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Good for a couple hours of fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 27 / 27
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought Golf Resort Tycoon after having played Rollercoaster Tycoon for several weeks. This game doesn't have nearly as much to offer than Rollercoaster Tycoon does, so don't get your hopes up too much.

Your job in the game is to design a golf course and place hotels, restaurants, and other shops around it in an attempt to create a resort.

Building the golf course is too easy and doesn't allow for a whole lot of flexibility. You place the area where the golfers tee off from, indicate the direction and width of the fairway(s), and place the hole. There are some tools which allow you to modify the terrain, but you need to use them before you create that particular hole. In other words, you cannot create valleys or hills on fairways or greens after you create the hole. When your hole is built, you may add sand or water hazards. About 20 of each are available. You can also build cart paths (too bad there are no golf carts in the game) and landmarks. I had hoped the game would offer more in terms of complexity of course design.

As you build your course, you'll also place coffee shops, restaurants, bathrooms, maintenance facilities, recreational facilities, and other buildings around your resort in order to attract more guests.

The game offers about 10 different scenarios and includes a tutorial.

The game crashed on me twice during the first three hours I played it. The game periodically saves your progress, but it can be frustrating having to rebuild anything, so save your game often.

Overall, I think the twenty bucks I paid for the game was worth the four hours of fun I had with it, but if you haven't played Rollercoaster Tycoon yet, I'd definitely buy that one first.

YOU are the Golf Course Tycoon!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: May 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Being both an avid golfer and a Sim-Game buff, I've been waiting for a game like this for a long time. So far this game is worth the money! You can dream up a course, design it, and build it.

I like that you can go into a "CAM" and fly around and look at everything from just about any angle.

If you thought that Activision couldn't make a great "Tycoon" game because -Fast food tycoon- and -ski resort tycoon- were mediocre, you should buy this game to get your money's worth for all three of those games.

*PROS: Good graphics, easy to learn, good tutorial, loads of options to build structures, and very good price! *CONS: A little too easy to pick up, no actual manual just a jewel case insert with some explanation on the already obvious controls, only a few zoom levels, and no speed adjust.

Not The Best Game. Too Easy!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Golf Resort Tycoon is not the best game. First of all it is too easy. In no time at all you can have this huge golf resort that takes up all of your land. On the first day when I played it I used up all my land and buit all of the builings you can build.You also run out of ideas for new golf courses fast. I tried to make zig zaggy courses, But they turned out all looking the same and even if you use hazereds it still look similar. They said they have golf carts, but I haven't found out how to get them. So then I read the manuel, but no help there. It just saids that you should explore with these items: swiming pool, golf carts,ect.A nother problem with it is that there is this object called the media. It is a news van and it is aposed to raise guests, but in the time you have enough money to buy it you have enough guests all ready so that all it dose is makes lines longer for the courses. On the good side, the grapics are good and you can see people's golf score. You can also move the view so you can see golfers golf close up.
So over all it is a O.K. game.I would say you should only buy it if you are relly in to golf, but if you are not buy Roller Coster Tycoon insted.

a pretty cool game, and addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game starts out pretty cool with all the different courses you can create. after a while, however, it gets hard to think of new holes, and like all tycoon games, money managing is hard. It's a good challenge, and very addictive.

Golf Resort Tycoon, not for laptops!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: June 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

We tried this program on both a DELL and a COMPAQ laptop. The mouse control was miserable on both computers making course construction very difficult. The game video was extremely poor on the COMPAQ HPA screen and not really good on the DELL TFT screen. The setup video was bright and clear. The instructions are very poor.

Too sloooow, too repetitive

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The concept is interesting, but the application falls far short of the mark. The gameplay is very slow on an older machine, and even on 1.6 Pentium is poor. The golf course design applications are vey crude, especially in comparision to the golf architect functions in golf simulations like Jack Nicklaus golf or Tiger Woods. In addition, those products give you the opportunity to play the course.

The challenges are very easy provided you have the patience to wait for enough money to come in for building the course, and you don't mind endlessly chasing gophers. This is a poor imitation of good products like Roller Coaster Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon.

Head across the street for something better...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This title came out about the same time Sim Golf appeared. I went with the latter, but always wondered what this game was about. Years later, with the revival version, I decided to find out. Needless to say, I was not impressed.

The main focus of the game is money and how to make it off of the course. That would have been great, if there were pre-made holes you would add on to the course rather than being forced to make half-baked ones. Just drop in a design, starting with a cheap but boring one, and move up to copies of the greater holes in golf, which cost more or require more status to earn. Would have been fine.

The only thing you can do with course construction is lay out fairways, tees, and greens according to a limited set of options. Hazards amount to bunkers and ponds. There is no real way to use the terrain that is present when you start a game, because it won't let you build a fairway over existing terrain features. It will also level out a sculpted terrain at times.

If you can turn a blind eye to this, you are left with a basic business sim. In short, the whole thing about this being a golf business sim is essentially meaningless.

If a remake is ever made, consulting even the most rudementary book on golf course architecture might be a good idea rather than just pushing some idea of what a course is supposed to be like on the player.

THIS GAME ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: August 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS THE COOLEST ON THE PLANET. U SHOULD GET IT I REALLY RECCOMEND IT. HAVE FUN GOOD LUCK.

This is fun!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: May 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. You can build anything to do with golf. I recommend this game.I hope to get it maybe possibly.Hope this was useful.I don't have it though.

Not Bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Interesting concept. Great graphics. My only problem is the game tends to run a little slow and freezes up every so often.

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