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When I found out that Airport Tycoon 2 needed to be reviewed, I jumped at the chance to do it. What was I thinking? I was thinking about Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. I was thinking about how many times my kids begged me to buy the Tycoon games because of how much they loved Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. I was thinking I would earn “good mommy points” and my kids would leave me alone. I was wrong! I can’t even pay my kids to play this game. It is boring!

First thing is to build an airport. We built a nice little airport, one control tower, one terminal and one hanger. Then we waited… and waited… and waited. No planes came to our airport. So we sped the time up. That was one nice little feature as the game plays in real time so one minute of game time is one minute of lifetime. But still we waited and waited and waited. Nothing. No planes came to land at our airport at all.

So we opened the little booklet that came with the game to see what we did wrong. We did nothing wrong. So, why didn’t the airplanes come to land at the airport? Well, apparently you have to position the buildings and tarmacs just right, but it doesn’t tell you this in the little booklet. I found that out through the Internet. So with a lot of trial and error (more errors than I care to admit) we finally built an airport that planes would land at. I yelled for the kids. Something was happening.

We knew planes were landing, time would screech to a halt and we would hear engine noises, but we couldn’t see any planes. It was like the planes were ghosts. We spent 20 frustrating minutes trying to adjust the camera angles to see the planes before calling in the neighborhood geek. Yep, that’s right, I let him into the house and relinquished the controls of my mouse to a boy that makes a vampire look healthy. A boy who never tans. A boy that my daughter would not be caught dead having over to my house. I left him alone with the game and told him to come and get me if anything happened. After 30 minutes he came and asked me if he could play another game instead. I told him no. He said he was leaving then. I offered him homemade chocolate chip cookies. No dice. I offered him money. No dice to that too. Oh, no I thought, my first article for Gamers Wanted was never going to be written. I asked him to critic the game for me. And he said, “well, for one thing the graphics are awfully plain. It looks like something that was written back in the nineties. And then there is the music. What kind of music is that? It gets on my nerves. Those camera angles were really hard to figure out how to control and I play a lot of games. And once the airport is built, then what am I supposed to do? It isn’t like Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 where you can see people throw up and stuff. This game is really lame.” And there you have it folks, the expert opinion from a thirteen-year-old. This game is lame.