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Awsome yet complexing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you love to have fun this is a game for you!This has 3 of the best games in one box!To start out the original one is awsome and the best part is each scenairo is alot better than the other one!Then in corkscrew follies you have more harder scenairos but they are alot funner.Then in Loopy Landscapes you have complexing scenarios but they are so much fun! when you start this expansion start out with arid heights. I have had this game since it came out and im still having fun!Dont listin to any bad reviews because they are mad cuz they cant do it!happy gaming!

More than an "E" ticket...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: August 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The "Gold Edition" of "Roller Coaster Tycoon" also includes both of the expansion discs - the "Corkscrew Follies" expansion, and the "Loopy Landscapes" expansion. It is definitely an "E" ticket purchase.

The first disc, "Roller Coaster Tycoon", lets you simulate building amusement parks - complete with rides, food and drink stalls, and other attractions. The coasters are the main attraction, but you can design and build entire parks with this disc. It includes 14 different coaster designs and some examples of each type, and also allows you to try to build your own coasters. There are other types of amusement park rides, including water slides, merry-go-rounds and ferris wheels, go kart race tracks, and many others. There are also over two dozen scenarios ranging from fairly easy to fairly difficult.

This disc is a great beginning to this pack of products. It allows you to begin designing your own amusement park in minutes in whatever way you desire. Your park's rating (how much the people like the total experience) depends on a mix of everything - from the types of rides you offer and how scary they are, to the amount of food, drink, and other amenities you offer them. You must provide staff - maintenance men to clean the paths, empty the trash, and cut the grass; mechanics to repair and inspect the rides; security guards to keep vandalism in check; and entertainers in weird costumes to keep kids happy while in lines. Finally, you must make enough money to be successful - many parks start with loans you must pay off in order to win with a positive balance, although it is possible to win with a negative balance. Try designing a coaster that's really scary that won't end up causing accidents!

The second disc, "Corkscrew Follies" includes even more coaster types, new rides and new attractions, and 30 more scenarios for you to attempt - many quite a bit different, with varying difficulty levels, from the original disc.

The Corkscrew coasters, the Steel Twister coasters, the Side Friction coasters, and the Virginia Reels make great additions to RCT parks you have already designed and saved, and also provide more rides to design tracks for. My favorite section of this add-on is the ability to paint tracks different colors in different places. Even a small touch like this one can add to more customer appreciation of your rides and your park. The new scenarios include many really unusual parks - including ones built on seaside cliffs and ones built in the middle of the desert.

"Loopy Landscapes", the third in the series, adds 30 more scenarios, a couple new coasters, more rides and attractions, and more new theme sets. Many of the scenarios for you to complete are coaster finishing challenges - where you are given coasters that have already begun construction and are challenged to finish it and have it be exciting enough without being too nausea inducing. These are the most challenging scenarios so far.

It also contains six more new themes for your park, allowing you to create Jurassic Park rip-offs, Martian madness, Wonderland fantasies, and many others. I especially enjoy the addition of complete park themes - many real parks have themes such as "Wild West", "Far East", "Americana", and others, and themes give you a chance to try these out while playing the game.

In the Gold Edition you get all of this in one convenient package for the same price as the original game. This gives you almost 100 scenarios, all of the park themes and theme ride entrances, all the shops - including the long-awaited "T-Shirt Shop" and the really strange and fun "Tentacle" shop, and more. Yes, all the rides from all three editions, and all of the expansions to these rides. This makes this package one of the best values in coaster building games. This edition also includes the "freebies" that are offered on the Roller Coaster Tycoon website - three Roller Coaster Tycoon versions of actual amusement parks, and the "Fort Ticonderoga" park.

The replay value of this collection is great. I find myself being drawn back over and over again to see if I can better my previous rating or ending park value, or both, or add something to the previous parks to make them more interesting.

My only complaint is that there is still no scenario design package included with this game. I'd like to be able to design my own starter parks to share with others - possibly even something as elaborate as Disneyland or Walt Disney World. However, I've heard that there is a new expansion under way that may give us scenario designing tools.

