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Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: September 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game! You learn about the economy as well as build what some people think is great. It is true that the tutorial does not finish but this still is a great game. I highly recommend this game

Good Game Consept, Bad Features

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: July 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first played Airport Tycoon, I was very excited, thinking that it would be a game with great graphics, millions of features, and more and it would be easy to use. Well was I wrong or what? Airport Tycoon isn't anything like what I thought, only the opposite. Okay, not exactly the opposite, but not what I exactly expected. The graphics do look they are a little behind, and the sound is really terrible. Gameplay is boring. I mean, really, I am a fan of planes/airports, and after an hour of the game, you don't want to play anymore. And, when you run out of money when you aren't ready to open your airport, it's over. It's also hard to use. I spent at least 1 hour trying to open my runway by placing the fire station. I didn't see anything about that in the manual...And I spent an hour waiting for the Zimbawe airplane to land after our "contract signing." There is a good place, in front of your computer to sit for 2 hours. It is fun (for a while), and the graphics aren't the best, but acceptable, so it's not that bad. But if you aren't really good with computers/computer games, I truely don't reccomend the game. And if you like airport builiding, or anything plane related, I reccomend it, but you'll probably get bored of the game shortly after you buy it.

Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: September 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game is horribly designed. One of the first things you must do is place the airport runway, and you are required to do this without being able to zoom out far enough to see the ends. It gets worse from there.

bad bad bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This program tries to be a serious business sim and a Sim City type of game but instead does neither well. The manual is too small to help. In the time it takes a plane to land several hours have passed. Night time never comes and though flights are delayed by bad weather nothing reflects the bad weather other than the warning on your pager. Oddly enough, I saw a remarkably similar program entitled Airport Inc on the web that looked more involved but it was obviously the same graphics. I think this company is just trying anything they can to recoup losses incurred in making this turkey. Too bad though - it's a great idea.

Nice but needs some more improvements.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The objective, setting and aim of the game is very appealing but there are many problems which needs to be solved to make optimum use of it. First of all, there are many errors, for example when you save the game and when load once again all the planes have disappeared. At times, saved games won't even load and you will have to start over again and this is quite frustrating.
Time is not respected in the sense that you see planes land and take off at different times, times which are not corresponding to the schedules.
Moreover names are not written properly, for example we have Bowing instead of Boeing, names of certain airlines also differ.
Consequently for those who are looking good simulation games I won't propose that I prefer Roller Coaster Tycoon.
There are many things which lacks in Airport Tycoon and it's not realistic as well.

Awful Game, Awful Support, 2 many bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This was a total waste of money. I work for a software company in NH/MA and do Quality Assurance on software programs. This program has entirely too many bugs for any user. Before you buy this game, read all of the comments and reviews, that was the mistake I made. How can a company release a piece of software that will result in constant freezes, enless waits, and an annoying as hell pager that goes off all of the time. Hundreds of flights can arrive and depart daily from your airport, yet you may never see a single plane all day, What's up with that? Poor design concept. The thought is good, but they really ruined the game by releasing it before the bugs were worked out, AND STILL NO PATCH EXISTS.

Turn This Concept Over to Electronic Arts

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought this game, I was enamored with the concept of being able to build from the ground up my very own airport. However, even as I was installing it, I could tell that the game would not live up to even my barest expectations. For one, the screens, icons, and folders all list it as "Air Mogul," even though the packaging says Airport Tycoon. (My guess is it was titled this to capitalize on the other successful "Tycoon" games.) After a tantalizing opening teaser film, I worked my way around the somewhat difficult Main Menus and submenus (Options, etc.) Disappointing. The tutorial is useless, the Manual is useless for anything. You're pretty much on your own with this. It took me several hours of tweaking and fiddling to finally get an airport that was completely in the black.

From then on, it was a monotonous procession of approving, rejecting, and renewing contracts. The "disasters" and "threats" are repetitive and surmountable. Even the names of the aircraft are bogus; "Bowing" instead of Boeing, "Leer" rather than Lear. The graphics were decent, and the objects were varied, but not varied enough. The one decent thing in this whole fiasco was the movement of the airplanes on takeoff and landing, but once they were taxiing, that expensive taxiway you laid is not as used as the service lanes that abut it. Sometimes planes just disappeared for no reason. The other complaint was the whole time scale; it was just unbelievable. I could go on forever, but I'm sure you see my point.

My fervent hope is that Electronic Arts buys the rights to this "game" and turns it over to the Maxis subsidiary. Then, those geniuses who brought you SimCity 3000 and The Sims could work their programming magic and turn this into something truly worthwhile.

The worst game I have seen in years.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: July 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Being a avid "Build 'em" game fan, I had high hopes when I saw this game. My first warning that I was going to have problmes was that the box had one name, the manual another name, and the screen shots in the manual had yet a third name for this program. The manual lacks any rules required for the operation of the game. The interface is inconvienient at best. I was unable to rotate any pre-made airport terminals, or views around my terminal. If you are unfortunate enough to get property with the road entering on the wrong side, then you have to build roads all the way around the terminal on the pre made ones. In my early games, options that the game said I had to have for the airport to function, such as tarmacks and fire stations and control towers, were unavailable as building options. Given this fact, I was unable to progress very far in the game. One of the companies listed in the back of the manual as tech support disavow any knowledge of this product, and the other source failed to return any e-mails. If it wasn't for the fact that the game was opened, I would have returned it for my money back the first night. What a waste of time and money. It appears to me that the product was packaged up and shipped in hope that some money would still be able to be made off the initial investment.

Good graphics with couple of bugs. Bad manual

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What to do? Do i build a big, ugly, busy airport or a small,nice, little one? Well that is 4 u 2 to decide. Airport Tycoonallows u 2 do that. Build ur own airport and manage it. Airport Tycoon's manual is horrible, does not have much in it. U have 2 learn how 2 play through the tutorial (which runs low on money before it finishes the airport, not playable tutorial). Big learning curve 2 build a good airport. I noticed that some buildings near the edge of the screen tend 2 dissapear, but if u scroll that way it reappears. Different cameras with good graphics (dispite the bugs), can view airport through taxi cabs, travelers, incoming flights, etc. Very addicting once u build a working airport...

So-so,

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game can be very frustrating. I always go into debt when running a passenger airport. Unscheduled air planes occaisanly arrive, and a extremley poor tutorial. On the other hand cargo airports are easy to manage. The overall layout is decent. The decision depends on if your ready for a challenge.

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