Review: The Good Life is a decent tycoon game
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The Good Life is yet another addition to the ‘tycoon’ genre of games. It’s not based on the classic British comedy TV series starring Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith (which, when you think about it, might make quite a good game), but instead casts you as a kind of tropical tycoon carving out a boating and business empire across a group of tropical islands.
You play the part of either Derek Hales or his girlfriend Melissa, who is lucky enough to inherit a business called Carpe Diem Boats from a dying uncle. Your task is to keep the business running in the face of competition from rival operators. It’s not a bad premise for a game, as it combines elements of nautical adventure with the challenge of running a successful business.
Things get off to a slightly dodgy start, though, as the developers at Iceberg don’t provide an installer program or installation instructions for the Mac version of the game. I clicked on a file on the DVD that seemed to be the installer, and then had to wait ages as the entire game loaded off the DVD.
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