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Summary: IT'S A MUST HAVE!
Review: A great way to experience the fun and excitement of building and creating your own theme park. Many different areas and places to choose from, so you'll never get board of playing. i play almost all day, and I never get tired of it. Don't think you're wasting money when you buy this, because your not. It's worth it!
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Summary: Maybe the best SIM ever
Review: I bought Roller Coaster Tycoon allegedly for my step-son, thinking that he might enjoy it. The graphics on the box looked fine, but not like I was used to from other sims. Then I got a chance to play RCT and realized that it was perhaps the perfect game. Very flexible, deep, and of course addictive! Create your own theme park and cram it full of the rides that will make you money. You can even design your own roller coaster track. Considering the fact that this game was primarily the work of one guy, Chris Sawyer, and that the physics, graphics, and interface are all above excellent, it's practically a miracle. The gameplay is organized into small tasks, and the availability of future scenarios depends upon your successful completion of the earlier scenarios. They're very manageable for sitting down and playing a scenario for a few hours to completion, unlike many other sims, whose scenarios can last days.
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Summary: By Far One of the Best
Review: I love strategy games that really get you thinking. Roller Coaster Tycoon garners many accolades in that it allows you to wear a variety of hats: city planner (as you lay out your park), architect (as you design your rides), landscape architect (as you grade the terrain and select the perfect varieties of trees and shrubs), park manager (as you raise and lower the price of popcorn), and so much more. In addition, Roller Coaster Tycoon wraps all of this in a layer of camp--imagine finishing the design of a new coaster, opening it up, children file in, then turn green and vomit on their way out...oops! too intense! The sounds in the game are hilarious. It even allows you to select individual children and assign them names affording you the ability to track their moves. Click on any child and you can see what he or she is carrying, how much money they've spent and what their needs are. Do you have enough bathrooms? Enough restaraunts? Benches? This game is fun! Well worth the low price.
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Summary: Addicting
Review: If you want to play Roller Coaster Tycoon than you better schedule a couple of days free, because it is that addicting! The object of the game is simple, you must build a "successful" theme park. To accomplish this task you must hire maintenance workers, repair men, entertainers, and even security guards. Of course if you just want to do it half hazardously that is fine also and the game is very forgiving to first time users, but as you progress you will want to create the biggest and best park and this one goal will continue to drive you deeper and deeper into the game. The game's graphics are very good for this type of simulation. As owner and operator of the park you are allowed to see the people and rides from a bird's-eye view. The best description I can give for the view is imagine the look and feel of Sim City but instead of roads and buildings there are rides and trails. One of the strongest features of Roller Coaster Tycoon is the flexibility the user has. It is your park and you can build trails that go under ground, up in the air or level with the ground. Also you can even design your own roller coaster and trust me you can even create the ultimate monster roller coaster that is only limited by your IMAGINATION! The only weakness that I found in this game deals with the need for a fast computer. At the start of the game there are no tech problems but as more and more people visit your park the computer will have to compensate for the many individual movements of each person and thus slow down. Even though there is a slow down it is very slight but it can be noticed and might force the user to zoom out so that the people can not be seen and thus the program will progress at it's normal pace. Even with this said a fast computer (300 mhz or faster) will easily remedy this problem. Roller Coaster Tycoon gives a new spin on the topic of simulations. With it's user friendly manual, outstanding graphics and informative tutorials the user will actually feel like he is creating a theme park. The only problem is the more and more you build the more and more you will wish you could be there riding your very own creations!
