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Move over Sim City...here's Moon Tycoon!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 139 / 144
Date: October 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've been waiting for a Space Sim game for years. The wait is over and its been worth it. Let me just point out the aspects that make it so worthy.

Gorgeous graphics. It really looks like you're on the Moon, flying around a space colony! You really have to play the game to understand. COMPLETE 3D camera freedom, beautiful Earth-rises, and just wait until night time and your colony night-lights turn on! I've spent hours just looking at the screen, drooling at the sights.

Balance of gameplay. The game itself plays perfectly for a kid, or the expert gamer, providing lots of layers of depth to suit your needs. Build homes, communications and utilitie as the foundation, then grow into a mining, production, research or tourist colony. The designers of this game have really taken a fresh approach to the Sim theme, taking it in whole new directions.

Cotnrols. The designers of this game have made a truly marvelous control system. You pick up the game in seconds, and the camera control fits like a glove. Other companies should take a look at the contol system here for pointers.

Concept and Story. Usually a major flaw in most games, the story behind Moon Tycoon is both dramatic and very possible in the near future. Its nice to see that some game designers are actually putting some substance in a game. Plus, the script has loads of humor and more references to sci-fi movies than you can imagine.

Lots more goodies. Two seperate soundtracks: either ambient or techno really let you immerse yourself into the game, 3D sound effects, and the coolest disasters ever in a game(you can bombard your colony with the "Armageddon" asteroid if you want!)

And finally...the price! I'm simply amazed by the 19.99 price tag. This game could easily go for 39.99 and still sell strong.
Probably the best value you can get for a game.

I Highly Recommend!!!!

The Best Sim Game I've Ever Played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 34
Date: October 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm not kidding, this is the best sim game I've ever played and to top it off it takes place in space!

The 3D graphics are awesome. This is the first time I've ever been able to move around my city in full 3D! Not only are the 3D graphics great, but the gameplay lives up to all the hype. It's a great challenge, and very addictive...

Take my advice, get this game NOW!!! You won't regret it!

Be Warned-This is NOT like Roller Coaster Tycoon

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 16 / 32
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My twin 7 year old boys love Roller Coaster Tycoon. I was thrilled to see Moon Tycoon - it looked great! We just put it on last night and it was a big disappointment. Its very dark and hard to see what you've built. Its complicated for little kids (and their dad). We lost interest quickly. Its rated E so I thought it was geared to the younger set. It is not.

Could be better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 18 / 21
Date: January 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There are a lot of things to enjoy in this game, such as the great 3D graphics which make you feel that you are really on the moon. My biggest gripe is that it is too simple. Once you've played it once or twice it gets boring. There are only a few types of buildings, and your only option is to keep building the same ones over and over again. Adding additional, more advanced buildings would help the game immensely. I would also like to see the colony doing more changing itself, dependent on the kinds of choices the gamer makes. Overall, it is a fun game, but only for a little while. Except in terms of graphics, it really can't compete with games like Roller Coaster Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon.

very nice sim game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 28 / 28
Date: February 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Moon Tycoon looked like an awesome game when I carefully examined the box. I bought it and it is cool! I do admit the fully 3D interface is tricky to get used to esp. after games like Simcity and Roller Coaster Tycoon. But with a little time I liked it. The graphics are really good with a highly textured lunar surface and fairly well rendered buildings. The map is quite big allowing for a large colony with plenty of room for expansion. You first need to build a control center then "inflatable homes" for your colonists. You also construct oxygen plants and power production plants. Everything is connected via either above, or below ground tunnels. As you progress thru the game more buildings become available due to "research", a common feature of games such as Starcraft and Roller Coaster Tycoon. You make money thru mining and exporting as well as tourists. You can trade goods with Earth or aliens (yes aliens). The game takes place in 2021 and Earth is in crisis as it runs out of natural resources. The game is refreshingly original and I recommend it to any sim fan! Check it out!

Moon Tycoon Graphics Problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: March 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

We have a HP pavilion mx70, 800 MHz Intel Celeron processor with 64 MB of SDRAM & up to 11 MB allocated to video memory and even though I went out on the net & upgraded our Intel 82810 Graphics Controller to the latest upgrade, it still wouldn't run this program without losing graphics. Very quickly, while building on the moon the graphics begin to fall apart to the point that you can't even see a great deal of the graphics. At first we thought it was the CD so we returned it & got a new one, but it was just as bad. Then we got the upgraded graphics driver & it started out a little better, but still started breaking up.

READ THIS!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is my favorite game.Here is what I like about it:
-Create the first colony ever on the moon, OR an asteroid
-Choose the amount of money you want for your construction
-build hotels, condos, or small residential houses
-build shopping malls, research centers, warehouses,golf courses, amusement parks, aquariums, and MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!
-hire mining probes to collect resources and burn the resources for money
-discover extra terrestrial life by finding alien artifacts, and aliens themselves!!
-create a city on the moon, and a colony!!
-instead of streets, you use metal tubes to walk through
These are the things I don't like about it:
-Screen is EXTREMELY dark, and is difficult to see what is going on
- even if system requirements are met or beaten, screen is choppy, or runs in frames,or is split or chopped up
-game is rated "E", but even adults have trouble with the financial stuff, and morale.
-helpers bug you with facts that don't have anything to do with the game, such as,"the moon's surface is 40% oxygen trapped inside the rocks."Getting back to the thing I said about the system requirements,my best friend has a PENTIUM 4 PROCESSOR,1.7 GHz,512MB RAM,A 128 MB AGP VIDEO CARD,AND WINDOWS ME, and the game runs horrible when lots of stuff is built.
But, all in all it is a great game, and I would reccomend it to anyone.Have Fun!

This game is sweet!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: April 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I you like Sim-strategy games you'll love Moon Tycoon. Once you start playing you get caught in a whirlwind of 3-d action! "Out of this world" sound effects and more than 60 fully 3-d buildings at your fingertips. Sure it is a little slow but who cares when there's 16 diasters, night and day cicles,30 missions and so much MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moon Tycoon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is has awesome graphics. There are many, many, many different buildings to research. It is very different from any other game out there. The only prblem I had was it is pretty slow and at first the graphics did not run right. I had to turn off all of the extras like traffic and solar flares. I have a 1.2 Ghz Intel Pentium 3 and I still had these problems. But the game is still cool and fun to play.

An awsome game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was a really fun game. I liked it because you get to build buildings on the moon and try to live there successfully. It was pretty hard in the beginning, but gets easier later on. However, once you unlock all the buildings, there wasn't really a goal to get them like before. And unlike rollercoaster tycoon (the best game ever)you didn't get to desigh the amusement parks and had you couln't talk to the colonists. This is a great game to buy, but there are better games.

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