Game Plot

You are a theme park manager, and you have to create the ultimate experiance of an amusement park. You start out with a limited amount of money, but as you go along, you earn more and spend more. You must lay down track and attractions in your park to attract guests, and keep your park rating up....

You build different varieties of rides, from merry-go-rounds to custom made coasters. Each guest that comes to you park has a ceratin intensity preferration and a certain nausea tolerance. If the coaster the guest wants to go on exceeds these prefferations, he/she won't ride it. IF coasters are too high in intensity, no body will ride it period. A variety of shops are also available, such as fries, pizza, and ice cream. Will your theme park be ground breaking, or will it bite the dust?

Intensity and Nausea Tolerance

As I mentioned above, each guest has a certain nausea tolerance and a certain intensity prefferation. Let's say you build a coaster with an intensity of 16.35. On the scale, this would be an ultra extreme rollercoaster. You should try to make the intensity lower, so it would attract more guests. In case you don't want to change your coaster, just take off a piece of track, replace it with the same thing, and paint it a different color. Guests will be tricked into thinking that it has been improved.

Of course, a lot of people have a high nausea tolerance, so you must place benches and bathrooms around the exits of coasters with a high nausea rating. If you do not do this, guests will get sick all over your park.

Staff

Roller Coaster Tycoon is extremely realistic. If people misbehave, if rides break down, if the paths are littered, you must hire handymen, security guards, and mechanics. The handymen are very useful when it comes to people getting sick on the ground. They take out their broom and sweep it up. In a matter of seconds they do their job. Security Guards bust misbehaving kids in the park. Mechanics fix rides. You can appoint what abilities your staff can do, such as inspecting rides to fixing them, mowing the grass to cleaning paths, and et cetra. If you don't hire staff, your park rating will go down... and down... and down.....

Graphics

RollerCoaster Tycoon has some pretty good graphics. It is three dementional animation, and it is really cool. At first it looks 2-d, but it isn't. You are able to rotate the camera to view different parts of the park, and can look at your park from high above or face on.

Guests

Guests not only have a certain tolerance, but they also have feelings. By entering certain names you can alternate their happiness and so on. By making your guests happy, your park rating goes up, and your park gets awards and such. If your guests are angry about the disgusting litter in your park, rating goes down. Everything depends on your guests.

My Opinion

I think, overall, that RollerCoaster Tycoon is a very creative game. It has the right things to make it funny, interesting, and addicting. You won't want to stop. How ever, the addiction factor is too high, and you will only want to play this game. This is a pretty good game, next to some of its glitches. But, it's still worth a chance! Go buy it today!!

Recommended:
Yes