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Trailer Park Tycoon - A Low Class Tycoon Game
I must admit, after seeing the screenshots and hearing about the game, I was pretty disappointed in the retail version of this semi entertaining, but screamingly incomplete (say another 6 months in production?) game.
There are 4 scenarios, 4 places to do the sandbox thing, and 2 little tycoon campaign things. They are all pretty similar looking, except for the choice of objects and goals. And they are short.
The saving grace of the game is that it is funny. The concept is fab. The ornaments are as trailer trash as you can get, and very highly detailed.
For the first few hours you find yourself laughing and guffawing, but then suddenly you see it. Are blinded by it in fact. Trailer Park Tycoon is ok for a laugh, but it is a bad game. The game play is awkward, the sound is terrible, and there are quite a few problems which pop up during the game. If I hadn't purchased it in a store, I might have though it was a beta copy. It feels so incomplete somehow, like with more attention to the game play and micromanagement aspects of the game and less to the "fun" it could have been a good game. No matter how funny a game is, if it's awkward and irritating the fun won't last long.
The people are mildly amusing, which is ruined by the fact that they often get unhappy and you don't even know the reason, and if you do, there is little you can do about it since the game gives you predesigned spaces to lay down trailers and amenities. If someone wants to wash their shirt, you can't move the laundry mat any closer, only into the spaces already given for amenities. And they are not very articulate - in fact all they ever say is Wah Wah Wah (yes, like babies)Please note if you are looking for a sim type game, this is not it. The "direct control" you get over your residents consists of clicking on them and then another person. And watching them either fight or shake hands. It isn't even neccessary to pay attention to the sim aspect in this game.
Nothing can be rotated, and there are a limited number of trailer types and ornaments. Each resident who lives in a trailer wants different things - coolness vs oldschool and trashy vs flashy. These are affected by the type of trailer and the type of decorations placed around the trailer. Because of the limited number of decorations though, at later stages of a scenario you find the game becoming like one big puzzle trying to fit in decorations so they affect 3 trailers instead of 1 etc. Let me tell you, it is BORING and repetitive and this new take on tycoons does not get me. Maybe with more work and ironing out of details, but as it is trailer park tycoon stands as a mildly interesting BUDGET tycoon, but nothing more.
2.5 Stars.

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Game wont work
No matter what I do this game will not work with my computer. I have all the requirements and have tried shutting down all things that might effect it and still no luck.

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A hoot to play!
'Ya gotta love a game with it's tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Personally I don't play games on my computer, the last one I bought was 'Riven'

I just wish there was the ability to have a totally free-form mode to play with no set time frame.
The 'decorative' items I wish there were more of, as well as Amenities and Trailers. I was so hoping to craft 'Lawn Flamingo Acres' with *tons* of these pink plastic horrors all over the place.....but alas!.....no.
Nevertheless it's still pretty fun.