Customer Rating:  
Summary: More of a chore than a game...
Comment: The game isn't worth even $8 bucks used. If you are looking for a similar game, just better, look into Cruise Ship Tycoon.
This one is very, very limited and only includes out-dated graphcics and a "few" sound effects. I forced myself to play for more than 5 minutes.
Still got 98? This is probably for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ugh
Comment: Let me sum up this game in one sentence: this game is horrible. What a rip off. Don't believe anything on the product descrpition. "Carnival Cruise Tycoon is so close to the real thing--you'll think you are actually on-board," What a lie!! First of all, when you start sailing, you only fill in a few decks. The rest are all empty! It gets really annoying when the waiters at the resturants get stuck between tables and can't serve anyone. It's so hard to describe how bad this game is. It's just a badly made game. Please don't buy. It's for your own good. A waste of money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Simplistic game with no challenges
Comment: As an avid cruiser, I purchased this game with great excitement; how fun it would be to design my own 'Fun Ship'? I was rather disappointed in the product.
The game's only excitement comes visually, as the graphics are rich, smooth and the zoom/pan features of the camera can give every conceivable view of your ship. The interface is simple and easy to understand, but considering the limited features of the game, this is hardly a positive aspect.
The A.I. is slow witted and dull, as the guests constantly complain about not having enough of something, regardless of how many of the thing they are complaining about you have. The management aspect is virtually non-existent; the only staffing options consist of placing a staffed structure and perhaps clicking a button a few times to hire additional staff. Other aspects of running a cruise line such as maintenance issues, provisioning, advertising, competition, disasters, navigation and money management simply do not exist; the only thing one can do in this game is place structures (cabins, bars, restrooms, etc.)
While this game will entertain for a few hours, upon building and launching the 'Conquest' class vessel (level '5' for all intents and purposes), you have nothing more to do then start over again. Pass this one over unless you are a real fan of cruising.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Persons report
Comment: I got this game because I love ships, and you may too if you get this game. They give you a tutorial at the beginning of the Career Mode, and there are lots of things to put in your ship, like:
Vegas style casino and theature
Grills and cafes
Perfume, jewlry and clothes stores
Basketball courts
Spas with massage tables and mud baths
Arcads
It's fun, and it's easy to figure out
But if you do buy this game, don't purchase a janitors suite. They do nothing, just stand in the room, ands the cost money each day.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Vast Potential, but Someone Dropped the Ball
Comment: Being a fan of simulation games, such as Theme Hospital and Age of Empires for instance, I saw this game and had to have it. I like traveling, I like vacationing on cruise ships, I thought the game would be awesome. Boy was I wrong.
Cruise Line Tycoon is a simple game. The player starts with a small ship. The player must design the ship from the ground up, set pricing, and make enough money to purchase the next larger ship. Once captaining the next ship, a captain for the smaller ship must be hired. This cycle occurs until the largest ship is obtained (about 6 ships total I think).
The problem is the game is overly simplistic. All the components of the ships are pre-designed. Nothing can be customized. Changes in the overall ship design can be made based on passenger feedback, but it seems that no matter what is done, the passengers would complain about the same things over and over again. As other reviewer's have complained, the screen seems eternally dark. Despite another reviewer's suggestion on how to fix the issue, I was never able to remedy this. Also, the game became even more annoying as it seemed to run as slow as molasses in January when it is run along with even a single other windows application. This was happening despite running the game on a 2.2 GHz PC with 128 MB of RAM (where only 64 MB of RAM and a 500MHz CPU are required)
The game could have definitely benefited from some additions. Disasters and obstacles such as hurricanes, a dockworker's union strike, maybe a case of Legionnaires disease on board, on board crime sprees, corrupt foreign governments, economic downturns, etc. The possibilities could have been endless, and I think it would have made the game awesome. At the very least, I think allowing the player to make their own cruise routes would have made the game tolerable.
I recommend staying away from this game. It is entertaining for only a short while. Save your $20 and go buy something else.
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