Game soft parade, or the Way to the silence: Game of the oligarchs

A reporter asks the big businessman:


- How did you manage to put together such a state?


- When I first set foot on American soil, in my pocket was only a dollar. With him and began operations.


- How can you have ordered this dollar?


- I paid him for the telegram in Berdichev. "Dad - I wrote, - quickly send as you can."
Factoring, banking, consulting, franchising, marketing, trading, and, of course, leasing - the inalienable satellites dizzying career. Unfamiliar words, which are increasingly in our ears. Every now and then meets a young and promising people, enthusiastically discussing the subtleties of consulting and marketing for some small basement bottling plant taburetovki in some promising offshore area (so, check again, like all keywords in this proposal was put:). Big capital, acquired over time on the same taburetovke, not so easy burden. First, remove all the 100 rooms in the mansion, such confusion! Secondly tedious tennis with business partners, constant presence in the smoke-filled rooms of elite clubs, and countless handshakes, the endless meetings with people and the eternal game of hide and seek with the elements of artistry. Comes to you tax, but you have to portray a deep sleep, in order to demonstrate the clarity of intentions, a clear conscience and full payment of the state. They are so, and that way - and poschekochut and tell jokes ... And you can not laugh, no, no. You are fast asleep. Bewildered tax forced to retire nesolono-handed. At this time, had carried. And you, smiling with relief, running perepryatyvat money. "Earthly life is passing by half, in a dark forest of life you are beginning to visit the desire to do something significant, and you decide to invest in eternal values. For example, in football ... And finally - silence in the performance of the brave workers of the sea:) In short, not so easy to be a tycoon. So, in today's review - a business game. Games on care and organization. Games at the meeting. Games, which confirm my personal experience, which showed that, before anything can in business, it is possible, perhaps even requires a number of unsuccessful attempts and dedication. Like many other games for Pocket PC, games in this review as sin ambiguities interface and lack of detailed documentation or help file that describes the rules of the game, so in addition to reviewing the basic parameters, I will share a number of discoveries made by the "spear." I remind you that all of the following titles you'll find in our section "Programs."

So today, in our review:

• Tower Mogul
• Medieval Folk Healer
• Market Mania
• Dope Wars
• Lemonade Tycoon
• Fish Tycoon
• MiniPolis 2
• $ Tock Trader
• BigMoney

Tower Mogul

Version for Pocket PC


Pearl of the present review, the owner of a variety of prizes, Tower Mogul is a classic game genre Sim. Your task - using the provided tools, to build a skyscraper, and regularly monitoring the feedback of visitors, engage in building a system of communications, sanitary services, security services, increasing the number of both corporate clients who shoot in your building, office, and the guests of hotel rooms and rented apartments. The more they have, the greater will be the rating of your building: you start with one star and should bring the number of stars to the promised five. As the rating is also more complicated tasks. At the same time expanding the toolbox. For example, to obtain the status of two star complex, you have the right to build and lease a bookshop, mini market, a shop selling musical recordings, as well as security services, pharmacy, underground parking, new hotel rooms and more.Initially, you can get lost in the variety of rooms, but the developers have provided a number of facilities identified during the game.
So, the first and most important rule: always see statistics - graph of population dynamics. This will help you navigate. Second - the loop on the toolbar shows all your building, divided into color zones: a "green" - a high level of public satisfaction, yellow - your guests feel conditions moderate, but acceptable, red - there is something wrong, please check by clicking on the red zone - you see a bubble on this premise: how many people in it, the rating percentage and a message box stating the main reason for dissatisfaction with facilities. Helpful Hint: On each floor, where you have provided hotel rooms, also has offices (Housekeeping). With their lack of hotel rooms may get into the red zone because of the contamination. Do not rush to put elevators, they are rarely loaded to less than 10 floors of the building, but the service elevators, you'll need for office space. Another undocumented convenience - information bar at the bottom each time you press the stylus features a new option. So, at any point in the game, you can track the population of the building, cash balance and the elapsed game time. Composers game as seriously tried. You have the ability to choose one of three background melodies of different genre. Despite the fact that the choice of a room accompanied by characteristic sounds, in my opinion, the number of sound effects for this game is somewhat limited, which, however, does not affect the excitement. Another slight drawback of the game is that some of the discontent of guests is not clear and it is not clear what to do to please them, even though one of the game consultants - the mayor, says that sometimes guests do not know what they want, so do not worry :) And the last. In the future you will need to build next to your main building of auxiliary buildings (in the game has more than 60 different buildings and facilities), so be careful when planning. Hall - "foundation" of the building - then demolish it is impossible. Good luck!

