Video Games : School Tycoon

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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years
Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Global Star
EAN: 0778399004663
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Global Star
Manufacturer: Global Star
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Global Star
Release Date: May 15, 2004
Sales Rank: 7953
Studio: Global Star

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

Accessories:

PC Gamer (1-year)

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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!

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Not much of a game...
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.

Rating:

- Worth the money
School tycoon is fun. I've been playing it for 2 months and I am not bored of it yet. School Tycoon has it's ups and downs.

The ups:

-Make landscapes!

-Choose classrooms like english, math, social studies, library, etc.

-Pick teachers and other staff wisely, making sure they are fun and have high ability and they can't be too strict.

-Create students and decide their personalities.

-While you wait for a game to load, you get hints and tips on how to play.

The downs:

-Every 10-20 minutes your school faces natural disasters like "fires" and "hurricanes".

-The tutorial helps only slightly.

-School pathways get dirty so quickly, you need lots of janiters.

Rating:

- School Tycoon?Is this another tycoon just thrown together by the devolepers or is it thoughtout?
Seems like a very good idea.I saw it and i downloaded the trial. I thought it was very good (it was the 1 hour trial), i did have a tornado and a fire but I just thought it happenes only every once in a while.SO i go ahead and buy it....
Frist of all i find out it happens ALL THE TIME.Every 30 mins there is some sort of disaster,i dont think it happens that much in the real world at one school.IT gets realy annoying when your school is big,and there is no fireman or anything to help it on this game.This would of been a better game without it or at least not all the time.The graphics are clear yet cartoonish.The game is fun.The game is not realy cutting edge in anything realy.
The good:clear cartoon graphics,very fun,you can most likey find it lower than $20 bucks,not too conplexed yet not to simple
The bad:DISASTER happen every like 30 mins and makes it boring for people who play for long periods in time,some glitches.
Overall Scores:
Gameplay:6(fair)
graphics:7(good)
Sound:7 (good)
value:7(good)
tilt:7(good)
OVERALL:6.9(fair)its not junk,just an average game out there realy has its ups and downs,you realy just have to weigh it and see if the good covers the bad for you.
sound:7(good)
Graphics

Rating:

- School Tycoon Computer Game is Fun and Teaches
I bought this Tycoon game for my 9-year-old granddaughter for those times when she comes to visit us. She is a very intelligent young lady and learns quickly. Her older sister has the Mall Tycoon game, and she loves it as well as the 9-year-old. However, the younger one doesn't get to play it very much, so I downloaded the product, and I sat her down at the computer with the instruction book and told her I would like her to try it by herself, but I would be nearby if she needed help.

She ran with it, and she was so excited about selling toilets in the building to make money. She was so smart, she even managed to sell a burning building. She was given a budget to build the school, equip the classrooms, hire teachers, custodians, cafeteria workers, etc., and the goal is to stay within the budget. She made out very well each time she played it, and I found out how educational it was. It teaches math, communication skills, creative skills, scheduling of meals, hiring and firing employees, buying books, appeasing students, etc. The whole time she played it, not only was she learning, but she was having fun.

I highly recommend this game to anyone. I even had fun playing it after she went home, but I don't think I did as well as she did.

Rating:

- Read me
The premise for the game wasnt bad, the graphics could have been better. THE THING I HATED THE MOST; DISASTERS!!!! Once you got ahead of the game, got some cash and students, BOOM! earthquake or tornado. Who thought that up? You CANT turn them off either, i tried looking for cheat codes. Its a lame game, its not a good (im bored, need a good tycoon game to pass the time)so think before you buy, if its for a child, they'll get bored with it or pissed off.


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