LOL. I hoped to leave a positive review, a REAL review. The fake reviews this game are L O L. As an actual game review currator I take reviewing very seriously.
One (too-fake) review for this game sounded like it was AI written, and bragged about how long the game kept the player engaged - they played for a total of 15 minutes according to Steam (and didn't come back to play afterward).
Now that I got that out of the way, I'm going to leave a very short review (I only played for 30 minutes). I had hoped to leave a positive review. Just because there are so many fake reviews, doesn't make the game bad - it just means that the devs want their own game to succeed. Who wouldn't?
Game Points:[list]
[*] I was impressed with the game's AI-script that explained the customer's ad design requirements - left the player room to truly design their own ad, and then stack it up against the requirements. Kudos!
[*] The graphics are... passable. Walkways end abruptly. Exact same people are always on the bus. Etc. Hey it's just a prologue with obvious placeholders.
[*] The car is broken, very very broken. The gas pedal is stuck on. The handbrake max revs the engine, I felt like the game had cut my brakes and was trying to kill me. Since the car has an accelerator that is stuck, I had to restart the game when I crashed into the building (since the reverse won't work). It is this bug that made me grow weary of walking everywhere and quit after 30 minutes.
[*] Once you've done an ad, I don't really see much purpose to doing it again. Rinse repeat. Rinse repeat. Money. There just isn't enough game to keep a gamer engaged.
*The graphic program, and phone is nicely done. The graphic program really is a lot like its real-life counterpart - though missing a lot of features (like centering).[/list]
Of course, this is just a prologue. The concept is cool - except too niche? I have a hard time seeing a game that revolves around putting up pictures, and driving around a speaker-car as having much content to keep someone entertained. They will need a deeper game model involving more factors, counter-factors, and enemies, which is what any advertising game needs - a chance to change the game world on a meaningful scale as you impact your world. Politics, corruption, war, rivals, some good guys, some bad guys, and a tweakable world. That's A LOT of work, and I haven't seen anything like that from games like these, and the dev (Rockstar Life) has had a problem staying inside his game's theme and dilluting the experience with odd random... I guess you could call them... features?
Of course the full game is out... but before I consider buying the full game, I'm personally waiting for the dev to unforget his commitment to releasing 1.0 of Rockstar Life in November (it's December) with actual Rockstar features.
