Road to Riches 2 marks the second outing in this well-received, game review, time management game series. This time, you play the part of a guy fresh out of the army and who wants to make it big in the trucking business. You get to manage his trucking customers, contracts, employees, trucks and more in this fast-paced game!
The story of Road to Riches 2 begins with the main character, game review, John leaving the army and trying to find a way to earn money. His brother-in-law lends him a truck to help him get started, and John decides to try turning this into a profitable trucking business.
And this is where you come in; your job is to help John manage his business efficiently in order to expand and turn his one-truck home business into a huge trucking empire.
The game starts out pretty slow, as you spend the first two levels learning the game controls and how to pick up and deliver goods (which isn't difficult; almost everything involves clicking, game review, a button). You will spend this first part of the game watching John drive his single truck from customer to customer as he slowly earns enough cash to expand his business.
Thankfully, there is a fast-forward button to speed up this boring "tutorial" phase.
The basic trucking jobs involve you picking up goods from one location and, game review, delivering them to another. You could visit a potential customer throughout, game review, the city, or you could wait for a plane, train or boat to come in with, game review, a fresh load. You can even get trucking jobs via phone. Things become even more, game review, interesting once you have more trucks and you need to allocate trucks to delivery orders in order to maximize your efficiency.
Other lessons learnt during this early, game review, phase include deciding which delivery jobs, game review, to accept and which ones to reject. It's not very efficient to accept a job that requires you to go all the way across town, especially when your next jobs are nowhere near that location. You also learn other basics such as maintaining your truck before it breaks down, and giving your driver a coffee break, game review, before he passes out.
The gameplay becomes more interesting and more complex once you earn enough money to buy, game review, a truck depot.
Once you get your depot, you have a proper business and many more options are available to you. Don't, game review, worry though; the new features won't all come into play at once. Each feature will be introduced as you progress through the levels. But from this point on, you will be able to manages your company's finances, management, human resources and customers.
Under finances, you will be able to manage your expenditures including your advertising budget. The management category involves deciding what type of goods are more profitable to truck, and also lets you see what your competitors are doing, game review, .
Human resources involve controlling your truck drivers and making sure they have enough trucks of a variety of makes that can transport the goods. You also manage your clients, game review, and long-term delivery contracts via the customer category.
The atmosphere in Road to Riches 2 is reasonably well presented, though it does feel a bit dated for a game that is launched in the year 2010. The graphics aren't spectacular, but they do convey the feel and atmosphere of the trucking and small town business pretty well.
The soundtrack doesn't stand out too much, but doesn't seem boring or monotonous either.
As it will quickly become apparent as you try the game, you will fing that Road to Riches 2 isn't, game review, a basic time management game. The various economic and business options, game review, available to you turns this game into more of a business simulation game with fast-paced time and resource management elements thrown in. If you like business simulations and don't mind the slightly dated, game review,, game review, graphics, then this game will be worth your while.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
You can, game review, read more about Road to Riches 2 at http://www.game-tycoon.com/road-to-riches-2.html.
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2010/02/28
"Diner Dash 5 - Boom!" Game Review
It's been 5 years since the launch of the Diner Dash series, and the developers are celebrating by releasing Diner Dash 5: Boom! This action-packed time management game features the tenacious Flo as she attempts to set up diners in various locations all over town. Help her earn enough money to rebuild and redesign her restaurant, which was blown up by her nemesis Mr. Big!
The story of Diner Dash 5: Boom begins with our hero Flo completing a sign for a fat-free breakfast at her restaurant. In the middle of the night, her nemesis Mr.
Big sabotages, game review, her and erases the word "fat" from her sign, making, game review, people think she is offering a free breakfast! By morning, there is a huge crowd waiting outside Flo's restaurant for their breakfast. And in true cartoon-style, the whole place goes boom from the sheer number of people!
With, game review, her diner now in ruins, Flo must find a way to earn enough money to revive her business. She does so by setting up makeshift diners all over town and using the profits to slowly redesign and rebuild her original restaurant.
Her ventures will take her to weird, game review, and interesting places: from the park, to an alleyway, to, game review, a shopping strip and more!
The gameplay in Diner Dash 5: Boom is a huge improvement over its predecessors. No longer does the game involve merely seating your customers and serving, game review, them. Many new tweaks and mechanics have been added to give it a fresh feel and more challenge. For starters, there is a new produce cart that diners can access for their greens (which will require more micro-management).
There are also new customer types, game review, that interact with people around them, such as the attorneys who argue and take longer to finish, game review, if, game review, you seat them next to other attorneys. There are also clowns that hypnotize other diners around them and making them eat slower (though I personally think the clowns should be able to throw pies at other diners and start a food fight!).
