Disaster has addled the island arena of Islandshire, and the King has called you to be his Aristocratic Envoy! With the houses and barrio on the abounding islands destroyed by an abrupt storm, it is now time for you to footfall up as the King's boondocks artist to clean these burst communities. Join the aristocratic artist as you biking from island to island allowance the citizenry adapt for the advancing backing season!A aberration storm has ravaged the island arena of Islandshire, the ambience of Aristocratic Envoy.
Its humans accept absent their apartment and businesses,, game review, and are caught adjoin the advancing backing season. The aristocratic artist has advised new barrio to be complete, game review, on the islands, and the King has assigned you the job of axis these affairs into absoluteness, game review, (after the aristocratic artist managed to argue the King that the humans of Islandshire are account helping).As you arch to the islands with Cedric the architect, you ascertain that there are absolutely a few islands that you charge to help.
There is a approach island, a bedrock island, a arid island and even a abundance island. In your adventure to clean the towns on these islands, you will accommodated abounding absorbing humans and ability even get kidnapped by pirates!, game review, A broken abundance map and a gasbag airship are just some of the things that will advance you to agitative adventures during your break in Islandshire.Royal Envoy is a town-building bold agnate to such abstract like the Build-a-Lot series. In anniversary level, you are presented with a apple that is in assorted stages of architecture or disrepair.
Your accepted, game review, assignment is to about-face it into a, game review, alive boondocks breeding acceptable income. You acquire assets by architecture assorted levels of housing. But houses crave raw materials, so you charge to body abutment barrio such as sawmills to accommodate the all-important resources. You will aswell charge to appoint apprentice to do all the chiral activity for you.As you advance added into the game, added altered types of barrio will become available. There's a bazaar for archetype, game review, area you will accept accidental barter offers, paying you gold for your raw materials.
You will aswell accept to anguish about assorted added incidentals such as befitting the humans blessed and allowance bits and storm accident from the anchorage in adjustment to admission abandoned houses. There are aswell a brace of barrio that are altered, game review, to assertive islands.Royal Envoy adds a lot of nice tweaks that accomplish it altered from added town-building amateur though. For one thing, the attendance of such elements such as apprentice accepting barge from the sawmill and your lackeys accustomed, game review, gold from the houses to your accumulate creates a abundant medieval feel that is agnate to the Warcraft style.
This appearance is complemented by the similarly-themed artwork and soundtrack.The way the adventure is told in Aristocratic Envoy is aswell appealing unique. Rather than just accepting assorted levels of gameplay with accretion difficulty, it feels like the adventure is abundant, game review, added immersive and axial to this game. There are affluence of cutscenes (fully voiced) that beef out the characters and story, and they've managed to accomplish it feel like you are an absolute actor in the adventure instead of, game review, an airy observer.
There are aswell assorted adventure elements that will arrest your mission in Islandshire and yield you on agitative adventures. Pirates, game review,, game review, will advance and kidnap you. There will be an abridged map arch to active treasure. There will be abstruse alien islands. And there's that gasbag airship as well. You will aswell accommodated abounding absorbing characters forth the way, from the banal artist Cedric to the alarming baton of, game review,, game review, the pirates (who seems to be a 12-year old girl).
And there's the King who is added afraid about his statues and shoes than the abundance of his people.Royal Envoy is actual able-bodied advised and developed, with abounding elements that accomplish, game review, it angle out from added town-building and time administration games. It is a abundant alloy of both cardinal gameplay and, game review, an agitative adventure, game review, to be experienced, and will, game review, agreement hours of fun. The basal copy of the bold has yet to be released, but you can get the Collector's Copy which contains absolute account, game review, such as hours of benefit gameplay, screensavers, guides and more!
Showing posts with label time management game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time management game. Show all posts
2010/05/10
2010/03/17
Road to Riches 2 Game Review
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.
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.
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
2010/01/03
Artist Colony Game Review
Artist Antecedents is a "village" simulation bold that revolutionizes the genre. Based on concepts agnate to, game review, amateur such as the Virtual Villagers series, the ambition of Artisan Antecedents is to actualize and administer a advancing antecedents comprised of humans from all aesthetic walks of life: from painters and sculptors to singers and guitarists.The adventure of Artisan Antecedents, game review, starts a bearing ago if a brace of best accompany - both artists - absitively to begin a alone arrogant apple area humans from all, game review, aesthetic talents can reside and advance their abilities in accord and amidst similarly-minded people.
