Piece by piece, you can craft the rollercoaster of your dreams, limited only by your funds. The feature that sets RollerCoaster Tycoon apart from other sim games is the full-featured ride editor. For example, if multiple people think that Roller Coaster #1 is a really good value, it might be time to jack up the price.
While most of the time they'll think things like "I want to go home" or "I haven't finished eating my ice cream cone," you can occasionally glean a piece of useful information or two from them. Clicking on any guest brings up a menu from which you can view their most recent thoughts. Luckily, you're not only the park owner you're also the thought police. Obviously the folks at developer Chris Sawyer spent countless months observing the habits of real tourists. They easily become lost, eat themselves sick and spend most of their time whining about how they want to go home. The people who visit your park have some of the least intelligent AI imaginable. You also want to avoid placing them near rides with a high nausea factor, or people will buy food, go on a ride, and then puke all over your sidewalk. You don't want to put them near the front of the park, because guests haven't worked up an appetite. Food stall placement, for example, can be a tricky affair. When designing your park, you've got to take into account some rather pragmatic considerations. With so much customization, you'll find yourself quickly becoming attached to your unique creations. From a financial standpoint, you can adjust ride and admission prices, set the amount of money that goes to research, and even pay for advertising campaigns for the park.
You can change the color scheme of just about anything in the park, choose from a variety of themes and even tweak the style of music that each individual ride plays. The sheer amount of ways that you can tinker with your park is staggering. Not only are you responsible for designing the layout of "Justopia" (Well, that's what I always call my parks.), you've also got to hire employees, monitor the guests' moods and watch your finances. A relatively deep game, there's plenty of stuff to keep track of. You're given a plot of land, a few thousand dollars in capital, and told to build a thriving amusement park. Gameplay For both of you who've never played it, RollerCoaster Tycoon is a simulation game along the lines of Theme Park or Sim City. As such, the game retains much of the original's charm, but it suffers from a number of console-specific problems, namely the lower resolution of television screens and an awkward control system.
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The Xbox version of RollerCoaster Tycoon is a carbon copy of the ancient PC game, down to the smallest detail. Was Infogrames taking it's time, carefully crafting a product that would live up to the legacy of its PC predecessor while taking advantage of the superior Xbox hardware? In a word, no. Where else can you brutally torture idiot tourists and run a once-thriving business into the ground by spending all your money on life-size replicas of the pyramids? An instant classic when it was released exactly four years, it's taken RollerCoaster Tycoon a shockingly long time to make the leap to consoles. It's the bitter ex-theme park employee in me that loved the original RollerCoaster Tycoon so very much.
That's right, I spent two summers of my teenaged life flipping overpriced, greasy burgers and having my soul crushed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Me, I had the worst job of them all: I used to work at an amusement park. In reality, our secret origins encompass some of the most awful occupations known to man.Īaron Boulding used to be a sleeper agent in the employ of the Marshall Islands, Hilary tried to make it big as a stripper in Las Vegas, and Guides guru Chris Carle is a former bouncer who spent years running from his conscience after ripping out a man's throat in a bar fight. Contrary to popular belief, most of us here at IGN weren't grown in test tubes at some secret government facility in the Nevada desert dedicated to building the perfect game reviewers.
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