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More of a chore than a game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game isn't worth even $8 bucks used. If you are looking for a similar game, just better, look into Cruise Ship Tycoon.

This one is very, very limited and only includes out-dated graphcics and a "few" sound effects. I forced myself to play for more than 5 minutes.

Still got 98? This is probably for you.

Ugh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me sum up this game in one sentence: this game is horrible. What a rip off. Don't believe anything on the product descrpition. "Carnival Cruise Tycoon is so close to the real thing--you'll think you are actually on-board," What a lie!! First of all, when you start sailing, you only fill in a few decks. The rest are all empty! It gets really annoying when the waiters at the resturants get stuck between tables and can't serve anyone. It's so hard to describe how bad this game is. It's just a badly made game. Please don't buy. It's for your own good. A waste of money.

Simplistic game with no challenges

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: February 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As an avid cruiser, I purchased this game with great excitement; how fun it would be to design my own 'Fun Ship'? I was rather disappointed in the product.
The game's only excitement comes visually, as the graphics are rich, smooth and the zoom/pan features of the camera can give every conceivable view of your ship. The interface is simple and easy to understand, but considering the limited features of the game, this is hardly a positive aspect.
The A.I. is slow witted and dull, as the guests constantly complain about not having enough of something, regardless of how many of the thing they are complaining about you have. The management aspect is virtually non-existent; the only staffing options consist of placing a staffed structure and perhaps clicking a button a few times to hire additional staff. Other aspects of running a cruise line such as maintenance issues, provisioning, advertising, competition, disasters, navigation and money management simply do not exist; the only thing one can do in this game is place structures (cabins, bars, restrooms, etc.)
While this game will entertain for a few hours, upon building and launching the 'Conquest' class vessel (level '5' for all intents and purposes), you have nothing more to do then start over again. Pass this one over unless you are a real fan of cruising.

Persons report

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got this game because I love ships, and you may too if you get this game. They give you a tutorial at the beginning of the Career Mode, and there are lots of things to put in your ship, like:

Vegas style casino and theature
Grills and cafes
Perfume, jewlry and clothes stores
Basketball courts
Spas with massage tables and mud baths
Arcads

It's fun, and it's easy to figure out
But if you do buy this game, don't purchase a janitors suite. They do nothing, just stand in the room, ands the cost money each day.

Vast Potential, but Someone Dropped the Ball

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 28 / 29
Date: July 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Being a fan of simulation games, such as Theme Hospital and Age of Empires for instance, I saw this game and had to have it. I like traveling, I like vacationing on cruise ships, I thought the game would be awesome. Boy was I wrong.

Cruise Line Tycoon is a simple game. The player starts with a small ship. The player must design the ship from the ground up, set pricing, and make enough money to purchase the next larger ship. Once captaining the next ship, a captain for the smaller ship must be hired. This cycle occurs until the largest ship is obtained (about 6 ships total I think).

The problem is the game is overly simplistic. All the components of the ships are pre-designed. Nothing can be customized. Changes in the overall ship design can be made based on passenger feedback, but it seems that no matter what is done, the passengers would complain about the same things over and over again. As other reviewer's have complained, the screen seems eternally dark. Despite another reviewer's suggestion on how to fix the issue, I was never able to remedy this. Also, the game became even more annoying as it seemed to run as slow as molasses in January when it is run along with even a single other windows application. This was happening despite running the game on a 2.2 GHz PC with 128 MB of RAM (where only 64 MB of RAM and a 500MHz CPU are required)

The game could have definitely benefited from some additions. Disasters and obstacles such as hurricanes, a dockworker's union strike, maybe a case of Legionnaires disease on board, on board crime sprees, corrupt foreign governments, economic downturns, etc. The possibilities could have been endless, and I think it would have made the game awesome. At the very least, I think allowing the player to make their own cruise routes would have made the game tolerable.

I recommend staying away from this game. It is entertaining for only a short while. Save your $20 and go buy something else.

Way too simple...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 19 / 23
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is great fun for about three hours, until you realize that you have purchased every item available, bought every ship, and no longer have anything else to do except repeat the game. It seems more like a advertisement for carnival ships quickly thrown together into a video game. Don't get me wrong its fun for a little while, but just is way too simple and doesn't hold your attention once you've done everthing. Its the sort of game you play once then sell or put away for a year till you are interested in playing again.

Needs some work

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: June 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a really good idea for a simulation game, but there are so many things that could be so much ebtter about it. It's very limited in the types of objects you can purchase and it would be better if you could choose your route. Anyway, it's a pretty easy game so it would be good for kids, but it doesn't take long to master it (like three hours or less.)

Amazing For 20 Bucks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For just under twenty dollars buy this game. As are most games the game has a few glitches that effect the game like slow speeds, turning objects, etc, etc but other than that an excellent game. The game is very fun here and you won't want to quit. A word of advise buy the game.

Good Game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: February 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Carnival Cruise Tycoon is much better than the original Cruise Tycoon. This game you start out owning a small ferry and then you work your way up. After a while this game can get very boring. They need more building options. Overall it's an alright game.

Wonderful Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is nice! Now when Cruise Ship Tycoon came out I bought it and was dissapointed at how many bugs it had. Then I bought Carnival Cruise Lines Tycoon 2005:Island Hopping. I liked the idea because when I bought it I had been on 5 Carnival Cruises and really like the line. The game play goes that you start with a little ferry and when you finished it and have enough money you buy the Celebration, a real-life Carnival Cruise ship, and game goes on like that. This game is a lot like Cruise Ship Tycoon but the company fixed most of the bugs. Now it is easier to please passengers. I totally reccomend this to people who own and like Cruise Ship Tycoon, and to anybody who has been on a Carnival Cruise.

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