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Some promise, needs to be improved

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 18 / 21
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I LOVED the original Airport Tycoon and got hooked on it. But Airport Tycoon 2 was a total bust. Panda Jet and Orient Air the only airlines serving Tel Aviv? No interior detail in the terminal? COME ON!!!

So I hoped that Airport Tycoon 3 would remedy the flaws and become the souped up Airport Tycoon I was hoping for. It didn't quite make it. The graphics are decent, and a lot of problems with Airport Tycoon 2 (i.e. lack of terminal interiors) were fixed. But some things leave a lot to be desired. For one thing, where are the security areas in the terminal? You can't build your own custom terminals. And China Int'l serving Chicago to Indianapolis????? Hmmm....

I'd pick the original Airport Tycoon before 2 or 3.

Airport Tycoon Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Global Star has yet to live up to its original Airport Tycoon...ACT2 was a "bust"....ACT3 graphics improved and some ACT2 fixes, but still seems to be lacking improvements found in other "more" current simulation games...if you have #1 or #2, no need to purchase #3....let's hope #4 lives up to its hype...

I hope Global Star reads this!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have A.T.1 and it is awsome I still play it. I really wanted part 3 and now that I got it, it is really bad. I downloaded a trainer off the web for unlimited money, but after I downloaded the patch for the game from global star the trainer doesn't work. I can not make any money and I always go bankrupt. Who evens knows how to charge airlines to land at your airport? You can't expand your terminal or destory it to build a bigger on. Until Global Star can figure out how to fix all the problems This CD will be a frisbee for my dog!

Looks like nobody tested this game for bugs at Global Star!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: January 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of simulation games - especially those which end in 'Tycoon'!

I guess I should have paid more attention to the other folks who wrote reviews for this game because I went ahead and purchased Airline Tycoon 3, thinking naively "2 should be better than 1, and 3 should be better than 2". I can't comment on 1 and 2 because I don't own copies of them, (and unless someone reassures me that they are much better than 3), and don't intend to own them, or anything from Global Star.

Let me tell you what I found annoying/ disappointing in this game:

1) Other games have simulations that run as tutorials, here you just get the privilege of reading the manual in an electronic form!

2) The English needs work - "Plain" Maintenance for heaven's sake! Other examples which I can't recall right now. Someone needs to actually LOOK at what is being displayed to give the game in my view, a 'finished' look.

3) Once you place a terminal building there is no way of removing it.

4) Ditto for the runway. Except of course when you try to delete a runway you are told you cannot delete it. We can still see it after the deleted attempt, but the game has decided that the runway has been deleted, and we are stuck with the message that the airport cannot be operated without a runway!

Due to 3 and 4, I found myself quitting the game again and again in order to correct my mistakes. This got old very quickly and I found myself sailing the CD across the room vowing never to buy anything from Global Star ever again.

A message to the folks at Global Star: TEST your software...your competitors are allegedly doing this!

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 buy this game, it doesn't work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was given this as a gift for Christmas. Essentially the game installed and I began to play it. To my suprise, I had problems with non stop crashing of the program do to a scenary bug. Some features do not work as listed in the manual. The manual contains little to no usefull information and is completely outdated (just look at the pictures, they do not match what you get in the game). I have made contact with what limited support they have and they are of absolute no help. They will not answer your specific questions and tell you to get the latest patch which was the first thing I did anyway. It is simply broken.

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.

BAD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Do not buy this game. It is boring, unrealistic, stupid, and uncreative. Totally not thrilling. Terrible. Don't waste your hard-earned money.

Don't even bother...... Read the other reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a disgrace. It is a total deception for global star, and I hope they read this because I ame never ever going to buy another game from Global star.

The game grafics are ok but the game is imposible to handle.
First of all the view option dont even let you see your own airport. Then when I cant do anything about the view and I give up trying to fix it I build the specified things inorder for the airport to open, but the game remains paused. IT IS FULL OF BUGS. BAck to the views; whenever I change view options and then return to the normal viewmode, the normal view mode is compleatly at another view.
This game is a disgrace to tycoon games and I Hope Global Star will never produce a game. ITS A WASTE OF TIME and MONEY...

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