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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game stinks, if I could give it 0 stars, I would. It doesn't even work on my computer! And my computer is a Windows XP! Take my advice, and DO NOT buy this product, you're better off with the game Zoo Empire. Zoo Empire works great and is tons of fun! Again, Tycoon City: New York is a horrible game. Please take my advice, and don't buy this game.

If it doesn't work on your computer...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

...then don't write about it here. It's not the game's fault - it's your computer. You have XP but what about the hardware aspect of your computer? Figure that out first.

Anyway, the game is pretty good. It's oddly similar to Monopoly Tycoon, minus the Monopoly aspect. Great graphics to ogle at, but they could have put in a bit more into gameplay. Overall, I'm enjoying this game.

Problematic...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is cool, in and of itself. I love building in NYC.

BUT... the problem is that this game shuts down everytime the computer does any sort of automatic update. If Windows wants to update (or any antivirus programs... or any other plethora of programs that want to update every other week on modern computers) it shuts down the game and you lose anything you haven't saved yet. I shouldn't have to shut down ALL automatic updates everytime I want to play the game. I play other games, including Tycoon games, Sim games, and all sorts of others, and have NEVER had such a problem. It makes the game unusable... which makes it totally lame. If I could return this, I would.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

it nod a bad game but gets boring after a few days since there are no challenged and no matter what you don't lose money compleatly

Really fun, but just a few setbacks...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game about a month ago, and I'm having a blast playing it. It's as fun as as SimCity 4 Rush Hour, only you don't have to worry about utilities and transportation and stuff like that. It's more of a business game than a city-simulator. The graphics are amazing, and the New Yorkers are all unique, with their own tastes and dislikes. The street grid can be a little tricky when placing buildings, especially on curves near the rivers, but other than that, it's really easy to manage the controls. Once you get going, you can really see the skyline of New York City come together. I haven't really played the "Build New York" style of playing as much as Sandbox Mode, but they're both great in their own ways. Working with in the first mode is a great way to get acquainted with the game. The tutorial is really helpful, and Luco, the teacher of sorts, is really helpful as well. I like how Luco describes each neighborhood as you get there, and tells you about different things about the game as you go through. In Sandbox mode, the entire Manhatten Island is open for you, and with $5,000,000 in your pocket, it's not that hard getting started. I recommend starting from where it first takes you: Greenwich village. It's smaller than most of the other districts in the city, and it's got a really neat culture and vibe to it, just like the real New York City. Go from there, and you'll have your own Big Apple in no time. I enjoy this game very much, and I hope you will too. Great game.

It's The Experience, Not the Gaming

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As tycoon games go, this one's pretty mediocre, all right. However, what's really fun about it is not the recreation, but instead the re-creation, in loving detail, of Manhattan Island.

Is New York the quintessential nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there? Perhaps so.

It was fun decorating Liberty Island. It was fun opening businesses in Greenwich Village. It was fun until it became repetitive, boring and not much fun any more.

The downside of any tycoon game, I guess, is when you keep needing to do the same stuff with no real challenge left. The cumulative challenges of this game just did not materialize and ends up leaving the player cold.

BORING

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game looks great, but besides that there isn't a single positive thing I can say about it. The camera control is atrocious, there doesn't seem to be a point to playing it, and it froze up even though my system surpasses the minimum requirements. Why bother building things when all you do is click on a plot of land, watch the building magically appear, and then if you want, add little touches like billboards or bushes? It's just boring. There's no kind of challenge to be found here; it's just click an empty space build a building. Completely pointless.

Almost revolutionary:

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The basic premise that surrounds this game is almost inrivaled in the world of tycoon games. They really spared no effort creating a game that was full of variations. There are tons of buildings to choose from, and several different regions of Manhatten in which to build, all of which are unique. I started playing this game with extremely high expectations.

