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Hospital Tycoon | 
 enlarge | From: Codemasters
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $9.98
You Save: $10.01 (50%)
New (16) Used (7) from $6.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 12387
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 116711
UPC: 767649401536
EAN: 0767649401536
ASIN: B000R1CS5W
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Manage and maintain a hospital of your own design, making sure that the staff is kept happy and the patients are getting cured. Get it wrong, and you could end up facing a full-scale epidemic, piles of malpractice suits, or worse! | | • | Watch the medical drama unfold as nurses, doctors and patients learn to like, hate and even fall in love with one another. | | • | Four different hospital locations to expand, customize and upgrade. | | • | All the latest equipment is available to treat hilarious diseases such as Monkey Nuts and Explosive Sneezing. | | • | Easy to learn gameplay coupled with a multitude of challenging game modes to try. |
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Product Description
Hospital Tycoon lets you take control of a real hospital, and stop medical dramas from becoming a major crisis. Manage and maintain the hospital - make sure the patients get cured and the staff is kept happy. Get it wrong and you could end up with a horde of sick, angry people. Get it right and your hospital will grow from strength to strength. You decide who to hire and fire with 60 different characters to manage. Create your own entertaining situations and watch as the characters improve over time if you treat them right. Features 4 different hospital locations to expand customize and upgrade.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Bought on a Thursday, finished by Monday August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this on impulse - I've loved Theme Hospital for years (but never managed to complete it), so thought this was worth a try. Plus it was dead cheap.
I was addicted almost straight away. I played it for 2-3 hours every night, sometimes longer, until I was quite literally dreaming about it. Yes, there are some annoying bits in Hospital Tycoon. The worst was the 'hospital' soap opera episodes, which happen every time you pass a level and at the start of each level. They're mostly nonsense, there's no relation to the rest of the storyline, they're just really pointless. The Sim-like talk was gibberish, although some of the simlish phrases were hilarious, and I would end up repeating them.
There are more inventive diseases and equipment than in Theme Hospital. My favourite piece of equipment was probably Hanging Therapy, which was used to cure Monkey Nuts. Go figure. Some of the other diseases include Lightbulbia, Mummyfied, Stress Zombosis, and many others. My one complaint was that there were only three levels, all of which are quite passable until the final one, and that only a certain few patients came into the hospital. (OK that was two.) I never saw any of the werewolves in the final level. (Hint: if you wanna get your capability up for the last level, and get a five star rating, try training lots of doctors to 100% at once.)
There's no lasting gameplay to Hospital Tycoon. There's no major challenges - just don't go onto the sandbox mode, it's dire - and once you know how to do everything, the hospital runs itself. You only need to chase a couple of patients around when the skull appears above their heads! There are some funny moments too - the most memorable is when someone's sick and the janitors fall flat on their backs. There's more to do than in Theme Hospital, but unlike this, I keep going back to Theme Hospital, as I'm desperate to complete it. I never will, I always get stuck at the epidemics. Maybe one day.
In the meantime, buy Hospital Tycoon cheap, and complete it in no time. All the reviewers who are giving this a bad review - tell me how to complete Theme Hospital please! Or at least get me past the major epidemics level.
 I hope I'm not the only one this happened to... July 20, 2008
None of the reviews mention it, the product specifications don't mention it, and the picture of the jewel case is too small to see it...but this game is meant for "PC-DVD" play, which I didn't find out until I received the package and saw the label clearly in the lower left corner. Not all of us have DVD-ROM drives! My computer couldn't even read the disk! I'm always careful to read the specifications before I purchase a computer program; if I'd realized my computer didn't fit the bill I wouldn't have bought the game.
 great game! April 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i loved this game! a lot of people complain about glitches but i haven't encountered any at all. i love the new twist on tycoon games, this one is seriously tricky near the end! if i were someone looking for a good, fun game to play but one that you don't have to play all the time to be good at, i'd buy this one (like i did!).
 Much less fun than Theme Hospital January 19, 2008
I played this game in storymode for a day or two. Here are my main points of criticism:
* There is an aerial view, but you can't use it to place new rooms.
* Staff is hard to direct; you can't just pick them up and place them where they're needed.
* The music is unimaginative and the assistant's Sims-like jabbering very annoying.
* You can't speed up a patient's progress through the hospital by moving them up in the queue.
* The cutscenes are too long and have little to do with what you're trying to accomplish.
* You have no influence on how funds are spent.
All in all the game is rather unchallenging (at least in storymode). You don't really have to manage the hospital. Once you have built the required rooms and staffed it, it basically runs itself (although that might be different in other game modes).
Although it is much older, Theme Hospital is much more fun to play. I wish they'd come out with an updated version!
 Great game November 9, 2007
Music is jazzy in this vamped up theme hospital-like game. Overall I enjoy it, it's simple and fun to treat the patients! I must say the AI could be a little better when it comes to managing the hospital and treating patients in a timely fashion.
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