Since Flo is setting up makeshift diners all over town, you will be playing, game review, in different locations with different furnishings and layout.
You will even have to manage diners, game review, who are seated on a balcony or fire escape. So how do you serve meals to the grannies seated on the fire escape? With a trampoline of course! There are also new weather mechanics that add a fair bit of realism to the game. When it starts to rain, you have to scramble to set up umbrellas over all the tables. And when it gets windy, be prepared to hold down the tablecloths to prevent them from being blown away!
The developers for Diner Dash 5: Boom created the perfect story with, game review, Flo having to set up temporary diners in various locations across town.
This created a seamless way of introducing different locations with different layouts to the game, preventing players from becoming bored playing the same setup again and again. Certain chapters in the story also take away some of your upgrades in order to make them more challenging.
Another feature unique to this game, game review, is that you can actually design, game review, the final level of your game! As you progress through the various chapters in Diner Dash 5, you will be able to buy upgrades that make you more efficient or give your customers some benefits.
In addition to that, you will, game review, also, game review, be able to buy, game review, new upgrades and furniture for your original restaurant which you are rebuilding. Controlling, game review, the design of your restaurant means you get to basically design a game level for your own playing pleasure. This also means that, game review, no two games will be alike.
Diner Dash 5: Boom is fortunately, game review, not a simple rehash to milk a great series. It introduces a lot of unique and interesting mechanics to keep the game fresh and appealing.
It is a great package in terms of both its gameplay as well as the artistic values, from story and artwork through to its soundtrack.
The basic edition of the game has not yet been released, but you can currently get the Diner Dash 5: Boom Collector's Edition which includes exclusive bits such as more levels, a strategy guide, concept art, screensavers and more!
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The story of Diner Dash 5: Boom begins with our hero Flo completing a sign for a fat-free breakfast at her restaurant. In the middle of the night, her nemesis Mr.
Big sabotages, game review, her and erases the word "fat" from her sign, making, game review, people think she is offering a free breakfast! By morning, there is a huge crowd waiting outside Flo's restaurant for their breakfast. And in true cartoon-style, the whole place goes boom from the sheer number of people!
With, game review, her diner now in ruins, Flo must find a way to earn enough money to revive her business. She does so by setting up makeshift diners all over town and using the profits to slowly redesign and rebuild her original restaurant.
Her ventures will take her to weird, game review, and interesting places: from the park, to an alleyway, to, game review, a shopping strip and more!
The gameplay in Diner Dash 5: Boom is a huge improvement over its predecessors. No longer does the game involve merely seating your customers and serving, game review, them. Many new tweaks and mechanics have been added to give it a fresh feel and more challenge. For starters, there is a new produce cart that diners can access for their greens (which will require more micro-management).
There are also new customer types, game review, that interact with people around them, such as the attorneys who argue and take longer to finish, game review, if, game review, you seat them next to other attorneys. There are also clowns that hypnotize other diners around them and making them eat slower (though I personally think the clowns should be able to throw pies at other diners and start a food fight!).
Since Flo is setting up makeshift diners all over town, you will be playing, game review, in different locations with different furnishings and layout.
You will even have to manage diners, game review, who are seated on a balcony or fire escape. So how do you serve meals to the grannies seated on the fire escape? With a trampoline of course! There are also new weather mechanics that add a fair bit of realism to the game. When it starts to rain, you have to scramble to set up umbrellas over all the tables. And when it gets windy, be prepared to hold down the tablecloths to prevent them from being blown away!
The developers for Diner Dash 5: Boom created the perfect story with, game review, Flo having to set up temporary diners in various locations across town.
This created a seamless way of introducing different locations with different layouts to the game, preventing players from becoming bored playing the same setup again and again. Certain chapters in the story also take away some of your upgrades in order to make them more challenging.
Another feature unique to this game, game review, is that you can actually design, game review, the final level of your game! As you progress through the various chapters in Diner Dash 5, you will be able to buy upgrades that make you more efficient or give your customers some benefits.
In addition to that, you will, game review, also, game review, be able to buy, game review, new upgrades and furniture for your original restaurant which you are rebuilding. Controlling, game review, the design of your restaurant means you get to basically design a game level for your own playing pleasure. This also means that, game review, no two games will be alike.
Diner Dash 5: Boom is fortunately, game review, not a simple rehash to milk a great series. It introduces a lot of unique and interesting mechanics to keep the game fresh and appealing.
It is a great package in terms of both its gameplay as well as the artistic values, from story and artwork through to its soundtrack.
The basic edition of the game has not yet been released, but you can currently get the Diner Dash 5: Boom Collector's Edition which includes exclusive bits such as more levels, a strategy guide, concept art, screensavers and more!
Rating: 4.5/5.0
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