Medieval Folk Healer

Version for Pocket PC


Game from the developer Trisystech takes you to the age of the Inquisition, where you take on the role of a medieval healer - the keeper of family secrets herbal medicine. You have to carry their knowledge to help people. To start, you need to dial the desired plants. They can be found on the outskirts of the village, or buy on the market. You can also sell the surplus accumulated plants to buy those rare species that you are not able to gather. In order to make every plant in the drug, to work hard so that you may not be able to help address your suffering right away, so try to stock up in advance. From a few plants able to facilitate one or another illness, some may be strong enough, so be careful and multiply knowledge.
As the game increases your status, and the glory of a healer spread farther, you witness the many historical events: see Halley's comet, coming and going of many famous kings. The limit of your capabilities is the award you the title of "Royal Healer."The choice of Immersed more than 5 ways to increase their knowledge and glory. The demo version features are somewhat limited and enjoy the game I did not, although it would be interesting to learn that developers are prepared for the unexpected, because the game was awarded a prize PDArcade.

Market Mania

Version for Pocket PC


The famous Cascata Ltd. left a paw on the speculation. Rather, imposed a paw on your speculation.
In the Market Mania you play the stock market. All of the rules. Here and so popular now, mutual funds, and a margin account. The game is based on a randomly rastasovannoy deck of cards. Each card represents a certain number of shares of different companies. B game are stocks of companies of technological sector and the New York Stock Exchange (Big Board). During each turn you can make one sale and purchase of one card from the deck. Among the cards from the deck caught also the ones that mark a certain event in the market - you can pull the increase stock price, and can decrease the index of self-fulfilling, so that your condition is much reduced. You can sell just over 75 shares of one company. If you managed to collect 5 cards, shares Big Brother, you can drive them all dearly, as you will be notified. Follow the running line, view reports, it will help you stay afloat and reach the cherished goal - the first state to reach 2 million. Despite its apparent simplicity, it was interesting to play, and I excitedly spent some time trying to cope with the existing reserves.

Dope Wars

Version for Pocket PC


"... Over time, drugs had become a lucrative business. Here and there a sudden surge in popularity began one of the many drugs at the time, and we worked part time so that the drugs were taken from one area of ​​New York in the other, watching the emerging market of this kind. "
Dope Wars storyline is based on the "War of the drug barons" John Della. Your character - a drug dealer. When you try to download a demo version from one mobile portal, I had a separate window to confirm that I am over 18, which I did for one of the other games not previously done. And although by itself, this program was innocent - replacing the drug on eggplant and renaming the drug dealer in a farmer might just as well to play it (although the game you have to sometimes shoot from the police, but then the farmers have sometimes shy away from taxes) - the emergence of such titles that promote violence and crime, becomes, unfortunately, a characteristic phenomenon. Here you can buy in one area and resell to other drugs. At any time you can arrest the police. Do you hear the siren? What you choose - escape or surrender to the authorities? It is clear that the best place to stay if you have nothing. And if you are a drug on board? Try to escape - and you must begin to shoot. "The level of health" of your character, respectively, fall to zero. Climb to finance and purchase weapons. And good-bye on this one! I am with you on the road. And now ponaedut those with flashing lights, then explained that I just told ...

Lemonade Tycoon

Version for Palm OS and Pocket PC version


Here it is - my favorite. The first of its kind, that little thing for me personally, marked the beginning of an era of good games on the PDA. I am sure that experienced users PDA is already familiar with it and will share my delight in her address.For the lucky ones just recently purchased the PDA - a short course of entertaining trade refreshments.
Start small - a small truck, a couple of lemons, ice cubes, soda. Mix the ingredients in your recipe - and down the street. This is where the fun begins. Firstly, at the start of the game you do not have a refrigerator - to cook in small portions, and do not always keep people want to wait - you're losing customers. Price too high? "Too expensive!" Resent the waste from your customers. Too many lemons? Little ice? People are moving away from the disgruntled muzzles. At the end of each day - the results. Draw conclusions, change yourself for the market requirements. Upgrade your equipment: buy refrigerators, commercial time, change the location of the kiosk (on the usual street to the section in the supermarket) - enjoy. I. .. Do not forget - the weather is not always on your side. All the most simple and convenient. It can be seen firsthand the basic principle of the production game - good ones, in which little bells and whistles, and all the polished to the smallest detail.

