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This strategy game from the creators of Sierra's popular Hoyle games will let you run your own casino. Get the details here.
Developers have been making casino computer games for years, since the best of them can reproduce the thrill of stepping up to a poker table without the fear of losing your life savings. And Sierra's Hoyle team has been one of the most prominent players in the casino-game business over the years, having created popular casino and card games such as Hoyle Poker and Hoyle Casino 2001, among others. Now the Hoyle Casino team is moving on to something different: Casino Empires, a management game that will let you build and maintain your very own Las Vegas casino, but will also let you sneak in a quick round at the blackjack tables yourself.
We recently had a close look at Casino Empires, which is shaping up to be a colorful management game that will let you play through a single-player campaign or just fool around with a custom casino in the game's free-form sandbox mode. Casino Empires will have a total of eight different locations on the Las Vegas strip, and each of these will bear some resemblance to real-world casinos. The general goal of the campaign game will be to eventually take over and own all eight of the casinos, including the most expensive and most prestigious one, the Hoyle Casino. In the campaign game, you'll take control of the game's eight casinos one at a time by accomplishing certain goals, such as earning a certain amount of money or attracting a certain number of guests.
In both the campaign and sandbox modes, you'll be able to fill up your casino with game tables, bars, and slot machines by dragging and dropping them onto the floor. As you might expect, one of the most important aspects of the game will be making sure your customers are happy--and making sure they keep coughing up more money on the slot machines and at the tables, of course. Your customers will all have various personal needs--they'll need to eat, drink, rest, take trips to the bathroom, and down a couple of cocktails--and they'll also have a general enjoyment level, which you can keep up by decking your casino out with appropriate decorations. In the Egyptian-themed casino, for instance, you'll be able to buy palm trees to go with your slot machines. Since you'll eventually want a large, bustling casino with lots of happy gamblers, you won't necessarily be able to manage them all individually, but Casino Empires will have an event ticker at the top of the screen that will alert you to major events or give you general suggestions on how you can make your customers happier.
To satisfy your guests' needs, you can build different booths on the floor--like shops and restrooms--and also keep track of the way they're gambling using "overlay views," which helpfully color-code your customers and tables. For instance, to get a good sense of where your customers are putting their money, you can use the gambler overlay to quickly separate the high rollers (who will be color-coded green) from the stingy tourists (who will be color-coded purple). From there, you can raise the stakes at the tables where all the big-money players are hanging out and lower them at the tables where the low rollers are. You can also use a table overlay to get a quick sense of where your stakes are highest--those areas will be where you'll make most of your money, and they'll be the areas you'll want to take care of most.
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