- Your cousin is in debt to the mob, and to pay it off, he has to make his casino profitable. That’s where you come in — you’ve been asked to turn a broken-down casino into the newest hot spot!
- If you can build up the little casino on the strip, you’ll build a reputation in the business, and that means other casinos will come to you
- Drop in new slots and video poker machines, redesign the layout of the floor with better seucrity, and more convenient restrooms & cashier’s windows
- Populate casinos with the most profitable games, handle comps and bring in the high-rollers
- Advertising is important — don’t forget to bring people in with signs, performances and other attractions
Product Description
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Hoyle Casino Empire
I THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS GAME. IT IS A ALSOM SIMULATER TYCOON TYPE GAME. i LOVE GAMBELING AND CASINOS. YOU CAN BUILD CASINOS AND SENERY. THE GRAPHICS LOOK ALSOM. AND I DIFFENTLY AM GETTING IT.YOU SHOULD PLAY THIS GAME!
Rating: 4 / 5
I have never been a great PC gamer but this game was just too Easy. I beat every level (except the last one) on one try. The last one only took me two tries. It plays more like a Tutorial than an “Empire”. It is amusing but way too predictable I would recomend this one when it hits the bargain bin at your local computer store.
Rating: 2 / 5
Gamblers have it the worst in the video game department. For every half decent gambling related game that comes out (i.e. Multiplay Video Poker, Real Deal Slots, Slots II), there are twenty released that are complete junk. This is one of them…
You play Steve Wynn, in so many words, by taking a poorly run casino and attempting to make it into something spectacular. The concept is great, but the execution is awful. The casinos themselves are poorly-rendered ripoffs of the Luxor, Excalibur, Treasure Island, and Binion’s Horseshoe. They even managed to do really creepy looking renditions of Siegfried and Roy (apparently they own the Excalibur in this game.) The only original casino is one that looks like an old 50’s style jukebox.
So, what machines do you have to choose from? Slots, Video Poker, and Video Blackjack. That’s it. What table games do you have? Blackjack and Craps. If you move up the ranks, you’ll get Roulette, Pai-Gow, and a Wheel of Fortune table. Wow. The graphics on this game are so generic you really can’t tell the difference between slot machines and blackjack machines. The craps tables are only barely distinguishable from the other tables. It’s really awful how you supposedly have a variety of slot machines, yet they all look the same. Not that it matters as you can’t play any of them and having different machines doesn’t affect the game anyway. The gameplay is completely generic. It’s a matter of, build enough items and the casino will fill up. I really don’t see any advantage of using one machine over another or table games versus machines for that matter. Just dump enough items on the floor and you’ll advance to the next level. Exciting, huh?
I’ll get really nitpicky now. The restaurants and shops you build? Just 2D images you paste on a wall. That’s it. You can’t go into these “wallpaper” shops or change anything about them (except you’re able to offer keno in the restaurants - big deal!) Would it have been so difficult to allow us to adjust the prices on the items we sell? That’s just one example. Add the fact the customers all say the same thing over and over and the fact the music is the same song over and over and you get the feeling a lot of corners were cut to rush this game out the door.
Supposedly you can adjust how much the pit bosses give out in comps. If that’s true, I’ve never seen anything happen. All they do is stand around and do nothing. (Ok, maybe that part of the game is realistic.) You can view how much cash customers have, but not how much cash they’ve spent - defeats the whole purpose of giving comps doesn’t it? Speaking of which, if you click on a drunk customer he or she will start babbling like a drunk. Give them a comp and all of a sudden the speech sounds normal. Wow, I didn’t know comps sober people up. The heavily-accented asian customers say things like “are any of the waitresses for sale?” If I had a politically correct bone in my body I’d think that sounds like a racist stereotype.
You can set the house edge on the games to somehow control how much money you collect. How is this done? By using a slider bar you set from low to medium to high. Think about this for a second. Anyone remotely familiar with gambling (the editor who chopped this section out of my review isn’t one of them) knows you can change the odds on a slot machine but you can’t change the odds on most table games. So how do you get more money out of them? Are you putting a magnet on the roulette wheel? Are you using loaded dice on the craps table? I could go on and on, but I think you get my point. The game is just totally unrealistic and nothing like what’s really involved in operating a casino.
The best economic sim released recently is Virtual Resort: Spring Break. If the subject matter doesn’t appeal to you and you must have a gambling tycoon game, then search for a copy of Casino Tycoon. It’s better, but not by much. Better yet, save your money, or come to Vegas and bet it all on red or a hand of blackjack. Even if you lose you’ll have more fun than you will playing this game.
Hope the review helped.
Rating: 1 / 5
My wife plays the games She loves to play the game since she got the game. She has been playing the game,she really enjoys the game.
Rating: 5 / 5
As Tycoon games go, this one is probably a bit above the average of late. Most seem to be junk re-hashes of the same game with different graphics. This one is pretty decent (not to the level of a SimCity or RailRoad Tycoon), but much better than things like Underwater Tycoon, that appear targetted at rather young <13 players.
There is a progression that you go up in getting bigger casino’s to develop and goals set for you. But I think there were only about 6-7 casino’s total and once you did them all, it wasn’t really any fun to go back and play the old ones.
Bottom line: Looking to kill some time? This will keep you occupied for an afternoon if you like the “Casino” theme. If you are looking for something to keep you going for days or is complex, keep looking.
Rating: 3 / 5