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Sky Resort Tycoon Similar to Other Tycoon Games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 38 / 43
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For players of other Tycoon type games this game will be very familiar. Its financial model is very much like the ones you find in other Tycoon games. The hiring employees and setting prices of the different attractions is about the same with the only difference being in the type of employee you hire. The graphical interfaces is fairly easy to use and the sound is basicly ok. The sky lifts, buildings, etc you are allowed to build is based off of what you have already built. Ski trail construction is important in winning the game and you are allowed to make major modifications to the terrain. The instructions for the game are on the CD and are barely adequate. They just describe the control features in a basic manner and give a few tips in playing the game. The game has very few scenarios. All in all if you like playing the tycoon style games you will like this game and with its low price it is not a bad buy ,but don't expect exciting new styles of game play.

Totally awesome game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 24
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ski resort tycoon is the best tycoon game since Roller Coaster. Watching the skiers bust on the slopes is more than comical. I thoroughly recommend this game! I play for hours and hours on end, and you will to.

For [the price] this game rocks...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 54 / 55
Date: November 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For the price this is a one of the best games I have seen. It has tons of stuff to build and is hilarious to watch. You get little skiers and snowboards doing everything from jumps and wipe out crashes to avalanches. It also has a lot of game play depth.(100's of stuff to build and control) You can even view your resort from any thing you have built or see it through the eyes of any of the skiers or snowboarders. I have really enjoyed this game and I would recommend it to anyone who liked roller coaster tycoon or anyone who likes to ski.

Ski Resort Tycoon

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 35
Date: November 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is campy and boring. There was no thought put into this game and it was easy to tell. I would not recomend this game to anyone.

Pleasantly surprised for the price

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 64 / 69
Date: December 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hopefully most of you are familiar with how the Tycoon games work. With this game, you are responsible for creating a ski resort but more importantly, a village as well. Something very vital to this game is knowing that you are going to spend the same amount of time if not more making buildings, paths and villages to keep skiiers happy as you are working on the trails, lifts and terrain on the mountain.

Here are some positives and negatives to the game. First, the negatives. The software runs a little slow on my computer, and I consider myself to have an average machine (466 pentium II, 32mb RAM). The detail is just average. You can zoom in and out which is a very nice feature, but even the closest zoom in won't give you that much detail. They have something called "building cam" where it gives you a 360 degree shot from a building or lift. This is a great idea and would be awesome but it ends up being disappointing because it is deathly slow trying to move around and get different views of things. You move the mouse to look left and it doesn't do it for five seconds, by that time you've already moved your mouse again and... well you can imagine how that goes. The positives, and why I give it four stars -- the simulation overall is very lifelike for the price. Skiiers show emotions, wipe-out, and use the facilities that you provide for them. There are so many buildings and features you can build, including choosing five different mountains to start off with. There are also three different monetary levels to adjust the level of difficulty of the game.

This game stinks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 27
Date: December 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My disappointment started buying the software! It felt like there was nothing in the box. It comes with no instruction manual, no warrenty card, nothing except the cd-rom. When I first played the software I got an ilegal operation screen about ten times before I got the software to start. Once I got it started, the software runned very, very slow, sometimes it would freeze! When I got the game to start to work (after about a hour) the game ended up being no fun! You can build things (but limited quanities) then I just gave up and felt like I wanted to return the software, but I couldn't because I had already opened the box, and it came with no warrenty card. Don't buy this software. It stinks!

Underneath the snow, this is a great game at a great price.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 30 / 33
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Due to its low price, many people will consider Ski Resort Tycoon another game for the bargain bin. The game in reality is quite fun, considering that it works properly on your computer. Though an instruction manual is missing upon purchase, the game is easy enough to learn. "Easy to learn, difficult to master" describes the game well. With a large selection of shops (hotels, diners, ski and boarding schools, etc.), the chance of running out of money comes quite soon, but three difficulty settings come in handy. On the Easy setting you start with 50,000 dollars. On Hard, you start with 10,000. Get the picture? When you get into the game, you have two options. Instant Action, or one of the Challenges. Instant Action is for..well, Instant Action (without the hassles of Challenges and goals). Challenges provide you with scenarios and goals you must accomplish. Once you actually begin to construct you resort, however, bugs and certain problems come out of hiding. The game is rather slow at times, but not often (if you have met the game requirements, that is). Even from the beginning, you have a wide array of tools ready for your use in shaping your mountain. One problem that bothers me the most is that you can't open and close your resort at will. The park seems to open as soon as your first Ski run or halfpipe/jump is constructed and opened. Also, when building, the lack of a tool that allows you to change views (for constructing things such as roads behind buildings) becomes quite a hindrance in building. The first person view on buildings is an interesting idea, though it is quite slow and doesn't work very well. Those are the most noticeable problems for me, and the only problem I have with Ski Resort Tycoon. If you're a fan of Roller Coaster Tycoon, go ahead and try this game out, because despite its flaws, it is quite a fun and addicting game. Hope this helps.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 20
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for Christmas and I thought it was going to be great, because I loved Roller Coaster Tycoon. This game, however, is not nearly as good as RCT. I hated it! The little hand was really hard to control and there didn't really seem to be a purpose to the game. What you had to do was build buildings, and most of the buildings required a less expensive building on the resort to be built before the building you wanted could be built. You couldn't look in the buildings or anything. Save your money on this one, it's not worth spending on. Buy something that can let you have more control, if that's what you like. This is only a good game if you want to just see the little buildings placed around and watch skiers ski, but you can't build much yourself or anything. I think Roller Coaster Tycoon, or The Sims, or Sim City would all be better alternatives to Ski Resort Tycoon.

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.

this game stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When i put this game on my wishlist i thought it was going to be fun but boy was i wrong the game i got was messed up because it kpt pausing automaticly and the graphics sucked and when it is loading the screen is messed up and the main menu is so messed up it doesn't even appear on the screen. I loved rollercoaster tycoon but save your mony on this one

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