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Summary: Great Game; Awesome
Review: The cool parts about it is that you can have a lot of different cars and if you are a car fan you should get this game. you are a Car dealership thats wants to sell your cars, you control the prices of the cars, and the parts of the car.
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Summary: Horrible Game!
Review: This game is horrible! It has no point whatsoever and things take forever to do! I sometimes leave it there for hours so it can do something, and when I come back, POOF! All my money has gome down the drain! Sheesh!
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Summary: a definite thumbs up game
Review: This is definitly one of my favorite games, it's fun, realistic, it has good music. my only complaint is that even though a had a good 3dfx Voodoo 3/ 3000 video card, I still had to buy a new video card because everything except for the cars and buildings would be pitch black. Now that i have a new xtasy video card the graphics are great. I recommend anyone to get this game if you have a very good graphics card.
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Summary: Car Tycoon Fails to Satisfy
Review: This new release, developed by VectorCom Development and distributed through Fishtank Interactive, puts the user in the driver's seat of an automobile company. The goal, of course, is to beat your competitors at the game of building and selling cars. While many auto buffs would find such a simulation exciting, the buggy Car Tycoon is not yet ready for prime time. I've found a downloadable patch for the German language version, but none yet for the English version.First, this game takes eons to start and load. I tested the game on a 1 Ghz machine with 256 MB of RAM, and this game took several minutes to load from the start. Once under way, performance was acceptable. The game provides a tutorial mode to allow first-time users an interactive way to learn the game's operation. While that feature is helpful, I found it difficult to turn off the tutorial mode, even after successfully completing the tutorial's steps. During the game, a few program errors occurred and revealed the game's German heritage with Deutch-flavored error messages that were unreadable, at least to this English-speaking car fanatic. After a few hours of play, the game's more serious flaws began to show. For example, the car models that I stopped producing would occasionally still show as being sold at a few dealerships, even if the dealer's stock was zero. Since a dealership can only sell from 2 to 4 vehicle models, this reduced the dealership's ability to stock new models. That annoyance alone makes the game frustrating to play, and makes one wonder how much testing occurred before declaring this product ready for market. In other cases, saved games couldn't be reloaded, creating more frustration. The game's brief documentation is filled with misspellings and grammatically errors, which I assume were introduced when translating the text from German. While this doesn't create a big problem, it casts an unprofessional shadow on the product. Also, Fishtank's web site is nearly useless, providing no support information for the product. If you're looking for a simulation of the auto industry, this doesn't come close. In the U.S., the manufacturers don't own the dealerships. This game has you bidding for new dealerships via an auction, and those dealerships can only stock a few different models. There are no decent reports available that compare you to your competitors, such as sales reports, percentage of market share, comparative financial statements, etc. The only feedback that comes close is a window that tells you the quantities of vehicles registered in a single city. Oddly, the game's designers chose a SimCity-style town layout for the simulation, which is the game's biggest weakness. You sell vehicles in a city or two, and that's it. Not much fun, and certainly not realistic. A country map or globe would have been more realistic. Once you master the game, which doesn't take long, the fun wears thin. Since the demise of the old simulation "Detroit", I was hoping for a high-quality automotive industry simulation to hit the market. My wait continues.
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Summary: Car Tycoon a few trucks short of a full delivery
Review: While I was expecting an average car simulation game, I have been deeply dissappointed by the Car tycoon. I expected something close to Roller Coaster Tycoon. This game is not even close. I enjoy the potential of building different car models and research, buying other parts form suppliers, I dislike the bugs that continue to plague the system. Too many times the sound cliches or system stops in the middle of something for about 30 seconds. The map is pretty. But it is useles. No markers for the outsourceing of components on the map and no way to measure your success other than the weak graph that sinks as you borrow money. The manual is useless and the WEbsite is yet to be completed. All from a game released 2 months ago. I agree with the reveiw below.
SOme german needs to do his homework.
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Summary: Amazon does take software returns, right?
Review: You would think in this world of simulation games that kick butt ( Rollercoaster Tycoon, Airline Tycoon,Sims, etc.) that someone, somewhere, especially in the vehicle capital here in the USA, could come up with a good car industry sim. For those who are total car nuts like me, well, Car Tycoon is NOT it. The translation of the program from German to English is bad, with text and the numerous error messages coming up in German sometimes. The game freezes for no reason and the graphics are stolen from the original simcity, not a compliment in 2002. The interface is not easy to figure out and making money is not an option. Your factory can only build one car at a time, you must bid against the computer for more factories, dealerships,etc. The large dealerships can only sell 4 models of cars. You must spend a lot of money to research and develop cars, only to find out no one wants them. There is really no way to see how you shape up with competitors and no way to compare you cars to theirs, other than price. I can go on and on. Fishtank Interactives website offers no help at all. I pre-ordered this for before Xmas and I love business sim games and cars, so I was anxious to get Car Tycoon. I should have kept "Detroit" by Impressions software, but I doubt that old program would run well on a 1.0ghz machine and Win ME. Save your money, wait for someone else to do a better job with this kind of sim. Car Tycoon is not worth your time or money.
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