every like 30 mins and makes it boring for people who play for long periods in time,some glitches.
Overall Scores:
Gameplay:6(fair)
graphics:7(good)
Sound:7 (good)
value:7(good)
tilt:7(good)
OVERALL:6.9(fair)its not junk,just an average game out there realy has its ups and downs,you realy just have to weigh it and see if the good covers the bad for you.
sound:7(good)
Graphics

School Tycoon Computer Game is Fun and Teaches

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this Tycoon game for my 9-year-old granddaughter for those times when she comes to visit us. She is a very intelligent young lady and learns quickly. Her older sister has the Mall Tycoon game, and she loves it as well as the 9-year-old. However, the younger one doesn't get to play it very much, so I downloaded the product, and I sat her down at the computer with the instruction book and told her I would like her to try it by herself, but I would be nearby if she needed help.

She ran with it, and she was so excited about selling toilets in the building to make money. She was so smart, she even managed to sell a burning building. She was given a budget to build the school, equip the classrooms, hire teachers, custodians, cafeteria workers, etc., and the goal is to stay within the budget. She made out very well each time she played it, and I found out how educational it was. It teaches math, communication skills, creative skills, scheduling of meals, hiring and firing employees, buying books, appeasing students, etc. The whole time she played it, not only was she learning, but she was having fun.

I highly recommend this game to anyone. I even had fun playing it after she went home, but I don't think I did as well as she did.

Read me

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The premise for the game wasnt bad, the graphics could have been better. THE THING I HATED THE MOST; DISASTERS!!!! Once you got ahead of the game, got some cash and students, BOOM! earthquake or tornado. Who thought that up? You CANT turn them off either, i tried looking for cheat codes. Its a lame game, its not a good (im bored, need a good tycoon game to pass the time)so think before you buy, if its for a child, they'll get bored with it or pissed off.

Great, Fun Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game with some of my Christmas money ($10). I loved the game. I was scared at first because I thought it would not work on my computer. It works fine. The game is kind of slow and it freezes once in a while. That may be from my computer. I don't have the best computer for this game.

You make your school and that is really fun. I played this for 2 hours the first day I got it. I would have played longer if mom haven't made lucnh. Well, at first you have all little classrooms and that does not teach very many kids. I think it holds 10 kids at once. Well, after you get so many classrooms you then unlock bigger claasrooms. When, you attract so many students the sidwalks get very messy. The kids intrest in the school start going down. In each kids profile thingy it says there comments. They start saying: Gross... the sidewalks are filthy and Gross! That means you have to hire cleaning people. You have to buy them a place where they can keep there stuff. That cost more also. I am going to stop blabbing now and going to go watch the ball drop on the TV. Happy New Year! I hope you enjoy this game!

UGH! hey its not to bad!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If your hoping for a fast paced game then you might as well put this back on the shelf. This game has decent graphics and fun gameplay but the game slows down constantly and it takes an hour to load. It's impossible to get your morale up to an A because it drains your money and you can't loan from the bank. The game has it's flaws and it's break-throughs, and its pros and cons, but its not what i expected. I thought that you could get thousands of students to your school after a few months, like real life, but it's hard to even get one-hundred. If your planning to get this for your child or for yourself, your computer better be fast.

you can't custimize the building

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game from my birthday and at first I thought is was amazing. I always asked a to use it. But after several weeks It became boring. overall it has a good concept and has fair grafics. But building the school is very limited.

pros: clear, yet cartoonlike graphics
personallity of the charecter is vivid and real
cool looking classrooms (besides the porable classrooms)

cons: all students, teachers, and principals look the same
too many disasters example: once I had hurriccane after hurricane continualesly
The students never leave they only will if they are explelled or leave the high school for some other reason
you can't build the classrooms. you can only place them
fields and clasrooms are unreal (the football field goes from the endzone to the 30 yard line to 50. or in the middle of the math classroom is a enlarged calculater.

More frustrating than fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

School tycoon frustrates you more than entertain. First of all, the good things:

Graphics - Very nice graphics, the people in the game have clear features, the buildings are 3-D, the ornaments are nice....just the overall graphics are great.

Instant Play - The game allows you to start from scratch and build your school however you want it. You usually have to beat all of the challenges in other tycoon games before you can build your own scenario however you please.

The bad things:

Challenges: The first ones are so easy they are boring, however the only good thing about them is that you can keep playing after you beat them. The last challenges are way too hard and almost impossible to beat.

Money: You literally run out of it soooo fast. You can't really do anything because you either go bankrupt very quickly or you run out of time before your bank can mature.

Speed: I doubt it was my computer because i have never had problems with other tycoon games, but the scenarios take a long time to load. Once your school is too big, it gets VERY slow.

Statistics: Very hard to control. You can have all of the right things and the people will still be very hard to please.

Overall the game is ok. Good things to it, entertaining at times, but for the most part you get frustrated very fast and forget its supposed to make you have fun.

The Game Isn't Half Bad!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: September 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A Couple Years Ago, I Bought This Game At My School's Book Fair. I Came Home, Popped The Game Disk In, And The Fun Began!

Graphics - 9.0
Sound - 7.0
Loading Time - 4.0
Overall - 7.0

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