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Summary: A fun game for fellow tycoon lovers.
Review: Although nowhere as good as Rollercoaster Tycoon, this game, with a few good patches, and some added scenarios, could be a winner. The makers of this game could learn a few things from Chris Sawyer, but they're on the right track. It's another game that you can play for hours, and the best thing is, is that you don't even have to know how to ski to play the game! For the price, it's not a waste of time. However, I would like to see Activision offering some information about it on their website. Give it a try if you like this sort of game.
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Summary: AWESOME GAME!....
Review: DON'T HAVE IT, BUY IT ASAP! PEOPLE WHO LOVE ROLLER-COASTER TYCOON WILL MOST LIKELY LOVE THIS GAME TOO! YEAH, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE MOUSE, THEY FIXED IT A WHILE BACK! PLAYS GREAT ON MY 1.60Ghz PENTIUM FOUR. THE CHEAT CODE FOR FREE MONEY IS CTRL-SHIFT-C-A-T.
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Summary: Underneath the snow, this is a great game at a great price.
Review: Due to its low price, many people will consider Ski Resort Tycoon another game for the bargain bin. The game in reality is quite fun, considering that it works properly on your computer. Though an instruction manual is missing upon purchase, the game is easy enough to learn. "Easy to learn, difficult to master" describes the game well. With a large selection of shops (hotels, diners, ski and boarding schools, etc.), the chance of running out of money comes quite soon, but three difficulty settings come in handy. On the Easy setting you start with 50,000 dollars. On Hard, you start with 10,000. Get the picture? When you get into the game, you have two options. Instant Action, or one of the Challenges. Instant Action is for..well, Instant Action (without the hassles of Challenges and goals). Challenges provide you with scenarios and goals you must accomplish. Once you actually begin to construct you resort, however, bugs and certain problems come out of hiding. The game is rather slow at times, but not often (if you have met the game requirements, that is). Even from the beginning, you have a wide array of tools ready for your use in shaping your mountain. One problem that bothers me the most is that you can't open and close your resort at will. The park seems to open as soon as your first Ski run or halfpipe/jump is constructed and opened. Also, when building, the lack of a tool that allows you to change views (for constructing things such as roads behind buildings) becomes quite a hindrance in building. The first person view on buildings is an interesting idea, though it is quite slow and doesn't work very well. Those are the most noticeable problems for me, and the only problem I have with Ski Resort Tycoon. If you're a fan of Roller Coaster Tycoon, go ahead and try this game out, because despite its flaws, it is quite a fun and addicting game. Hope this helps.
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Summary: Good Try
Review: First of all, I thought it was by Hasbro like RCT, but it's not, it's by Activision. I have a pretty good computer with 42 Gig, and it says that I have insufficient memory to play. If you know that it will work on your computer buy it, but I don't know if it is a very good game.
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Summary: ski resort tycoon
Review: For any of you who are reading this i am not like those boring credics that doesn't know any thing.i keep my reviews short and sweet.If you do like the boring credic style read at the end of the review.if you have played roller coaster tycoon or sim theme park and thougt it was good you'll like this game.If you haven'tdon't worry about it. there is lots of challenges in this game and always new things to find. If you are big on skiing,snow boarding,or like i said roller coaster tycoon or sim theme park you have got to get this game. for those of you who like the boring cridic style,blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bla bla bla blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. ,the best non boring cridic, jonathan fitzsimons
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Summary: Sky Resort Tycoon Similar to Other Tycoon Games
Review: For players of other Tycoon type games this game will be very familiar. Its financial model is very much like the ones you find in other Tycoon games. The hiring employees and setting prices of the different attractions is about the same with the only difference being in the type of employee you hire. The graphical interfaces is fairly easy to use and the sound is basicly ok. The sky lifts, buildings, etc you are allowed to build is based off of what you have already built. Ski trail construction is important in winning the game and you are allowed to make major modifications to the terrain. The instructions for the game are on the CD and are barely adequate. They just describe the control features in a basic manner and give a few tips in playing the game. The game has very few scenarios. All in all if you like playing the tycoon style games you will like this game and with its low price it is not a bad buy ,but don't expect exciting new styles of game play.
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Summary: For [the price] this game rocks...
Review: For the price this is a one of the best games I have seen. It has tons of stuff to build and is hilarious to watch. You get little skiers and snowboards doing everything from jumps and wipe out crashes to avalanches. It also has a lot of game play depth.(100's of stuff to build and control) You can even view your resort from any thing you have built or see it through the eyes of any of the skiers or snowboarders. I have really enjoyed this game and I would recommend it to anyone who liked roller coaster tycoon or anyone who likes to ski.
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Summary: BLOW-OUT
Review: GREAT. I COULD PLAY IT ALL DAY, YOU CAN BUILD ANYTHING FROM LODGES TO MOTELS AND SHOPS
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Summary: SKI!
Review: Hello, BUY THIS GAME! It is really COOL when your people get eaten by the Sasquatch and that's probably the main reason why I got it! So if you like seeing people getting eaten/abducted, BUY THIS GAME!
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Summary: Pleasantly surprised for the price
Review: Hopefully most of you are familiar with how the Tycoon games work. With this game, you are responsible for creating a ski resort but more importantly, a village as well. Something very vital to this game is knowing that you are going to spend the same amount of time if not more making buildings, paths and villages to keep skiiers happy as you are working on the trails, lifts and terrain on the mountain. Here are some positives and negatives to the game. First, the negatives. The software runs a little slow on my computer, and I consider myself to have an average machine (466 pentium II, 32mb RAM). The detail is just average. You can zoom in and out which is a very nice feature, but even the closest zoom in won't give you that much detail. They have something called "building cam" where it gives you a 360 degree shot from a building or lift. This is a great idea and would be awesome but it ends up being disappointing because it is deathly slow trying to move around and get different views of things. You move the mouse to look left and it doesn't do it for five seconds, by that time you've already moved your mouse again and... well you can imagine how that goes. The positives, and why I give it four stars -- the simulation overall is very lifelike for the price. Skiiers show emotions, wipe-out, and use the facilities that you provide for them. There are so many buildings and features you can build, including choosing five different mountains to start off with. There are also three different monetary levels to adjust the level of difficulty of the game.
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