Why I buy this one ?
- Play as captain of a Carnival cruise ship in this life simulation
- Hire and fire employees; plan fun activities and theme cruises
- Ships modeled after actual Carnival ships
- Two modes of gameplay: at port and at sea
- For ages 13 and up

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What our customer's say!

"More of a chore than a game...", 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.

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"Ugh", 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.

"Simplistic game with no challenges", 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.

"Persons report", 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.

"Vast Potential, but Someone Dropped the Ball", 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.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Fun", This game is alot of fun. It could use some more features for food, drink, entertainment and such, but it is still great. I also wish it had a staff/building management feature beyond what it does have, like why the staff is not happy, or directing repair men to fix certain things. Overall, this game is alot of fun, especially if you are a cruiser. It is a great concept and hopefully upgrades will follow to fix these few small details

"Does Not Work", When I try to build a room on the ship, it crashes my Windows 2000 Computer. Looked at their site for maybe some updates or FAQs, but there are none. This is being returned.

"I have to contradict my earlier review of this game...", I reviewed this game earlier. I gave it three stars and named two negatives, one I fixed just now after a little experimenting with the options menu. I complained that the front cover of this game shows a sunny ship filled with amenities and that, in the actual game, it seemed like it was always nighttime. However, in the left panel (NOT THE RIGHT!) of the OPTIONS menu, there should be a bar that is smaller than the others, that says something about lighting. Keep pressing the plus button and the bar will become much longer. Then play your game. Although there still isn't really the brilliant sunshine shown on the cover, I'm sure there's a way to do that too. (Possibly CTRL, SHIFT, K) Because the lighting is much better, it became much more enjoyable to play. Definitely worth the money:)

"Okay", I really, really wanted this game for Christmas. When I saw it at the store, I got excited because the cover photo looked like a fun cruise ship with all kinds of amenities. I wanted to make a ship like that. However, there's no sunshine in the actual game and it looks like it's always night. On the main menu, you can select INSTANT ACTION which brings you straight to the larger ships and you can choose which one you want to build on. If you click on START CAREER, you are given a pathetic four-deck ferry to show the people at Carnival that you can actually handle a ship. Forty thousand dollars (twice as much as I started with), twenty booked guestrooms and seven days later, Carnival had still not handed me a real ship. I finally got bored and went to INSTANT ACTION and chose the biggest ship possible. Although there are many negatives to this game, there are just as many positives. I like how you can design your route and also think that the amenities, which include a swimming pool, shuffleboard and basketball courts, shops, bars, restaurants, a spa and a fitness center are really awesome. Another thing I like is that there are three levels of guest rooms: blue, yellow and red. (These colors are the main decoration in the guest rooms) Inside these levels there are three different kinds of rooms, (for example, in the blue level there is an Economy Stateroom, a Superior Stateroom and a Standard Suite.) I have not had this game for long and am still working on cheats and stuff like that, but I think it's pretty much worth it.

"Why bother?", This game is an overal dumb idea, The model ship on the cover of this game is an illistration, and not something you can actually make. You can't customize anything, for example, there is one pool, and you can have one sized ship. I trully beleive that who ever made this game could have done better.