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Summary: BAD
Review: Do not buy this game. It is boring, unrealistic, stupid, and uncreative. Totally not thrilling. Terrible. Don't waste your hard-earned money.
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Summary: Airport Tycoon Disappointing
Review: Global Star has yet to live up to its original Airport Tycoon...ACT2 was a "bust"....ACT3 graphics improved and some ACT2 fixes, but still seems to be lacking improvements found in other "more" current simulation games...if you have #1 or #2, no need to purchase #3....let's hope #4 lives up to its hype...
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Summary: Looks like nobody tested this game for bugs at Global Star!
Review: I am a big fan of simulation games - especially those which end in 'Tycoon'!I guess I should have paid more attention to the other folks who wrote reviews for this game because I went ahead and purchased Airline Tycoon 3, thinking naively "2 should be better than 1, and 3 should be better than 2". I can't comment on 1 and 2 because I don't own copies of them, (and unless someone reassures me that they are much better than 3), and don't intend to own them, or anything from Global Star. Let me tell you what I found annoying/ disappointing in this game: 1) Other games have simulations that run as tutorials, here you just get the privilege of reading the manual in an electronic form! 2) The English needs work - "Plain" Maintenance for heaven's sake! Other examples which I can't recall right now. Someone needs to actually LOOK at what is being displayed to give the game in my view, a 'finished' look. 3) Once you place a terminal building there is no way of removing it. 4) Ditto for the runway. Except of course when you try to delete a runway you are told you cannot delete it. We can still see it after the deleted attempt, but the game has decided that the runway has been deleted, and we are stuck with the message that the airport cannot be operated without a runway! Due to 3 and 4, I found myself quitting the game again and again in order to correct my mistakes. This got old very quickly and I found myself sailing the CD across the room vowing never to buy anything from Global Star ever again. A message to the folks at Global Star: TEST your software...your competitors are allegedly doing this!
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Summary: The "sit back and wait" game
Review: I bought this game for my 11 year old son because he loves roller coaster tycoon, ski resort tycoon, and zoo tycoon. This tycoon game had nice graphics and music (when we found a computer that had an adequately equipped video card) but that was about it for positive qualities. The manual is horrible, the online tutorial is useless, and gameplay is not intuitive when it comes to figuring out what the player should be doing as far as building and the business end of running an airport. The money runs out way too fast and the contracts come in way too slow - not a lot of action or fun. One of my biggest pet peeves about this program is that there are spelling and grammar errors throughout the program. It is almost like the person who wrote it doesn't speak English as his/her first language. Not a good example for kids unless you want to teach them how NOT to check their work...This is one tycoon game I would suggest avoiding.
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Summary: FULL OF BUGS
Review: I concur with the frustrations experienced by the other reviewers. In addition, I have experienced numerous software crashes when playing a previous "saved" game. Also, why is it when I add a bus station, the annoying tool tip says "I don't have enough bus stops". I deceided one time to play that game and add as many bus stops as I could fit. Yet I still received the message. To top it off, the program indicated that I had a 0% utilization of all my bus stops. What maddness!!
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Summary: FULL OF BUGS
Review: I concur with the frustrations experienced by the other reviewers. In addition, I have experienced numerous software crashes when playing a previous "saved" game. Also, why is it when I add a bus station, the annoying tool tip says "I don't have enough bus stops". I deceided one time to play that game and add as many bus stops as I could fit. Yet I still received the message. To top it off, the program indicated that I had a 0% utilization of all my bus stops. What maddness!!
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Summary: I hope Global Star reads this!
Review: I have A.T.1 and it is awsome I still play it. I really wanted part 3 and now that I got it, it is really bad. I downloaded a trainer off the web for unlimited money, but after I downloaded the patch for the game from global star the trainer doesn't work. I can not make any money and I always go bankrupt. Who evens knows how to charge airlines to land at your airport? You can't expand your terminal or destory it to build a bigger on. Until Global Star can figure out how to fix all the problems This CD will be a frisbee for my dog!
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Summary: Some promise, needs to be improved
Review: I LOVED the original Airport Tycoon and got hooked on it. But Airport Tycoon 2 was a total bust. Panda Jet and Orient Air the only airlines serving Tel Aviv? No interior detail in the terminal? COME ON!!! So I hoped that Airport Tycoon 3 would remedy the flaws and become the souped up Airport Tycoon I was hoping for. It didn't quite make it. The graphics are decent, and a lot of problems with Airport Tycoon 2 (i.e. lack of terminal interiors) were fixed. But some things leave a lot to be desired. For one thing, where are the security areas in the terminal? You can't build your own custom terminals. And China Int'l serving Chicago to Indianapolis????? Hmmm.... I'd pick the original Airport Tycoon before 2 or 3.
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Summary: Don't buy this game, it doesn't work
Review: I was given this as a gift for Christmas. Essentially the game installed and I began to play it. To my suprise, I had problems with non stop crashing of the program do to a scenary bug. Some features do not work as listed in the manual. The manual contains little to no usefull information and is completely outdated (just look at the pictures, they do not match what you get in the game). I have made contact with what limited support they have and they are of absolute no help. They will not answer your specific questions and tell you to get the latest patch which was the first thing I did anyway. It is simply broken.
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Summary: Unplayable
Review: It is hard to imagine why this game runs so poorly on a modern Pentium 4 computer. Despite its unimpressive and blocky graphics, it can't seem to draw images fast enough to keep up with what very little action exists.
But there's a bigger problem. It's absolutely boring. Too slow moving for a building sim. Too little activity for a business sim. Airport Tycoon 3 is the kind of cheaply made, bottom of the discount bin item that you'll regret hogging up space on your disk drive.
Once you have built your airport, you have a choice of altering the speed of the game between horrifically slow real-time and annoyingly zippy fast mode. But neither of them give you much satisfaction. In fast mode, planes land and take off so quickly you miss them in the blink of an eye. Try to slow it down, and you sit around and wait forever for something -- anything -- to happen.
Ultimately, this is among the least playable of the simulation games.
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