Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
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Video Game Reviews of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
Customer Review: Waste of money!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
My mom got this game and the soaked expansion pack for me and my brother for the summer. We were so excited to play it! The next day we started to install it into our Windows XP. It is a very good computer and since we had no problems installing other games we expected no probs with this one. We were dead wrong. After installing it, we saw all these cool screen shots and we got even more excited to play the game. When the play window popped up, tingles went up my spine and we eagerly clicked it. While we thought it was loading up, after a little bit a window popped up saying some error or something. Anyways, we dicided to click continue. Still no luck. We tried again and again and uninstalling and re-installing the game. Then we looked at the video card it needed and we found out it cost from 50 to $300!!!! WHAT A RIP OFF!!! Buy another game such as Zoo Tycoon 2. That is a far better game and has no complications.Customer Review: one of the best games ever!
Summary: 4 Stars
This game is really great. When you build rollercoasters or other rides, you can get into this special thing called coastercam. It lets you actually ride the rides!:-) This game definately beats the other rollercoaster tycoon games. The graphics rock, the game play is awesome. I highly recommend this game if you are looking for a fun computer game.Customer Review: Funnily enough...No.2 was better
Summary: 3 Stars
I began the Tycoon adventure with the first RollerCoaster Tycoon. I was here from the very start. Number 2 fixed each and every problem I had with number 1, from flipping pre-made rollercoasters in every way imaginable and more food stands than you could ever use.
So when Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 came out, I was pretty excited. I did not rest till I had bought it and installed it on my computer. Then came the disappointment. I have a good computer, able to handle all sorts of games. However, for Tycoon 3, it had the graphic settings on medium--just barely--and the game slowed up whenever there were too many guests. I don't even want to think about what kind of computer you need to have a high graphic setting during a busy season. A normal person with a normal computer won't be able to run the graphics at optimum performance so it ruins the fun of the new and improved graphics!
After being disappointed by the graphics, the next thing you realise is that everything that No.2 fixed, No.3 lost. When you build a rollercoater, if there is so much as one little rock underneath it, you won't be able to build it. That's right; you have to demolish each and every rock underneath the thing. Imagine if you want to build a rollercoater winding through a forest? In No.2 the trees and rocks were deleted for you upon building.
Furthermore, for an experienced Tycooner, I found this game almost impossible to play. People don't ride rides and don't buy food; they stand around doing nothing all day. However, they buy souvenier's like crazy. There is an incredible amount of tweaking to be done to each ride, from the speed to the price to the number of trains. While many of these features were available in no.2, in no.3 they can make or break a ride and are far more complicated. For a computer game its far too much and not really worth the time. There is enough for me to worry about without constantly having to tweak each ride I build.
Another bother was the way the roller coasters can only be rotated 180 degrees. In no.2 you could mirror-image it, so to speak AND rotate it, giving you eight different positions as opposed to four. This makes a huge difference when trying to fit a coaster into your park.
One more thing was the fact that there was no 'apply to all' button. In other words, every stand you build you must modify. Every single one. In no.2 you could fix one and apply its settings to the whole park.
The stars of the game were the VIPeeps; I enjoyed them and the new challenges. Also, the idea of unlocking challenges as you beat them has returned, which was great.
So the final word? Too much fancy surface work, not enough game quality. The fireworks are pretty but enough to make up for the lack of content. I wouldn't have minded the oversights but when they made mistakes in no.1, fixed them in no.2 and brought them BACK in no.3, it gets on my nerves. There really was no reason for them. The game took a step forwards graphics-wise and two steps backwards game-wise.
Customer Review: Roller Coaster Tycoon Rocks
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though I don't own the game, yet, I played it at a friends house and it is AWESOME! the graphics and 3-D make this one SO much better. True it's hard, much harder than the first or the second, but it's fun and a challlenge and good for wasting long boring summer days. Just make sure you upgrade whatever you need to before you install the game, the game goes by in about 1 frame per 3 seconds if you don't, well mine didn't anyway but you might have a different computer. Anyway, this game is VERY fun, I suggest buying it from here, it's much cheaper than other places and my friend's played just as well and she bought it from here. Customer Review: Great. Needs some things too.
Summary: 4 Stars
here are some things that mean you've played too much RCT3.
1. You wish you brought your brolly and it's not raining
2. You are humming "Rock Like A Dude" all the time
3. You want to visit Kara Oki