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Very fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is very entertaining with few drawbacks. One of the most enticing features is the price. Very cheap game, but still provides hours of entertainment. It isn't the next RollerCoaster Tycoon, mind you, but it's somewhere up there. The game does take up a lot of computer resources, and mine is jerky, but that doesn't limit the fun very much. The only other thing is that you have to first buy certain buildings to get newer ones, and when you start new levels, it gets boring having to do it over again. Along those lines, if you decide to upgrade a building and you get rid of the old one, you have to buy it again because you can't have newer buildings unless you currently have the older one.

Other than these things, I find this game very entertaining with little surprises here and there. I would definetly recommend it.

FFFFUUUUNNNN!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS A MASTERPIECE! GET ONE ASAP. THE GRAPHICS ARE NOT LIKE THAT OF A GAME CUBE or XBOX, BUT ARE GOOD. THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS YOU CAN CHOOSE TO MAKE. YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS SAFE AND HAPPY. IF NOT, THEY WILL LEAVE AND BE UNHAPPY. YOU ALSO HAVE TO MAINTAIN IT OR ELSE EVERYTHING WILL BE A MESS. TRY TO BUILD A FIVE STAR RESORT AND COMPLETE MISSIONS, OR JUST BUILD A RESORT WITH NO GUIDLINES AT ALL. DO NOT LET THE PRICE ON THIS GAME MAKE YOU THINK THAT IT IS NOT WORTH GETTING. THE GAME IS GREAT FOR ALL AGES. I AM 13, AND MY DAD IS IN HIS 50'S AND WE BOTH CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF THE GAME. HAVE FUN PLAYING!!!!

Ski Resort Tycoon

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sounds a lot of fun doesn't it? Yeah, well for the first 3 hours or so. When you start this game, you begin to start building your first lift, add a couple of restrooms, maintaince shack, ski patrol hut, and a snack or espresso bar and so on depending on your funds. Many of the buildings require previous buildings to be built, so you cant just build a remarkable 5-star hotel with 300 rooms once you start. Then as you get more guests, some of them stayes overnight-whoops excuse me did I say that? Theres not even a daynight cycle in this game. I gained a star up, but my funds were getting low. I only had about 5k left. If your funds are low, you have to wait in order to gain money. This is a very bory procces. I used the 3D third-peron mode. You actually feel like your skiing in a real resort! The drawback to this, however is that even is you have a blazing fast no lagg and cinematic quality visual producing main stream graphics card with a powerful very fast processor and a lot of RAM (like mine, an Alienware Area-51 PC including a Pentium 4 3ghz Processor with 512 megabytes of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 128MB), you will still recieve a lot of lagg and slow frame rates . The physics are everything to complain about. Guests an literally ski though buildings, if you run is too steep, half their body is on top and the other, on the bottom of the snow. It's not the deep snow, if it is they will be skiing very slowly. Also to complain about is the bad graphics and detail even in 1024x768 which is the highest resolution you can get, depending on your graphics card. Look at the skiiers and snowborders detail, they are nothing but a trapazoid shape as their body, and a spheare thats not even round, more like an octogon for their head. Avalanches that happen way to often, makes you go to the top of your screen. To get down your would have to move your increadibly slow pointer. Both of these features they put into this game are extreamley annoying. I eventually got to a five-star resort by "chain building" the hotels, resturants, restrooms, warming huts, entertainment centers, expert runs, and quality lifts. Finally, I just about have enough of this game and I started writing my review.
Ups: 3D mode lets see how your resort is like if your actually there. One way to get that "winter feel" during summer.
Downs: Gets really boring after the first few hours you play. Very laggy, poor frame-rates, terrible graphics, and awful and physics.
Bottom Line: You might want to do some real skiing instead.
If I had to give it a score from 1-100 it would be 37/100.

