Hospital Tycoon

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $2.45

Features:

• Manage and maintain a hospital of your own design, making sure that the staff is kept happy and the patients are getting cured. Get it wrong, and you could end up facing a full-scale epidemic, piles of malpractice suits, or worse!
• Watch the medical drama unfold as nurses, doctors and patients learn to like, hate and even fall in love with one another.
• Four different hospital locations to expand, customize and upgrade.
• All the latest equipment is available to treat hilarious diseases such as Monkey Nuts and Explosive Sneezing.
• Easy to learn gameplay coupled with a multitude of challenging game modes to try.

Customer Reviews:

DON'T BUY THIS! [Posted on 2007-10-15]
I bought this game after weeks of wanting it so badly. I love tycoon games like this. School Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, etc. And this idea really appealed to me. But after getting it home and trying for an hour to get it to load up I became frustrated and gave up. It would load up Storybox mode halfway and then completely close down and say there was an error with my memory. I even had to clear up some disk space to supposedly get this running but no such luck. This requires 619 MB (I believe...) and wouldn't run but I later installed The Sims which requires somewhere in the thousands MB and it works great. Don't buy this game! It's a POS!

Great game [Posted on 2007-11-09]
Music is jazzy in this vamped up theme hospital-like game. Overall I enjoy it, it's simple and fun to treat the patients! I must say the AI could be a little better when it comes to managing the hospital and treating patients in a timely fashion.

Much less fun than Theme Hospital [Posted on 2008-01-19]
I played this game in storymode for a day or two. Here are my main points of criticism:
* There is an aerial view, but you can't use it to place new rooms.
* Staff is hard to direct; you can't just pick them up and place them where they're needed.
* The music is unimaginative and the assistant's Sims-like jabbering very annoying.
* You can't speed up a patient's progress through the hospital by moving them up in the queue.
* The cutscenes are too long and have little to do with what you're trying to accomplish.
* You have no influence on how funds are spent.


All in all the game is rather unchallenging (at least in storymode). You don't really have to manage the hospital. Once you have built the required rooms and staffed it, it basically runs itself (although that might be different in other game modes).

Although it is much older, Theme Hospital is much more fun to play. I wish they'd come out with an updated version!

great game! [Posted on 2008-04-11]
i loved this game! a lot of people complain about glitches but i haven't encountered any at all. i love the new twist on tycoon games, this one is seriously tricky near the end! if i were someone looking for a good, fun game to play but one that you don't have to play all the time to be good at, i'd buy this one (like i did!).

I hope I'm not the only one this happened to... [Posted on 2008-07-20]
None of the reviews mention it, the product specifications don't mention it, and the picture of the jewel case is too small to see it...but this game is meant for "PC-DVD" play, which I didn't find out until I received the package and saw the label clearly in the lower left corner. Not all of us have DVD-ROM drives! My computer couldn't even read the disk! I'm always careful to read the specifications before I purchase a computer program; if I'd realized my computer didn't fit the bill I wouldn't have bought the game.

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