Health and Fitness Club Tycoon

Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: Everything about this game is awful when i saw that there was a health & fitness club tycoon i was excited i thought it would be something new and something that no other tycoon game as done yet is make it so you can control a gym well i bought the game and the first mission is impossible to pass unless you cheat i have no idea why like the person that reviewed the game before me he had to cheat then the levels after that it was managable so he was down pat on that....the staff also dont help you unless you tell them who you want them to help...this is one of the worse would go with Mall Of America Tycoon as one of the worse....graphics are awful and blurry as well....every aspect of the game is awful...and there sure as heck could of given us more gym equipment people that made this game should goto a gold's gym to see what they are missing....

Rating:
Summary: ACK! Bad Tycoons Strike Back
Review: WARNING: Do not purchase this game. It is the worst tycoon I have played in 5 years or so, since game developers started realizing there was a market for tycoon/simulation games (just look at The Sims). It is reminiscent of those really bad tycoons from the early 90s, even graphically.


The graphics are dull and grey, with no ability to change the colours of the walls or floors and blurry-faced employees and visitors. The aforementioned employees and visitor don't do much of anything except walk around, with a few animations for working out on the various machines included. You can't zoom too far in or out, so not much detail or fun there.

Your visitors spend most of their time walking around complaining instead of just using the equipment. You have to manually direct your employees to do anything useful; they don't seem to know what work is unless you tell them "help this person".

There are almost no user objects, and not that many exercise objects at all. A lot of them are locked till you research etc.

In the little tiny html walkthrough that comes with the game it states that you start the first scenario with 12000 or something when in fact you start with 2000 so that little walkthrough is virtually useless. After 2 weeks of trying numerous ways to pass the first mission I resorted to cheating, and found that a few of the other missions were actually manageable but on the whole were boring and lacklustre.

There just isn't that much to do, or even much to say about the game. Shrug. Why do people still try to market this stuff to unsuspecting consumers? Especially when there are so much better choices out on the market today. Restaurant Empire, Space Colony, Zoo Tycoon (2), Tropico 2 and numerous others, just to name a few.