Big Biz Tycoon 2

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Summary: Some Words of Warning
Review: I did not buy Big Biz Tycoon 2 because the original was so awful. Given that there have been no detailed reviews of Big Biz 2 yet, you may want to consider the flaws in the original before you risk your money.

To date 5 out of 6 reviewers rated the original game with one star (you can read those reviews for yourself). There were major bugs in stock trading and technology research portions of the game. The game was produced in Korea, and the translated manual showed a very limited understanding of the English language. The single music track was annoying.

Even if these flaws were fixed in Big Biz 2, the Big Biz gameplay itself lacked interest. You have to micromanage employees to the extreme, including waking them up from naps. You improve employee abilities not with training, but by giving gifts (e.g. an encyclopedia improves intelligence). For some reason, an employee can only possess one gift at a time. As the boss, every action you take depletes your strength, which you must restore by a sports activity (e.g golf). However, all you get to see is the inside of your office. Given that these flaws are built into the basic structure of the game, I wouldn't expect Big Biz 2 to change them.

Perhaps Activision or Animedia, the game developers, will make significant improvements over Big Biz 1 and prove me wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Rating:
Summary: very unrealistic
Review: it is fun but it has many flaus. very unreall you can only have one employee do something. if you want to have your prouduct advertized it wont let you because your prouduct isn't finished. do you know why? because it will never finish,i'v owned it for 3 months and my proudct hasn't been finished.

Rating:
Summary: very unrealistic
Review: Let's speak bluntly: these games appeal to the same few thousand buyers who keep this genre predictably profitable. Big Biz Tycoon tries to spice up its well-worn premise by blending the traditional formula with elements of The Sims, but the result is a game that shrinks both genres.

You're placed in command of a fledgling company as you research, sell, and market products-buth this sequel adds handling tasks as mundane as decorating your offices and providing water for your employees. That's right: all the tedious aspects of The Sims, plus spreadsheets!

Running your own company in Big Biz Tycoon 2 is a real hassle. You'r a one-man dynamo, simultaneously playing the roles of CEO, CFO, and Martha Stewart as you balance budgets, hire and fire workers, delegate tasks to individual employees, and even choose between carpet and tile for your company's breakroom. If you focus only on the business aspect of the game, you'll find your employees standing around whining about the lack of air conditioning. We can understand having to deal with such minutiae in a small business, but even when your compan has grown to larger proportions, you still have to oversee every last detail of its operation.

The hassles of playing BBT 2 are worsened by its piss-poor documentation. The cursory manual and tutorial leave out many of the details on how to actually play the game, meaning you're stuck learning by trial and error-very frustrating when your business is at stake.

Other gripes include the game's mediocre 3D graphics enginge (which operates at a fixed resolution of 1024x768)and numerous bugs-I encountered everything from occasional crashes to show-stoppers that were fixed only when I started a new game.

Ultimately, Big Biz Tycoon 2's lack of polish and overemphasis on micromanagement overshadow the potential of the underlying concept.

Rating:
Summary: Don't Bother
Review: Let's speak bluntly: these games appeal to the same few thousand buyers who keep this genre predictably profitable. Big Biz Tycoon tries to spice up its well-worn premise by blending the traditional formula with elements of The Sims, but the result is a game that shrinks both genres.

You're placed in command of a fledgling company as you research, sell, and market products-buth this sequel adds handling tasks as mundane as decorating your offices and providing water for your employees. That's right: all the tedious aspects of The Sims, plus spreadsheets!

Running your own company in Big Biz Tycoon 2 is a real hassle. You'r a one-man dynamo, simultaneously playing the roles of CEO, CFO, and Martha Stewart as you balance budgets, hire and fire workers, delegate tasks to individual employees, and even choose between carpet and tile for your company's breakroom. If you focus only on the business aspect of the game, you'll find your employees standing around whining about the lack of air conditioning. We can understand having to deal with such minutiae in a small business, but even when your compan has grown to larger proportions, you still have to oversee every last detail of its operation.

The hassles of playing BBT 2 are worsened by its piss-poor documentation. The cursory manual and tutorial leave out many of the details on how to actually play the game, meaning you're stuck learning by trial and error-very frustrating when your business is at stake.

Other gripes include the game's mediocre 3D graphics enginge (which operates at a fixed resolution of 1024x768)and numerous bugs-I encountered everything from occasional crashes to show-stoppers that were fixed only when I started a new game.

Ultimately, Big Biz Tycoon 2's lack of polish and overemphasis on micromanagement overshadow the potential of the underlying concept.

Rating:
Summary: Many Problems but a fun game
Review: My wife and I go this and play it together. I have found several bugs in the code. For example when doing research/prodution/advertising you CAN assign multiple employees to the task. It says that the time to complete the task is reduced however after testing with 1-6 people on one project the time is not actually reduced. Keep this in mind. You can actually go pretty far by just having one employee on each project as long as their stats meet the minumum. You CAN succeed with just a few employees or you can have a slew of producers making every product available. Once you get the hang of this "Bug/flaw" you can stop wasting money and spend most of your time watching for prices to rise so you can sell and not go bankrupt. I have alot of problems with stability. If moving a chair that is used by an employee it will crash. Moving the Air conditioner outside will also cause a crash. Dont do those things and you can become a successful Biz Tycoon. I am just hoping for a patch.
Activision VALUE shouldn't be know as Activision Trying to make something. Great ideas but its missing some follow through. I agree this should have been a BETA not a final release. If the bugs can be worked out this would be a high paced game. Otherwise I would say its pretty addictive even with the bugs

Rating:
Summary: A Great Game
Review: The game is a lot better then the first. Gameplay is great.

Pros:

You get to start you dream business in 3 cities

The workers can use the stuff you buy unlike the first game

Free mode

cons:

The workers are always saying complaints

The music is bad

over all i think it's a great game

Rating:
Summary: Don't Buy It
Review: The graphics are fair for a game of this type but the game play is horrible. This schould be a beta, not the final release. some controls are not documented. You can not control the rate of time.