Shady O' Grady's Rising Star reviews

From the day you first strummed a broom like a guitar, or sung in front of the mirror with a hair brush, you've dreamed of becoming a music star. Now you can live that dream without leaving your home! In Shady O'Grady's™ Rising Star, you start out as a rookie musician, and work your way up to stardom. However, success doesn't come without hard work. You must join other musicians with compatible personalities, write songs, and practice practice practice! Go out on the town, to get familiar with the local club scene, until the day comes for your first gig. Eventually, you will deal with larger venues, managers, producers, record contracts, product endorsements, and more. Choose your starting city in the continental United States, and conquer as many cities as you can while on tour. You can even buy a home in each city, to make visits more convenient than staying in a hotel or motel. Customize your band with tons of clothing and hair styles, as well as hundreds of different kinds of equipment. You can even get a custom paint job on your band van.

• RPG-style experience/leveling system, with six assignable skills: Songwriting, Playing, Stage Presence, Production, Repair, and Business.
• Make band decisions based on your musicians' Inspiration, Health, Happiness, and Ego levels.
• Dynamic musician attitude system - recruit compatible musicians, and kick out musicians that no longer get along. Unhappy & uninspired musicians may quit on their own!
• Over 800 different types of equipment, including real brands with images supplied by American Musical Supply.
• Over 120 cities to conquer, each randomly generated and presented in 3D for exploring.
• Thousands of locations: Homes, bars, theaters, stadiums, clothing stores, music stores, studios, hotels & motels, manager offices, parks, cemeteries, and hospitals are all useful aspects of the game, providing lots of things to do.
• Customize your band's appearance with thousands of combinations of hairstyles, hats, glasses, shirts, pants, pants, and wrist/hand wear.
• Earn money doing odd-jobs to survive while trying to earn a reputation for your new band.
• Customize your van's appearance with over 50 different paint jobs.
• Success depends on decision making, not twitch skills.
• Trash hotels & motels with the advanced physics engine. Go ahead and throw that lamp at the TV and see what happens.
• A living world of working bands, spread over the continental USA.
• Built-in tutorial to help beginners understand the wealth of information and options.
• Soundtrack of original music from real independent bands.
• Map editor, allowing you to add, delete, or modify existing cities.
• Equipment editor, allowing you to add, delete or modify existing equipment & supplies.
• Easy to add your own content, or share content with other players.

System requirements:

• Pentium 800 MHz (1.5 GHz recommended)
• 256 MB RAM
• 32 MB video card with 3D acceleration (64 MB recomended)
• Windows 95+
•  HDD
• CD ROM
• Windows Compatible Sound Card