Factory Mogul PC Game

Billed as "the next evolution in tycoon games" and known in some countries as Crazy Factory, Factory Mogul offers an indepth business simulation aimed at turning a rundown factory into a facility cranking out one of three musthave products for world consumers. Design hightech jetpowered rollerskates, a domestic android servant, or futuristic commodes as you integrate 11 professions into a smooth process with an eye toward fortune and fame as a worldclass entrepreneur.

Known for its lighthearted touch in games like Airline Tycoon and Political Tycoon, as well as the serious side of company and fortune building in DayTrader and StartUp 2000, Monte Cristo Multimedia continues to delve into the financial world from multiple perspectives. You begin the game in control of a derelict building with space for laboratory, administration, marketing, and production offices, and through renovation, RD, corporate espionage, recruiting, hiring and firing staff, and a myriad of other contacts, attempt a complete reversal of fortune.

Detailed management of retail prices, components, distributor margins, risk, security, reputation, advertising, image, market shares, product ratings, personnel, upgrades, influences, efficiency, morale and more is a way of life in Factory Mogul. Micromanage your accountants, human resource managers, lawyers, publicity officers, sales managers, researchers, supervisors, technicians, security guards, spies, and mob connections while keeping an eye on the bottom line.

Other features include multitiered and exhaustive technology trees that help guide production, nine AI profiles with multiple opponents within each, sandbox (free play), tutorial and campaign modes, as well as Internet or LAN play for up to eight players. The product determines the difficulty level as the latrine, skates, and robots are easy, moderate and hard respectively. Game options of initial cash and AI opponents provide further customization. ~ Michael L. House, All Game Guide