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Tycoon Simulations listed are where you are striving to be the best of the best and are usually strategy type simulations.
Capitalism Plus by I-Magic is a retail, marketing, production simulation game. I started originally with Capitalism and later moved onto Capitalism Plus. Capitalism Plus provided alternative production sets including a food and beverage only production set. Like in real business, you research your product, build your factory, manufacture your product, advertise you product, and sell your product all while competing with other computerized components.
You adjust the difficulty of the game, play a scenario, which are abundant in this game, hire some help, take out loans to expand, pay back loans, invest in other business, keep others from taking you over. This is a very detailed orientated game where you have to keep on your toes or you will lose your shirt. Capitalism Plus offers events that happen randomly making the game even more challenging.
This game is a lot like real life, sell good quality at and good price and you will succeed well in the game. Sell poor quality and a high price and your competitors will eat you alive.
Capitalism 2 is an update to Capitalism Plus, the graphics have been redone, and your objectives are mostly the same. This game adds apartments, commercial buildings, your headquarters, and mansion as additional building choices. You can adjust the difficulty of the game just like in the original. You can hire additional staff to oversee your operations such as human resources person which is a new addition to the game. The cities do not have limits such as with Capitalism Plus where you could by all the land and shut out your competitors in the smaller cities. This game is a lot like the original Capitalism when in comes to what you can market, I would have liked to have seen the expanded product lines like in Capitalism Plus.
Railroad Tycoon III by Pop Tart Software is a 2003 game that was the next in line sequel to Railroad Tycoon II which was a sequel from the original Railroad Tycoon game. I have never played the original or Railroad Tycoon II so I can not give a comparison.
Railroad Tycoon III is a railroad simulation game where you build a railroad empire by building a railroad, acquire industries, manipulate the stock market, force your competitors in bankruptcy or take them over instead, and build a fortune. This game comes on 2 discs and you can play a mission, create a mission, or free style play. There are many ways to play the missions and strategy is very important because events take place like a depression, recession, war, price of loads going up and down all take a toll on your financial income.
On tip I picked up from this game is if there is a city with no railroad access buy up a few industries then build your railroad through the city and use your railroad to haul cargo to other cities to turn a nice profit. The reason it works is because you buy the industries at a low price, then build the railroad which usually makes the industries go up in price, then when you haul the loads using your railroad you not only make a profit from the load, but your industries make a profit selling the products. As a example if you buy a logging mill, then build a furniture factory, then build your railroad, your logging mill supplies your furniture factory, then your furniture factory produces loads for your railroad so you then have more to haul to nearby cities. If you choose a product that has a high demand and very little supplies available you will increase your profits. This game offers enough game play and variety to make it a good long haul game where you play it for a spell and a good value for the money.
Restaurant Empire by Enlight is a 2003 game where you build a restaurant empire. You can choose between playing in free mode or choose to play the campaign. The campaign you start out with your uncle's restaurant and through a story that progresses as you move through the campaigns end with you owning a restaurant empire.
Many challenges await in this game, you design your restaurant, make out your menu, acquire recipes, hire staff, train staff, advertise, keep customer complaints down, serve food in a reasonable amount of time all while doing specific tasks to reach the next level. Some of these tasks are entering cooking competitions and winning, getting certain ingredients, or meeting with certain people. Other tasks are more difficult such as getting a certain satisfaction level in your restaurant, certain income, or certain profit by a set time.
As you progress through the campaigns you will reach a time where you have more than one restaurant. At this time if you have trained your staff, have enough staff to cover your tables, you can concentrate on your newest restaurant to get it going. At times you will go back to your older restaurants to change prices, add new dishes, or check on the level of expertise your chefs have earned while you were gone. This is good for when you enter competitions and need several chefs in different food backgrounds with a high skill level to win. Your food choices are French, Italian, and American along with the restaurant themes that go with them.
This game requires DirectX 9 to played and suggest you get all game patches from the publisher to ensure smooth game play.
Sid Meier's Railroads by Firaxis/Take 2 Interactive is a 2006 Railroad game. This game comes on one cd-rom and offers a nice big printed manual for gaming reference. This simulation games you play through a number of scenarios where you can control the difficulty setting with a number of options to choose from. This game is much like Railroad Tycoon III except for the game decides where you are going to start from with the track already layed down. You cannot by raw good industries but may buy any processing industries. There is no banking option to take out loans. You must build your tracts continuously as you can not go to another area of the map and start to lay tracks. The interface will take a little time to get use too also. The missions in Railroads require completing more objectives than in Railroad Tycoon 3 so it does make the game more difficult which can be a good and a bad thing. If you found Railroad Tycoon 3 easy, then it is a good thing.
One thing to keep in mind, this is not Railroad Tycoon 4. Tips I have picked up while playing when faced with a bunch of objectives, start with the ones that need completing first and choose the hardest such as in you need to tranfer 100 people or goods from one town to another. While this may seem easy, in the earlier periods trains did not go that fast, so your time could expire before you reached the goal. If you must link three cities together, as you build keep adding passenger trains to allow for a steady income while you are linking the cities together. If you find you have plenty of money buy some industries and have the goods hauled to the cities plus buy or build a processing industry to generate even more income. The last tip is when you need to build a mega cities, make sure you supply it with everything it demands and upgrade your train station to a terminal to encourage your cities growth.
If you are playing on a wide screen monitor make sure you download the latest game patch as I could not get the game to load without it. Also there is one holiday scenario available from the publisher website so make sure you download that too. The game has replay value as you can go back and try different difficulties and all starting points, towns, and goods, in the scenario are random so new two games would exactly be the same.
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