Starship Tycoon

by Global Star

Product Features

• Play 8 wild missions involving everything from bribing officials to waging price wars against the competition
• Manage your employees while competing against tough AI rivals trying to sink your business
• Decide the fate of your galactic shipping company -- keep it legit and make a fortune, or become part of a smuggling ring
• Keep your crew & employees happy and well-paid, while pulling in the biggest possible profit
• Play against the clock or go your own speed in free-form mode

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002QNDJM
• Item Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,905 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Create the ultimate Spaceship Empire!Product InformationControl your intergalactic starship shipping company and compete against rivalfirms to survive the cut-throat world of space commerce.  Configure andupgrade your starships hire and fire the crew smuggle illegal goods and wageprice wars against your competitors to become the Starship Tycoon!Product Features 9 action packed intergalactic missions Assemble your own custom designed spaceships - many different components to choose from! Select from 3 different passenger classes or standards hazardous perishable or stolen cargo types. Detailed space map - complete with nebula effects star backdrops.  Stars and lens flare effects. Play either in a mission-based or freeform 'sandbox' mode. Different skill types for each member of your starship crew. News reports - information on what's happening in t he galaxy as well as detailed reports on your income and expenditure.System Requirements Windows 95 98 98SE 2000 XP Pentium 400MHz processors 64MB of RAM 16MB Video Card supporting DirectX 7 DirectX compatible sound card CD-ROM drive Keyboard Mouse

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Try, July 24, 2006

By 

M. DiSpirito "mentored1" (Rhode Island) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Starship Tycoon (CD-ROM)

What a great concept for a game!

You are given command of a spaceship with the intent to ferry goods and passengers all over the known map (probably 20 to 30 planets). You can manage crew who have different abilities and morale. You can add modules to your ship to improve speed, reliability, cargo space, passenger decks, and so forth. Eventually you can purchase additional ships and manage a fleet of merchant space ships. As I mentioned a great concept for a game!

Some particular positive and negative points:

+ Graphics & Sound: well done and adequate for this game. The graphics are appropriate for the game's age. Their not eye-popping but more utilitarian. The menus are decent enough but very spartan. The sound is okay - for the game's age don't expect too much.

+ Gameplay: the game is easy to understand and control. Once you get the idea of navigating the menus - which are very simple and straightforward - you'll be able to quickly zip through any tasks you need to do. The game itself is pretty fun and you'll find yourself eager to make a big payoff as you traverse the planets. Each planet has a different degree of technology and government type. If a planet falls into anarchy you might suffer some damage or be delayed in your trading.

+ Performance: the game has very little demand for resources so no modern computer should have trouble running this one.

- Depth: aside from the trading and day-to-day operations of your vessel there's little else going on in the game. The ship and the goods you haul are the meat and potatoes of the game. Once you've done this a hundred times from planet to planet the repetition can wear you thin. There's no control over naming your company, ship, or crew. You're given the stuff and just work with it. The events that affect your trading (pirates, anarchy, radiation storms, etc) appear to be very random. A planet going from a Corporate Dictatorship to full anarchy in the blink of an eye with no apparent reason is a bit difficult to understand.

In summary it's an average sim tycoon game. What there is to do is quite good and fun but wears out quickly. An expansion set or more details added to the space environment would probably increase playability quite a bit.

Hope that helps!