And those expectations were dashed. There is no challenge to the game, and dispite the numerous cool graphs and charts that detail earnings in many different ways, all of this information is irrelevant. My citizen's desires are irrelevant. It doesn't matter if my citizens are happy or not because it doesn't effect me. It doesn't matter if my newly placed building matches the needs of a neighborhood or not. None of the cool side effects really have any effects on my city whatsoever.

Once I got past the initial thrill of this game, I came to to the conclusion that there just is no substance. After all of the irrelevant but neat graphs and menus have lost their allure, all that is left is a game where all I get to do is plop down buildings and upgrade them while I watch the cash roll in.

Good sim game, not much challenge

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I enjoy Sim City and had passed by this game on the shelves for a while but finally figured I'd give it a shot.

In today's world most people probably know if they like simulation games or not. If you found Sim City a yawn, this is too. If you've managed to learn how to build entire Sim City regions without resorting to cheat codes, then you'll probably enjoy this too but it's not nearly as "challenging" as much as a "challenge" actually applies to either.

The graphics are great and I enjoy the detail and rather enjoy zooming in and watching people mill about my city. I followed along the "Build New York" mode but found by the time I got 1/3 or the city unlocked I was making money at such a pathetically high rate that I run the risk of being wealthier than Warren Buffet and Bill Gates combined. There's no real challenge here, and if you actually pay attention to your business chains and build up headquarters often the money will roll in faster than you can ever possibly spend it.

I really enjoy this type of game and am glad I got it. I will continue to play it for some time. But like so many sim games, it's relatively pointless beyond the rote of build, build, build and buy, buy, buy. Unlike Sim City there's no real life challenges like polution, and funding your education system, etc. In fact, it's very much like Sim City zoomed up close with all the cheats enabled. Just plunk down building after building. Still, sometimes that's just the sort of "game" one needs after a long day at work.

I enjoy it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I play games of all types. Being disabled and homebound the majority of the time, I spend all my waking hours on my computer either online or playing a game, sometimes both at once.

Reading the other reviews I am seeing people who bought the game thinking it was something it wasn't. It is exactly what it said it was, a business Sim game. You build your businesses, if you get enough of the same kind then you build a headquarters and you make money. No, you can't lose money, I like that, it means I don't have to search the web for cheats so I'm able to actually get enough money to build at the pace I want instead of cheating to get it.

Complicated games are fun if you are young, have a med free mind, etc. I am 50, am on many different meds for various incurable auto immune diseases and Fibro which all cause intractable, chronic pain. Pain meds get the pain gone, but can make it hard some days to concentrate for any length of time on something. Games like this one fill a need, for people like me who want a fun game to play that has an easy learning curve and that you can win without having to cheat.

For those having problems with their video, it sounds like you need to upgrade your computer's video card. The new games coming out are so graphically intense, you need a top of the line video card in order to play them. You can find one for under 200 if you are patient and look around at different sites online, but I've gotten the best deals right here on Amazon for the last 2 I've bought. I expect when I need to upgrade again in a year or two, I will be right back here to order again. :) I buy ATI's, which have always been the best for the sim and shooter games I play.

I'm sorry some of you didn't like the game, but I'm of the opposite view. I love it and am having a lot of fun laying out my town, fixing up my parks, watching the wild Halloween parade you get with the first area you build LOL and deciding how I can best decorate the front of each business that will please the customers the most (the game will tell you before you put a choice down).

Things have sure come a long way in gaming since I got that first pong game and attached it to my TV when I was young. The one cool thing about being my age, I've had the joy of watching it all grow thru the years and I was hooked from day one when I got Pong, then Atari, etc., to my homebuilt gaming computer of today. Enjoy the game for what it is and it will bring hours of fun.

Now I'm off to change over to my other window under this one, which is of course, Tycoon City New York. Haha, seriously, I was playing and decided to write this here and give my thoughts on the game. Sorry if this is kinda long, I wanted to cover all the previous posts as well as possible.

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