Customer Rating:  
Summary: Major disappointment
Comment: I bought this game after having played and enjoyed the origional Airport Tycoon. In short, find and buy the origional Airport Tycoon, which is a better game, despite being made much earlier.
The asset of Airport Tycoon was that it had an aspect of realism along with the play. Terminal design, for example, was very individualized and usually required micromanagement. The game was also fun. New buildings and runways were available often enough to keep the player curious and busy attempting to satisfy airline's needs while increasing profit. When I was not expanding my airport, I had time to improve the catering services, add more check-in desks to the airport terminals, and do more micromanagement. By allowing this level of detail, the game had depth and replayability
Airport Tycoon 3 is a massive disapointment. The new graphics are more cartoonish and have higher resolution, but are not necesarily better, due to the view angles and zoom. There are, however, many significant downsides.
1: the game is now dependant on waiting, but with nothing to do. The largest previous lack was a way to increase game speed, and this still has not been fixed. However, all the micromanagement options are gone, so the player can either continue building their airport and bankrupt themselves, or wait indefinitely until an airline appears.
2: The effects of buildings and actions are completely unclear. Even for an experienced player, it is difficult to know if most buildings actually have any effect.
3: all the fun is gone. In the origional, the player would often reject contracts for a common airplane (like a Focker Fellowship) in hopes of being offered a larger, less common airplane that would yield more profit and look nicer on the runway. The player would also recieve occasional rewards for performance. I am unable to tell if this capability still exists; Airport Tycoon 3 is incapable of functioning in a "game-like" manner; it seems more random, and depends on waiting.
So, in summary, find and buy the origional Airport Tycoon, which is still a much better and more enjoyable game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Somewhat Dissapointing
Comment: I expected a lot more out of airport tycoon. The game has a ton of glitches and is very complicated. It was nothing like I would have expected.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Discusting!!!
Comment: this game is awful!!! it is hard to figure out where to put things and the tutorial is no help at all! it is hard to navigate and it is incredibly boring. i would NOT recomend this for ANYONE unless you are BEGGING for a vein to pop in your forehead!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Why did I buy this??
Comment: I did not follow everyone else advice and went ahead and bought it. Don't do it! It's boring, slow, and not very exciting.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty fun game.. if it dosent crash
Comment: I went against the reviews and bought this game, because I love aviation and liked the first airport tycoon. It takes awhile to get used to, and you have to do a bit of waiting, but once you get it its pretty fun. The only proplem I have is it crashes alot, there could be a fix to this I have to look. Other than that I would recommend this to people who really love commercial aviation and airports. If you arnt in one of those it might not be a game you like.
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