Corporate Machine

Type of program: Strategy
Supported platforms: Win 95/98/NT/2000
Company name: Stardock Entertainment
Authors e-mail address: info@stardock.com
Version: 1.05
Cost: $29.95
Installed size: 11.2 MB

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Well, I really hate to do this but this is not gonna be a good review. The game, which involves setting up a corporation, hiring, etc. and making a certain amount of money within a certain amount of time, looked rather interesting, although VERY complex. Simple games can be figured out without rules, complex ones NEED rules. I also do not think that to play a game you should have to go to the website [even though this might be good advertising for the author] and search for the rules.

I tried to play this game several times, and as it sits it was a joke. It said hit F1 for help. This was basically 1 page telling you what F1 and F2 are for and the objective of the game, however how to accomplish this objective was missing. I realize that writing rules so that they are easily understood isn't easy, but it can't be harder than writing the program itself! I also got upset because F2 was supposed to get you a tutorial-guess what? It didn't work!

So basically I kept pushing buttons, every time I tried to play I went in the hole and stayed there-has something to do with the fact I wasn't making any product or progress, but it wasn't much fun that way.

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User-friendly: 0
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Reviewed by Stormy Strock

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