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Car Tycoon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Car Tycoon is a manager game in which you are the owner of a car company that produces and sells cars. You start in the 1950's in a small town somewhere in the USA. You build a factory, a car shop and a repair facility (most of your money is gone by then) and start to produce cars. By selling them, you'll get money to invent new parts which will then power your new car models. There are up to 3 computer players which want to become rich, too.

Features:

develop more than 400 cars, 7 different types
40 scenarios
more than 400 pre-made cars from 1950-2000
more than 300 different buildings
Zoom

Not the best, by far.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: August 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To make a long review short: You would be much better off playing Old Timer (Motor City), or even Detroit. This game is like a shoddy remake with flashier graphics.

Don't buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: June 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I loved cars. When I loaded it I found messages kept coming up in German. I returned the game for a new one. This seemed to work fine. I then noticed that the woman in the bottom right hand corner of the screen sometimes speaks German. I then discovered that sometimes when trying to sell off models, they get stuck and you can't remove them. The biggest problem I found though was that I put in 7 hours of work into a supposed "open ended game" to find that once saved, and I was the leading manufacturer, when reloading the game it comes up with a message saying "Time has expired" and then a message saying "competitor has attained goal". I would never but this game again, or anything from this supplier. I would never recommend them and if there were a similar game around by another supplier I would buy it because I don't think it could be any worse than Car Tycoon.

Horrible Game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible! It has no point whatsoever and things take forever to do! I sometimes leave it there for hours so it can do something, and when I come back, POOF! All my money has gome down the drain! Sheesh!

ways ton waste $...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The concept for this game had me intrigued, however once I installed it all I can say is ....simple. There are so many possibilities in this concept that just don't pan out or simply wern't explored. For instance I can't change the color or name the car types. Also for some reason dealerships won't change the types of cars they sell. What can I say but the game lasted less then a week and now its a fairly good frisbee!

A gamer in Gaithersburg, MD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: July 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If I could give this game a half star, I would. I love simulation games and was hoping that this one would be a newer version of Detroit (by Impressions many moons ago), but was very disappointed. It is hard to keep track of what is going on. Could use better reports. It locks up. Once while trying to exit, it hung and I finally had to shut it down through Task Manager. When you pop the CD into the drive, it tries to start installing again. Obviously not programmed smart enough to know that the game is already installed. And the movies at start up, where do I begin? Sitting through them once was more than enough. There is no way to skip through them, either, as I hit most every key on the keyboard as well as doing mouse clicks. Very bad game. Do not waste your money.

Great Game; Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The cool parts about it is that you can have a lot of different cars and if you are a car fan you should get this game. you are a Car dealership thats wants to sell your cars, you control the prices of the cars, and the parts of the car.

Better than everyone says it is

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: May 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I went and bought even though I had heard about how bad it was and how unstable it is. I was shocked when I finally got to playing the game. It's the funnest strategy games I've ever played. It's simple and fun to do. You can look at your dealerships, factories, and see what kind of people are buying your cars. The game hasn't frozen on me once! I've heard over and over again how people are mad that you can't make them certain colors. Think about it. Does the company really decide what colors are made? Not really. The consumer does. This is a great game! I am not disappointed!

convoluted piece of [junk]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Don't bother. I love cars. I love business simulations, but just looking at the official website for the game turned me off to the whole thing. They INSIST you watch all their elaborate graphic animations, virtually guaranteed to waste your time unless you have a T1 hardwired to their server. I didn't even get past them to learn anything else about the actual game. ...

Ouch! Save yourself some $$ and pass this one by...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am into cars and sims-and like many others, I was hoping this was the game I had been waiting for. Simply put: it isn't. I got through the first "year" only to have the game freeze (negating that hour or so of playing). The instructions/controls are extremely confusing. Also, while playing, it is very hard to figure out if you are profiting or not, because the cost of each car only includes the components used and does not include labor, etc. The website is worthless. With a few good patches and a complete/corrected instruction manual, this game might be OK-but it's probably too far gone even for that. Obviously they were trying to cash in on the "Tycoon" series popularity. Don't confuse this with the real thing!

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