Advantages: None Disadvantages: Very sloppy workmanship
...matter which. *Keeping the aquarium clean and tidy. You can do this by making sure there is no litter, and keeping the tanks nice and clean. The cleaners will empty bins and wipe down the tanks. *Keeping staff morale boosted. They don't like being worked to hard, but money incentives will keep them happy. *Keeping the guests happy. Make sure your aquarium is good value for money. You can do this by providing plenty of entertainment. Make sure there ... ...you can provide shows. This is a comprehensive game and i found it to be quite frustrating at times. It was not as easy as i thought it would be. There is no manual for this game, which really did annoy me. All the information that you need, can befound on the disc, in the help files. I found there to be a lot of reading. I also found it hard to remember everything i needed to, so i had to keep going from the game to the help files. This really did ...
purebitch 25.01.2002
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Advantages: The only game so far that attempts to re-create fishkeeping on this scale Disadvantages: Too much guesswork and little logic, Poorly written
...so when I came across Aquarium (a management sim where you run your own public aquarium), I thought I couldn't go far wrong. How wrong can I be?
This game has been cobbled together using the Theme Hospital engine which should have been a plus, but the programmers just didn't do anything with it's potential.
The rest of the game seems to have been just thrown together in order to quickly get the game on the shelves.
Due to the rudimentary graphics, ... ...would like to set your aquarium up in. Then give it a name. The country you pick dictates the type of fish you can get in the early going.
When you start the game, you find yourself looking at an empty building. You have to right click to bring up the toolbar, which then appears, blotting out the game area so you can't see the background. Luckily, the game pauses, but the toolbar works like a tree, with new windows opening each time you select an ...
bigdgaff 27.06.2001
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Advantages: It looks good on the shop shelf. Disadvantages: No fun!
They say that if you don’t have anything nice to say then you should say nothing at all, but if that were the case this product would receive very few opinions.
I love management games, I love creative games. In theory ‘Aquarium’ for the PC should span both arenas. Unfortunately, it fails in both.
The object of the game is to build and manage your own Sea Life Centre. There is nothing misleading about what it says on the box. The game is exactly ... ...not warn you that somehow they have managed to squeeze the fun out of it.
The box is attractive and from the outside it would appeal to many gamers with my tastes. However, the box is about the most entertaining thing about this game. Mine came in the more modern DVD style box and because of this I mistakenly thought it would match up to modern management game standards.
You will notice that this Opinion talks more about the box than the game play. ...
Viveka_Leigh 06.09.2003
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Advantages: erm...none Disadvantages: every-thing im afraid:(
...to set up a basic aquarium let alone train dolphins like it says you can on the box. All in all I was very disappointed and frustrated and after about an hour of trying I switched it off uninstalled it and gave it back to my friend. I would not recommend this game to anyone. ...
psybitch 31.01.2002
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