| Hotel Giant 2 | 
| From: Southpeak
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.16
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Seller: lakeplacegames
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 11,430
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 50052
Model: 50052
UPC: 612561500525
EAN: 0612561500525
ASIN: B001DOMCQC
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Impressive realism: observe and influence the lives of your guests, meet their needs, face their wrath? | | • | Great scope: 26 unique hotels in various locations such as Paris, Rome, Los Angeles, and Munich? and more than 1,400 objects and furniture items to decorate and adorn your hotels | | • | Create multiple services (bars, specialty shops, conference rooms) and amenities such as pool halls, arcades, executive lounges. Configure the layout, choose the contents of the menu for your restaurant and employ live performers to entertain your guests | | • | Hundreds of customers to observe, analyze and understand, each client is different? ascertain their personalities, earn their satisfaction and win their tourist dollars | | • | Intuitive interface, high performance 3D graphic engine which provides day and night features, self illuminating objects and more realistic animations than ever before for the ultimate life simulation gaming experience |
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Product Description
Hotel Giant is back and bigger than ever.Following its international success Hotel Giant is back and bigger than ever. In Hotel Giant 2 you will create the hotel of your dreams and manage prestigious locations around the world. Your goal is to attract as many guests as possible and make sure they are satisfied throughout their stay. In order to meet your objective you must develop a high standard of service hire an excellent staff decorate every room to your liking and never forget that the customer is always right. Exceed your guests' expectations by improving their stay earning more money and becoming the most successful hotel chain in the world! Features: Impressive realism: observe and influence the lives of your guests meet their needs face their wrath... Great scope: 26 unique hotels in various locations such as Paris Rome Los Angeles and Munich... and more than 1400 objects and furniture items to decorate and adorn your hotels. Full customization: create multiple services (bars specialty shops conference rooms...) and amenities such as pool halls arcades executive lounges... configure their layout choose the contents of the menu for your restaurant and even employ live performers to entertain your guests. Hundreds of customers to observe analyze and understand each client is different... ascertain their personalities earn their satisfaction and win their tourist dollars. Intuitive interface high performance 3D graphic engine which provides day and night features self illuminating objects and more realistic animations than ever before for the ultimate life simulation gaming experience.Format: WIN 9898SEMEXPVISTA/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: E Age: 612561500525 UPC: 612561500525 Manufacturer No: 50052
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| Customer Reviews:
Great Graphics, Can be Repetitive, and DRM (Tages) January 29, 2010
Mike (Long Island, NY)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've had this game for a while. Southpeak is the North American distributor for Hotel Giant 2 as Nobilis was the European distributor. You can download the game off of Nobilis' website however, you will find it difficult to email them as they rarely respond to you. The online checkout company, responds all the time. I even emailed Southpeak and they were quick to respond also. They were nice enough to send me the update/patch link for HG2 as on Nobilis' website, it had that darned .rar extension on its patch.
Hotel Giant 2 is the sequel to the not bad but buggy (and sloppy interface) Hotel Giant. To North and South Americans, it was called Maximum Capacity which was distributed by joWood (don't get me started with jowood). There are several modes: Campaign, Learning, and Sandbox. The Learning mode is more like a tutorial that teaches you the concepts and basic runaround of the game. As you reach the goals, you can move on to a more challenging goal(s). For instance, in the first few Learning modes, you are shown how to access the information windows, and how to lay down furniture. You are then asked to set up a business center and/or a Spa. Some goals might ask you to create a hotel with a certain amount of business guests, a business center with a certain amount of visitors, and/or a certain satisfaction level for the types of rooms required. The Campaign mode allows you to pick a hotel and complete a set of goals within a amount of time. In Sandbox mode, you can see a hotel that is fully furnished. I guess it's nice to see what a fully furnished hotel looks like but when you think of Sandbox mode, it would mean no limits to money, and you have complete freedom.
You can't manipulate anything outside of your hotel, you can only work on the inside. There is a lot of furniture and other objects to place in your hotel. Each type of room (business center, lobby, guest room, jewelry store, bakery, bar, coffee shop, pool) has it's own set. First you must create your room and it would be nice if you can create corners instead of the standard 4 square box. The main problem that I have and it's frustrating is when you create a room and "paint yourself in a corner" after you filled the entire floor up. If there is a wall in the way, you cannot change that section of the room to make it fit. It also would be great if we can build our own hotel. All of them come pre-made, you just have to furnish it. it would of been nice to see more objects for the lobby. The front desk/concierge are not very animated as well. It would of also nice to see the bellhops take the luggage. After you've played this a good amount of time, you will begin to get bored from all the repetitive action. After a few hours playing it, my hands were hurting from all the point and clicking. Creating rooms needs more flexibility.
The graphics are of great quality. For a budget title ($19.99) the graphics are eye-catching. There is some issues with path-finding. One of my guests spent at least 20 minutes trying to get out of the changing room in the pool. The guest had enough room to maneuver and unlike Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, you couldn't pick him/her up and "show them the way."
All in all, Hotel Giant 2 is much better than its predecessor. The graphics are eye-catching, and the gameplay is very nice. The only problem is that it can get repetitive. At first you will love it but later on, you will get bored. Putting it away for a little while, will make you come back to it. Some added content would be nice. This is the era of the expansion packs lol.
In the direct download version, Tages DRM was included. You get a serial number. Not much was told about Tages when I bought the game as I found out when I was going through the files to initially download it. I had to download 5 files and the installer. One of the files had Tages in it. I also got an email from the company I bought the online version from, "congratulations, you have been granted more installs," because I lost the initial serial number when I switched computers from my Core2Duo (Conroe) to i7 920 Monster Machine. Yes, to some this would infuriate, but for me, I've never had any problems with Tages. The minor inconvenience is asking for my serial number. But then again, if I bought the box ( I had an option to buy the boxed version), I would of had it. Starforce DRM only gave me problems and I do not buy anything with Starforce in it.
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