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Summary: BUY THIS NOW!
Review: Rollercoaster Tycoon...the legacy? Absolutley, gamers for generations to come will look forward to the new releases of this game! Okay maybe I am over-exaggerating, but I can tell you that I love this game, I am 24 years old and I love this game. It is incredibly addictive. I can also tell you this, if you are wondering what version to buy, get the gold edition first. It gives you the original Rollercoaster tycoon (RCT for short) plus the two RCT expansion packs (loopy landscapes and corkscrew follies). I will also warn you to start easy. It's much easier to start small and build your parks along with your knowledge. If you go straight to RCT II there are some very challenging games that is hard to appreciate or understand without first conquering a few games the conventional way. To quote Aerosmith's Amazing "You have to learn to crawl...before you learn to walk" so just like with every other game and life in general, take things one step at a time. But be sure to buy this game...it's a blast!The game earns five stars and higher if I could. Buy this version because for ten bucks more you can almost quadruple your fun!
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Summary: Highly reccomended, but...
Review: That is a big but there. The original game was good, then 2 expansion packs made it great. But, I have been playing long enough to realize some of the limitations such as: in most scenerios there isn't 10 square feet of flat land to build on ANYWHERE, and when you build a large paved area or build a park with many loops and intersections in the paths the little people get confused, then angry, and because they are so stupid they can't find the exit, and you are bombarded with messages like "Guest XXXX is lost and cannot find the park exit". Ah, but there is a beacon of hope on the horizon: "Roller Coaster Tycoon 2" It seems like most of the problems in the original game will be solved in RCT2, plus there will be many improvements like more rides, more realistic rides, more scenery, and even a scenario editor. My advice is to wait for RCT2 to come out in what should be sometime around October this year. Trust me, you will be much happier waiting for a far superior product than you will be if you invest in software that will be obsolete in a few months.
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Summary: More than an "E" ticket...
Review: The "Gold Edition" of "Roller Coaster Tycoon" also includes both of the expansion discs - the "Corkscrew Follies" expansion, and the "Loopy Landscapes" expansion. It is definitely an "E" ticket purchase. The first disc, "Roller Coaster Tycoon", lets you simulate building amusement parks - complete with rides, food and drink stalls, and other attractions. The coasters are the main attraction, but you can design and build entire parks with this disc. It includes 14 different coaster designs and some examples of each type, and also allows you to try to build your own coasters. There are other types of amusement park rides, including water slides, merry-go-rounds and ferris wheels, go kart race tracks, and many others. There are also over two dozen scenarios ranging from fairly easy to fairly difficult. This disc is a great beginning to this pack of products. It allows you to begin designing your own amusement park in minutes in whatever way you desire. Your park's rating (how much the people like the total experience) depends on a mix of everything - from the types of rides you offer and how scary they are, to the amount of food, drink, and other amenities you offer them. You must provide staff - maintenance men to clean the paths, empty the trash, and cut the grass; mechanics to repair and inspect the rides; security guards to keep vandalism in check; and entertainers in weird costumes to keep kids happy while in lines. Finally, you must make enough money to be successful - many parks start with loans you must pay off in order to win with a positive balance, although it is possible to win with a negative balance. Try designing a coaster that's really scary that won't end up causing accidents! The second disc, "Corkscrew Follies" includes even more coaster types, new rides and new attractions, and 30 more scenarios for you to attempt - many quite a bit different, with varying difficulty levels, from the original disc. The Corkscrew coasters, the Steel Twister coasters, the Side Friction coasters, and the Virginia Reels make great additions to RCT parks you have already designed and saved, and also provide more rides to design tracks for. My favorite section of this add-on is the ability to paint tracks different colors in different places. Even a small touch like this one can add to more customer appreciation of your rides and your park. The new scenarios include many really unusual parks - including ones built on seaside cliffs and ones built in the middle of the desert. "Loopy Landscapes", the third in the series, adds 30 more scenarios, a couple new coasters, more rides and attractions, and more new theme sets. Many of the scenarios for you to complete are coaster finishing challenges - where you are given coasters that have already begun construction and are challenged to finish it and have it be exciting enough without being too nausea inducing. These are the most challenging scenarios so far. It also