If you've never tried Roller Coaster Tycoon, and you like amusement parks, you'll love the ability to design and build your own park. The Gold Edition gives you all the current versions of the program, and if you don't own Roller Coaster Tycoon already, it makes a great addition to your computer game program library. If you already own RCT, then it may still be a good value due to its inclusion of both of the expansion packs.

Watch out Walt Disney - here comes Roller Coaster Tycoon!

It's the No.1~!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: July 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You guys all know that Rollercoaster Tyccon is all fun and stuff but this is great.. I bought all the things seperately but you guys can get all of them in one! the price is cheaper too~ You'll enjoy all the expansion packs. There's always something new~! You can build all kind of things~! In your own design too~ You can build water rides, all kinds of cool coasters, kiddie rides, flat rides, shops and stalls also can make your park into a garden that can be so beautiful... I can't even list them all there's so many cool things you can do~! really cool to build your own park and design your own coasters and see how they work... No matter what you'll love this game! not violent, good for creativity, perfect game for everyone... It's a really fun game. You'll enjoy it~ so Play it~! you won't regret~!

YOU DO NOT HAVE A LIFE WITHOUT THIS GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I CAN NOT BEGIN TO EXPLAIN. IF YOU ARE INTO CHESS, CHECKERS, GAMES OF STRATAGIES, THIS IS YOUR GAME!
YOU WILL HOOKED ON FOR HOURS. ONLY ONE PROBLEM: THIS GAME MAKES YOU EAT COLD DINNERS EVERYDAY BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT LEAVE THE MONITOR FOR ONE SECOND. THIS IS THE BEST SIMULATION GAME ON EARTH AND I CONGRADULATE CHRIS SAWYER ON A SUPERB PREFORMANCE. NOT ONLY CAN YOU PLAY THIS GAME BUT YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD MORE PRE BUILT TRACKS ONLINE AND UPLOAD YOURS FOR OTHERS TO DOWNLOAD @ WWW.ROLLERCOASTERTYCOON.COM
I HOPE TO SEE MORE GREAT GAMES FROM CHRIS SAWYER AND THE CREW

GREAT GAME!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: December 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game especially if you get bored easily (like me). I did have to give it four stars though, but only because after you've played it for 3 months in a row, it gets kinda boring. The only complaints that I've seen in these reviews have been about how it's annoying that the people get stuck. WELL, this is definately NOT a legitamite complaint because it's PART OF THE GAME! It's your job to create an easy-to-navigate system of walkways so that your guests can get through the park and to what they want to get to without a hassle. (by the way i'm 15 in case you were wondering) I have the gold edition and the expansion packs are great. THIS IS A GREAT GIFT

well that's it, happy gaming everyone

Hours of Fun!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Make sure you have a lot of time to kill because this game just sucks you in right from the beginning. This is a great game!! There are so many different options available to you from being able to create your own rides, share them with other RC Tycoon users or download rides that other people have made. I guarantee you you'll be hooked right from the start.

ONE OF THE GREATEST SIM GAMES I HAVE EVER PLAYED!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I origionally had bought this game for my sister for her birthday, but I ended up playing this game more than her. The graphics are flawless, and it is a genius idea. I mean, c'mon,! you get to build your own theme park and rides and then you get to watch people ride on them and tell you about them, so you can modify it to their needs. I would give this game six stars if I could, but Five is the highest I could choose!

Got them all, if you don't get this one!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. Have bought other simulation games, roller coasters, theme parks, but this is by far the best of all of them. I can't wait unitl the new RCT 2 comes out in October. I may be over 40, but this is almost as much fun as being at a park (without getting sick on the rides), and I feel like a kid again.

Roller Coaster Tycoon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I purchased RollerCoaster Tycoon several months ago, and I am so amazed on how much fun it is.. I have played it so many times, and each time it's different.

I bought one for my grandson, and he is on it constantly, in fact that is why I am buying the Gold Edition, to give him for his birthday.

I hope you will continue to come up with more fun things to do on the computer.

Thank you,
Alice A. Jones
Council Bluffs, Ia

Not for me

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: October 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was first wondering about this when I saw a commercial for this. But, after going to our mall, we found out that it was just a bundled pack of all three games. I decided not to get it. Take my advice; if you want to get started in Roller Coaster Tycoon, then by all means get it. But if you already own the both expansion packs(which I do), DON"T GET IT!

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