Hotel Giant

Hotel Giant (simplified Chinese: 模拟饭店; traditional Chinese: 模擬飯店; pinyin: Mó Nǐ Fàn Diàn), known in North America as Maximum Capacity: Hotel Giant, is a business simulation game developed by Enlight Software and published by JoWood Productions for Windows. The soundtrack was composed by Bjørn Lynne.

Hotel Giant
North American cover art
Developer(s)Enlight Software
Publisher(s)JoWood Productions
Designer(s)Trevor Chan
Platform(s)Windows
Release
  • NA: May 17, 2002
  • EU: 2002
Genre(s)Business simulation game
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Overview

The play of the game involves developing and managing a hotel. The user starts with a pre-made building to which they add rooms, place useful and decorative objects in the rooms, and set up hotel details such as advertising. Once this has happened, the user opens up the hotel to the public and starts to run it as if it were a real business. It is similar to the "Tycoon" style of game (Railroad Tycoon, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, etc.), in which the player creates a system or establishment and then runs it.[1] Hotel Giant 2 offers improved graphics, more features and a new campaign.

Versions

There are currently three versions of Hotel Giant. These are:

  • Hotel Giant, released 14 May 2002
  • Hotel Giant 2, released in UK on 21 November 2008[2]
  • Hotel Giant DS

Reception

Hotel Giant received a "Gold" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA),[7] indicating sales of at least 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom.[8]

The game received a fairly poor reception, with a Metacritic average of 54%. D+PAD said that any pros were "outweighed by some of the cons, most notably the repetitive and the non-engaging nature of the gameplay."[9] IT Reviews commented that the game "wasn't much fun" and you'd get "more amusement with an old, second hand copy of Sim Tower".[10]


References
  1. Hotel Giant at Moby Games
  2. Hotel Giant 2 at GameSpot
  3. "Maximum Capacity: Hotel Giant for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  4. "Restaurant Empire". Computer Games Magazine. No. 144. theGlobe.com. November 2002. p. 83.
  5. "Restaurant Empire". Computer Gaming World. No. 227. Ziff Davis. October 2002. p. 110.
  6. Walker, Allen (3 June 2002). "GameSpy: Restaurant Empire". GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  7. "ELSPA Sales Awards: Gold". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 19 March 2009.
  8. Caoili, Eric (26 November 2008). "ELSPA: Wii Fit, Mario Kart Reach Diamond Status In UK". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017.
  9. http://www.dpadmagazine.com/2009/02/10/hotel-giant-2 Archived 13 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine D+PAD
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 March 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) IT Reviews
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