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Better than AT1 & 2, but still needs improvement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: August 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's true that this version improves highly on Airport Tycoon 1 & 2. But there are also many things I think need to be fixed. First, it still has a difficult, confusing interface. Also, it still has too many constraints (for example, if a plane stand is not positioned a certain way, it will not work -- you have to manually rotate it first). I would definitely choose AT3 over AT1 or AT2, but I am waiting expectantly for AT4, hoping that these problems will be addressed.

Patience is a virtue...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Other reviewers have pretty well summed up this game.

Here's my take on it:

+ the game is very well done. The interface, graphics, and sound are all top-notch. The animations and character units are believable and behave accurately enough. The interface is very detailed and allows you as much control as you could
desire from any management game.

- the game requires immense patience. Even after you build all the required items to get your airport running you'll wait a long time before signing airline contracts. Even with the game on the fastest speed you could wait 5-10 minutes of real time just to sign up one airline flight! Sometimes two weeks of gametime will pass before you get an offer from an airline. If you don't mind the waiting then this aspect won't bother you.

In summary I found the game to superbly designed but to be lacking in entertainment content. Waiting for something to happen with no recourse to affect it is often not that amusing. If you value fun over realism then you'll probably have a similiar take on it. If you favor realism then you'll probably love this game.

Take care

All you have to do is wait and wait...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is not a fun game to play. I am very puzzled with it's tutorial. It doesn't help you much to understand the game as the tutorial is just some screenshots with some text on it. You have to memorize them all, then when you are on the game, you have to practice what the tutorial has told you before. Sigh...

On the gameplay, I found difficulties in building my first airport. As the tutorial given was not clear at all, I built my airport based on my trial-and-error method. This was really time consuming and wasting my money. I built some things wrongly and I had to demolish them and built the new one.

After I created my first airport, I didn't know what to do. I kept waiting and waiting until 20 minutes later an airline contract came in. The notification for the airline contract was not so clear. It was only representated by a tiny red dot on your control panel. Hh...

I had to wait another 20 minutes to get my 2nd contract. Oh! This game was so boring and not entertaining at all! I uninstalled this game from my PC. I would suggest you to avoid this worthless game!

challenging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: July 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an awesome game that challenges the player to create the best airport possible. Many people think this game is not good, they are wrong. The only reason they think it is not good is because it offers the slightest challenge to them.

FULL OF BUGS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I concur with the frustrations experienced by the other reviewers. In addition, I have experienced numerous software crashes when playing a previous "saved" game. Also, why is it when I add a bus station, the annoying tool tip says "I don't have enough bus stops". I deceided one time to play that game and add as many bus stops as I could fit. Yet I still received the message. To top it off, the program indicated that I had a 0% utilization of all my bus stops. What maddness!!

Don't Waste your money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The airport tycoon games just getting worse and worse as the come out with new versions.

Possibly the worst game I've ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Title says it all, this is without a doubt the worst game I have ever had the misfortune of playing. Let me correct that: its the worst game I've ever TRIED to play. Total gameplay time before I gave up in disgust was 45 minutes.

The manual is useless, the "tutorial" is simply a bunch of blurry screen shots with the same "content" as the printed manual. Worse, the tutorial fails to cover some of the most basic items in gameplay: how to connect various objects so that they are useable would be most helpfull. Things that should be intuitive, like how to rotate an object, are only accomplished through trial and error. Worse, even when you get it all hooked up correctly, it takes 10 minutes of gametime for your first airplane to show up. No, you're not doing anything wrong, that's just how it works.

I could go on and on, but I don't want to spend more time writing a review for this waste of money than I actually spent "playing" it.

Bottom line: save your money. This game isn't worth playing even if they were giving it away.

Waiting Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like the whole "Airport Management" concept, but the game is soooo slow. I mean you have to wait so long until you actually get a contract and its hard to make money. I wish they would come out with a game like this but much more fun with more action and almost no waiting just like the Roller Coaster Tycoon games. I would definitly not waste my money on this game unless you have way too much time on your hands.

Help assistance

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Both the pop-up help and the written documentation are completely inadequate to the task. For all practical purposes this game is undocumented. Suitable only for those who like to spend hours experimenting to find the solution for what should be easily learned from the program authors.

Improvement....yet still lacking in quality.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played all three Airport Tycoon games, and I think the only hope is for another company to pick up the title and completely remake it from the ground up. AT3 is an improvement over the previous versions, but it's still bad. Previous reviewers have said it runs slow. In gameplay, yes it does run a bit on the slow side, but so have a lot of the other "tycoon" and "sim" games out there. I have to admit that after about an hour I did have a pretty nice little airport, which was making a profit and expanding at a comfortable rate, but this is only possible if you run the game at maximum speed. I'm running it on a 3GHz P4 with a pretty nice graphics card, and had no problems with the graphics speed at all. I wouldn't say the graphics are too bad, but they're so disproportionate. How can fuel trucks be bigger than the airplanes they're refueling? Why is the runway the same width as the entire terminal? There is only one size of plane stand, so whether you're flying in little commuter planes, or big heavies, the ramp space they take up is always the same. You can't demolish an old runway after building another longer one. The tutorial is terrible, and there are many things you just have to figure out through trial and error (and spending precious funds). There are so many little things that are annoying in this game, it makes it hard to enjoy. For example, if you're adding trees to the landscape, you can't just click the icon once and build a bunch of them. You have to go back and reselect the tree icon after every one you build. This is obviously a low-budget game, which didn't have the luxury of good testing before it went to market, or experienced programmers. There are numerous spelling errors in the game, as previously mentioned, and now it's starting to crash on me (I've had it installed for three hours). This title has SO much potential if a good software company would pick up the idea and throw some good developers, testers, and a little money into it. It has the potential to be another "SimCity" or "Rollercoaster Tycoon" if it was just done better. But, the problems with this version are so glaring (especially now with memory errors and crashes), I just couldn't justify more than one star.

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