Unfortunately, this abundance, game review, started to break if a admirable sculptress angry up at the antecedents and collection the two best accompany adjoin anniversary added angry for her love. One acquaintance, game review, won her adulation and had a son with her,, game review, but if she concluded up sleeping with the added acquaintance and conceived his son, the accomplished affair fell afar and the antecedents, game review, disbanded.The bold of Artisan, game review, Antecedents picks up the adventure one bearing after if one of the sons comes aback to the alone antecedents with HIS best acquaintance (cue affecting music) with the ambition of animating the abstraction of the artisan antecedents and, game review, abating the apple to its aloft glory.
The bold starts with the best accompany accession at the old antecedents that has collapsed into disrepair. The bold boring introduces, game review, the, game review, mechanics to you while answer the backstory and the concise and long-terms goals of the game.The all-embracing ambition of the bold is to restore the artisan antecedents to its aloft celebrity (while experiencing the developing adventure, game review, of the two half-brothers). This is done by alluring a accomplished lot of artists to reside in the antecedents and by abating all its landmarks.
Each blazon of artisan has a "workplace" that they can alternation in (ie. a recording flat for a singer). In adjustment for added artists to appear to the colony, these training centers charge to be upgraded. These upgrades and, game review, the battleground restorations both crave cash, which can be becoming by affairs masterpieces: works of art produced by your artists. These masterpieces in about-face can alone be created if your artists, game review, accept acceptable training and are inspired.
Artists charge afflatus to be able to aftermath abundant works of art. They can be aggressive by admirable ambience such as fountains and flower-beds, and through affair with adolescent artists. If their, game review, altar of amore acknowledgment their advances, they become aggressive to actualize works of adulation (think Celine Dion). They can still actualize masterpieces if their adventurous advances are rejected, game review, . They'll just paint/write/sing about affliction instead (If the artisan is a singer, the artefact will a lot of acceptable be a country and western song).
In accession to all that, the artists aswell charge aliment and apartment in adjustment to reside comfortably;, game review, addition detail you will charge, game review, to manage.The mechanics of the bold are simple and elegant. There is abundant detail and complication to accumulate you absorbed and affianced in the game, but not too abundant as to apathetic the bold down or about-face it into a chore. What makes the bold absolutely angle out is the all-embracing feel. The characters and ambience accept a actual absorbing cartoony feel, authoritative you calmly abatement in adulation with them.
The soundtrack and even the change in seasons and acclimate accomplish this bold actual agreeable and enjoyable.Artist Antecedents isn't a archetypal apple simulation game. Its delineation of a antecedents of aesthetic humans aggravating to body a association and ability the pinnacles of aesthetic arete is a auspicious change from the acceptable simulation game. But aloft all, this bold is all about the adventure of vision, romance, heartbreak, betrayal and drama. Definitely a bold you do not wish to miss.
Rating: 4.5/5.0You can apprehend added about Artisan Antecedents at http://www.game-tycoon.com/artist-colony.html
Unfortunately, this abundance, game review, started to break if a admirable sculptress angry up at the antecedents and collection the two best accompany adjoin anniversary added angry for her love. One acquaintance, game review, won her adulation and had a son with her,, game review, but if she concluded up sleeping with the added acquaintance and conceived his son, the accomplished affair fell afar and the antecedents, game review, disbanded.The bold of Artisan, game review, Antecedents picks up the adventure one bearing after if one of the sons comes aback to the alone antecedents with HIS best acquaintance (cue affecting music) with the ambition of animating the abstraction of the artisan antecedents and, game review, abating the apple to its aloft glory.
The bold starts with the best accompany accession at the old antecedents that has collapsed into disrepair. The bold boring introduces, game review, the, game review, mechanics to you while answer the backstory and the concise and long-terms goals of the game.The all-embracing ambition of the bold is to restore the artisan antecedents to its aloft celebrity (while experiencing the developing adventure, game review, of the two half-brothers). This is done by alluring a accomplished lot of artists to reside in the antecedents and by abating all its landmarks.
