Review - Prison Tycoon 3: Lockdown

[Sucratzz]

First off, this is a pretty old game. It was released in 2007, so don't expect 2014 graphics. You start with an area of land and an amount of cash to start your prison. You first need to put some fencing up, plop a place for the inmates to sleep and a security building. From there you just continue to expand until all available buildings have been placed and you have your prison. It took me a few prisons to get the hang of what you need to do so inmates aren't constatntly jumping the fence and making a runner for it. On my fourth or fifth prison I finally got the hang of security and that was when I was able to excell to Max Security.

Given how old this game is, I'm surprised I didn't have to use compatibility mode. If you have some problems with starting the game try using xp sp2 compatibility mode. It has a fair few bugs that can be worked around, fencing is easy to make a mess of which leads to crashes etc. Guard patrols for the most part work fine, but can crash if you try to issue too many commands to the same guard too quickly. In essence, if you can master the guards and security you can get some pretty pumping prisons going.

The game has a long learning curve, even with the manual having a bit of detail in it. It wasn't until close to 7 hours of gameplay that I had that "ahhh, so that's what you have to do" moment, and I've played a lot of tycoon/simulation games before.

Not too bad of a game, but once you figure it out, there's not a lot of depth left.

I was lucky enough to grab this for $2.49 on the steam sale and if you can get it for that price I would say it's money well spent if you like tycoon games.



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My System:

Intel Corei7 870
Gigabyte P55A-UD3R
Gigabyte GTX570
8GB DDR3 Ram
Window 7 64

[Knights-Templar]

dam its not that old
its a budget game
to add i have games made in 2003 that work on win 7 ,64 no patch no changing anything

[Tenderizer]

Why is your review on the forums rather than a legit review