INFORMATION
Prison Tycoon 4: SuperMax. Yep, that's right. It's a tycoon
simulator featuring prison as its setting. It's also the fourth installment in
a series you've probably never heard of. While SuperMax sounds like a chain of
oversized grocery stores, no such thing is involved. Although, I'd much rather
be at a grocery store, than play this prison of a game. From playing Prison
Tycoon 4, I can see why the warden from The Shawshank Redemption shot himself
in the head.
Essentially, you should avoid this game like Sean Connery
tries to avoid The Rock. While there's nothing necessarily wrong with a prison
game based on the tycoon formula, Prison Tycoon 4's biggest problem is itsexecution. First of all, this game comes with no manual, not even an insert.
Most importantly, there is no in-game tutorial. While this wouldn't really
hurt, say, racing games or point-and-click adventures, developers should get
locked-up for not including in-game tutorials for strategy management games. It
gets exponentially more painful when you couple this with an unintuitive
interface.
Hey, prison decorating.
Throughout your time as the warden, you will be confronted
with all of the tasks of running a prison. This means acquiring inmates,
managing your economy, assigning people jobs, and yes, you'll sometimes need to
issue a beat down. You'll do this from a top-down isometric camera angle. But
all of this is severely hindered by a lack of an in-game tutorial. As a result,
you'll often know what to do, but not how to do it. It gets even hairier when
you do know what to do, but your commands don't work.
One time I wanted to break up a fight, so I tossed some tear
gas at the warring prisoners, but nothing really happened. They proceeded to
beat the living snot out of each other. You can try to send prisoners to their
cells by putting things in lockdown mode, but a lot of them won't retreat to
their quarters; and the ones that do come back out after a few seconds. So
you'll then want to send a guard to break up the fight, but figuring out how to
do that without proper instructions is extremely frustrating.
Make sure your prisoners are pumping iron.
Since it's pretty much impossible to tell the
difference between a guard and a prisoner in the yard, you'll have to open up
the submenu. From there you click on the guard tab, select a specific guard,
look at the minimap to check the whereabouts of the guard, close the submenu,
investigate the most recent known whereabouts of the guard, locate and right
mouse click the guy (you can't create a drag box to select anything in this
game), move him into the action, right mouse click on a troubled prisoner, and
select the beat him up icon. By the time you try to initiate all of this, a
prisoner might have already died. If this all sounds convoluted it is. The
whole game is like this, and it really hurts to not have a proper tutorial.
SCREENSHOTS
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Cpu: 1.4 Ghz
Ram: 512Mb
VGA: 64 Mb
Hard: 800 Mb
Windows Xp,Vista,7
INSTRUCTION
1) Download & Extract With WinRAR
2) Extract Prison Tycoon Folder
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