School Tycoon
by Global Star
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Product Summary
Brand: Global StarFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2004-05-15
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
Publisher: Global Star
Product features:
- Decide the ideal layout for your campus, then add any of over 50 buildings - libraries, dorms, labs, cafeterias and more
- Install revenue generators to make a heftier profit at your school - add snack machines, soda machines, gymnasiums and food service that keeps kids coming back for more
- Manage your school effectively as you face 24 challenging scenarios
- Go nuts & build the campus of your dreams in sandbox mode
Video Game Reviews of School Tycoon
Customer Review: Not much of a game...
Summary: 2 Stars
Hi. I'm a 15 year old here to tell you about this game. When I bought School Tycoon at my school book fair a few years ago, I thought I would actually be able to CREATE my dream school. Boy was I wrong. Sure there's classrooms, teachers, students, the basic stuff. But the creators left out one thing for this game: CUSTOMIZATION.
*Pros*
- You can create different types of students with distinct personalities.
- The teachers (especially the scrawny nerdy one) talk funny, like,
"Multiply the tax by two and you shall have the proper tip," and my favorite, "If my calculations are correct ...the world will end... in 1997," which is the funniest thing about the game.
- The deluxe classrooms and the gyms look nice.
- The Autosave feature (when the bus arrives, your game is automatically saved).
- You can direct students to go to the nurse, goof off, go to detention, or even expel them.
*Cons*
- The classrooms are BUILDINGS
- The stupid natural disasters kill your morale and it's almost impossible to bring it back up no matter how much you fix your school back to the way it was before.
- It's almost impossible to attract more than 40 students to your school so you have to keep creating new students.
- The paths get dirty really fast.
- There are objects in this game you would never find in a real school (what school would have a go-kart race track or a rollercoaster?!). Plus, the students don't even ride them - they just sit on the benches.
- Unless you use the cheat code, you can't have enough money to unlock everything to get the good classrooms.
- Everyone is silent except for the teachers. The only sounds you would hear are the "boops" from clicking on the game icons and the school bell.
- Most of the classrooms look like school buildings itself.
- You can't change the look of the classroom or any other building, no matter how stupid it looks.
- It's impossible to find a teacher with a high fun rating, a medium strictness rating, and a high skill rating.
- The graphics are a little blocky
I wouldn't recommend this game to anybody, except if you're a game designer that can fix it. It's not the worst game ever created, but the designers really could have done a much better job.
Description of School Tycoon
School Tycoon -- the game that challenges you to make higher profits off of higher education! You've decided to builda private learning academy -- try to manage it effectively and turn the largest profit you can!Strategy Games
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