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Starship Tycoon | 
 enlarge | From: Global Star
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $1.68
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 16678
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5 x 0.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 21594
UPC: 710425215940
EAN: 0710425215940
ASIN: B0002QNDJM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Comes with 1 original CD brand new in sealed CD sleeve with instruction booklet. No box.
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| Features:
| • | Play 8 wild missions involving everything from bribing officials to waging price wars against the competition | | • | Manage your employees while competing against tough AI rivals trying to sink your business | | • | Decide the fate of your galactic shipping company -- keep it legit and make a fortune, or become part of a smuggling ring | | • | Keep your crew & employees happy and well-paid, while pulling in the biggest possible profit | | • | Play against the clock or go your own speed in free-form mode |
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Product Description
Starship Tycoon puts you in charge of an interplanetary shipping company. compete against AI controlled firms to survive in the cutthroat world of space commerce! Random map generator for unlimited replay Players can even import their Windows address book to use friends' names for the crew
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| Customer Reviews:
Stellar Try July 25, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
What a great concept for a game!
You are given command of a spaceship with the intent to ferry goods and passengers all over the known map (probably 20 to 30 planets). You can manage crew who have different abilities and morale. You can add modules to your ship to improve speed, reliability, cargo space, passenger decks, and so forth. Eventually you can purchase additional ships and manage a fleet of merchant space ships. As I mentioned a great concept for a game!
Some particular positive and negative points:
+ Graphics & Sound: well done and adequate for this game. The graphics are appropriate for the game's age. Their not eye-popping but more utilitarian. The menus are decent enough but very spartan. The sound is okay - for the game's age don't expect too much.
+ Gameplay: the game is easy to understand and control. Once you get the idea of navigating the menus - which are very simple and straightforward - you'll be able to quickly zip through any tasks you need to do. The game itself is pretty fun and you'll find yourself eager to make a big payoff as you traverse the planets. Each planet has a different degree of technology and government type. If a planet falls into anarchy you might suffer some damage or be delayed in your trading.
+ Performance: the game has very little demand for resources so no modern computer should have trouble running this one.
- Depth: aside from the trading and day-to-day operations of your vessel there's little else going on in the game. The ship and the goods you haul are the meat and potatoes of the game. Once you've done this a hundred times from planet to planet the repetition can wear you thin. There's no control over naming your company, ship, or crew. You're given the stuff and just work with it. The events that affect your trading (pirates, anarchy, radiation storms, etc) appear to be very random. A planet going from a Corporate Dictatorship to full anarchy in the blink of an eye with no apparent reason is a bit difficult to understand.
In summary it's an average sim tycoon game. What there is to do is quite good and fun but wears out quickly. An expansion set or more details added to the space environment would probably increase playability quite a bit.
Hope that helps!
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