Stable Master Tycoon 2 (DVD)

List Price: $29.95 Discount Price: $39.95

Features:

• Juggle your funds to purchase new Horses
• Hire new Jockeys
• Have the ability to place bets
• Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP PC
• Has ESRB rating of E for Everyone

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

game to play if you have hours to spare [Posted on 2006-01-10]
Stable masters 2.

If you expect to win right from word go you'll be sorely disappointed. you have to make sure you have horses in right races, some as they mature change, watch out too, some hate being top weighted in the race.

you also have to change the training, to suit the race, or 'need' of the horse to improve when its ratings have increased. you get normally poor to average qual horses to start with mostly, once I had very good one. but I have only lost totally one game, my very first attempt, cause we had to down load a patch to fix the training saves.

since then have played 5 new games and won many of the big prizes, over the years (as in game years) have won over 30 million! twice. normally i begin again, as it gets boring just adding to the pile, cause you can't increase the stable size past 40. normally a stable almost full, so have a at least space to buy in a worthy animal. you do not need a stable full of Dubai winners. or you have very few races you can enter. but then 1 horse winning one after another isn't impossible, I have had a number with 5-7 wins in a row before.

of course just as in real life some horses like straight tracks or as is possible, or wider bend, others do well over tight bends courses, some only do well on sand tracks.

so best to make notes on each horse age, name, race length it prefers, if it wins a race, make a note of the course, conditions and race type. if its often placed at another course, might be worth giving it a race if its got a month or 2 to wait for another of its best at track, 2nd or 3rd is better than wasting your money on a track it doesn't do well at. then write down what the jockey says and read up what happened to it in the race, it can help you with tweaking the training so it speeds up or managed to hang on and not fade over the final 1/10 of the race.

if you like a challenge, got patience and don't expect to do well right from word go all the time.

only downfalls of the game really are: you can't breed your own and train them to be winners, one track listed is not in the game! and saddly you can't pick your jockey colours, limited number of horses, when you get to 30 million, be nice to have up to 100 stabled! and if you prefer top graphics, ie more like real life, these are not, but alot better than another horse racing game we have were the horses run through and down the middle of the hedge!!

but to me and my hubby (I always beat him too (your talking to someone that played soldier of fortune and completed it in a week!!) Stable masters 2 is a great game and if you like manager games, that use brain power and forward planning, mapping etc.., rather than just action/shoot 'em up, instant action thought, then its worth a go. if not and your the fast action type, don't buy.

Please...if you're looking for a quality horse racing simulator, do not buy this game! [Posted on 2006-03-26]
This was an extremely difficult game to play and I gave up on it after 3 tries. It is practically impossible to win a race, you do not get to name (or even PICK) your horses. You start out with 5 horses and it is nearly impossible to get a horse with good stats. If you put your horse on a training schedule to focus on stamina, it does nothing, even after 25 days of straight training. I was extremely dissappointed with this game. The layout of the page is confusing and crowded, plus the racing graphics absolutely SUCK. It's true! I would NOT reccommend this game to ANYONE, note even the most experienced horseracing sim player.

Alot of fun [Posted on 2006-06-02]
This game takes a little bit to get the hang of, but when you do it's alot of fun. On my first play of it, I was much more successful in betting than in the managing of the horses, but again, that came with a little time. My daughter who's a middle shooler also really got into it, so I'd say kids from 10 and up could master this one with a little help.

This game was dissapointing [Posted on 2007-01-26]
This game dissapointed me very much becuase I am an equestrian and I thought this game was going to reletively realistic but I could not even train the horses, as the product states I should be able to do. The only activity I could participate in was to bet on the races, I was very upset at this product.

You don't get to race the horse [Posted on 2007-03-13]
All you do is buy horses (you don't get to see them) and sell horses. You try to get the best horses to earn money. You never ride, or train the horses. All you do is buy and sell, place bets, higher jockeys, ect. I suppost if you wanted to learn how to bet on good horses or somthing like that, you would like this game. But do NOT get it if you want to ride or trail your own horse.

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