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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Wall Street Raider 2.45
Pros: Well just about everything in this is brilliant.
Cons: Well the graphics aint much, but then you aint gonna play it for the graphics.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Wall Street Raider 2.45
Summary: This is a great game! Once you start playing it, it can very easily take over your life. Consider yourself warned! It has taught me a lot about the business world.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Wall Street Raider 2.45
"Great game, highley recommanded"
Pros: great interface, Good game to learn about how the stock market works. Very much addictive game.
Cons: One can easily take decision for a company, if he holds 20% shares of that company. This feature tends to have given player a power to earn as much as he wants. The simple Cheat is to control a smaller company's 20%, this company can then control 20% of another bigger company and so on. Short every company in the chain except the company which you hold. Then sell all the business of the last company and give all the money it has as dividend. THat company will go bankrupt and also whole chain will go bankrupt. Since user has only 20% holding in the top of the chain, the loss might be around 200-500Mn, but the profit one can take due to this is very high. I managed to earn 1200Billion$ in just 2 year demo.
Another technic is to bankrupt or downsize a BIG name company like MSHT. after that you can purchase all shares of this company at around 300-500mn, and then contribute around 20Billion to this company. See the Share value to skyrocket to around 100Billion. Then sell the shares to some company, whose 20% shares you own. And again force MSHT to give away all 20Bn in dividend, the market cap will again drop to belo 1Bn.. again buy it... Follow this loop to earn 100Bn everytime...
In reality, you can not short your parent company by Federal LAW. It would be like insider information... :)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Wall Street Raider 2.45
"Great and realistic simulation"
Pros: Almost everything abt techincal trading is found in this game. Highly realistic.
Cons: However, the lack of options as a trading tool is disappointing.
Game play without basics, although in a bid to be random, is it possible to add in elements of fundemantal investing? this would educate players how to read finanical statements and make the game even more realistic, as price changes wif a reason.
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5 stars
Version: Wall Street Raider 2.45
"Excellent stock market game!"
Summary: The game is really well design and
realistic. It gets really addictive when you try to break you own record over and over again.
I have been playing it since the DOS version.
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