Hospital Tycoon
by Codemasters
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Product Summary
Brand: CodemastersFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2007-06-05
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Codemasters
Product 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.
Video Game Reviews of Hospital Tycoon
Customer Review: Bought on a Thursday, finished by Monday
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this on impulse - I've loved Theme Hospital for years (but never managed to complete it), so thought this was worth a try. Plus it was dead cheap.
I was addicted almost straight away. I played it for 2-3 hours every night, sometimes longer, until I was quite literally dreaming about it. Yes, there are some annoying bits in Hospital Tycoon. The worst was the 'hospital' soap opera episodes, which happen every time you pass a level and at the start of each level. They're mostly nonsense, there's no relation to the rest of the storyline, they're just really pointless. The Sim-like talk was gibberish, although some of the simlish phrases were hilarious, and I would end up repeating them.
There are more inventive diseases and equipment than in Theme Hospital. My favourite piece of equipment was probably Hanging Therapy, which was used to cure Monkey Nuts. Go figure. Some of the other diseases include Lightbulbia, Mummyfied, Stress Zombosis, and many others. My one complaint was that there were only three levels, all of which are quite passable until the final one, and that only a certain few patients came into the hospital. (OK that was two.) I never saw any of the werewolves in the final level. (Hint: if you wanna get your capability up for the last level, and get a five star rating, try training lots of doctors to 100% at once.)
There's no lasting gameplay to Hospital Tycoon. There's no major challenges - just don't go onto the sandbox mode, it's dire - and once you know how to do everything, the hospital runs itself. You only need to chase a couple of patients around when the skull appears above their heads! There are some funny moments too - the most memorable is when someone's sick and the janitors fall flat on their backs. There's more to do than in Theme Hospital, but unlike this, I keep going back to Theme Hospital, as I'm desperate to complete it. I never will, I always get stuck at the epidemics. Maybe one day.
In the meantime, buy Hospital Tycoon cheap, and complete it in no time. All the reviewers who are giving this a bad review - tell me how to complete Theme Hospital please! Or at least get me past the major epidemics level.
Description of Hospital Tycoon
Hospital Tycoon lets you take control of a real hospital, and stop medical dramas from becoming a major crisis. Manage and maintain the hospital - make sure the patients get cured and the staff is kept happy. Get it wrong and you could end up with a horde of sick, angry people. Get it right and your hospital will grow from strength to strength. You decide who to hire and fire with 60 different characters to manage. Create your own entertaining situations and watch as the characters improve over time if you treat them right. Features 4 different hospital locations to expand customize and upgrade.Life Simulation Games
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