Wow... I am so glad this game was nearly free from humble bundle... It was worth the laughs of everyone in the room with HOW TERRIBLE IT WAS and my bumbling reations before ragequitting in the tutorial!

I honestly thought I was going be playing an Aerobiz type game and instead was greeted with one of the most confusing, USER-UNFRIENDLY game I have ever seen.

If your tutorial alone causes confusion as to what to do next and then causes rage quits, THEN YOU HAVE MADE A TERRIBLE GAME!

Also... WHY DO I HAVE TO REGISTER WITH SOME OTHER BS LAUNCHER TO PLAY A GAME I GOT ON STEAM!?!?

The voiceovers are terrible, the art is terrible, the user interface is considered a form of torture in most the civlized world.

I don't even think the people that made this know anything about airplanes... I don't even think they have ever flown on an airplane before!

Couldn't get it to work with Win 8.1. Didn't even work in Win 7 compatible mode...

Really wanted to like this game. Was looking for a fun business sim type game, but this wasn't it.
You only "work" an 8 hour day, but schedule planes for 24 hours, so at the end of the day, you have to "end" even if you're not done with your day.
The game over complicates some things and other things it doesn't even give you an idea of how you're doing. The banking system charges outrageous interest rates for loans. The interiors of the aircraft are... unexplainable. The cost of aircraft is weird, the aircraft are weird, hiring aircrews isn't completely understood. There is a whole shady side to the game where you can cause problems on a competitor's airline, but it's not even clear what the point of that is. Simply stated, there's no balance to the game, it's just a poorly designed and executed game that should not have been released.

Sorry, but I cannot recommend this game.

The original Airline Tycoon was much better..this version is just boring.

Loading Tycoon 2 brings in the fun and exitement of forcing you to sit down 3 to 5 minutes initially to load the game then an additional 5 to 15 seconds per screen transition.

Plus altering the settings even for volume requires game restart!!! SO FUN!

Horrible game. Paid but shows ads and requires log in

A 3D remake of Airline Tycoon, which was one of the most innovative business games ever made. The 3D remake adds increased loading times, more difficult versions of the nonsensical side-puzzles from the original, and a general increase in frustration. Track down the original if you can, otherwise this game offers a tantalizing glimpse of what you're missing out on.

Awful game, really was. And I didn't even get to play it. Didn't want to sign in to their stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ login for a SINGLEPLAYER game! I have it on steam. I had to write in the cd-key but I am not signing up. God damn it!

So I grabbed this game as part of a Humble Bundle deal for charity thinking that if it was a flop, so be it, at least it was for a good cause. That's about the best I can say about it. The game is laggy at times, glitchy at others, and all in all, just a big let down. I had better hopes for this game, since I do quite like the genre, but I quickly found myself just too bored with it in the longrun. While some people may like this game, I do not. Nor would I recommend it to others. Save your money, or purchase it as part of some deal if you must, but definitely avoid this one imo.

This game is less a game and more of a digital turd. I got it in a Humble Bundle and even then I feel screwed.

Honestly I hate to boo a game but when I heard Airline tycoon I thought: I make up a airline and try to run it at a profit. However this game seems to be about micro-managment, if your looking for a tycoon game where you can set up and reap the rewards without micro management, crapy tutorials, complex gameplay that is not explained... look somewhere else. after pounding my head against the tutorial (and there is only 1) trying to figure out what I missed and beat the first level on easy I continually fail because the competition beats me to 80%. This game sounded good, and I bought it on sale, but it was a massive waste of money.

Maybe if they patched in a proper tutorial to explain how to raise your various semi-hidden statistics it would be worth playing again but I'm not holding my breath. Don't waste your time, money, or your sanity.

So, I bought a humble bundle and it included Airline Tycoon 2.

Before starting, I must admit I have only played the game for less than an hour or so, so my review might not do the game full justice. But here go’s anyway.

From starting the game it is immediately obvious that they are going for the same look and feel such as classics like “Theme Hospital” or “Pizza Tycoon”. It however fails miserably. The graphics are cartoony and simple, which is fine. But do not seem to run very smooth, even though they are of low-quality.

The interface is cluttered and cumbersome. You are actually required to walk from place to place getting a loading screen every time you pass a door. This started to annoy me relatively quickly, but let’s let that slide. To do almost anything you will have to talk to the correct character, of course all located in different rooms and none of which connect directly. Every character is an over the top caricature, unfortunately I just found them annoying in varying degrees.

So how’s the gameplay. Once again, let me say I never got passed the tutorial, but for me, the main issues of running an airline got completely lost in the struggle to complete irrelevant details. Personally I was hoping for more of a “Transport Tycoon” approach.

3/10

+ High customisability

- To painful interface to actually play
- Falls flat on its face every time it tries to be funny
- To many load screens

This game is, unfortunatly, far inferior to the much cheaper original, which was a simulation classic.

