Airport Tycoon

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Customer Reviews:

So-so, [Posted on 2005-03-04]
This game can be very frustrating. I always go into debt when running a passenger airport. Unscheduled air planes occaisanly arrive, and a extremley poor tutorial. On the other hand cargo airports are easy to manage. The overall layout is decent. The decision depends on if your ready for a challenge.

Airport Tycoon 2 [Posted on 2005-08-03]
I haven't bought this game but it's on the way. After reading all of the reviews, they all have something in common. Not enough money. It says that its Air Mougl but that's not the game. It takes time! In the real world, you don't just POOF! Money floods in! You need to start small, maybe 1 plane and a small terminal etc. Don't build a gigantic airport and then expect money to come when you have no planes! Save up money, and once you have enough, build on. DuPage Airport didn't just appear out of nowhere and it became the best airport!

airport tycoon 1 [Posted on 2006-06-18]
This is one of the best games I have ever played. You get to run your own airport in many locations. You should buy this game. I play it all the time!

I don't know [Posted on 2007-05-15]
I haven't been able to play this game yet as it, apparently, only instals on a windows 95/98/me system. I have an XP and it won't even open the install applet to install it. When I get around to setting my 98SE back up I will try it on there and then maybe I will have something to say about the game play of this game.

Unique, Fun, but also Frustrating [Posted on 2007-08-08]
My favorite games are buisness sims, strategies, and simulation games. Airport Tycoon was unique and a nice addition of the Tycoon genre which was spinning out of control with worthless games. You could handle passengers as well as cargo.
You were in charge of creating and managing an airport. You were given freedom (not total) to design your airport and build certain rooms for expample security and stores. The gates you placed were more like plop against the wall and add a tarmac. The main room with the ticket handling was frustrating. If you didnt have enough ticket booths you were constantly adding more than 100 in one room and it seemed rediculous. In a real airport you saw the different ticket booths for the airline and the conveyor belt behind the ticket agent. It would of been nice to see poeple come in with luggage and checking it in. The realism while lacking and the gameplay sometimes frustrating, Airport Tycoon had this appeal that kept you playing for a few hours. My favorite was seeing the airplanes being serviced on the tarmac and the planes taxingand taking off. Outside of the airport besides deciding what continent, and city you choose to put your airport you were also given the options of seeting up parking lots, parking garages, gas stations as well as hotels. While this was the first Airport Tycoon, I would of liked more refined graphics and realism such as cars actually parking in the lots, people being dropped off by taxis (you could also put taxi stands along the road), and a layout similar to airports today, where they have terminals and seperate unloading areas for passengers to get out of cars and taxis and check in their luggage. Just like in real life also, it would be nice to see actual roads that have signs telling you were to go, what terminals, arriving and departing flights as well as lifelike baggage claims when passengers come off of the planes and try to retrieve their luggage (you know that annoying sound with the red blinking light alerting you the baggage is coming). This would add more employees (the ones handling the luggage and putting the luggage into the baggage claim. I always wish that monitors or large signs showing arriving and departing flights with the flight numbers and whether or not the flight is on time, delayed or due to weather; cancelled. I also like to see live gates with actual gate numbers, desks, waiting areas, and announcements as well as final boarding calls and tickes being checked and watching people go into the thing that is attached at the gate to the plane (cant remeber the name of it).
This was a nice game, decent buisness model, little frustrating at times, and was looking foward to the sequel hoping their would be improvements. Unfortunatley #2 was terrible, and #3 was a slight improvement over the sequel but wasnt as good as the first one. So it went downhill after the original Airport Tycoon. AT was promising but unfortunately, its sequels burried it.

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