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Name of game: Tropical Mania
Producer: Ovo Games
Ratings: 3/5

If you have not run a holiday resort before but like to give you best shot in a safe environment, you may want to consider this game.

Game Play
In this game, I had to play as a person who aspired to build my own tropical resort. When I first started the game, I was greeted with an easy-to-follow guide which told me what to click in order to score. To successfully build a resort, I must add buildings to a designated area. To add a building, I must be able to provide various services to as many customers as possible as fast as I could. To collect a service, I click on the building where the service was available, and placed it on a tray. The tray could only hold two services at a time which made it challenging when there were many demands to meet. To remove a service from the tray, I must click on a building where the customer required the service. For every service fulfilled, I would get a pay, and somethimes, a bonus. Once, I had provided enough service, I would had the chance to add a building. Once I had added a building, I would be awarded a star. As the game progressed to higher levels, I could feel my andrenalin pumping as different services were being requested continuously from various customers who were scattered all over the place, and I had to serve them as fast as I could. And so, I had to plan carefully what to put on my tray so that I could serve faster, and more efficiently within a time period.

Game Control
If you can use the mouse, you can play this game easily.

Graphics
The graphics was quite good, and gave the impression I was at a resort. However, instead of using icons for the different services that involved people, I would rather have full human figures in 3D to make it more realistic.

Sound.
The background music was quite melodious, and the sound effect was good.

Creativity
I did not see much creativity in this game as what it attempted to represent was almost like what one could see in real life. It would be better if I could also collect a special item as a bonus, and had to face an extraordinary event at times during the course of the game.

Innovation
There was not much innovation, as what I experienced in this game was what one would expect in real life. It would be better if I was allowed to customized this game by adding services, changing the pay structure, and adding or removing facilities.

After experiencing this game, I gave it an overall rating of three out of five.

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