RollerCoaster Tycoon Gold Edition
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Video Game Reviews of RollerCoaster Tycoon Gold Edition
Customer Review: VERY Addictave......
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far the best game I own! I don't regret buying it a bit! I only wish that I had more time to play it! Between school and home work, there isn't much time to play it! But when I do play it, I am very overwellemed by all the amazing things you can do! There's now wonder why it was the game of the year! It really deserved it! This is the best game in the world! Go get it today! You will NOT be sorry! I wasn't!Customer Review: i love rct, but 1 prob with this
Summary: 4 Stars
if loopy landscapes includes corkscrew follies, why do they give you the corkscrew follies cd????Customer Review: More than an "E" ticket...
Summary: 5 Stars
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!
Customer Review: yaaaa..... you have to believe me.
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Customer Review: BEST ROLLERCOATER GAME EVER!
Summary: 5 Stars
If your a fan of simulation like me, or just love rollercoasters you must own this, I had to buy all three indivisually, but you can pick up all three cheap, make sure you get this before RC2 so you can navigate through easily. There are a couple of drawbacks like any other game, like guests getting lost will drive you nuts, if you go build a ride for a few minutes, your scared to return to your park and see it in a total mess., the handyman are quite dumb, and the mechanics walk to slow when a ride brakes down, that's pretty much it, A WARNING THOUGH: This game is very addicting I find myself playing for hours and hours I think it's giving me back probelems, bottom line BUY THE GAME.