Mall of America Tycoon

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $2.35

Features:

• Amazing in-depth 3D simulation, where every aspect of running the Mall Of America is in your hands
• Oversee every part of the business, from contracts with new chain stores to setting&collecting rents
• Hire the right employees and choose the stores that will bring in the most customers
• Multiple challenges to face, from fires to unhappy customers -- Deal with these and keep the Mall running at a profit no matter what!

Accessories:

PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

Poorly written [Posted on 2005-12-27]
I agree with most of what the other reviewers of this product have said. I did figure out how to move the camera around and zoom out, although it is cumbersome. My first clue that this game would be a disaster was reading all of the grammatical and spelling errors in the tutorial. It sounded like the person that wrote the tutorial had translated it directly from their native language (NOT English).

I had some fun with the game, trying to do well enough to unlock the next part of the mall. But eventually I tired of creating the same stores over and over. The program eventually started putting things in odd places and not fully deleting the stores that closed down. I ended up with red-colored stores all over the screen that couldn't be replaced.

Save your money!

Do not get this game!!!!!!! [Posted on 2006-01-19]
This game is ok fun. I could never find out how to exit and so I had to play for like hours till my daddy got home and could get me out of it!!!!! Also, you can only play in certin areas untill you unlock them. You don't earn money ver fast and everything is eather too exspensive or too big!!!!!!!

This game is a buggy, glitchy, horrible mess! [Posted on 2006-03-21]
Don't buy it. Don't even be tempted to buy it. It won't run properly. It crashes randomly, displays error messages constantly, and seems to be actually MISSING the entire west wing of the mall.

I have a machine that well exceeds the requirements and the game acts as if I am trying to run without ram. The stores quit without ever being demolished, there is no way to manually demolish them, and therefore they are useless space. Furthermore, the game refuses to run at all once I reach the point where it will unlock the west wing, and there is no west area listed in the menu where it should be in the game (which I suspect is why I can't get the game to run at that point.) On top of this, the entire east wing displays at 80 to 90 percent profitability, but nets zero dollars every year.

I bought this on SALE for ten bucks and I regret it, it is worth absolutely nothing. This is the only game I have ever actually thrown in the trash.

Worst... game...ever... [Posted on 2006-05-28]
I love Sim games and I live close to the Mall of America. I got this game for $5, so I really wanted to give it a chance. Not worth it.
There are no instructions for the game, and the tutorial is really bad. You don't do any type of walkthrough, you just read a long list. I would not even call it a tutorial, it's a long, tedious, & unhelpful click through instruction manual. It explains a lot of common sense things, but leaves a lot of questions once you get into gameplay.

You start building the north side of level 1. To unlock another level you have to have all the stores up and running and 90% profitable.
I've only been able to unlock 2 more sides of level 1.
List of stores you can build come up randomly. You usually only have 3 - 5 things to choose from at any given time.
You can have all the security guards available hired, and it will still tell you to hire more because the security level is too low. Secuirty guys like to huddle around and hang out in stores that are out of business. Had 9 cleaners hired on one side where stores were going out of business and didn't see any of them, or any work getting done.

Runs very slow on computers that are a couple years old, tends to lock up on newer and older models. Has trouble loading saved games and will lock up trying.

Gameplay is glitchy. Sometimes when trying to build or tear down a store, task is not completed and the store will be stuck as a concrete base which cannot be built on or torn down. This effect will halt your gameplay as you will not be able to unlock new sections if this happens.

Overall game seems like it was quickly thrown together buy developers and never beta-tested.

One word: Horrible! [Posted on 2006-12-27]
There's supposed to be one thing about a game that's the most important to me: How long you keep playing it. For me, I only played for three days, and got bored of it! At least it only costed [..] bucks...

Cons:
1. There is no creativity, and you have a very small selection of what to put in your mall.
2. You can't really decide where to put a store.
3. The items are so, so, expensive! I wasted 30,000 bucks in just 10 minutes, and was very dissatisfied, so I kept making new games over and over again, but each one turned out really disorganized.
4. The symbols for each item a person's wants is so confusing! Example, the color red is for "sports" and the color blue is for "food."
5. You lose business easily.

I only bought this game because I once played Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, and I really liked it, but I found out Mall of America Tycoon was nothing like it, not even close!

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