Aquarium (PC)

A difficult one to review, both good and bad (depending what you want from a game). If you like good graphics then simply....FORGET IT. They are very basic and a bit of an insult to your PC. If you like detailed management games, then you are on to a winner. But beware, I did say 'detailed,' and that is what you can expect. To be successful you will need a good management structure and will probably play the game at the slowest speed (anything faster and you couldn't keep up with events). Checking every individual fish tank (for fish health/temperature/fish feedback/ feed amount etc) can get a little tiresome, as well as the fact that your ...  Read the complete review

I keep tropical fish as a hobby, so when I came across Aquarium I thought I couldn't go far wrong. How wrong can I be? This game has been cobbled together using the Theme Hospital engine which should have been a plus, but the programmers just didn't do anything with it's potential. The rest of the game seems to have been just thrown together in order to quickly get the game on the shelves. Due to the rudimentary graphics, the system requirements are low. A p166 with 64mb ram, 160mb hard disk, 4 speed cdrom drive and windows 95 and up. A sound card is useful but you will switch the sound off after the first half hour of playing the ...  Read the complete review

I saw this game in the shop and thought "i'll give that a go".That was what i did,gave it a go,then took it back to the shop a week later,really dissapointed.The write up on the box was loads better than the game. You choose a country where you would like to start an aquarium.Then you choose from either scenario playing or free play.(scenario playing gives you objectives to complete,free play just lets you play freely) Your job is to decide what size tanks you want,place the tanks and populate them with fish.You can do this with too options. *Fish for them yourself,using the boat that is in the sea.This can be tricky to start with,because it ...  Read the complete review

When I borrowed this game from my friend I couldn’t wait to get home and install it. From the look of it on the back of the case I thought this game would be excellent, something to really get my teeth into. But I was soon to be disappointed. The graphics are really poor it looks like a really old game. The game speed is poor its so slow and boring. And I found it almost impossible to get used to the controls, as there were no instructions or manuals for it. Half the time I was just trying so figure out how to move about and once I finally managed to bring a box up with different fish species in it I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of ...  Read the complete review