Hospital Tycoon
Hospital Tycoon is a business simulation from Codemasters. It was developed by the British development studio Deep Red Games 2007 and represents an unofficial successor to the published 1997 Theme Hospital dar. Despite muted criticism from the trade press managed to get the game in the British charts.
The game
As a player, you take over the property of a clinic manager and needs to develop a hospital with diagnostic facilities, treatment rooms, research facility and interior. The hospital staff treated no real diseases, but only fictitious as ' explosive sneezing ' or the ' monkey madness '. The game presents itself in a 3D look, and you can be the hospital uA explore from the perspective of his staff or the patients.
In addition to building and economic elements, the player must also attend to the interpersonal relationships of its employees. For example, one must take care in mission tasks about that doctor and nurse learn to love and the receptionist is not the fury.
In some places there are allusions to TV hospital series like General Hospital or Emergency Room.
Reception
4players compared the hospital simulation directly with the unofficial predecessor Theme Hospital. The control and solid business section were praised. The sound effects, however, were negatively evaluated and referred to as " annoying ", in particular the Sims language was highlighted. The low level of difficulty and the automated processes have also been criticized. Overall 4Players awarded 64 out of 100 possible points.
GameZone praised the simple control and the " humorous " dealing with the hospital theme. There was criticism of the easy difficulty and the lack of sound effects. Overall, GameZone awarded 8 out of 10.
Giga Games criticized in one of his broadcasts, in which the game was presented, pay hotline of the manufacturer. Under this hotline could buy unlock codes, to ensure the benefits in the game and act like cheat codes. Just as in the test of GameZone selling cheats as Kundenübervorteilung was denounced.