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Prison Tycoon 2: Maximum Security | 
 enlarge | From: Value Software
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $19.99
New (13) Used (12) from $1.90
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 8027
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: strategy_games;action_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 755142712549
Model: 71254
UPC: 755142712549
EAN: 0755142712549
ASIN: B000GAAXT2
Release Date: August 7, 2006
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| • | Can you handle every aspect of a prision? |
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Product Description
The sentence has been passed, now you must bring order in a world of chaos. Start with a small, low security prison and build it into a maximum-security super-max. There's no escaping under your watchful eye because you're in charge of every detail.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Sucks August 29, 2008
This game sucks! It crashes every 5 minutes. It gets annoying when it crashes because you will have built your big prison and are on the eternal wait for prisoners, and then it crashes. I don't have a crappy computer, I have a crappy game. Please don't buy this game. I hate using cheats on game, because it wrecks the point of the game, but on this game, you HAVE to! Just to build a mail sorting room for money, you have to spend 35k+ on the building plus 10k+ on the unit! *sigh* and the cheats are hard to get activated! The game is a piece of bad word.
WOW (NOT) January 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a horiable game!!!! No Tutortial, no real point to it. I felt it was a waste of money. Save your money and get a better game than this!
Lots of bugs - gameplay is basically broken December 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love simulation games of all types and thought the premise of Prison Tycoon II sounded really fun. Unfortunately, the game has so many bugs that I was never able to enjoy it. Prisoners walked through brick walls, guards wandered aimlessly without interacting with anything or anyone, etc. I've installed all available patches, but it looks like the programming is just broken. It's a shame - if the company had gotten the game to actually work before releasing it, I think it would have been a lot of fun.
 Boring and Graphics SUCK! August 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love tycoon games and even catch myself buying any game with the word tycoon in the title. I being in law enforcement thought Prison Tycoon would be kind of fun but was dead wrong. It takes WAY too long to get prisoners and i seemed to be sitting around staring at the screen with nothing going on in the game for large amounts of time. The game had a huge lack of things to do and options to play. In sandbox mode you only have a choice of three locations with a select few number of buildings to choose from. This game is just really REALLY boring and really slow!
Waste of money December 21, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I've have enjoyed playing dozens of simulation games. CaesarIII, Sim City, Tropico, Startopia, Civ 1 & 2, Railroad Tycoon 2 & 3, Children of the Nile, etc... etc... All of them provided hours of enjoyment, unique challenges, and unique solutions.
I can not ascribe any of those attributes to Prison Tycoon 2.
I tried for days to find some logic/strategy in the gameplay(heck, isn't that the point of playing sims?. I went to the PT2 forum to see if I could glean some gameplay advice (there seems to be none). I finally just gave up on PT2.
Cleaners don't clean, factory workers don't work, doctors don't doctor, guards don't guard... yada yada.
It just appears as though there is no "AI" involved in the game at all. Actions don't appear to be related to consequences.
You know... you tweak something, and then wait to see what the reusulting effect is. Hmmm... that was good. Ooops... that was bad.
In my opinion, that's how the player develops a strategy to acheive the goal/s of any sim game. Without control over causes and without related effects, the user is just idly watching an unfathomable sceneario play out... as your money dwindles away, you're prisoners riot and kill each other, and guards stand around watching prisoners escape.
Let me put it this way. For ~$19.95 there are many, much better, sims out there. Save your bucks on Prison Tycoon 2.
Al Campagna
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