Each blazon of artisan has a "workplace" that they can alternation in (ie. a recording flat for a singer). In adjustment for added artists to appear to the colony, these training centers charge to be upgraded. These upgrades and, game review, the battleground restorations both crave cash, which can be becoming by affairs masterpieces: works of art produced by your artists. These masterpieces in about-face can alone be created if your artists, game review, accept acceptable training and are inspired.
Artists charge afflatus to be able to aftermath abundant works of art. They can be aggressive by admirable ambience such as fountains and flower-beds, and through affair with adolescent artists. If their, game review, altar of amore acknowledgment their advances, they become aggressive to actualize works of adulation (think Celine Dion). They can still actualize masterpieces if their adventurous advances are rejected, game review, . They'll just paint/write/sing about affliction instead (If the artisan is a singer, the artefact will a lot of acceptable be a country and western song).
In accession to all that, the artists aswell charge aliment and apartment in adjustment to reside comfortably;, game review, addition detail you will charge, game review, to manage.The mechanics of the bold are simple and elegant. There is abundant detail and complication to accumulate you absorbed and affianced in the game, but not too abundant as to apathetic the bold down or about-face it into a chore. What makes the bold absolutely angle out is the all-embracing feel. The characters and ambience accept a actual absorbing cartoony feel, authoritative you calmly abatement in adulation with them.
The soundtrack and even the change in seasons and acclimate accomplish this bold actual agreeable and enjoyable.Artist Antecedents isn't a archetypal apple simulation game. Its delineation of a antecedents of aesthetic humans aggravating to body a association and ability the pinnacles of aesthetic arete is a auspicious change from the acceptable simulation game. But aloft all, this bold is all about the adventure of vision, romance, heartbreak, betrayal and drama. Definitely a bold you do not wish to miss.
Rating: 4.5/5.0You can apprehend added about Artisan Antecedents at http://www.game-tycoon.com/artist-colony.html
2009/12/28
Westward IV: All Aboard Game Review
Westward IV: All Aboard, game review, continues, game review, the excellent gaming tradition that is the best-selling Westward game series, game review, ., game review, This fourth outing, game review, features the same great resource management, time management and adventure elements that made the Westward games such great hits in this genre.The story of Westward 4 focuses on the railroad, the mighty engine that connected, game review, the wild wild west to the prosperous cities of the east.
There are many great stories and adventures connected with the railroad; from the tales of exploration of a dangerous land, to the daring raids of robber barons and hostile Indians, to the inspirational stories of pioneers trying to make their fortunes in the new frontier.Westward 4 tells the story of the Turner Railroad, a small family business that is trying, game review, to prosper in the wild west. You play the part of either the spunky and rough-and-tumble Anne Turner, or the inventive gearhead Henry Turner, both children of the Turner Railroad's founder.
The adventure begins when the siblings return home after a, game review, few months away, only, game review, to find out that their father has gone missing and their homestead has suffered from lack of proper care. You then embark on your great adventure to find your father and transform the family business into the most prosperous outpost in the west!The game starts off fairly, game review, slowly, teaching you the basics of the game while, game review, introducing the setting and story. The first few quests/missions will teach you the basics such as gathering resources, looking for buried treasure, building farms and homes, and assigning workers to various jobs around town.
All of this happens while you are introduced to the story, game review, involving the current condition, game review, of Turner Railroad and the mystery of your missing, game review, father.The gameplay gets more complicated the further you progress into it, as you learn the blueprints for more buildings and are required to skillfully manage your limited building resources, money and labor. The buildings you can construct range, game review, from the simple farm and house that are available to you from the start, to the more complicated salon and smithy that require blueprints and more resources to build.
The resource, game review, management involves making sure you have enough gold and lumber to construct the various buildings you need, as well as enough coal to power your railroad network. The labor is also important: you will need to make sure all your workers are properly housed, fed and employed.You will also need to contend with bandits and rescue damsels in distress. No game set in the wild west is complete without some gun-slinging and rescuing hostages from railroad tracks in the nick of time! In addition, the game doesn't just revolve around the growing township of Turner Railroad.
There are plenty of other locations (all connected via railroad of course) for you to explore and expand to.The mechanics in this game are very similar to its predecessors in the Westward series. The simple interfacing primarily using the mouse has an elegance that keeps the game from becoming overly complicated. The graphics and music are top-notch like before, giving the game a polished feel and making you feel like you are part of a movie western.Westward 4 is a very engaging and immersive game that is guaranteed to take you away to the, game review, wild wild west for hours on end.
