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Theme Park World (PC CD)
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Ever fancied being the owner of an Alton Towers or Disney World from the comfort of your own home? Well with Theme Park World you can be! The aim of the game is to build your dream park and keep it running, dealing with the day-to-day trials and tribulations of keeping the rides working and the punters happy. Strategy is all important here--place your burger stand too close to a rollercoaster entrance and the riders will stagger off the attraction and become "unwell" all over the floor. Too much salt on your chips and not enough fizzy pop results in parched visitors who vote with their feet and don't come back--this is not a game for those who like action fast and furious and pick up a game for a quick five minutes now and again. The user interface is a joy to use, making Theme Park World easy to play; in tutorial mode an interesting park advisor pops up to give tips on what needs to happen, where and when. But it's in the rollercoaster design phase that things get interesting. Lay out the track for your ride in full 3-D, then alter it in differing ways to produce a killer ride: corners can be banked, straights raised and lowered and sections can be added and removed to create the kind of white-knuckle ride Walt and Mickey would be proud of. Then, using the game's first-person mode, check it out from the front seat to get the impression of being there. Successful park management results in golden tickets being awarded. Collect enough tickets and you can progress to bigger theme parks, each of which presents a unique challenge. The long-term attraction of this game is doubtful, and only significant playing will reveal whether the whole procedure will become a little samey, but for a break from the traditional arcade-style fare usually associated with consoles, Theme Park World holds bags of promise and is a worthwhile investment. --Isabelle Thomas
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4/5 |
a classic game
(September 23, 2008) |
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a classic
good quality fun
(too old for a full review) |
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5/5 |
ADDICTIVE!!!!!
(January 15, 2008) |
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My friend has this game and every time i go to visit we play it.it's the best pc game ive ever seen and im gonna buy one right now. its really fun and you get to ride on the roller coaster and if you put it on 100 percent its really fast!!!! i really think its worth the 4.99!!! |
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1/5 |
Don't buy this game
(December 12, 2007) |
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This is a very good game however i have had no end of problems with it just continous errors and crashing and freezing and if you look on the web it is very common so please save yourself the hastle and buy rollercoaster tycoon because it has more features, it is more realistic and it does not crash as much |
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5/5 |
Great Game sooo Addictive
(April 18, 2006) |
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what more can i say other than this game is such a classic and a BARGAIN!! wish i'd got it 2nd hand for 1p or even under a fiva!!!! |
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4/5 |
Great game!
(December 10, 2004) |
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If you have played the new RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 then you will find that ideas have been taken from this game. This game was released in 1999 and in my opinion I thought the graphics were fantastic, others don't seem to agree. This game has 3D-graphics and they are truly good, 3D acceleration had only just really been brought in to graphics!!! I disagree with other reviewers and I think the gameplay is fast, I only have a 500 MHZ processor and in todays standards thats terrible but back then it was super-fast!!! Minumum processor speed for this game is only 200 MHZ do I don't know how it is slow on anybodys computer! This game was rivals with the original RollerCoaster Tycoon which was released that same year, in graphics this game beat it but not in all of the gameplay. Gameplay as I have said is fast but you only get 4 parks, apposed to 20 or so. But each park in this game is unique and I think thats really cool. There is:
Lost Kingdom
Halloween World - My favourite!!!
Wonderland
Space Zone The first parks are unlocked for you, Lost Kingdom and Halloween World, but you have to get 3 keys to unlock Wonderland and 5 for Space Zone (Please Note: 3 golden tickets=1 key). You can ride the rides!! That is the idea Frontier took when making RTC3!!! In ways the graphics are similar too. I don't really like the Sold-out-sales stock because I think the cover is rubbish and every time you want to play the game the installer pops-up even when it is installed! 1 year later in 2000 Theme Park Inc was released, the sequel to Theme Park World and the last in designer series of Bullfrog's games and their last game ever for PC. Sadly EA shut Bullfrog down mid-time 2004! This is why you MUST buy this game. |
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