Yoot Tower

by Atari

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001XDTQ
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,286 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com

Yoot Tower lets you manage the ultimate microcosm of urban living: the skyscraper. Named after its designer (Yoot Saito), the game offers three environments you can build in, each with specific challenges. Building a tower in Tokyo will let you stack up to 100 floors, catering to a population of office workers and local residents. The more challenging Waikiki location limits you to creating 45 floors in a tropical paradise where you keep tourists and local merchants happy. Lastly, the gorgeous Kegon Falls throws you a real curve by telling you to build underground in order to preserve the landscape's integrity.

The game's cutaway perspective gives you an unhindered ant-farm-style view of your building as you decide how to build and which tenants live where. Simple overlays and mood indicators will let you know how you're doing; if tenants' silhouettes turn red (meaning they're stressed), you might improve life by building a movie theatre (including viewable trailers), or smooth out access between floors. Population growth and VIP visits boost your tower's rating, opening up more options for you to build. The interface is a little scattered, but it doesn't keep Yoot Tower from daring you to aspire to becoming an architect extraordinaire. --Jack Gardiner

Amazon.com Product Description

Yoot Tower for Mac turns you loose with towers. This is the simulation/strategy sequel to SimTower, and the towers can get as complex as you want.

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Improves on a classic; few flaws, December 8, 1999

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"dvandersall" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoot Tower (CD-ROM)

This is a great improvement on the Original Sim Tower in many ways. Most important is the fact that now every person, store, restaraunt and office operate independantly, making pleasing everyone a much more personal matter. This is especially true in the Hotel and Condo settings. Gone are the days where your tenants could get fed up, leave, and instantly be replaced. If your guests are unhappy, you can watch in dismay as your hotel has less and less guests each season... So better get it right the first time.

Building the new towers is also vastly improved--in this version you CAN build two seperate towers, even adding a skybridge 80 stories up for show. Exteriors are far more detailed, making the zoomable external view screen spectacular. Another neat touch is that you can plaster your building with billboards, bringing in even more precious revenue.

Some quibbles: The elevator pains continue--the regular ones are still contrained to only 15 floors. Oddly, this doesn't extend to the service elevators, which can cover 30 or so. This leads, once again, to the joy of having practically empty floors, with only the machinery for the elevators.

Another major quibble is that, once agian, you have to set the rent manually, section by section. In a 100-story office-building, this practically guarantees that you'll be using the preset price, unless you really LOVE using your mouse.

However, the Hotel now adds a control for room prices; built into the front desk. You simply set for each type of room; simple and useful. Those small flaws hardly make this game unusable. However, it surprises me that these are problems with the first that are still unfixed in the second, and enough to keep me from giving this 4 stars.

It is, however, a fantastic step up from the addictive original, with a great deal more to offer.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than you think.., April 11, 2004

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Sammers "Aimee Mann ROCKS!!!" (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoot Tower (CD-ROM)

Yoot Tower is a huge improvement on Sim Tower. I don't mind restrictions to elevators, it just adds to the fun :-D. I haven't been able to find any type of cheat program or such for Yoot Tower, but I guess it's better off left to having to fend for yourself. I was quite pleased with the inclusion of actual stores. Every new concept that was added, like a transformer room, just added to the realness. I always love the real feeling of games. The only part I do hate that I don't find takes away from the fun is that Sega dropped the game pretty quickly, so now I'm stuck here wanting more, even though Sega isn't planning more :-(. AND Sega's Yoot Tower site YootTower.com isn't Sega's site anymore... another one up for grabs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great improvement from SimTower, February 24, 2003

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Cecile Zorach (Lancaster, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoot Tower (CD-ROM)

I liked SimTower, but I found it difficult and restraining in many ways... and I usually don't pay $... for a new game, but I made an exception with Yoot Tower.

The improved graphics and general environment of the game are pretty much the main improvement, however the game's complexity increases a lot too (still fun though, and not an ungodly amount of micromanagement or anything).

I reccommend this product for anyone who likes to go wild with sims for managing buildings. also a good way to exercise creativity in a Sim game.