Customer Reviews

Prison Tycoon 2: Maximum Security

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I am an avid tycoon player. I have all of them, even the ones people are not too fond of.I always give them a chance and even if the controls are bad, or the graphics are not too good, I still enjoy. This one is the exception. WASTE OF MONEY.....PLEASE DO NOT BUY. The controls are horrid, the managment of prisoners is so boring, and there is no zoom in and out.
The manual is on line....What??? Why would you do that? If you are like me, and always give games a chance, please dont get this one, unless you find it on here for like 1.50. I dont even think it is worth the shipping though. So please do not give them any more money...Boycott this game.

I've have enjoyed playing dozens of simulation games. CaesarIII, Sim City, Tropico, Startopia, Civ 1 & 2, Railroad Tycoon 2 & 3, Children of the Nile, etc... etc... All of them provided hours of enjoyment, unique challenges, and unique solutions.

I can not ascribe any of those attributes to Prison Tycoon 2.

I tried for days to find some logic/strategy in the gameplay(heck, isn't that the point of playing sims?. I went to the PT2 forum to see if I could glean some gameplay advice (there seems to be none). I finally just gave up on PT2.

Cleaners don't clean, factory workers don't work, doctors don't doctor, guards don't guard... yada yada.
It just appears as though there is no "AI" involved in the game at all. Actions don't appear to be related to consequences.
You know... you tweak something, and then wait to see what the reusulting effect is. Hmmm... that was good. Ooops... that was bad.
In my opinion, that's how the player develops a strategy to acheive the goal/s of any sim game. Without control over causes and without related effects, the user is just idly watching an unfathomable sceneario play out... as your money dwindles away, you're prisoners riot and kill each other, and guards stand around watching prisoners escape.

Let me put it this way. For ~$19.95 there are many, much better, sims out there. Save your bucks on Prison Tycoon 2.
Al Campagna

I love tycoon games and even catch myself buying any game with the word tycoon in the title. I being in law enforcement thought Prison Tycoon would be kind of fun but was dead wrong. It takes WAY too long to get prisoners and i seemed to be sitting around staring at the screen with nothing going on in the game for large amounts of time. The game had a huge lack of things to do and options to play. In sandbox mode you only have a choice of three locations with a select few number of buildings to choose from. This game is just really REALLY boring and really slow!

I have to say this game seemed kinda cool when I bought it I got some enjoyment out of it until I tried to save a work in progress and my game crashed. I have tried to get a hold of the people at the company and I recived an automated response that did not help at all. I looked on their website and found no patches or updates for the game. I had also seen all the crappy reviews that this game had gotten and most of the reviews were dead on it's as if they knew how bad they screwed this game up and they knew they would hear complaints so they decided to do nothing about it so they did not have to deal with it. I am disappointed in other areas of the game as well the lack of creative output is obvious for anyone who has played this game there are only 3 different prison systems (which anyone knows how many there are in real societies)and the game play gets old fast there is not much to do but sit on your hands and wait for something to happen. I see that there is a #3 and a #4 out now but I think I will take my chances with saving my money instead of wasting it.

This game sucks! It crashes every 5 minutes. It gets annoying when it crashes because you will have built your big prison and are on the eternal wait for prisoners, and then it crashes. I don't have a crappy computer, I have a crappy game. Please don't buy this game. I hate using cheats on game, because it wrecks the point of the game, but on this game, you HAVE to! Just to build a mail sorting room for money, you have to spend 35k+ on the building plus 10k+ on the unit! *sigh* and the cheats are hard to get activated! The game is a piece of bad word.

What a horiable game!!!! No Tutortial, no real point to it. I felt it was a waste of money. Save your money and get a better game than this!

I love simulation games of all types and thought the premise of Prison Tycoon II sounded really fun. Unfortunately, the game has so many bugs that I was never able to enjoy it. Prisoners walked through brick walls, guards wandered aimlessly without interacting with anything or anyone, etc. I've installed all available patches, but it looks like the programming is just broken. It's a shame - if the company had gotten the game to actually work before releasing it, I think it would have been a lot of fun.

I like the sims games, but this is the worst. The game plays itself. I tried to get prisoners to come to the jail for two hours until I became so frustrated that I had to search how to online. You have to pull them off the bus with your mouse. The guards beat up the inmates for no reason, the inmates walk around aimlessly, when a prisoner escapes the guard just stands there and watches. I couldnt get past the beginning of the game. When you first start it gives you a limited amount of money, which isnt nearly enough for the buildings and stuff you need. So, you will run out of money quickly and there is no money cheat for this game. Basically you buy two buildings, buy the stuff to put in them, and thats it. Then you have to sit and stare at the screen aimlessy for a really long time (about 1/2 hour to an hour at a time) doing nothing while your money goes back up so you can continue. NOT WORTH THE BUY!!!

Hi, My son is enjoying this game. Thank you for the great price and quality of the game.

this game rocks, i loved playing all of the scenarios and the sandbox mode is awesome. I love to play tycoon games and i didn't like the first prison tycoon that much. this one is way better. The only problem is that the controls are hard and there is no zoom. Other than that, this game is great!