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Good, but no RCT

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 86 / 100
Date: January 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sim Theme Park is Bullfrogs answer to the crown that was stolen from them by Roller Coaster Tycoon ( Bullfrog made the FIRST theme park developer game Theme Park) and comes close but falls short in many ways. First the good stuff, STP has a fantastic graphic engine which makes the rides look fantastic. The ability to ride the rides you make and walk through your park is a major plus. But, the bad part is that the game lacks depth. Beat the first park and the game is basicly over, you get 3 new parks but there just the same rides with diffrent looks. The game requires a 3D card and some hefty space on your computer to run some what smoothly. If your looking for a great game, with more options and fun, that can run on your computer no matter what go with Roller Coaster Tycoon and youll be hooked and love every minute of it. By the way, dont pay 40 bucks for it either, id sell my copy of it, without the box, just instructions and game for 20 or less. Only get this if your a diehard theme park fan or are looking for a couple hours of graphic bliss.

Good and Bad but not 'The Best'

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 50 / 54
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

SimTheme Park is beautiful to look at, and its ability to let you RIDE your rides (and walk around your park with a camcorder) is cooler than cool, but if you've played Roller Coaster Tycoon (and LOVED it, as everyone who's ever played it does), then you'll be sorely disappointed in this game. Players won't be able to rotate the play area or customize their rides to anywhere NEAR the level of detail Roller Coaster Tycoon employed, and the gameplay, while pretty, is pretty slow; even on GOOD computers with 3D cards.

A disappointment.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 38 / 39
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

An avid fan of both SIM products and of RollerCoaster Tycoon, I found this game a disappointment.

I have a new and exceptionally fast machine (Pentium III with 128 MB RAM), and this program, even from the earliest stages of the game, crawled through each step. As importantly, there are too many things getting in the way of good, old-fashioned game play--the ever-present assistant, the kloodgy interface, the low-grade sea-sickedness one gets from the constant 3D view. Whereas I couldn't stop myself from playing RollerCoaster Tycoon for hours on end, I found it easy to uninstall this software after only four hours of game play.

Buyer beware: this game looks and feels NOTHING like RollerCoaster Tycoon. Your best bet, if you really want to try this game, is to wait until the price drops...

Game of the Year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 59 / 70
Date: November 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Spent many a sleepless night playing this game. They *finally* got it right! If you ever thought you could build the best roller coaster and wanted to see what it's like to actually ride it, you gotta get this game. It's so much fun to walk around in "camcorder" mode and check out the park you've built. Plus, getting on a ride and watching all these doe-eyed, chubby-cheeked kids screaming their heads off... too funny! Great, non-violent, non-stop entertainment. Make sure you've got a decent system - at least a P2-300 and a good 3D card as it does start to slow down once the park fills up.

Almost, but not quite good enough

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 35 / 35
Date: December 02, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Sim Theme Park is a good game but the Sim games have met their match in this area with Roller Coaster Tycoon. The gameplay, graphics, and every thing else is nowhere as good as Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Not as good as Roller Coaster Tycoon

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 50 / 63
Date: November 23, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a good example of how a game company should not use 3D. With the whole game in 3D, it performs rather poorly. I have a Celeron 466 and a TNT2 video card, and scrolling across the screen lags. I think they put too much emphasis on how it looks rather then how it plays. If you want a more realistic and exciting (yet not as pretty) game about theme parks, get Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Not nearly as good as it looks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 19
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was really hoping this game would be good. I think Rollercoaster Tycoon is one of the best games ever made and seeing this game on sale at Best Buy seemed like a good choice. Although the game looked like a slighltly more whimsical RCT, I was really excited about riding my own rides and walking through the park. Unfortunately the game is too slow and the actual things in the park are not interesting enough to make you care about the first person point of view. The game is more like a silly N64 game that is confusing and tedious than an actual simulation game. Unless you have alot of room on your computer and a great graphics card I wouldn't recommend you buy it, and even if you do I still wouldn't. Like everyone else's review I agree that you should spend your money on Rollercoaster Tycoon and leave this one to rot on the shelf.

Simple, yet complicated

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 20 / 24
Date: September 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

SIM THEME PARK is both complex and simple at once, which can get confusing. It seems to be aimed at the grade school set, yet includes controls which end up being complex. The 3D graphics are eye-poppingly fancy, and the rides and attractions are clever, but the theme parks don't seem real like they do in Roller Coaster Tycoon. Nevertheless, this game is a fun addition to your sim library.

This game is equipped with a tutorial mode, which introduces us to an annoying little character who talks all the time, attempting to explain how each control works. After I turned the tutorial-guy off, I found it much more pleasant to play this game in which you design a theme park complete with rides, sideshows, restaurants, a staff, and other attractions.

This game features parks with Disneyland-worthy themes such as Halloween (coffin restrooms!) and Prehistory (think a kinder, gentler Jurassic Park), which have clever rides and attractions.

One really cool feature is the "ride it" option which allows you to see your ride from the perspective of someone who is on the ride. You can also see things from the perspective of security cameras. This is fun, but the novelty wears off.

I enjoyed checking out the various types of theme parks in this game, which you get to play by earning golden keys (for reaching certain goals) but I ended up going back to Roller Coaster Tycoon, which I think is a superior game. I give this game 3 stars for anyone over 12, but possibly more stars for anyone younger.

Uninspired

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: January 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well there's a lot of ways this game could have been fun, IF only they had tried to put more into it, ok it says on the front box that you can chose from 4 different types of parks, In reality all the parks are the same, just different animation, they all have a feris wheel, flying bird thing, ect... The little talking advisor cannonball in the corner is insanely inoying, and yet they make it so that you HAVE to have him to play the game, other wise you'll not be able to get to problems in time. I mean are programers IDIOTS? Do they think that a little cannonball making bad jokes and talking in the most annoying voice you have ever heard is what we really want to have as an advisor? And why do they animate the kids and everything in the cut sceens so unrealistic and stupid looking? In almost every game programers feel that they need to make humans look as stupid as possible, why? Its not funny, it demotes the animators intelegence. Anyways the only thing thats really good about it is that you can ride your own roller coasters, and you can turn the little cannonball guy off! Although it will be harder to manage without him.

I thought they could have done better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: December 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I cant believe the makers of SimCity 3000 would want to put their name on this piece of software. I have a pretty modern PC (HP Pavilion 380 MHZ, etc. etc.) and even though I toggled the options in their "control panel", I was still faced with choppy game play. It was SLOW! So, I went to the web site and downloaded a "patch" to supposedly fix that problem. Well, this just made things worse. The graphics were now that of an Atari 2600 with a snails pace gameplay! The only 'good' thing about this game, is that you can ride the rides. Even then, you still experience the slow gameplay. I originally thought it was because I didnt have a fancy 3D accelerator card. However, they give you a choice of using one or not. Even after I chose not to use one, the game play was STILL rough (? ).

If you want a fun theme park game, check out Roller Coaster Tycoon from Hasbro. Roller Coaster Tycoon made me realize it wasn't my system that had the problem, it was Sim Theme Park. The system expectations for Sim theme Park seem to be too high today for most systems.

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