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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (PC CD)
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The original Roller Coaster Tycoon had the winning combination of fun and mainstream appeal. Ironically, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 imitates RCT. Perhaps in an effort to spoil a good thing or perhaps to guarantee success with low-system-spec mainstream fans, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 plays almost exactly like the original game. Maybe too much like it. The graphics are still two-dimensional, and if you didn't know better you'd swear you were still looking at the first game. The ability to play the game in much higher resolution alleviates some of the disappointment with graphics: a closer look reveals greater variety in animations, more people and a smoother look overall. The audio is, again, fantastic. It's the perfect mix of screams of terror, enthusiastic giggling, grumbling, retching and carnival music and brings the scent of candy floss to your nose every time. New structures are available as well as some new rides, but the biggest change is the addition of themes. Want a Haunted Park? They've given you the artwork you need to create one. You'll also find a Wild West theme, a children's theme and more. The scenarios are grouped more logically by difficulty and fans will be delighted with a sand box mode that allows limitless free play. RCT2 has a wide variety of new roller coaster designs, including a few famous roller coasters from around the world (mostly from Six Flags theme parks). A very welcome addition is the ability to open a separate screen where you can test-build a custom roller coaster without worrying about space or money before buying and placing it in the game. Perhaps the best new addition is the ability to raise and lower the ground en masse, which removes one of the most annoying features of the first game. Roller Coaster Tycoon 2isn't a ground-breaking sequel but it is an excellent game for fans of the series. We can wish they'd done more with the concept, brought it to 3-D or used new, higher resolution artwork, but the gameplay remains the same. And that's a thrilling ride on its own. --Andrew S Bub
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3/5 |
Not as good as rollercoaster tycoon 3.
(December 08, 2007) |
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I brought a game and i could get this one half price, so i did. The game is in 2d its not as good as rollercoaster tycoon 3 but its not boring either i still play it sometimes but i couldnt play it for months as i could rollercoaster tycoon 3, my advice is buy it if you havent got the requirments for rollercoaster3. |
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4/5 |
Good Fun
(February 09, 2007) |
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I thought this game overall was good fun--it was a game that could have you on the edge of you seat sweating as you tried to keep your new creating of a theme park open.
The idea of being able to create your own rollercoasters is perhaps the most intriguing part of the game--although at this point the player is unable to ride them for themselves, which is a factor of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3.
The scenarios themselves are both easy and hard, and are set into different categories of difficulty, so that the player can choose their own specific level and play it through--and there is a feature to allow the player to create their own scenario, and set their own goals, either for practice or for fun!
Overall, I think this is a very good game which has infinite ways of playing it, so it never becomes boring! |
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4/5 |
More of the same with a bonus if friends like it too
(September 09, 2006) |
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At first, I was singularly unimpressed with Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. I bought the sequel expecting it to improve on the first, not just repeat it. Furthermore, there are no rewards for completing a park - you don't unlock new ones, which was a feature that I loved. Instead you are encouraged to buy expansions that add little more than scenery and the challenges you should have had in the first place.
What changed my mind, and made me give it a 4 star rating instead of something lower, is the Scenario Editor. My brother loves Rollercoaster Tycoon as well, so the ability to create my own challenges and exotic maps and scenarios, for him or for me, is a massive plus, and will mean that this one should have the same shelf-life as the brilliant first game. |
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5/5 |
superb game :)
(April 29, 2005) |
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I bought this game recently and absolutly love the game and i'm the wrong side of 30 yrs!!! My girlfriend who loves shoot em up games as also become addicted. It really is addictive as you strive to get the punters into your theme park and see the little people buying chips and balloons as they stroll around the theme park. The graphics are what you need for a game of this style but are very polished and clear. You get to control every aspect of the theme park from how much you charge for a hotdog to what music the different rides pump out and even the style and colour. Fancy some trees and make it like alton towers theme park in UK go ahead and build a corkscrew!!! Great game and very addictive give it a try you wont be disappointed!! Now where was I !! as yes off for a spin on the waltzers.................. |
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3/5 |
Could have been better...
(January 29, 2005) |
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Newcomers to this game will find it brilliant, fans of the original might not. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is basically like the game before it, which in ways is good and bad. The parks are bigger, there are real parks like in the first game which are 5 of the Six Flags Theme Parks. More themes, bigger rollercoasters and more...but this does not make the game any better. Bad development, very slow tilt on the screen so if you want to get to a location in the park it will take ages to get to it. In this all the Parks are all ready for you to play, so when you complete the objective on a park there is no real point in it. Graphics are similar but if you put it in a high resolution you will see that they are more detailed, sound is of course brilliant like in the first. Again you don't need really high system requirements so it will work on basically most computers. Game could have been better but still an exciting game to play. |
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