Failing to comply to tenants requests and demands will quickly turn the Council against the player. Improving the rooms and giving them garden furniture is also a good way of keeping tenants happy, but jealously can grow among neighbors. A school allows everyone to breed more civilized members of the society, the hospital allows recovery of wounds much faster or the park, where everyone goes to relax a little, among others. All this while avoiding the others do the same on you by assigning police patrol to key areas.Īs time passes, it pays out to build other, more friendly, buildings. Need some cash or materials? Send the thief to relieve a team from them. Want to stress out a tenant? Send the thugs to do a wild party in their house. From hippies to ghosts, these can do a number on the other teams' properties. The player can send his foremen to capture other teams' buildings, or do even worse: provide housing for the scum of society. These are able to take on that pesky foreman or that building the Council asked to get rid off.īut there's more to the game than build from ghetto houses to luxury buildings, and as they say, all is fair in war, and construction IS war. After building a Pizza Parlor, the player is allowed to use the services of gangsters. While the workers pack a nasty punch when in a large group, violence should be left to the professionals.
However, slobs wouldn't appreciate living in such luxury, and so a gadget factory can be built so that computers are distributed to their houses, allowing for a new generation of better educated citizens. From there, taking advantage of their fast reproduction rate, the player can train new workers, and as soon as three different wooden huts are available, the council will allow the construction of a cement yard, which in turn allow the construction of better buildings. Starting in a single plot of land with the headquarters, a construction team (composed by a foreman and one to five workers) and a repairman, the player must start by building a wood mill and provide housing to the bottom of the social ladder: slobs. Highly recommended, especially to anyone who enjoys Pizza Tycoon or Bullfrog's games.Linux, Macintosh, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, WindowsĬonstructor gives the player the chance to run a construction company in a place where real estate is up for those who want to develop it first and where everything is allowed to get rid of the competition. The economics model is sound, and the gameplay always fresh, funny, and engaging. With a twist of humor and well-balanced gameplay, Studio 3 has created a real underdog in Constructor. Up to four people can compete, making resources and time management more important than ever. As good as the single player game is, the game also offers excellent multiplayer options.
by setting fires to the houses for example. To make things more complicated, you always have to watch your back (and your land) for sneaky competitors who will try to sabotage your business. For example, if you kick a tenant out who is not too happy, they may damage or destroy certain parts of your property on their way out. This can cause negative things to happen. If you get really fed up with certain tenants, you could raise their rent or simply kick them out. If they don't like something or are unhappy, they will complain and cause you to get black marks if you don't tend to their needs. Tenants require a constant attention from you.
Similar to many Bullfrog games such as Theme Park, people in Constructor are a nitpicking lot.
What makes Constructor a lot of fun is the quirky personalities of people in the game. These range from steel mills and pawn shops to more elaborate structures like police stations and mansions. There are a total of 40 different structures that you can create in the game. While playing you have to get rid of whining tenants, cucarachas, your opponents and their attacks to destroy your buildings. You need to build houses and facilities to get your raw material like wood and concrete. The game is played from an isometric perspective, with you looking at the town and people milling around in it, similar to SimTown. Take the role of a real estate developer in a race to build up and manage resources, properties, environments, and human interaction, while trying to outperform and destroy rival development firms. Constructor is a fun, tongue-in-cheek business simulation in the same style as MicroProse's early classic Pizza Tycoon.Įssentially, Constructor takes the empire building and resource management of the best simulations and adds to it a strong dose of character interaction, humor, and strategic competition.