Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Aspyr EAN: 0618870106304 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD-ROM Label: Aspyr Media Manufacturer: Aspyr Media Model: 10630 Publisher: Aspyr Media Release Date: June 14, 2004 Sales Rank: 21251 Studio: Aspyr Media
Features:
Over 100 buildings at your disposal -- use them to build a colony for all your people's needs
Contend with 20 strange alien species - get ready to deal with the conflicts that will arise, as they socialize with humans
Establish great extraction industries with the army of androids and robots at your disposal
Resource management is key here -- manage the credits you make from ore extraction and space chicken production to build what your colonists need
Every Sim has its own personality -- build the right relationships between colonists and make them happy, or your colony will disappear
Product Description: Space Colony gives you the chance to manage a complete space community. Choose your properties, deal with alien species, and manage your colonists properly. Keep them from arguing and going crazy, while keeping the colony profitable!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Interesting concept but limited gameplay
When compared to The Sims, this game seems very limited and I got bored eventually. I like the concept of working at a space station to establish a presence on another planet. You can switch characters, and have objectives to fulfill, but it needs to be more dynamic.
Rating: - fun for a day
This game was fun for the first few hours, but the lack of variety makes it boring. It's also too much management.. you have to keep the station running while socializing the characters. You also have to play the same characters over and over and can't create your own characters. There isn't much variety with what you can put in the space station either.. overall, I regret buying this game.. to me at least, it was a waste of money.
Rating: - space colony
This game is great if you like being bored. I paid ten dollars for it and feel ripped off.
Rating: - This game gets annoying fast.
This game gets annoying fast.
It has so much potential. Problem is, it's way too much micro managing. Not only are you trying to keep
all your resources coming in, you are trying to get all of you crew to like each other. I lasted a week on this game. I thought
the building of the space port was cool. Personally i thought this was going to be like Sim City. It' not. It's very
annoying. The sound effects alone get on your nerves real quick.
I had a big port, and lots of nice equipment and hotel. This gave me so much money I could train all my people
to be super efficient, and create lots of fast robots to work. I STILL didn't have enough time to get my people to like one another.
Rent this game. If you last more then a few days, buy it. If you DO buy it, save the receipt.
Rating: - Challenging simulations...
I love this game!!! I can't tell you how many hours I've played it.
I agree with another reviewer that called the game - Sims with goals! There are some games that I play because I like to follow an adventure or story. Some games challenge my creative problem-solving skills. This game offers both a story and a challenge.
Space Colony vs. The Sims
Space Colony is a bit more amusing than the Sims (I haven't tried Sims 2 yet), with characters having specific personalities and sayings that make me giggle!
I can see how some gamers who love the Sims would find the game too challenging. Some situations take a few repetitions to get a feel for the landscape and "natives," but that only challenges me to try several strategies until I complete the sim.
Minor Complaint
One complaint with the (Mac) game is that the Pazuzu section crashes, but as I've completed almost all of the other sections of the game, it's a fraction of a huge game that offers many, many fun hours of game play!
Future games
I hope that the developers continue to offer updates and patches, or create similar goal-oriented simulation games!
- fun for a day
- Challenging simulations...