Fish Tycoon

Version for Palm OS


"... The island of Isola Lagoon was beautiful. In it lived a lot of fish of rare beauty. Seven among them are special, magical species surpasses all others for the elegance of their shapes and colors to perfection. Then something happened, and wonderful views disappeared ....». At that point, you fish-farmer. Exhausted your views known to the world. Only you can help restore its former glory with the watery world of the island of Isola.
Will begin with a few species of fish and a small aquarium. Selling and buying their new species, using a variety of medications, the new environmental conditions and scientific development, conducting numerous crosses between three categories of fish (from most common to rare), you will have to restore these seven species. Underwater incubator continues to live its own life, even when you put off your PDA, so be careful. Otherwise, you have every chance to see your wealth, pop-up belly up. Achieve the goal of the game is not so simple. Not all of your efforts be crowned with mating success. Many will perish, and without reaching maturity. Moreover, even withdrawing coveted Seven species, you can not save them, if you're not equipped properly their aquariums, and for this we need to sell no one was printed by the fish .... It's long hours of fascinating experiments, and the struggle to preserve their business. Unlike similar Plant Tycoon, about which we described in a previous issue, everything is in motion. LDW Software's great artists have worked on the design of mobile water in the world. At your disposal - three difficulty levels. You can also control the time in the game, not to wait for the real term sozrvaniya caviar. The only drawback - the game is not possible to save it. However, there is an exit. Fish Tycoon, you can leave as a screen saver - very nice and calming.

MiniPolis 2

Version for Palm OS


No it is not "Monopoly". And set up the game is not producing "Monopoly".Just the opposite, MiniPolis 2 is based on the rules of Anti-Monopoly - the main rivals in the game are not monopolies, and monopolies, and representatives of competing with the private business.
You come into a game already in a certain role. Either you are a monopolist (Monopolist), or anti-monopoly, a competitor (Competitor), and captured early in the game tidbits does not determine your indisputable advantage, as it happens in "Monopoly." It's all much more twisted. To compare the odds of both parties, developers use the "complicated mathematical apparatus, which, incidentally, has been patented. Competitors and monopolists pull various information cards that will make you smile, despite all the vicissitudes of competition. Be careful - the competitors can earn more initially, but as the game progresses monopolists to catch up, and woe to those candidates that were inattentive and careless! In short, as was said at the forum of the game: Monopoly rest! "

$ Tock Trader

Version for Palm OS


So you and the broker. Now cami and mopped.
No special graphical bells and whistles. All hard and dry - the language of numbers, but because brokers and real marquee enough to be completely happy. In the end, a serious matter, does not like jokes. Attentiveness, memory, concentration. Otherwise - crash! Choose difficulty level, the benefit of them there are many, daily reports, graphs, charts ... In general, we may briefly feel a sharp economist. Indeed, a good resource for self-education. K $ tock Trader attached thorough documentation and dictionary trader, from whom I myself something for yourself learned.

BigMoney

Version for Palm OS


Playing with the original name - analogous to "Tetris" and the famous Bejeweled, o which we wrote earlier. Coins of different denominations and different "nationality" (euro, dollar and yen) fall into a cube of size 13h15 cells. Noting the blocks of contiguous identical coins, igorki destroy these blocks, thus avoiding the fields, while coins all come and arrive, and, depending on the level faster or slower.
While you take away from the field of coin, all the overlying go down, filling the vacated seat. Depending on the rate of destruction of coins on you descend the whole bag of gold, so that Enrich, gentlemen. This is the easiest method:). Understand the rules quickly, but, as in "Tetris", play BigMoney can be long. Very long. Well, really ... I will go - to play:) The authors, translation:

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