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A [[Real Time Strategy]] game set in a warped satire of the UK, where real estate is [[Serious Business]]. You're put in the role of a building contractor. The object is to build and nurture a thriving neighborhood, with the ultimate goal of putting your rivals out of business. Oh, and each of the companies is owned by [[London Gangster|organized crime syndicates]]. ▼
▲A [[Real Time Strategy]] game set in a warped satire of the UK, where real estate is [[Serious Business]]. You're put in the role of a building contractor. The object is to build and nurture a thriving neighborhood, with the ultimate goal of putting your rivals out of business. Oh, and each of the companies is owned by [[London Gangster|organized crime syndicates]].
Provided they're kept happy, tenants will breed rapidly, swelling your ranks with tomorrow's civil servants -- all of whom are on the take. For instance, producing a General Practitioner grinds your rivals' hospitals to a halt, while having a [[Hanging Judge|Magistrate]] results in longer jail sentences for undesirables. Think of it as ''[[Monopoly]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[The Departed]]''. ▼
▲Provided they're kept happy, tenants will breed rapidly, swelling your ranks with tomorrow's civil servants -- all of whom are on the take. For instance, producing a General Practitioner grinds your rivals' hospitals to a halt, while having a [[Hanging Judge|Magistrate]] results in longer jail sentences for undesirables. Think of it as ''[[Monopoly]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[The Departed]]''.
Much of the game's strategy comes from its tenant types, all of whom produce different workers and have their own respective quirks. They also tend to complain -- a ''[[Unsatisfiable Customer|lot]]''. Players also have to worry about the omnipotent City Council, which sometimes demands you develop a specific estate within the allotted time. Fail to do so, and you'll be sacked. [[You Have Failed Me|Literally]].▼
▲Much of the game's strategy comes from its tenant types, all of whom produce different workers and have their own respective quirks. They also tend to complain -- a ''[[Unsatisfiable Customer|lot]]''. Players also have to worry about the omnipotent City Council, which sometimes demands you develop a specific estate within the allotted time. Fail to do so, and you'll be sacked. [[You Have Failed Me...|Literally]].
''Constructor'' was developed for [[MS-DOS]], later to be ported to the [[Play Station]] and [[Direct X]] 3. A sequel set in [[The Roaring Twenties]], ''Constructor: Street Wars'' (''Mob Wars'' in North America) was released, but was not well-liked by fans. ▼
▲''Constructor'' was developed for [[MS-DOS]], later to be ported to the [[
''Constructor'' was remade for the current gen and PC.
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* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: The "House of Fun" arcade, which produces [[Monster Clown|Clown]] units. When a clown captures an enemy NPC, he escorts them to the aptly-named "Wheel of Death" ride.
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: You can have five of each house type, ten of each tenant rank, twenty handymen and thirty workers. Enemy houses count against your own limit. Council missions will have you scrabbling to seize or destroy enemy estates just to raise the limit.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Although effective at harassing your estates early in the game, the AI's tendency to overextend itself makes it a laughably weak enemy later on. The computer also lacks proper planning, which eventually leads to mass evictions.
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* [[Big Creepy
* [[British Accents]]: "'allo?"
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Psychos (or "Gimps") are the most powerful melee unit. When set loose on a rival's land, they start revving their chainsaw maniacally, scaring away all workers and foremen on the site. Even gangsters are no match for the fat shirtless guy with a mask.
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* [[Concealment Equals Cover]]: When being pursued by opposing units, fleeing into a subway entrance will cut the chase short. This gets pretty irritating when the computer does it.
* [[Damage Is Fire]]
* [[Delayed Explosion]]: The sad fate of many a unit. It's an easy mistake to destroy an opponent's building before your units have gotten clear of the site, wiping them out in one fell swoop. Similarly, it's common to run away too soon, leaving the building with a small sliver of health. Then, inevitably, you send in a single unit to finish it off, and -- [[Save Scumming|yeah]].
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Ghosts have the option of possessing NPCs, turning them gray and rendering them uncontrollable for a short period.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Useful for protecting neighborhoods. While they don't qualify as melee units, they're the best method of ridding your place of psychos (short of just blowing up the biker bar, of course).
* [[Domino Mask]]: Thieves wear these.
* [[Gangsterland]]
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* [[Haunted House]]: Produces ghosts to scare off tenants. These are less useful in and of themselves, but become an annoyance when opponents sic them on your estates.
* [[Have a Nice Death]]: Failing the game results in a scene of pallbearers lowering your casket into an open grave. But -- what's ''this''? The inscription on the coffin reads "[[Punny Name|A. LOSER]]"? Cut to inside the coffin, showing the player [[Buried Alive|still alive]] and struggling for air. Game Over, indeed.
* [[In
* [[Invisibility]]: Essentially what happens when a player's ghost possesses one of their own NPCs. An invisible unit can't be detected by enemies.
* [[Load
* [[Loan Shark]]: It gets ''really'' bad when the Mob Boss ''sends a helicopter to demolish your houses'' if you piss him off.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: Destroying a building causes not just it, but ''the entire lot'', to explode, causing fiery debris to rain down on the surrounding lots and damage them.
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* [[Not in My Back Yard]]: Tenants richer than Punks and Greasers will object to living near factories. Those richer than Nerds will object to Police and other public buildings. All parents will complain about nearby Undesirables.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Ghosts spawn these by polluting the soil of an estate, causing graves to erupt. These living dead will terrorize the local residents and make the police go haymire.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: The...[[Shaped Like Itself|Psychos]].
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: Tenants and the council make increasingly particular demands of your planning and hiring, and you'll only learn of them after they've sent you a [[Strongly Worded Letter]] which may be the warning of an imminent [[Game Over]].
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