Let's start with what this game does right. It presents a complex economic simulation, customizable planes, interesting charecters and interesting mechanics.

So why did I rate this game negativly?

The original game did all that, only better. The simulation and mechanics were almost exactly the same, the original game's charecters and sense of humor are far superior, (Airline Tycoon 2's comedy falls completly flat) and in my opinion the ability to buy real-world planes in the original was better.

The game suffers from graphics that lag greatly in the terminal, and look overly cartoony, and the music is terrble.

Normally, I do not mind DLC, and I think it is worthwhile to support the developers if it is farily priced. However, this game's DLC feels like they took some of the most interesting parts of the orginal (Cargo and last minute contracts) and made you pay more for it.

The BIGGEST PROBLEM with this game is the pacing. In the original Airline Tycoon you can easily make over 500,000 dollers from the begining of the game, and in a little over a week by your next plane, which makes it easier to buy the next plane. The pacing is helped by the fact you can skip the morning meeting, and there are no loading screens. On the other hand Airline Tycoon 2 is hampered by the fact that planes 3 or 4 times as expensive, and they make substantialy less money per day than in Airline tycoon deluxe. Compounded with the HORRIBLE LOADING TIMES, it can take HOURS to purchase another plane. This game moves at a glacial pace.

CONCLUSION; If you want an tycoon game in which you manage an airline, DO NOT CHOSE AIRLINE TYCOON 2. You should go with the much cheaper, original Airline Tycoon deluxe!

By the way, I know some people are concerned about giving their email adress to the launcher. I gave my email adress to them 3 or 4 years ago for tropico 4 and they maybe have sent my 2 or three emails since.

Let me start by saying that this product is not a game, it is an experience of human culture. It is not a very pleasant one, though. Airline Tycoon 2 is confusing at best. There are numerous unwarranted stereotypes portrayed in uncanny valley style graphics. I went far enough to see what the gameplay is like, and it is not enough to tempt any more time out of me. The game's font is almost unreadable even at the highest graphics setting. The gameplay doesn't make sense, either. I'm not saying it's particularly complicated (there honestly isn't that much going on) it's just not logical. I'm also pretty sure one of the store owners is implying you can solicit her for sexual activities. This game would most likely be more successful as a dating sim if they decided to expand it in that regard, but even then it wouldn't be worth the curiosity. TLDR: the game is scary in a bad way and not very interesting.

Couldn't even finish the tutorial, would rather push pins into eyes then ever reopen the game.

Recommended if your ambition in life is to build so much rage and hatred for man kind that you start the next hollocaust.

I really, really wanted to like this game. I got it off the Humble Bundle and wanted something nice that was a bit fancier than a facebook game. The end result? A mess.

Graphically, it isn't terrible. However, the carnage of steryotypes and cliches that end up nowhere and seemingly dead end gags will make your eyes bleed. They tried too hard to make a comical cartoonish game, and crashed into the state of "slightly visibly better" than a Facebook game. I mean it does have graphics[i/].

Gameplay wise, it is even worse[i/]. Unless you personally developed this game, get ready for a steep learning curve....for all the wrong reasons. The tutorial refers to buttons not readily seen in some cases, or gets stuck, as a matter of example. In general play, there are buttons upon buttons and settings buried everywhere.

It really doesn't help, that they tried to be fancy in splitting the various management categories in different "offices", for instance: assigning routes to planes is in a wholly different office from getting contracts and routes. (Not to mention routes are buried when playing in freeplay). Also who puts the painting for aircraft away from the hangar??!! I get that it is design....but...why? Why have another office????

Lastly, it is utterly boring yet incredibly hectic. There is an 8 hour day and everything happens at so fast you can barely finish getting an aircraft. In freeplay, there is literally not enough time to set up one route, for one aircraft, grab a crew (and if you purchased many aircraft you won't be given enough crew), design the aircraft, assign the aircraft. Where somehow, your competitors have several routes by the end of the day and are smoking you. The game, does become boring once the hecticness settles down. All you do then is stare at a screen and try to imagine planes flying.

Overall, this games gets a 4 cupcakes out of 10. Because I would only trade four for this which I hope was an indie game. It still needs polish.

Not good at all!

Minuses:
Very bad interface
Boring
you have to register before playing the game

Pluses:
Some humor

Game is straight out bad. It's hard to move around airplane and game in general is really unintuitive. They improved nothing execpt graphics since first one. Playing this game made me want to play Airline Tycoon 1 instead.

So if you have choice just play first game. Do not waste 20$.

What utter garbage of a game! First you need to use "account" to even play a single player type game (just so they can spam you) and the game itself is just annoying as well. If I didn't get it in a Humble Bundle I would of never purchaced this game and I don't recomend others to do as well.