Others say...

"Boring"
This game is way too limited. It was fun for about 1 hour... fun is a bit strong of a word... it was tolerable for about an hour.

"Good but not Great"
I find this game appealing to the player because I wish that I had owned a Ski Resort in real life. I like this game more than other simulation games like Activitions other game Golf Tycoon. The game grabed me and pulled me in with it's exciting game play. But one thing to work on is the graphics. It's an older game and at that time that was good graphics, but hopefully Ski Resort Tycoon 2 will be even better. Other than that it is one heck of a game.

"Ski Resort Tycoon"
Sounds a lot of fun doesn't it? Yeah, well for the first 3 hours or so. When you start this game, you begin to start building your first lift, add a couple of restrooms, maintaince shack, ski patrol hut, and a snack or espresso bar and so on depending on your funds. Many of the buildings require previous buildings to be built, so you cant just build a remarkable 5-star hotel with 300 rooms once you start. Then as you get more guests, some of them stayes overnight-whoops excuse me did I say that? Theres not even a daynight cycle in this game. I gained a star up, but my funds were getting low. I only had about 5k left. If your funds are low, you have to wait in order to gain money. This is a very bory procces. I used the 3D third-peron mode. You actually feel like your skiing in a real resort! The drawback to this, however is that even is you have a blazing fast no lagg and cinematic quality visual producing main stream graphics card with a powerful very fast processor and a lot of RAM (like mine, an Alienware Area-51 PC including a Pentium 4 3ghz Processor with 512 megabytes of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 128MB), you will still recieve a lot of lagg and slow frame rates . The physics are everything to complain about. Guests an literally ski though buildings, if you run is too steep, half their body is on top and the other, on the bottom of the snow. It's not the deep snow, if it is they will be skiing very slowly. Also to complain about is the bad graphics and detail even in 1024x768 which is the highest resolution you can get, depending on your graphics card. Look at the skiiers and snowborders detail, they are nothing but a trapazoid shape as their body, and a spheare thats not even round, more like an octogon for their head. Avalanches that happen way to often, makes you go to the top of your screen. To get down your would have to move your increadibly slow pointer. Both of these features they put into this game are extreamley annoying. I eventually got to a five-star resort by "chain building" the hotels, resturants, restrooms, warming huts, entertainment centers, expert runs, and quality lifts. Finally, I just about have enough of this game and I started writing my review.
Ups: 3D mode lets see how your resort is like if your actually there. One way to get that "winter feel" during summer.
Downs: Gets really boring after the first few hours you play. Very laggy, poor frame-rates, terrible graphics, and awful and physics.
Bottom Line: You might want to do some real skiing instead.
If I had to give it a score from 1-100 it would be 37/100.

"Ski on the slopes of FUN!"
Ski Resort Tycoon is a fun game once you get the hang of it. You start out with a mountain and different quantitties of money. (depending on which level)You can name people. (but can't design them)You can see your visitors feelings by a thought bubble above their head. The thought bubble only shows up every now and then, but it displays a face that can be anxious, mad, happy etc. When they are hungry it shows a hamburger. You can build a number of bathrooms, restraunts, lodges, hotels, rentals etc. They even have a cinema. In order to buy a building you must have enough money and certain buildings already built. Its hard to find out the main goal, but I think it is to become a 5 star resort. Every once in a while there is an avalanche! The avalanches break buildings (that can be repaired if you hire repairers) and if some skiers don't get help fast enough (if you hire an EMS person) they die. When they die the family might sue you. This game does take a while to load, but the game makes up for it!

"A fun game - possibly as good as skiing??"
Ski Resort Tycoon is a very fun game and it has had me playing for quite a few hours.
Whilst some of the management games seem a bit pointless, no-one can deny that building your own ski resort is bound to be fun!
You can build the guest accomodation, the ski runs, the ski lifts plus many shops and attractions to keep the guests happy. You can even play god and change the shape of the mountains!
There are many great features of the game, such as a rating as to how good your ski resort is (eg. 5 star rating) plus many graphs to keep you on top of finances and other statistics.
If you like management titles, get it - and if you like skiing, check it out too. Don't expect a ground breaking title, but if you're looking for a good, fun game, this could be the right game.