Very fun, but graphics are nothing to brag about!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a very fun game that will keep you playing for days. The graphics, though, could use some improvment. The game tends to be "blocky" at times, and also tends to be kind of chopy in its videos. Though you do have to consider, for the low price that it generally sells at, you cant expect much more(I got mine in a package of two along with Golf Resort Tycoon for $10.00. So you can figure that the graphics are "worth" about $5.00, if that's means anything to you). So overall, if your looking for a cheap, quality management game, then I recommend this game for you.

Note:I do wish though, that the game would have been a little more realistic, and have offered some more varity and quantity of maps.

A good game if you're bored to death.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for twenty dollars. All that came in the box was the cd in a paper envlope. I expected that for such a cheap game. The game came loaded with different buildings, ski lifts, and other structures. Only problem is that to unlock the better buildings, you need to build the more basic structures first. This may seem okay. Its the driving force in the game, but it takes forever to get the good buildings. You start off with $50,000 in easy mode. Building a few building and a ski lift will put you into debt. Now its time to make money. It'll take you at least half an hour to make $10,000 back, and then you spend that money on a new condo and your back in debt. Graphics are good, but the music is horrible. You can only hear it when you zoom out. Overall, turn the game on, leave town for a few days, and then you'll have enough money to play.

Not As Good As other Tycoon Games...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not As Good As other Tycoon Games but is very addicting if you have a computer over 300mhz. The ski and building cams are really cool, but if you have a slow computer, it will crash your game!! The people move and their body parts (Not all of them - lol!) too!! A very good game from Cat Daddy Games and Activision Value!!

300mhz + computer ***** 250mhz - computer ***

Awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you are a skier or snowboarder, you'll love this game it has great 3D pictures and you can make the resorts awesome! Anyone will like this game. It rocks!!

AWESOME GAME!....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

DON'T HAVE IT, BUY IT ASAP! PEOPLE WHO LOVE ROLLER-COASTER TYCOON WILL MOST LIKELY LOVE THIS GAME TOO! YEAH, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE MOUSE, THEY FIXED IT A WHILE BACK! PLAYS GREAT ON MY 1.60Ghz PENTIUM FOUR. THE CHEAT CODE FOR FREE MONEY IS CTRL-SHIFT-C-A-T.

Ski on the slopes of FUN!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ski Resort Tycoon is a fun game once you get the hang of it. You start out with a mountain and different quantitties of money. (depending on which level)You can name people. (but can't design them)You can see your visitors feelings by a thought bubble above their head. The thought bubble only shows up every now and then, but it displays a face that can be anxious, mad, happy etc. When they are hungry it shows a hamburger. You can build a number of bathrooms, restraunts, lodges, hotels, rentals etc. They even have a cinema. In order to buy a building you must have enough money and certain buildings already built. Its hard to find out the main goal, but I think it is to become a 5 star resort. Every once in a while there is an avalanche! The avalanches break buildings (that can be repaired if you hire repairers) and if some skiers don't get help fast enough (if you hire an EMS person) they die. When they die the family might sue you. This game does take a while to load, but the game makes up for it!

Overrated, but overall good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty average game. Funds can sometimes get low, but eventually you can have enough trails to have a perpetual stream of money coming in. Overall, it is what you would expect from a game like this in its first version.

First, some pros: The resorts are actually real, so it is interesting to build a resort and then find its actual map on the internet. Also, the "ALL BUILDINGS ALWAYS AVAILABLE FEATURE" is interchange able, so you can either play with common sense or build a gondola before a rope tow. It is also easy to find the difficulty of a trail, so making a run is very simple.

Now somedrawbacks: There are so many different types of maintenance that you could spend $20,000 grooming the snow and still have garbage around your entire resort. Also, while it is fun to explore your resort from a skier you control, you only get 1 run: the skier goes through lifts as if they weren't there. Also, the lift choice is very small. All quads have to be detachable, and 6's are not there. NOT EVEN TRIPLES ARE AVAILABLE!

It is sytill a very fun game. 1 thumb up, but still some nagging features which I hope will be improved in SRT2

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