Carbiz Demo

Cars have been around for over a hundred years now, which means that they have evolved for an entire century to get to the state they are in today. However, the business has always been extremely competitive, because there were many manufacturers trying to secure their share of the market. The war is still ongoing today, but nowadays everyone knows who’s got the best reputation.

Carbiz is a tycoon-type game that allows you to experience the thrill of being part of the auto revolution and start your very own car company, in order to compete with the great names in the industry. Naturally, the game is quite small and it doesn’t use the real names or trademarks of the companies, but they come close enough for all practical purposes and it shouldn’t be a problem to recognize them, as long as you are familiar with the industry.

To start off with, you can manually pick the year to start in, depending on what technologies you want available from the get-go. Hence, the earlier you decide to begin, the less advanced the vehicles are, so wooden components and a complete lack of safety measures are to be expected. Not only that, but the competition is quite different in the earlier years as well, because the market is not yet big enough for everyone to coexist.

Probably the most exciting part of the game is the part that allows you to design the vehicles your company sells, piece by piece. Naturally, the visual component is practically non-existent and you might as well use your imagination instead, but the thrill is definitely there. Thus, you get to choose exactly what piece to fit on your next car, which is then produced in one of your factories and sold at a user-defined price.

The process of producing the vehicles obviously costs a lot of money, so you need to be sure that you can turn a profit with the cars in the end. The workers must be paid as well, together with the engineers that work on researching better components to surpass the competition. Hence, there are dozens of things you need to keep an eye on, otherwise bankruptcy is just around the corner.

Carbiz is packed with features and options, even if it doesn’t look as good as you might expect. On the other hand, you can keep playing for a very long time without repeating yourself, given the fact that each playthrough is different and you can combine the components in a variety of ways.