Corporate Machine

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PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

Spectacular Realism [Posted on 2001-10-11]
This game is one of the best games I have ever used, I love it and it is really incredible. The game is really realistic, I know based on my own business experiences!

Improved version of Entrepreneur /Tycoon [Posted on 2001-11-20]
I have played the earlier version of this game (Entrepreneur). So I am offering a comparison between the Entrepreneur 1.5 version and TCM 1.1.

Stardock has added a number of changes in TCM. First, there is now a technology tree for each product. You thus research a new component or product characteristic rather than push slide bars. It thus makes sense to have engineering specialization while attacking markets such as computers and marketing specialization when in cola business. In my opinion, given its formidable technology tree, playing the computer market without engineering specialization would now be suicidal at the highest level of difficulty. Second, a number of buildings have been added to raise control over the environment. Buildings now enable players to impact regional economy, raise employee skills, gather better market research, and have a distributor in far off regions (increasing sales impact). Also, slightly different building combinations are available as options for manufacturing, research, marketing, and recreation. Third, the game balance has been improved. For example, the economies of scale are realized more easily (reducing prices, raising volumes and increasing profits in the process- a concept known as increased price elasticity) and computer managed competitors do not become miraculously formidable as Mitrosoft does in Entrepreneur while playing at "Lots of Pain" level. Fourthly (and as would be expected), the GUI has been changed. It appears more difficult to navigate in the beginning but I got a hang of it in an hour and now think it is better than the one in Ent 1.5. Finally, more wild cards have been provided to torment your competition. Network game play is available but each time I have been there, no game has been open and waiting for me to join.

Personally, I enjoyed the game as I have a special liking for it. People who already have Entrepreneur versions or are thinking of upgrading from earlier Tycoon versions should do so only if they like the look and feel of the game so much that a slight variation would suffice to make them happy as the underlying "skeleton" of the game remains exactly the same. If they are looking for a radical and refreshing difference then I would strongly recommend that they try out "Capitalism II"- a far more compelling, sophisticated and better business simulation game.

The four star is provided as an absolute rating as the game by itself is good for people who are not interested in very close to real business simulation but would be happy with an approximate and challenging one.

Simplistic and crude [Posted on 2002-03-25]
This game feels very simplistic and crude. The interface makes it look like it should be a freeware game. There isn't much of a gameplay to speak of. Basically you can go into one of four industries and try to become the next Boeing or Microsoft. The interface is very confusing, and the manual written in poor English.

Internet or Standalone? [Posted on 2002-06-04]
This game can quickly get addictive, especially if your starting to win. However the full potential of addictiveness isn't realized until you play against someone on... the net.

Playing alone, the computer will usually win by playing the market and selling below your price. However, over the net, the market prices as well as the demand for your products are so wild that you will be constantly battling price vs. profit. For the stand alone, making a sandwich wouldn't affect the outcome of the game nearly as much as being too slow uping your production rate over the net.

So my advice,... play against anyone you find on... the net. You'll love the competition more so than the computer.

Fun, Fun, Fun!!!! [Posted on 2003-11-25]
This game is great. It is challenging for the novice or advance gamer. It is always different so it never get boring. Take2 also has made many more maps and commodities to sell which can be downloaded from their site. I recommend this game to anyone that likes business games. It is much better than a lot of the others that are on the market.

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