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	National Lampoon: University Tycoon Windows \| Activision, 2004 average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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National Lampoon's University Tycoon gives you a chance to get rich off the pursuit of higher learning! Take charge of a low-ranked school attended by dropouts and party kids, and turn it into a bastion of higher education. Use your business sense to keep the spending down while improving enrollments and academic performances -- and try to turn your little slacker college into a famous learning institution!

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Excellent! By far the absolute BEST tycoon game I have ever played! In short, the game is quite simply a masterpiece of fun! Looks great - sounds great - the gameplay is fanstastic, and it's stuffed full of what almost every other game in this genre is sorely missing - FUN! It's witty, it's charming, and has great style.

The campus of "Fallback University" (FU for short) was "erected" in 1969 for young losers, degenerates, and super hot (but dumb) chicks! There's 5 main frat houses, which serve as home to a cast of about 20-something colorful characters, each with their own personality traits (Preppies mostly want food / beer, Geeks and Nerds want to get to class, hot chicks want to dance / party). Likewise, there's a ton of buildings you can make which provide funny things you can sell to the students (like 40 oz. beers, cheat sheets, erotic massages, rave tickets, etc.)

The genious of the gameplay is the care and detail they game-makers went into to give each character a real personality. Example - Jocks bring in money via sports teams, but are also exceptionally dumb. While they bring up the school's party rating, they send the education rating down the toilet. Keeping those dumb, lovable idiots happy is key. In fact, you have to keep all the students happy or they'll drop out, and you'll lose the effects they are having on the school. Why would you want a bunch of dumb jock's on campus if they bring down the education rating? Cause they're all on scholarship and have a ton of money to spend... And also - since this is a National Lampoon game, the objective of a mission can be to ruin the school's reputation!

So they game has an easy to use but very deep system of balanced gameplay where each character is good for this, but bad for that. You're in control of who enrolls in your campus, so you have to be very clever how you balance the student body. Regardless of polar opposites like Jocks and Nerds, the one thing they can all agree on is alcohol and hot chicks! There's over 20 different missions and each has its own little plot twist, so you'll need to be creative in how you mix and match different types of characters to win!

You can sell beer and other goodies to your students to get them rip-roaring drunk (and it's hilarious seeing them gradually getting more and more drunk as they stumble around). That lowers their inhibitions so they pay more for stuff you sell than they would if they were sober. Don't get them too drunk, though, or they'll pass out (and each student has a different tolerance to alcohol!)

On top of the masterfully executed gameplay, National Lampoon's script and all the funny student comments soak the experience in gut splitting humor! It's witty, fun, and undeniably the best time you'll have with a tycoon or sim!

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Under cooked tycoon game - save your money

Unfortunately this game was not done cooking before it was shipped. Although it is barely playable they obviously had a lot more work to go. It is quite annoying when game companies give up on a title half way through and sell it anyway rather than give the programmers a few more months to finish the game. It seems to happen a lot with "Value" titles and in particular tycoon games which don't have the biggest audience to begin with. Save your money, Spring Break or Roller Coaster Tycoon (1 or 2, not 3).

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