Pizza Connection 3

Big fan of Pizza Connection 2 but this game kind of missed what made Pizza Connection 2 special but it did do some things better than the 2nd game of the series. Pros: - Graphics are an obvious and much needed upgrade, the game looks great and the music adds to the atmosphere - Pizza creator is better than the one from Pizza Connection 2. The UI shows you within the creator what ingredient categories are prefered by the population and the little phone feature gives you immediate feedback to test out different recipes. In Pizza Connection 2 I almost exclusively used the generation feature because I could never be bothered but in this game I almost never used it - The way advertisement is done in this game is more interesting in my opinion but it's a two sided sword but more about that in the Cons - Research is an interesting way to gate upgrade, in Pizza Connection 2 you can instantly upgrade your restaurant to bigger sizes as well as your warehouse, you pretty much only have an incentive to upgrade your headquarters until you reach Level 3 until you reach global ads. Research makes this much more interesting as you get to pick and choose what specific feature you want to invest money into early - Sabotage is much more interesting in the game compared to Pizza Connection 2, I like that you actually have to control the thugs and gangsters trying to avoid police and keep an eye on them rather than pressing a button and going about your business Cons: - This game is WAY too easy, the campaign was uninspiring and boring to play through, the missions with laughably easy and the AI barely did anything. The challenges in the missions got reduced to maybe a little bit of sabotage that was announced by the campaign text and the game artificially keeping you in the mission longer by deducting money from your bank account, the reasons being absolutely random - Pizza Truck is terrible for balancing, just unlock it immediately, give it a pizza with few ingredients, park it in a hotspot and just generate constant cash, early game restaurant management doesn't matter as this feature will just make it entirely irrelevant - Interior design doesn't matter at all in this game, as long as your restaurant has remotely furniture that each group of people likes, they'll come. Arrangement barely matters, the furnaces you buy doesn't really matter, how much space people have doesn't really matter, the amount of decoration, lamps or anything else you have doesn't really matter. You can literally surround entire tables with chairs side by side and they'll still sit down and eat - AI opponents are terrible and you can't even add any custom settings in the game to give them a head start to make it in any shape or form a challenge. I tried adding the most "aggressive" AI enemies the game had to offer and went literally afk for hours just letting the game run, my restaurants were running just fine without a manager to handle it, they just never did anything - Advertisements working the way they work is another way to make this game easier, the fact that I can rent a billboard at the OPPOSITE side of the city of my restaurant, mark my restaurant on the other side and the NPCs once their pizza icon changes to a thumbs up will literally go on a pilgramage to my restaurant like it's their sworn destiny. That also makes the entire delivery feature completely irrelevant The game is way too easy, gives you no challenge, free games are barely worth replaying, the campaign is boring as hell with no challenge as most of it is predertermined It feels like a mobile game with a little more features so it passes as a PC game, disappointing because the general structure is there and actually great, so much potential that is laying unused