So come help the Turners find their father and transform their homestead into a bustling town. And when you're done, you can check out the other games in the Westward series.Rating: 4.0/5.0You can read more about Westward IV: All Aboard at http://www.game-tycoon.com/westward-4.html
There are many great stories and adventures connected with the railroad; from the tales of exploration of a dangerous land, to the daring raids of robber barons and hostile Indians, to the inspirational stories of pioneers trying to make their fortunes in the new frontier.Westward 4 tells the story of the Turner Railroad, a small family business that is trying, game review, to prosper in the wild west. You play the part of either the spunky and rough-and-tumble Anne Turner, or the inventive gearhead Henry Turner, both children of the Turner Railroad's founder.
The adventure begins when the siblings return home after a, game review, few months away, only, game review, to find out that their father has gone missing and their homestead has suffered from lack of proper care. You then embark on your great adventure to find your father and transform the family business into the most prosperous outpost in the west!The game starts off fairly, game review, slowly, teaching you the basics of the game while, game review, introducing the setting and story. The first few quests/missions will teach you the basics such as gathering resources, looking for buried treasure, building farms and homes, and assigning workers to various jobs around town.
All of this happens while you are introduced to the story, game review, involving the current condition, game review, of Turner Railroad and the mystery of your missing, game review, father.The gameplay gets more complicated the further you progress into it, as you learn the blueprints for more buildings and are required to skillfully manage your limited building resources, money and labor. The buildings you can construct range, game review, from the simple farm and house that are available to you from the start, to the more complicated salon and smithy that require blueprints and more resources to build.
The resource, game review, management involves making sure you have enough gold and lumber to construct the various buildings you need, as well as enough coal to power your railroad network. The labor is also important: you will need to make sure all your workers are properly housed, fed and employed.You will also need to contend with bandits and rescue damsels in distress. No game set in the wild west is complete without some gun-slinging and rescuing hostages from railroad tracks in the nick of time! In addition, the game doesn't just revolve around the growing township of Turner Railroad.
There are plenty of other locations (all connected via railroad of course) for you to explore and expand to.The mechanics in this game are very similar to its predecessors in the Westward series. The simple interfacing primarily using the mouse has an elegance that keeps the game from becoming overly complicated. The graphics and music are top-notch like before, giving the game a polished feel and making you feel like you are part of a movie western.Westward 4 is a very engaging and immersive game that is guaranteed to take you away to the, game review, wild wild west for hours on end.
So come help the Turners find their father and transform their homestead into a bustling town. And when you're done, you can check out the other games in the Westward series.Rating: 4.0/5.0You can read more about Westward IV: All Aboard at http://www.game-tycoon.com/westward-4.html
2009/12/15
Ice Cream Craze - Tycoon Takeover Game Review
Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover is the, game review, sequel to the original Ice Cream Craze that made time management games cool (heh). Help Anna grow her business from an old ice cream truck into a force to challenge the well-established ice cream tycoon BigCo.
In the original Ice Cream Craze, you helped a teenager in the 1950's called Jan run her parents' ice cream, game review, shop. Now, it's 2 decades later, and you find out that her shop was run out of business by a giant company called BigCo.
You now play the part of Anna, Jan's granddaughter. Anna believes that she can compete, game review, against BigCo, and starts off by serving ice cream out of an old ice cream truck. Granny Jan is also there to give advice along the way.
The overall goal of the game is to grow Anna's business large enough to challenge BigCo. You do that by having over $5000 in the bank and significant busines presence in all 9 locations in town. How you go about this is what makes the game stand out from other time management games and presents a fresh new perspective.
The main part of Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover is the actual serving of ice cream to customers at the ice cream truck, game review, . This starts off pretty easy at first, with just cones, 3 flavors of ice cream and 3 toppings to choose from. But depending on each level's difficulty, you might end up having to juggle cones, brownies and pies, and all sorts of flavors and toppings.
The difficulty of each level, game review, depends on which part of town you are in and what you are playing for.
