Life's a Beach....

[Mr.P]

I have just thumbed through the new PC Gamer (UK) and found an interesting article on a game, scheduled for release in summer 2002, called Beach Life.

Here is the article, thanks to pcgamer (UK).

Sun, sand and sex are the 18-30 promises made by Eidos of their new holiday simulation, in which players will be able to construct and run resorts around the world. First of all, ruin your paradise location by building your hotel with bars, clubs, beach games and water sport centres, then set your captive price and open for a demanding package-holiday summer season.

Holiday-from-hell disasters that may beset your resort will include tropical storms, food poisoning in the hotel resaurants and guests over-indulging in romance, cheap booze and loud music. Other pitfalls come in the forms of pesky mosquitoes and water pollution.

The pics given are a remarkable likeness to Tropico and anyone interested in the tourist side of Tropico would be well advised to keep an eye out for it.

The producers, Edios, can be found at http://www.eidos.com, but there appears to be little, if anything, mentioned about the game.

[robbo]

sounds like fun

[MadamPresident]

What he said

And Tropico itself and this new game remind me of one of the old games I play. Its called Holiday Island and its available from this way cool Abandonware gaming site(click the banners ):
http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Holiday+Island

The premise was basically the same as Tropico's tourism. It didnt have any way to add scenarios but it did have random maps. I like playing to a goal so I lost interest

Germans make the coolest games(Patricians and Mad TV are also cool from that site). They have Sid Meiers Colonization too.

Oh and I can't find any info on Beach life on the site Mr P Is there a specific page I'm looking for?

[robbo]

i think its in the mag

[MadamPresident]

The producers, Edios, can be found at http://www.eidos.com, but there appears to be little, if anything, mentioned about the game.

Si, but he says "little" information, not NO information

[Mr.P]

See how this grabs you Madam.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.gamespot.fr/filters/news/pc/0,1988,0,00.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbeach%2Blife%2Bgame%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

And here is the direct link to the image gallery.

http://translate.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.gamespot.fr/stories/screenindex/0,1442,2097771,00.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbeach%2Blife%2Bgame%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

[Mike]

Gee, it doesnt look at alll like Tropico:

[MadamPresident]

Thanks for digging those up Mr P

Its nice, doesnt look as nice as Tropico or Holiday Island. Looks a little anime and mettalic to me.

I think I like cartoony looking games.

[jstevens]

well, i dont mean to sound silly, but like a week a go i found out about this game, and im already putting together coverage about the game over at www.stevens9.freeserve.co.uk, the sections on this game arent up just yet, but will be tomorrow, promise!

oh by the way, the game has actually already been retiltled due to copyright issues, ists now called Spring Break, just for the record!

[Mr.P]

Thanks James.

[jstevens]

Ok, got up all the pages on spring break / beach life (what ever it ends up being called   )

Any way checkout Theme World's coverage of this game @ www.stevens9.freeserve.co.uk  

[CafeDave]

Interesting screenshots, but looks like All Baywatch, All the Time to me.    What do you do when you get tired of looking at all the tourists in their swimsuits?

[Mike]

Demolish the docks

[Mr.P]

Well, I'm guessing there are no soldiers, but I'd sure like to be able to convert a lifeguard tower into a machine-gun nest. If anyone so much as looks like David Hasselhoff they'll be in for the bullet.

Let me see...Eidos....Commando's....might just happen you know.

[robbo]

mabe u can make an expansion pack for them!!  

[Mr.P]

There's only one expansion pack on my mind, and that's Tropico!!!!!!!!!!!!

Again thanks for posting it at TP Robbo.

[robbo]

no probs

thats my job  
well at least i think it is