Mall Tycoon 2

  Description

Welcome to the exciting, challenging world of Mall Tycoon 2. This detailed 3D Management Sim allows players to oversee virtually every aspect of creating, managing and profiting from a dynamic, fast-paced mall environment, while allowing an unprecedented element of creativity in size, layout, themes, types of stores and even the patrons that frequent the mall. Place stores, hire cleaning and security crews, and manage every aspect of the physical layout of your new shopping paradise. Pay your workers, manage lease payments and loans, and watch your mall rise to the top of the commercial world - or sink to the bottom. It all depends on you!

Build, design and manage your very own shopping mall in this sequel to one of the most popular Tycoon releases ever. Watch your stores prosper as customers browse through them in a 3D environment that's so detailed you can zoom right down to floor level and watch things from just a few feet away! Mall Tycoon 2 contains everything people loved about the first title and much more! Radically enhanced graphics, a new and improved user interface, more staff and items to unlock and random events like floods and fires. This in-depth simulation is sure to please both newcomers to the series and fans of the original alike.

Any way you look at it, Mall Tycoon 2 lets you manage more than just the average mall...it's the perfect mini-community - more than just a few aisles of shops, services, food courts and seasonal events. In fact, Mall Tycoon 2 offers not only more shops, but if you can believe it, more floors, more shoppers, more comic high jinks and more of everything people loved about the original.

Seasonal Themes
Place dozens of seasonal themes in the mall atrium: Easter, Thanksgiving, Special sales, the list goes on.

Build and Design
Expand your retail empire and build up to 9 floors, creating the mall of your dreams.

Consumer Report
Collect information about your shoppers' travel habits and expenditures.

First Person Views
Select any patron and change from overhead to first person views.

Manage Your Staff
Hire and assign your employees to various mall duties. Downsize staff when necessary.

Create a Food Court
Feed your hungry patrons! A variety of eatery designs to choose from.

Features - Mall Tycoon 2:

• Choose from up to 462 unique store models including specialty areas like bowling alleys, banks and internet cafes
• Manage every aspect of a major shopping mall, from hiring and firing mall staff to setting rent for individual shops
• Stunning RenderWare 3D graphics featuring a rotating camera with multiple zoom levels
• Contend with random events such as floods, fires and criminals
• An almost infinite number of shoppers, each with their own personal shopping preferences, mental state and financial standing
• Research new technologies to improve your mall elevators, security cameras and more!
• Promote your mall with seasonal events and advertising campaigns
• Watch people pour into your mall by train, car and bus as the city around it lives and breathes
• All new staff members like engineers and gardeners

• Windows 98, Me, XP
• Pentium III 800 MHz or higher processor
• 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
• 350 MB of free hard disk space
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• DirectX 8.1a
• 32 MB DirectX compatible accelerated video card
• DirectX compatible sound card
• SVGA monitor
• Speakers
• Mouse