And this is where the game stands out from other time management games. In other games, you get to buy upgrades in between games. In this game however, the upgrades are rewards in completing specific levels. So you will need to decide whether you, game review, want to play for an espresso machine that gives, game review, you temporary speed boosts, or a cupcake platter that keeps your customers satisfied for longer.
The game isn't just a linear, game review, series of levels, game review, as well.
The gameplay, game review, is separated by days, and what you decide to do each day has a huge impact on how successful your ice cream business will, game review, be. Wiill you spend Day 9 trying to earn the espresso machine? Or should you instead be trying to set up a new stall at the circus in order to earn you continuous side income every day? Setting up new stalls might be a good idea, but if you don't go for efficiency, game review, upgrades, you might find some of the more advanced levels a bit hard to cope with.
It is this overarching strategy that, game review, gives the game much of its appeal and, game review, will keep you coming back for more even after you've finished the game. Do you want to play, game review, like a businessman and quickly establish bases all over town? Or would you rather increase the efficiency of your ice cream service and earn big bucks every day?
The look and feel of the game isn't too, game review, bad either. There aren't any flashy movies or cool animations, but the graphics in the game are pleasant and definitely capture the feel of an ice cream business.
However, one thing that bothers me is the abnormally big eyes that the characters have. They just creep me out...
Ice Cream Craze 2 is a great game to try, not only because it contains a really good, game review, time management aspect, but also revolves around a very fun and delicious business. Furthermore, the overall strategic and business decisions, game review, you have to make in this game give it a unique feel that is different from the other time management games out there.
Rating: 4.
0/5.0
You can read more about Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover at http://www.game-tycoon.com/ice-cream-craze-2.html
In the original Ice Cream Craze, you helped a teenager in the 1950's called Jan run her parents' ice cream, game review, shop. Now, it's 2 decades later, and you find out that her shop was run out of business by a giant company called BigCo.
You now play the part of Anna, Jan's granddaughter. Anna believes that she can compete, game review, against BigCo, and starts off by serving ice cream out of an old ice cream truck. Granny Jan is also there to give advice along the way.
The overall goal of the game is to grow Anna's business large enough to challenge BigCo. You do that by having over $5000 in the bank and significant busines presence in all 9 locations in town. How you go about this is what makes the game stand out from other time management games and presents a fresh new perspective.
The main part of Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover is the actual serving of ice cream to customers at the ice cream truck, game review, . This starts off pretty easy at first, with just cones, 3 flavors of ice cream and 3 toppings to choose from. But depending on each level's difficulty, you might end up having to juggle cones, brownies and pies, and all sorts of flavors and toppings.
The difficulty of each level, game review, depends on which part of town you are in and what you are playing for.
And this is where the game stands out from other time management games. In other games, you get to buy upgrades in between games. In this game however, the upgrades are rewards in completing specific levels. So you will need to decide whether you, game review, want to play for an espresso machine that gives, game review, you temporary speed boosts, or a cupcake platter that keeps your customers satisfied for longer.
The game isn't just a linear, game review, series of levels, game review, as well.
The gameplay, game review, is separated by days, and what you decide to do each day has a huge impact on how successful your ice cream business will, game review, be. Wiill you spend Day 9 trying to earn the espresso machine? Or should you instead be trying to set up a new stall at the circus in order to earn you continuous side income every day? Setting up new stalls might be a good idea, but if you don't go for efficiency, game review, upgrades, you might find some of the more advanced levels a bit hard to cope with.
It is this overarching strategy that, game review, gives the game much of its appeal and, game review, will keep you coming back for more even after you've finished the game. Do you want to play, game review, like a businessman and quickly establish bases all over town? Or would you rather increase the efficiency of your ice cream service and earn big bucks every day?
The look and feel of the game isn't too, game review, bad either. There aren't any flashy movies or cool animations, but the graphics in the game are pleasant and definitely capture the feel of an ice cream business.
However, one thing that bothers me is the abnormally big eyes that the characters have. They just creep me out...
Ice Cream Craze 2 is a great game to try, not only because it contains a really good, game review, time management aspect, but also revolves around a very fun and delicious business. Furthermore, the overall strategic and business decisions, game review, you have to make in this game give it a unique feel that is different from the other time management games out there.
Rating: 4.
0/5.0
You can read more about Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover at http://www.game-tycoon.com/ice-cream-craze-2.html
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