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Humor doesn't cut it!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Why is it called Fast Food Tycoon when all I can make is pizza? Hmmm... Anyway on with the review!

Positives
+ humorous, cartoony graphics make the game visually stimulating
+ colorful and interactive menus help streamline choices

Negatives
- abyssmal soundtrack and sound effects
- help menus and context slow and annoying
- game concepts are fuzzy and nigh impossible to master
- even on easy modes the computer knows all the tricks
- terrible and uninformative tutorials

Overall
... Fast Food Tycoon is a good idea with neat visuals but the implementation of the game is amateurish. It might be worth a few bucks but there are better tycoon games out there.
... Performance is fine - as long as your PC matches the recommended configuration you'll be good to go. Disable any virus software or other background services if you have problems.

B+

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A fun challenging game that will most likely fulfil your sim-business needs. When you first start out, you will be without a manual, however there are preset in game scenarios that help you to get adjusted to the basic workings of the game and to help you move around and get accostomed to the gameplay. For a tycoon game, it was quite exceptional, and surprisingly entertaining, even if you ae not a fan of sim and tycoon games, you may still want to check this one out.

Funny game, but awfully frustrating to grasp

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The entire game becomes quite difficult to understand, and even the tutorials didn't help much. After a while, it took several weeks for me to understand how to make a profit, and I managed to ever so slowly. But it's a funny game, from the bouncy music to the way they classify all your customers (kids, goths, plebs, VIPs, yuppies, students, tourists, and teens). And, unlike most other Tycoon games, there's a surprising amount of sabotage involved.

You start with joining a bank and advertising agency. The real work divides into three areas, with an optional fourth if you wanna get dirty-

1. The branch itself. You buy a building (comes in small/medium/large) and decorate it with chairs and tables and a few knick-knacks that don't matter save the jukebox. When you open the pizza branch this is where you see all the customers come in and order. It's a pizza place, but it runs like a restaurant with the waiters and such. You may also need a warehouse to keep ingredients in.

2. The staff. There's cooks, waiters, temps, and sometimes a manager. They all have skill levels in which you can pay to train, but also they have other factors such as motivation and talent which affect their total efficiency. Despite how big your building(s) may be, you can only hire seven workers per branch. Full time workers work three shifts in a six-shift day, so you'll need at least two cooks and waiters to cover everything. Also, you have to keep them happy with pay increases (which you can never decrease, unfortunately).

3. The pizza. It was tough trying to satisfy all the different classes of people, but there are a lot of toppings to put on. Even ants and maggots. But by chopping up ingredients and finding the right balance amongst the meat, cheese, fruits, and vegs you could make the pizza very popular. You'll put your original pizzas, along with four standard toppings, on a menu which your customers will choose from.

4. Crime- if you decide to play with computer opponents (a no-no for beginners) then you'll want to wreck their branches through advertising, hiring punks to scare their customers, or joining a mob syndication. When you pull off jobs, you do third-person pointing and clicking to move and fire. It's something that earns some cash and is thrilling for about an hour, though.

The game offers a fair amount of data on pizza topping trends, a pie chart determining the cash flow, but many little icons and sections you'll have to look at over and over to discover what it actually means (you usually do so by holding the mouse over the icon and waiting for a small message to scroll above the icon.

I love this game! Why is it getting such bad reviews?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a few years ago...and I still love it till this day. It passes the time very quickly,sure at first it takes some getting used to. But,once you learned how things work, it will be additing. I am even thinking of playing it again today (its been a LONG time)

Pros:

-Hours and Hours of fun game play...

-Cool Music and Sounds

-Has alot of Humor

-Hundreds of different charaters to interact with...

-Just plain ol' fun

Cons:

-Takes a while getting used to...

-Its hard to make a successful pizza (well to me)

-Can be hard and tricky at times...you got to know what you are doing...

Other than that, I would go and try to borrow or buy a copy,its one of the best tycoon games I have came across (the best for me).

:( I hope I can find the CD to it...I think I lost it! LOL!

ENJOYED IT :)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game about 2 years ago, and I still pop it into my computer every now and then (yep .. it managed to catch my attention for that long!)
The lack of an instruction manual in this game is really no big deal -- I picked up the basics very quickly using plain old common sense. Some buttons and feautures still remain unknown to me, but this has not affected my gameplay at all.
I love the fact that within this game you can actually make your own pizzas by picking out what size you want the pizzas to be; you also have a large amount of toppings to choose for every pie that you make.
You also have the ability to decorate your actual pizza parlor. Although there are not many decor choices, you can build a fairly decent place. In the end, this game does not contain any fancy graphics, but it is based on an innovative concept that will make you play it over and over again :)

Give it time, It is Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after I got RollerCoaster Tycoon. At first, I was like all the other reviewers. I could not figure it out. But I took my time, I played with the features. I used the automated features. Now, I am out robbing banks every so often, stealing furniture, and breaking criminals out of jail while my restaurants are making a lot of money. I still have not played a regular challenge, but play only the custom challenges where I can keep my automatic features on.

