Just when you thought a sim couldn’t get any worse, along comes Mall Tycoon. On the front cover, it looks promising: a thriving mall packed with all kinds of people. But that’s where it ends. The graphics are poor, the gameplay is rather repetitive, and then there are the zombies – if you don’t keep your mall clean enough zombies invade. Of course, there is a seemingly simple solution to this problem: hire men in black. However, these men in black are not the same as the movie. All they do is walk around in circles all day. Even if you put one right beside a zombie the man in black will walk off to somewhere else. These zombies wouldn’t be a problem, but when you have 15 janitors working your small mall and zombies still come, you know something’s not right. My final verdict: don’t waste your money.
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