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Summary: It's the Little Bugs that Bother Me
Review: As the game host..., I was eager to get my hands on this gamewhen it game out. Like Pharoh and Caesar III, this is a game ofdesigning buildings and walkways to keep your people happy. In this case the people are not residents, although with some staying in your park for 60 days or more, you have to wonder where they are sleeping! And, like all games, you start with rather easy missions and work your way forward. You begin by planning walkways that make sense for your visitors, and putting down inexpensive but entertaining rides. Each visitor has his or her own sense of what's fun - something exciting, something laid back, something truly wild or something mild. You need to set up food, drink and restrooms, and put out benches and trashcans. You hire repairmen, sweepers, entertainers, and security folk. Vandalism can strike, and rides can break down. The game, once set up well, can almost run itself. Your various minions roam around your park, cleaning and fixing items. You earn money based on quite a few variables - how much you charge at the gate, how much you charge for food, how much you charge for each ride. Rain comes and visitors are now buying umbrellas, and avoiding the open rides. Marketing campaigns can help your draw, although coupons might affect profits short-term. There are great graphs to help you manage the economics of your strategy, and the graphics themselves are quite fun! The merry-go-round spins, the roller-coaster cars fill with little people and go around the tracks. You can customize colors, add statuary, research new theme decorations like Egyptian and Roman buildings. You can raise and lower terrain, building raised walkways and underground roller coaster tunnels. The game will run quite well on a low-end system, which can't be said for its rival, SimThemePark. It's easy to use, and quite satisfying to play. You can name the park, name each ride, and even name each individual visitor! It's easy to get attached to your creation, and sit for hours tweaking it. The game was entertaining both for me and for my 11 year old son. We both found the options varied and fun. My son especially enjoyed when you accidentially cranked a roller-coaster's speed up too high - the practice run would set the cars careening off the track, warning you to decrease the speed a bit! Our only complaint has to do with item placement - if you raise and then lower a piece of land, it double-charges you for each phase of the change. There isn't really an undo feature, so if you make a mistake (which can be easy, sometimes) there is no simple way to just go back to your previous state. With blocks of land easily hid behind other blocks (despite their many view options), you often have to lower whole regions of land simply to "get to" the blocked one, wasting hundreds of dollars. Also, with no 'fast forward', you often have to go eat dinner or watch a movie before your park, which has met the 'winning criteria', finally gets through the years required for the trophy. It'll run itself all the while, but it can get quite tedious. With that small amount of inconvenience, however, this is a great game for computer users of all ages, and with the varied terrains available, one able to always offer a new challenge!
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Summary: RCT or DOT
Review: This caused me D.amage O.ver T.ime to play this game. The graphics are incredibly horrible seeing that we are in a new age. The gameplay is ok, but not even worth writing three reviews about. All praise should be deleted from this. There is no fun involved. There is limited interactive environment and the economy makes it WAY to easy to build a roller coaster. Must be more complicated, and much more detailed.
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Summary: Can I go again?
Review: I've owned a copy of this game since January (I don't know when it was released in America, but in Britain it has been out since March '99) and I credit it with me being unable to remember the later part of that month. The game is well designed and set out. It has an excellant pedigree (Transport tycoon) and has the same attention to detail. I love the scenery, there is little to compare with creating your own ancient city, complete with super intense rollercoaster! The levels are well set out, and take the right amount of time- one or two evenings of solid play, not weeks. The only problem I have is the interface: in my version it does not let you keep certain construction windows open at the same time, but all this is compensated for by a thoroughly entertaining game.
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Summary: A MUST BUY!
Review: This game is the most addictive and fun game I've played in ages! Building rollercoasters seeing it be a great hit, you feel some great satisfaction. The graphics aren't what I'd call 100%, but the game overall is very addictive, time will fly like you haven't seen it before, and it is FUN! I recommend you buy this immediately!
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Summary: You won't let go plaing it.
Review: This game is a must. Its one of the best game I have bought and its very addictive. Its fun you get to build a theme park the way you want to. You get different scenarios to complete which would keep you playing for weeks. Also you get to find info on the people that visit (for example they can be sick, hungry, thirsty, tired, etc.) and build a burger store or put a bench so they can sit. Really fun game and very addictive.
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Summary: Excellent game, *but*...
Review: It does not work well on Windows NT. It crashes now and again, and the houses won't get roofs, for example. (I know they say it is for Windows 95 and 98, but still, I'm just warning you.)
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