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Summary: Restaurant Empire
Review: Ok, First of all When I bought this game I thought I was going to cook and Everything....But all you can do it pan the menu and resturaunt whichs takes about 30 minutes.So everytime you want to play its just the same thing. There is probully a lot more to it but I don't know how to do.
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Summary: Becoming a successful restaurateur...at least in the game
Review: Ok, so this game isn't exactly new and I didn't just get it either. I'm merely late for writing this review as it took me a little while to really sit down for a while and warm up to it enough to really play it in a manner that allowed me to enjoy it. And enjoy it I did!
This game is a lot of fun. Delaing with it through the first few scenarios may be a little boring, perhaps even a bit easy (part of why it didn't suck me in right away) but as you progress, you have a lot of neat extras (chefs, recipes, restaurants, etc.) and the new scenarios start getting a bit more difficult which makes it more challenging and enjoyable. I have to say, thank God for the feature that allows you to set an easier scenario when you fail at it the first time. I have to admit I've used it on a few occasions.
I don't think, as some reviewers state, that playing this, even excelling at it for hours on end, readies you to take the plung into the real live restaurant business but you do get to see glimpses of it. It helps with business-taking decisions, budgeting, managing resopnsibilities, etc.
A few shortcomings? The sequences between Armand and his uncle are too long and can't be shortened or cut. Overall, no complaints. Also, my computer is kinda old and so's my video card and all that stuff but I never had any problems getting it to work or run.
So, overall, a fun game that will quickly become one of your favorites, especially if you enjoy Sim games. It is a very well done product that'll keep your interest, challenge your skills, become somewhat of an addiction, and most of all, give you hours of fun. So sit through it, you won't regret it!
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Summary: GR8
Review: Restaurant Empire is the best sim game I have played in my life.
This game has a pretty good graphic system but the music is borring. I would recomend it to other sim game fans. The game its self has a few down siders for example the menu that you have to have takes so much time to do if there were an AUTO-MENU button it would be great. The other down sider is that people are always complaining about how your staff is rude! I haven't been able to fix this because it's impossible to fix even if I hire the best staff & still send them to training the customers keep complaining. Overall it deserves a 4.7/5.0 on amazon but I had to round it to 5
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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: Restaurant Empire is the management game where you design and manage your own restaurant.
You can design a restaurant from 5 main themes - seafood, steakhouse, French, Italian and music.You have complete control over the look of your restaurant - you can choose the floor and wall styles, add interior items, new rooms and choose what your restaurant looks like from the outside. You can choose from a wide variety of meals, drinks and deserts to add to your menu, and can even customize the look of your menu! (Font included). Graphically, think the Sims only better! Where in the Sims you could only rotate four times and were limited to a few zooms, in Restaurant Empire, you can rotate 360 degrees, zoom in and out freely and tilt the camera! The game comes with a sandbox mode (free game, build a restaurant from scratch) and mission based game with over a dozen scenarios. Well worth buying.
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Summary: THE BEST with a 3D Video Card
Review: This game is great! However, if you do not have a 3D video card with at least 64MB and at least 256MB of RAM, do not purchase it. It will run extremely slow and crash. Simply put: GET THE CARD, GET THE RAM, GET THE GAME!!!!
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Summary: BUYER'S BEWARE!!!!!
Review: THIS GAME WOULD NOT INSTALL ON MY COMPUTER AND TECH SUPPORT STATED THEY'VE RECEIVED NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS AND ARE UNWILLING TO REFUND. MY COMPUTER IS BRAND NEW AND MATCHED THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND I SPENT HOURS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS WRONG AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THE GAME HAS SOME COMPATABILITY ERRORS. SO I SPENT $30 AND CAN NOT RETURN OR PLAY THE GAME.
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: This is a pretty good game. If your expecting another roller coaster tycoon, you'll get a surprise. This game is much different. It's more realistic than stuff like that. For instance, you are paying your employees more like a thousand bucks a month instead of 200 like in other "tycoon" games. It's good training for business management. You won't find it much fun unless you like managing a business. It also got a lot of mafia and Godfather references. You are sponsored by Don Corleone, who often refers to the *family*. One of your chefs is his nephew, Mario Corleone. He gives you an "old family restaurant" called La Cosa Nostra. Overall, this is a pretty good game. All the customers have the same weird expression, but the gameplay is very realistic.
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Summary: Quite entertaining
Review: This is one fun game! Though it doesn't cover every aspect of owning/running a restaurant, it hits enough points to make this a detailed, entertaining, and somewhat difficult game. Very addictive. The graphics, while dated, do a fine job--though nothing spectacular. The audio isn't loaded with tons of variety, but again does the job just fine. What makes this game worth owning is that it's sort of like "reality-light." I've always wanted to own a restaurant, but know the huge financial/time pressures involved. This is much cheaper than the real thing--and very fun!
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Summary: Definatly a keeper....(Go buy it!!)
Review: Well, what can I say about Restraunt Empire? Bored one day, I picked it up after looking at pictures from the game. The pictures were definatly stunning, and the idea was awsome, original, and just sweet. Controls are easy to manuver with nice looking windows to navagate. Once you work through the tutorials on the story line, things are great. I especially love the "cook offs". Finally an Iron Chief type deal!! Great fun!! Two modes of play, Story or Sandbox (sandbox starts you from scratch to make your own restruant) it has potential for hours and hours of enjoyment. If you like Sim games, Please, pick this up, it is WELL worth it. Are your skills good enough to cook?? :)
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Summary: A better-than-average management simulation
Review: While some software companies seem to be generating cheap, poorly designed management simulations with little lasting appeal, Enlight Interactive has done a good job creating Restaurant Empire. The game has two modes: a sandbox mode for freeform play, and a campaign mode that consists of a set of scenarios with predefined goals. In both modes, the goal is to design and run a profitable restaurant or series of restaurants while satisfying the customers. Users can lay out rooms and furniture, hire staff, and design menus. While the game's graphics are not aestheitically appealing, the gameplay is fairly good. The user interface is straightforward for the most part, although it can be troublesome when moving furniture and rooms. New options become available as progress is made through the campaign, so the user is presented with stimulating new challenges and creative opportunities in every scenario. The goals for the campaign mode may be a little too easy, but only a little. The storyline for the campaign mode, however, is very entertaining; this was the first computer game I had played that featured a character with a prostate condition. The major drawbacks, aside from the blander-than-average graphics, are that the menu requires too much micromanagement and the staff cannot be managed well to imrpove efficiency, even with a patch that introduces some new options. Nonetheless, the game's positive values outweigh the game's drawbacks, making this a good game for people interested in nonviolent games and management simulations.
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