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| PLATFORM: | Windows XP |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Valusoft |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, Use your business cunning to grow your tabloid from a local start-up to a mulEOFillion-dollar media empire, Create and print up your own tabloid featuring your family and friends and share it with the world |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| MPN: | 82455 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 755142711566 |
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Customer Reviews of Tabloid Tycoon
boring and a total dud If anyone is reading this and thinking o maybe i want to buy this it looks fun, well fun is not the word you want to use, how about so BORING, BORING, BORING. This game looks fun on the out side but is so boring when you start to play the game. I mean i almost fell asleep playing it now i know i sould read the feedback befor i decide to buy it! (Trust me, i wasted 20 bucks)
Boring, monotonous, and superfluous
While starting this game, it'll serve one best to go right into a coma. You start off with (even on the easiest level) very little cash, and attempt to build a small 2 page tabloid into a giant tabloid empire. Each week consists of 5 research days to make the stories convincing and truthful. It was a tycoon-type game, so it was worth a shot. Well, this could be the most boring, unintelligible, tycoon-style game out there.
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>First, management is done from a single stagnant screen with mouse-over animations that, after the 5 millionth time of seeing the animations gives one a sense of rage. The options on the management screen are: Managing staff, Checking financial statements, Dealing with legal issues, Buying items that upgrade staff and allow you to hire "special"(?) staff, Managing stories, Looking over archive papers, Freelance reporters, Looking over trophies won (that also have an effect on staff), Espionage, Upgrading the building and number of pages in the copy, and Managing the stories.
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>The problem with all of this is, most of it uses algorithms that make no real sense at all. The Espionage, even at the most upgraded and powerful paper, fails 9 out of 10 times. Each time they fail, you have to wait 1-3 weeks (5 research turns each) to try again. This makes missions that require espionage minimum completions take forever. All the while, you have to manipulate staff on the stories over, and over, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, until you want to blow your brains out.
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>The system does allow you to automatically assign staff to stories... but if you want to win over the competitors, this is not useful. Again, it uses an unintelligible algoritm to choose which stories it's going to research.
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>Even when the staff does research, it makes no real sense how their research pays off. Sometimes story quality goes up and down... for what reason, who knows?
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>Even on the easiest level, they give you very little cash... and it requires very specific maneuvering to start building up quality staff so you can put out papers that make a good return.
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>I could go on about all of the issues I have with this game, but I'll leave it as this: IT'S BORING. It is only useful for a couple of hours of your time until you realize it's never going to get fun.