Starting off with a basic multi-floor shell in the standard game modes, players have to quickly assemble a skeleton of a hotel – rooms, reception, bathrooms and so on.Īt the start of the game you have to rely on just a tiny trickle of customers, but as the money rolls in you can quickly steamroll your development and the game soon opens up more and more, letting you build facilities like saunas, beauty parlours and other super-masculine things. Ignoring some of the more casual aspects of the design for a moment though, Hotel Giant 2 does offer a lot of customisation and management options for players. The result is that casual players will just spam the cheat card system, while hardcore players will be pressed harder than an apple in a cider press if they try to continue without them, which damages the game for both parties. Hotel Giant 2 tries to be hardcore with one hand, but casual and forgiving with the other and it doesn’t accomplish it with the elegance of other games in that mould, like Prince of Persia. At the same time though, the difficulty of all this is undermined by giving players access to cheat cards to get them out of tricky spots and unlockable furniture. On the one hand Hotel Giant 2 tries to be as realistic and micromanaging as possible by putting the focus on individual customers rather than the larger picture. Maybe two or three splits, in fact, because Hotel Giant 2 doesn't seem to settle on a target audience very well. Unfortunately though, there’s a split in the way the game has structured itself. The only thing you can’t do is change the sheets, but if you really think of that aspect of the biz as entertainment then you don’t need Hotel Giant 2 as much as some Freudian analysis and rubber gloves. You design the rooms, hire the staff (some of them anyway), commission the advertising and choose the city where you want to build your empire. To an extent the game succeeds at this too, letting players micromanage almost every single area of their hotel. It boasts that aspiring Donald Trumps can practice the art of hotel management, taking their hotels from seedy motels used for little more than shady drug deals, right up to palatial skyscrapers in the centre of Paris. If we had a nickel for every Tycoon game that had crossed our desk then we’d take them all to the bank and get them exchanged into real money – the type with pictures of the Queen on and a worth lower than a Olympic-level limbo bar.Īttempting to stand out in this hugely crowded and mostly unremarkable genre then is Hotel Giant 2, the sequel to the million selling Hotel Giant. There are plenty of business empire building games out there – Theme this, Sim that and so on.
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