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Didn't even work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: May 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game didn't even work out of the box.

I'm glad, because I don't have to put up with what everyone else had.

I guess I had a little fun trying to make this work, but no use.

One word: Horrible!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There's supposed to be one thing about a game that's the most important to me: How long you keep playing it. For me, I only played for three days, and got bored of it! At least it only costed [..] bucks...

Cons:
1. There is no creativity, and you have a very small selection of what to put in your mall.
2. You can't really decide where to put a store.
3. The items are so, so, expensive! I wasted 30,000 bucks in just 10 minutes, and was very dissatisfied, so I kept making new games over and over again, but each one turned out really disorganized.
4. The symbols for each item a person's wants is so confusing! Example, the color red is for "sports" and the color blue is for "food."
5. You lose business easily.

I only bought this game because I once played Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, and I really liked it, but I found out Mall of America Tycoon was nothing like it, not even close!

Worst... game...ever...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love Sim games and I live close to the Mall of America. I got this game for $5, so I really wanted to give it a chance. Not worth it.
There are no instructions for the game, and the tutorial is really bad. You don't do any type of walkthrough, you just read a long list. I would not even call it a tutorial, it's a long, tedious, & unhelpful click through instruction manual. It explains a lot of common sense things, but leaves a lot of questions once you get into gameplay.

You start building the north side of level 1. To unlock another level you have to have all the stores up and running and 90% profitable.
I've only been able to unlock 2 more sides of level 1.
List of stores you can build come up randomly. You usually only have 3 - 5 things to choose from at any given time.
You can have all the security guards available hired, and it will still tell you to hire more because the security level is too low. Secuirty guys like to huddle around and hang out in stores that are out of business. Had 9 cleaners hired on one side where stores were going out of business and didn't see any of them, or any work getting done.

Runs very slow on computers that are a couple years old, tends to lock up on newer and older models. Has trouble loading saved games and will lock up trying.

Gameplay is glitchy. Sometimes when trying to build or tear down a store, task is not completed and the store will be stuck as a concrete base which cannot be built on or torn down. This effect will halt your gameplay as you will not be able to unlock new sections if this happens.

Overall game seems like it was quickly thrown together buy developers and never beta-tested.

If only there were aa zero star rating...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have to agree with everyone else. This game was horrible. I actually bought it used and I thought it was a great deal at only 15 bucks. To bad I hadn't come online first to find out new its just about 20 bucks. That should have clued me in from the start. Avoid this game and save up for something thats worth it.

horrible!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got this game at officemax for only $10 and got it home expecting something great but when i started to play it i had to spend 15 minutes trying to figure out how to play then finaly i figured it out and then it took soo long to get all the attractions up and then get them into place that i finally just quit for a little while. I just play it now when im bored and have lots of time to do nothing!

Poorly written

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I agree with most of what the other reviewers of this product have said. I did figure out how to move the camera around and zoom out, although it is cumbersome. My first clue that this game would be a disaster was reading all of the grammatical and spelling errors in the tutorial. It sounded like the person that wrote the tutorial had translated it directly from their native language (NOT English).

I had some fun with the game, trying to do well enough to unlock the next part of the mall. But eventually I tired of creating the same stores over and over. The program eventually started putting things in odd places and not fully deleting the stores that closed down. I ended up with red-colored stores all over the screen that couldn't be replaced.

Save your money!

Do not get this game!!!!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is ok fun. I could never find out how to exit and so I had to play for like hours till my daddy got home and could get me out of it!!!!! Also, you can only play in certin areas untill you unlock them. You don't earn money ver fast and everything is eather too exspensive or too big!!!!!!!

This game is a buggy, glitchy, horrible mess!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy it. Don't even be tempted to buy it. It won't run properly. It crashes randomly, displays error messages constantly, and seems to be actually MISSING the entire west wing of the mall.

I have a machine that well exceeds the requirements and the game acts as if I am trying to run without ram. The stores quit without ever being demolished, there is no way to manually demolish them, and therefore they are useless space. Furthermore, the game refuses to run at all once I reach the point where it will unlock the west wing, and there is no west area listed in the menu where it should be in the game (which I suspect is why I can't get the game to run at that point.) On top of this, the entire east wing displays at 80 to 90 percent profitability, but nets zero dollars every year.

I bought this on SALE for ten bucks and I regret it, it is worth absolutely nothing. This is the only game I have ever actually thrown in the trash.

I wish I could give this zero stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: March 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I made the mistake of buying this for my 9 year old daughter who LOVES Zoo Tycoon, thinking it would be similar. Someone must have sold (or stolen) the Tycoon trademark, because MOA is difficult to use -- it is not intuitive, and I cannot figure out how to fix mistakes (so there are trash cans all over the place and the stores won't land anywhere....).

I wish I had read reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 23
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok so I saw this game and went nuts for it in the store and had to have it.

You see, I lived less than two miles from the MOA for a while and I thought it would be a lot of fun to play this game. While is it kinda fun to play, the game does do some serious sucking.

Seems like all the people do is walk around.

You can't tell the stores apart from each other

You can't assign staff to a patrol area

The atmosphere selections are horrible, you get two benches, two fountains and two kinds of street lights.

Trying to center a store on the space you want to put it on is horrible.

There is not a lot of selection for stores and the store selection changes. For example, you may be looking for a small store and all you can find are large stores and you have no room for a large store.

Camera can not show the entire section you're working on

Camera is hard to control

tutorial isn't complete

the english is BAD. It's not just bad grammar, it's english as a second language bad.

You can't do anything with camp snoopy and you don't get any money for it but you still need to pay for upkeep!

The stores are not brands you know or are even in the MOA
There are grocery stores in this game and there are not grocery stores in the MOA!

The outside of the box makes this game look GREAT! However, once I got it home I was terribly dissapointed. The only thing this game really has going for it is the authenticity of the mall itself.

However, I like to accomplish something when I'm playing games and I own games like "The Sims", up to unleashed, Sim City 2000 and "Sim Theme Park" and I love playing them ,so I'm playing this, it's not as great as I thought it was but hey, it was 20 bucks.

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