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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack

List Price: $9.99
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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Must be ADVANCED
Review: This expansion pack is good (for a "roller coaster tycoon"}. I thought maybe it would give me extras in any theme park but no, I could only get Wacky Worlds theming and roller coasters in the new parks that Wacky Worlds added which had impossible goals. All "roller coaster tycoons" out there this expansion is perfect for you.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Worst RollerCoaster Tycoon to Date!
Review: This game is a huge let down! There are 17 new sceneros and a little over 50 new rides..... nothing worth mentioning. I recomend any RCT fan to wait till this ones price drops because this game requires the RCT2 disc to run it! That's right, the Wacky Worlds disc does not play the game. on the RCT2 disc the Wacky Worlds parks simply have a WW next to them. It really isn't worth it's price!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: roller coaster tycoon 2 wacky world
Review: This game screwed up my roller coaster tycoon 2 and I can no longer play the game that I just love. It was a sweet game until I installed wacky worlds.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fun & Addictive; Little Different--
Review: This is a great game!!! Come on! There is WAY more scenary and are WAY more rides to play with! Some are complaining about the number of scenarios but the big thing is that you can create your own scenario and pack it with TONS of cool stuff and just play and play!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WHAT are they all talking about?!?!?!
Review: This is a great game!!! Come on! There is WAY more scenary and are WAY more rides to play with! Some are complaining about the number of scenarios but the big thing is that you can create your own scenario and pack it with TONS of cool stuff and just play and play!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not worth it at all. . .
Review: This is just wrong! When the original RollerCoaster Tycoon game came out years ago - THAT was a smash; the new RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 : Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack - ? - that's a bunch of [hooey]!

The new "more than 50 rides" available in this expansion pack are merely different train styles or track substitutions. I think there's five different versions of the same rollercoaster - but they're different only because the cars are different designs. Chris Sawyer and Infogrames Interactive need to understand that taking an old ride, polishing up the cars and slapping a new name on it - does not make it NEW! Now if the box said "50 new car designs" then I would have known beforehand and wouldn't have wasted [money] on this wasted bulk.

And that's not all, the "wacky" themes are pretty bland and not creative at all. Sure, it's clever in some surreal way, but it loses it's appeal five minutes after initial game launch. If I'm sick of it after five minutes, I doubt I'll want to finish off the 17 new scenarios in this expansion pack.

The four things Chris Sawyer does not take into consideration for RollerCoaster Tycoon are. . .

(1) Scenario Editor. When using the scenario editor you are limited to the number of objects you can select - that needs to go. You should be able to use ALL of the objects and have a completely dynamic palette for constructing your park and not worry about skipping some options and hope not to regret it when you can't find the tool upon creation of your park. There is no limit to creativity, so don't limit our options. Simple as that.

(2) Map size. It's understandable that some people play this game just to pass the scenarios and feel like they accomplished something with their day, but I like to create my own parks - and sometimes the map size constraints don't make it too easy. Trust me, guys, in some cases, size DOES matter.

(3) Design. RollerCoaster Tycoon has come a long way since its original release years ago, but the element of design in the rollercoasters isn't exactly realistic. Game-wise it's okay to obtain context-sensitive "ratings" on your rollercoasters - but come on! - some of them are so unrealistic that sometimes you can't help but wonder if you should build a rollercoaster with one hill and the station brakes just to get people to attempt riding it. How many people go to a park and say "Rollercoaster 1 looks too intense for me!"? I know I don't. There should be an option to turn ride ratings OFF.

(4) Rollercoaster Design. If you've ever played NoLimits Rollercoaster Simulator for the PC, you'll know what I'm talking about. Now THAT'S rollercoaster design. If you guys just implemented some of the design capabilities from that program into RCT, there'd be one less problem. Rollercoasters curve - and are most often free-form - they aren't rigid and boring in appearance - there is a continuous smooth curve to them. That needs to be touched up.

Sometimes it just feels like we are restricted to play this game a certain way - and no other way for that matter. I don't want to feel like a prisoner - creative freedom is much more liberating.

Expansion packs are supposed to make the game BETTER. Add all the car designs you want; add 50 more themes; it doesn't make a difference. You can't mask these elements from the game by marketing new installments just to cover up the above things you fail to direct your attention to.

To wrap it up. . .don't waste your money. . .consider P2P.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great
Review: this is the best roller coaster tycoon game to date. dont listen to other reviews, they just dont know how to play the game

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Total Dissappointment
Review: This is without a doubt the worst RC Tycoon installment, I was happy with the scenery but the stupid and idiotice new rides, and the ride trains, you take the arrow suspended, a nice decent coaster, and turn the trains into swinging monkeys! What the... I am into tycoon to build parks for realism not ignorance, I guess the creators must have had some debt to pay off or else Chris Sawyer wouldnt have let this ... get released!

MY FINAL WARNING!!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Eek!
Review: Time Twister even beats this one for the RCT 2 Expansions. This is not-well designed. Also, the map of your park is so primative. Can't you take screenshots -- or better yet, the game does it for you -- and assemble a map instead of orange lines on a dotty surface?

The game adds NO and I promises NONE new rides, just new "themes" for existing ones. For example, "Neptune" ride is really a new-vehicled Twist and you'll see it has the same ratings (for) Excitement, Nausea, Intensity.

I think (but this applies to the whole RCT 2 line) that the game leaves much to be desired.

Wacky Worlds simply is not there. Not close. We get scenarios like "build around the Great Wall of China". How stupid is that? Honestly? And then, we have an Eifel Tower scenery but no park to center it! It's just weird.

Not really worth the buy.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Overrated and Overpriced
Review: With this expansion, Roller Coaster Tycoon is getting into questionable territories.

1) The so called "new rides" are actually rides you already have, just with different cars. And the cars is breaking the game away from its realistic nature. For example, you can have "Football" vehicles on your roller coaster. These corny additions are making the game more like Sim Theme Park - unrealistic.

2) Many of the objects, like trees, now take up four squares instead of one. The look and design is different - making it look like a completely different team put together this expansion.

3) The scenarios greatly limit the number of Scenery Themes you can have in your scenario (many only allow ONE). Thus when trying to place a prebuilt coaster, you'll get the message, "scenery Unavailable for this Design" again and again and again.

4) Many of the prebuilt coasters also say that the car design for the coaster is "unavailable" and therefore could affect performance of the ride. Um... hello??? Why put the prebuilt coaster in there if the cars that go with it are unavailable?

5) There are several new bugs that are introduced with this so called "expansion pack". For one, the clear scenery object no longer works on several trees that you must now manually remove before you can place a ride. On some maps, the scrolling feature is [messed]up, making it so that you can't scroll to certain areas of the park.

6) Another new annoyance and limitation is that on the majority of the scenarios, they don't allow you to use the landscape tool at all! They might as well remove it from the game!

Wacky Worlds is a very disappointing Expansion Pack and if it is an indication of things to come, then the Roller Coaster Tycoon franchise is in a lot of trouble as corny cartoony items replace realism and limitations replace fun. I'm almost to the point where I'd like to see Microsoft's Zoo Tycoon team take over this game because the current makers are doing it no justice.


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