AdvertCity Preview | GIZORAMA

Liam Lambert, GIZORAMA – "When I was a snot nosed youngling it seemed liked “Tycoon” games were growing on trees. In fact, so popular and successful were games like Roller Coaster Tycoon and Theme Hospital that their copycats basically became a joke akin to modern “Simulator” games, to the point where I could walk into my local GAME store and pick up a copy of Mall Tycoon 3 and think “Yeah, that’s about right.” It seems that society’s collective growth in the understanding of capitalism, globalization and corporations left us a little too jaded to appreciate the allure of the “Tycoon” game, as they’re all but extinct now. This is where AdvertCity comes in.

Developed by Manchester based developers VoxelStorm, AdvertCity is effectively a Tycoon game for a world of sceptics and cynics. The game throws you into a growing metropolitan area filled with faceless, amoral corporations like “Planks Planks Planks” and “$MUSIC$”, who’s trust and respect you must gain by advertising their pr…