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Own your own hotel!

Advantages: Very addictive, if you like design and simulation games that is
Disadvantages: Can be very slow occasionally,allows for more than enough tea breaks

Hotel Giant developed by JoWooD needs these system requirements: Windows® 95/98/ME/2000/XP Pentium® II 350 MHz or higher 128 MB RAM 700 MB free hard disk space 4x CD-ROM drive 16MB 3D video card Win-compatible sound card DirectX® 8.0a Keyboard, Mouse I have also successfully loaded it onto my PC which has Vista, im sure the newer versions of this out on sale have adapted to include Vista, but maybe its worth double checking before you buy. ...
...designing and managing a top hotel in any of the 23 exotic locations. As guests go about their lives you can follow them around and find out exactly what they like and dislike about your hotel. You can then use the information to improve your customers stay and to earn more money. Innovative game play, an intuitive interface, superbly detailed graphics and incredible depth combine superbly to make this a hugely enjoyable and entertaining game. ...

feex1982x 12.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Hotel Giant (PC)

Paradox Entertainment's Finest Hour

Advantages: Huge range of options, a lot of in-game freedom
Disadvantages: very hard to learn, small nations are very weak

In my opinion, this game is simply the best large scale strategy game on the market at the moment. High praise, yes, but with good reason. This game gives you the opportunity to play as any world nation which was a nation in 1936. From Afghanistan to the USA, each nation has its own characteristics such as its own Industrial Capacity, which dictates how much can be built at any one time by a country, or its infrastructure, which dictates how fast ...
...on to the next excellent point of the gams, combat. This happens on land, sea and at air and occurs when two countries who are at war, possible through the comprehensive diplomacy interface, occupy the same area as another on the world map. Combat is affected by the number of troops on each side, their type, how well equipped they are, who leads them, the terrain and a host of other factors. This makes for a very deep and engaging gaming experience. ...

fireeatingelf 22.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Hearts of Iron (PC)

The market leader for a reason

Advantages: Excellent user interface, brilliant 3D match engine, great transfer system, improved interaction
Disadvantages: None

Football Manager 2010 sees the most popular and successful football franchise of recent years return for its most recent offering but following on from a lot of poor feedback for last years version will the team have listened? Football Manager has long been a game that is hugely popular thanks to the amount of depth and detail in the game with the player database simply blowing other games out of the water for the amount of players available and ...
...year picked up the main football managing games with Fifa 10 impressing me greatly, Championship Manager 2010 being simply stunning and an amazing step up on previous versions but following a few years that disappointed me Football Manager has finally put together the game I have been awaiting with everything feeling like it was done to perfection. Positives: - Excellent user interface - Great player depth and volume - Brilliant transfer market ...

tangoman1984 21.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Football Manager 2010 (PC)

Test Drive Unlimited for the PC

Advantages: good graphics, quite realistic,
Disadvantages: need fairly good spec PC to run game

...allow you to visit and test drive each before you purchase. The car designs are very well modelled inside and out. Whilst driving about your able to wind down your windows and listen to different music stations as well as adding your own music to the game. In the multiplayer option you have the ability to chat to other players and add them to your buddy list. The scenery is nice whilst driving and when driving fast you get a blur effect which you ...
...going when you look at the Speedo. The game consists of challenges such as driving a sports car from one location to another to get paid. The money you gain from the challenges can go towards buying a new car or upgrading the current car you have with more power. Other challenges are racing other AI opponents around the map, and depending where you come 1st, 2nd, 3rd you will attain a certain amount of income and a medal from this challenge. In ...

gremenis 17.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Test Drive Unlimited (PC)

Managing your way to the top

Advantages: The way the game is trying to involve the player more
Disadvantages: The editor is a huge cheating tool and the 3D pitch can make the game last longer

This review is for Football Manager 2010. Setup I have honestly got to say this game seems to take forever to load up on to the computer and it must be down to the size of the game. You have got here a game which is over 1 GB and it takes an awful lot to load on to the computer so you’re going to spend about 25-30 minutes loading this game up. Now you have the option of loading the entire game up from the disc on to your computer or using ...
...with a warning from the football authorities so you have to be careful. You have to also talk to the press which can be so tough for you to do because they ask similar questions all the time and you have to keep them sweet otherwise they eat you alive at times. You have football rumours all the time not only about the players but about yourself as well so you need to click a response which will not upset people. If you tell the media you are not ...

tink-er-bell 16.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Football Manager 2010 (PC)