No, I Don't Want Ants On My Pizza

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pros: Cute graphics...$5 "Bargain Bin" at CompUsa

Cons: Confusing layout! No instruction manual,
Infuriating...difficult to understand, time-consuming, Interface impossible to deal with, limited control, yadda, yadda, yadda

The Bottom Line: Avoid it! The jewel case will make a great coaster for the soda I'm sipping while playing a REAL game. If your goal is to drive someone insane, literally, then this is the perfect gift. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

Summary:
The Pros:

The idea of it all. They potentially had something so good in this game.

The scenarios. Easy, medium or hard as well as "most income" or "Most popular" or "First one to make a million dollars". I liked the option of not really having any goal and just playing so that I wouldn't blink and be obliterated.

You can check on how different "target groups" are responding to your restaurant, your food, etc. Click on the target group and a little Polaroid Photo sort of thing pops up and they're either smiling or making a pre-vomiting face.

The "make your own pizza" part! Oh man this was fun! You sort through all your ingredients and apply liberally. You have the traditional meats and cheeses and veggies. You also have all sorts of seafood and insect life. Ew, right? Well, you open franchises in different countries and hey, tastes vary. What else is fun when you're making your pizza is they have a "Chopper". You can click your ingredient over the chopper and it'll dice it smaller and smaller and it's graphically correct and adorable. Cheese starts as a block (chopper chopper) and then it's a thinner slice (chopper chopper) and then it's small chunks, and then shreds, and then sprinkles. How cute! Tomatoes go from whole to halves to quarters to slices to paste! Fun!

The Cons:

I'm ashamed to say that I couldn't figure out how to play this game for the life of me. Being impatient, I just jumped on in and thought I was going to kick some butt. After about 20 minutes I was still staring at the screen, clicking on various things.

Aaaaalright, I'll take the tutorial. It turned the light bulb on in my head in terms of staffing, decoration and purchasing supplies. Frustrating though...I clicked on everything on the screen before I'd click on what it wanted me to. The graphics are loud and confusing. What does a big face mean? Staff? Syndicate? Exit?

Oddly enough when I started my next game I couldn't find ANY of the buttons that were there in the tutorial...I couldn't find the staffing, my "information history" and couldn't even figure out how to open my darn restaurant.

Infuriating! I checked out my restaurant...it had some people and staff in it...but when I clicked around it sent me to some other restaurant. I sure the heck didn't open that one or decorate it, where'd it come from? Argh!

You have the option of having things done "automatically" for you in various areas (Select them when you begin your scenario if you'd like) but doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of building your own Pizza Empire?

HORRIBLE GAME!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If I could have given this game no stars I would have. Don't be fooled by the word "Tycoon" as I was. This game shouldn't even be able to bare the Tycoon name. It is impossible to play! I would have been happier throwing the twenty dollars I spent on this game out the window. And aside from the difficulty, the game isn't even fun! It was a good idea, but the game concept is too complicated. Don't be fooled into buying this game. You're much better off buying Roller Coaster Tycoon or one of the games from The Sims series.

Box or jewel Case-it doesn't matter.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My wife got me this game for our anniversary present, thinking I have too many casino games, and that I like pizza.

First of all, agree with every review of this game I can find, the worst thing is lack of a definitive instruction manual, like the zoo tycoon, which is about the size of a TV Guide.

Also, noticed that the tutorial crashes, so that becomes no help. There are on line instructions and general guidelines in the help menu, but it's hard to scroll and read. So what to do?

Fortunately with a little common sense and exploring the various menu and options, one can open a restaurant and have people come in and order and eat. that's a hoot. However, I ran out of money quickly, trying to do it all, and busted.

Yeah, my wife's right, I did enjoy making the pizzas and decorating the building. I got confused generally where I was at, and am still trying to refine personnel management; but in time and enough playing around and exploring various click points, the game falls into place, and more success will come.

In summary, the game can be fun; a better guide would help, especially one that explains the various icons to click on. Also, more readable menus and result charts would be helpfull too. Maybe pull down or pop up menus. Whatever it would take to make the game easier to navigate.

I rate it average, I like it; and find great potential for it. Actually with all the scenarios included, it is a great bargain for the money. Maybe with more play experience, I'll think more highly of it.

A great game but quite hard...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. You will have your own restaurants and earn money with them :)
The game is quite hard if you play a "custom game" with the difficult level is "God Father". I think you can't win him if you start with less capital,characteristic than him. However, I don't think Pizza is a FastFood, and I hate the game for wait too long when installing.
Finally I hope you buy it and play funny, than we could talk more.BUY IT NOW!!!

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