contains six more new themes for your park, allowing you to create Jurassic Park rip-offs, Martian madness, Wonderland fantasies, and many others. I especially enjoy the addition of complete park themes - many real parks have themes such as "Wild West", "Far East", "Americana", and others, and themes give you a chance to try these out while playing the game. In the Gold Edition you get all of this in one convenient package for the same price as the original game. This gives you almost 100 scenarios, all of the park themes and theme ride entrances, all the shops - including the long-awaited "T-Shirt Shop" and the really strange and fun "Tentacle" shop, and more. Yes, all the rides from all three editions, and all of the expansions to these rides. This makes this package one of the best values in coaster building games. This edition also includes the "freebies" that are offered on the Roller Coaster Tycoon website - three Roller Coaster Tycoon versions of actual amusement parks, and the "Fort Ticonderoga" park. The replay value of this collection is great. I find myself being drawn back over and over again to see if I can better my previous rating or ending park value, or both, or add something to the previous parks to make them more interesting. My only complaint is that there is still no scenario design package included with this game. I'd like to be able to design my own starter parks to share with others - possibly even something as elaborate as Disneyland or Walt Disney World. However, I've heard that there is a new expansion under way that may give us scenario designing tools. If you've never tried Roller Coaster Tycoon, and you like amusement parks, you'll love the ability to design and build your own park. The Gold Edition gives you all the current versions of the program, and if you don't own Roller Coaster Tycoon already, it makes a great addition to your computer game program library. If you already own RCT, then it may still be a good value due to its inclusion of both of the expansion packs. Watch out Walt Disney - here comes Roller Coaster Tycoon!
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Summary: yaaaa..... you have to believe me.
Review: the best game ever played it is nothing but fun fun. i get other computer games that are completly boring, but this one no no no, my dad bought it and it rules i will never get tired of it.
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Summary: Ups and Downs
Review: The game is a great game but I bought a new computer with Windows XP. And now I cannot play this game. Needs to have a updated version.
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Summary: coolest
Review: the game was awsome really addictive i would play for hours on end the graphics were great.
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Summary: Windows XP Compatability
Review: There is a patch you can download at Atari's web site to make the expansion pack Loopy Landscapes work on a PC running Windows XP. The Roller Coaster Tycoon CD itself already runs fine under Windows XP, but the expansion packs Corkscrew Follies and Loopy Landscapes do not run under Windows XP even if you change the compatibility mode on your PC for Windows 95/98. The patch will make Loopy Landscapes run fine using Windows XP, and since it already includes Corkscrew Follies, you do not need to worry about trying to get that CD to work. Also, the RollerCoaster Tycoon Gold Edition pack that we just purhased from Amazon already has the downloadable patch applied to the Loopy Landscapes expansion pack CD, so we didn't even need to download the patch. So, those of you running Windows XP on your PC and can't get Loopy Landscapes to work, go download that patch and have fun using your expansion pack.
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Summary: This is an Awesome Game!
Review: This game is for theme park dreamers. If you don't have this game get it! I know RCT2 is coming out but it won't have things on the expansion packs like a flying coaster and things like a vertical loop on the suspended coaster. Oh yeah and for the problem with the flat land if you'll go RCT clubs if you're lucky you can find a blank park where there are no boundaries and all the land is flat! Plus you get $50,000 to start of with! This game is amazing if you know how to build on a computer! I thought it was very simple to learn.
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Summary: killer game
Review: This game is one of the best games ever. It has great 3D graphicsthan any other games but the cheat codes such as the Timothy Mcveigh one when you name the guest Timothy Mcveigh, make him walk past a entertainer then drowned him then find the slide and watch a big bomb go rolling down it causing an explosion, destroying everything and receiving 10 million dollars. ...
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Summary: Buy This Game NOW!
Review: This game is very addictive and fun. I bought the Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 and the Roller Coaster Tycoon Gold Edition. This game offers true strategy and thought. You can practically do anything you want with the guests and make them ride the roller coaster over and over again. This game is great for anyone who likes to design things and run businesses. I reccomend this game to anyone any age and any sex.
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