Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 60
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: BRIGHTER MINDS
EAN: 0612761611434
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: Build a chocolate empire scouting out elusive ingredients, reigning in recipes, parlaying prices and outwitting conniving competition
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Brighter Minds
Manufacturer: Brighter Minds
MPN: PCSTK261143
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Brighter Minds
Release Date: 2007-09-14
Studio: Brighter Minds

• Build a chocolate empire scouting out elusive ingredients, reigning in recipes, parlaying prices and outwitting conniving competition
• Over 130 different quests through 14 cities throughout the world
• Exciting mini game to set your level of factory production for every recipe you obtain
• Two game play modes: story and freeplay
• Delightful art and music that transport you straight to the 1800's

Oh the gloriously rich and delectable life of a chocolatier! Constantly surrounded by mounds of chocolate bars and boxes of mouth-watering truffles! Become a master chocolatier one ingredient at a time as you travel the world to find the best prices and maximize production...but don't forget about those conniving competitors who wish you poorly! Do you have what it takes to conquer the world through chocolate?

Customer Rating:
Summary: I never met a time management game I liked--until now!
Comment: I never liked time management games, feeling that they were too "real life" to be entertaining. That's now changed!! Chocolatier is an awful lot of fun, but the warning about chocolate cravings is valid!! Oh, if only the money-making were real...

Chocolatier is suitable for the hearing impaired since all interactions are open captioned, and the visual elements are relatively large as well, for those with some problems with vision.

By the way, I had NO trouble using Chocolatier with Vista.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Entertaining, easy-to-follow simulation for all ages
Comment: PROS
- Easy to play. Uncomplicated game play makes it enjoyable. If you want to make it in the chocolate world, though, you'll have to organize your sources and production pretty quickly.
- Simple interface. The graphics are in the cartoonish style prevalent in mystery PC games.
- Fluid game play. Whether in "story" or "free play" mode, the user is in control of all decisions.
- AI makes pricing strategies and tactics more realistic.
- Price. We stole it at Toys'R'Us for US$5.00...!
- International approach is very appealing to the younger audience.
- Addictive. Once you start making dark chocolate squares, get ready for prime time!

CONS
- Contents in general are geared to a younger audience and are not as attractive to adults. The subject matter lends itself to more info and photography, but very little of the first and none of the second are available. The focus is clearly more on entertainment and game play than education.
- The method of setting weekly production quotas is unsophisticated and repetitive. At least it takes the gamer out of the travel routine, but....

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Customer Rating:
Summary: LOVE this game...but if you own a Mac, you may not be able to win it...
Comment: This game, true to the reviews, is a lot of fun. I am not a big "gamer," and I own a Macbook, so it's difficult anyway to find games in my platform, since it seems most games are made for Windows. I love strategy games, and I love chocolate, so this was a great choice!

It has a somewhat "Carmen Sandiego" feel I remember from elementary school, in the sense you get to travel around the globe finding characters and delivering their orders. It doesn't require a lot of strategy or smarts, but it still is fun to play.

However, when I attempted to make a raspberry chocolate concoction, the game closed out and I got a reported error. In the recipe book, it shows you the different ingredients you need, and the picture of the dish was invisible, so it may not have loaded properly. I'm not sure if there is a glitch in my particular disk, so I will delete the current copy on my computer and start over. You can still play up until that point (and you get very far), but you cannot win without making and selling that particular product.

On the upside, however, there is a freeplay mode, so even if I can't "win" the game, I can still play. Great game overall.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Chocolatier game review
Comment: Oh I LOVED playing this online, BUT I only could play the 1hour trial, so I bought the game, LOVE IT! Addicting!! I think I beat it in 2 sittings! LOL

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Customer Rating:
Summary: chocolatier
Comment: i have 1 and 2 and love them both.although i beat mine in one day,its still fun to keep playing to see how much money i can earn weekly.or start me a new fle and beat it again.its a fun game to keep playing or play over and over.its a game for all ages!

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