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Improves on the first!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Roller Coaster Tycoon was a game that you could easily find yourself playing for hours into the wee hours of the night. The expansion packs added more coasters and rides but little else. Now, Version 2 is out and is it worth buying? I would say yes, but in some ways I was a little disappointed.

On the plus side, there are a TON of rides and new scenery and shops. Far far more than were in the original game. There are a lot more ways you can customize your ride as well, from the usual color choices, to lots of music selections and new entrance and exit choices. There are many more scenerios, which are happily organized into levels so you can start at the beginner level and work your way up. The game supports a higher screen resolution and you can now create your own scenarios and design coasters apart from the game itself.

On the down side, as a previous player I found some things hard to find as they've been moved around and re-organized a bit. I suppose it's fine for new players, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but in most cases, I really didn't even see the point. I would have liked more coaster and ride designs as well. Really disappointed with how many offer just one selection for a pre-designed ride. There should be at least two I think for every ride.

I also got a bit frustrated with some of the scenarios. You would start working on a park and the rating would go south before you really had time to figure out what the park's problems were, and would be virtually impossible to recover from. Oh well, I guess some people will enjoy the challenge. I just found it annoying.

And the look of the game is basically identical. Guests walking around and riding the rides, very cartoony look to everything, same type of staff options, etc. No real changes to what guests do for instance. I didn't really expect much change from what the box showed, but would have been nice to see more.

Overall, I loved all the new rides and options, but it really is just a lot of the same game. If you loved the original, you'll definitely like this game too. But here's hoping a version 3 will show us a bit more innovation.

Addictive fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is another addition to the Roller Coaster Tycoon Series and it rocks. I have all the previous ones and once i saw this I knew I had to get it. If you have Roller coaster tycoon already, You should buy this game!!WHY?you ask
#1 stack scenery to build buildings, and really make a ride cool.
#2 many more rides and scenery(I have built a rollercoaster with a top speed of over 110 mph and the guest will actually go on it now that is crazy)
#3 more music for your rides to play.
One downer is it takes so long to load and save and start up.
Plus There is no Mega Park like on the previous versions.
There are additions to this game to buy.
You can also download more parks off of rollercoastertycoon.com on the internet. If you are new to the series I would recomend you buy this game,it blows all the other ThemPark sims away.
Before I got into the Series I bought Sim Theme Park for PC.It was fun for a while but after you get many things going in your park it gets sooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow!!!Buy RCT 2 it is highly addictive. A nice addition to this game is you can create your own senerios. I made about 5 and then on the 6th one I finally got the paths right to the enterance of the park. I would recomend that you be good at techinical video games or you might not get this for a while or if a person is to young too figure it out. My sister is just getting it now after a couple months of playing. If you good at technical games like me you will get how to play after 10 min. If you like simcity buy this game. I wish they would come out with one of these where you can design parking spaces and how guests can get to your park. You can make strets in your park when you make a scenerio but there are no cars that drive on it. but that doesn't really matter much at all because this game rules!!!

Close but no cigar

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: December 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First things first - I have been playing RCT from the start and probably by time I die I will have spent a good two or three years solid on this game.

Second - I loved the original RCT and it's expansion packs.

So, as a biased reviewer this is what I have to say...

1. The game is not perfect - but neither was Loopy Landscapes - how many of us had to get the patch because guests stopped coming once the research was done? So all you harsh reviewers out there please give it a break. I personally have a problem with loading it - The music loops itself like a stuck CD and the game will crash upon first attempt so I have to start over - but once that's done everything's okay. Saved scenarios come up lightning quick and so do new ones.

2. The new themes are a nice try, but the Sports is kind of lame. Pirates and Wild West are great. So is being able to stack scenery.

3. New rollercoaster building area is great - no more squeezing experimental megacoasters into your existing landscape and then having to tear them down again when the barf factor is just way too high. Plus, your money won't run out this way. YAY!

4. I really miss the mountain building feature - though it took up a lot of $ in scenarios. Boo-hoo!

5. One can no longer play on desktop - so much for wasting time at work. Boo-hoo again! :)

6. Am I the only one who couldn't care less about Six Flags parks? I much prefer the more original scenarios or building my own from scratch - I definitely could have done without the pre-fab parks. But some of them are fun, like Magic Mountain (which I've been to a hundred times - that was fun to mess with).

7. Thank god the guests are a little more intelligent - no more building single pathways just to keep them from going in circles. So fewer "it's too crowded here"'s. YAY!

All in all I liked it - it was what I expected. Sometimes though the smallest things make the biggest differences. I hope if there is an expansion pack for RCT2 it will bring back the mountains and the desktop feature at least...

Thanks Chris Sawyer for draining yet more of my life away. :)

More like an expansion pack, but who cares...get it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you don't have RCT or even Loopy landscapes (the 2nd RCT1 expansion pack)....don't even hesitate to buy this game!

There is nothing extremly new about playing this game...it has much of the same controls, menus, scenery, rides, goals, etc. In fact, it makes RCT1 look like the beta version.
The gameplay is still very easy and if you can use Windows, you can find yourself around this game very quickly. The tutorials are still helpful and the selection of gameplay on the menu is nicely laid out and lets you jump into any level of expertise you feel comfortable with. (I will warn you, I have found these scenerios-even the "easy ones" a bit more challenging that the first series!)

The cons-There isnt as much choice in pathways and not many new flat rides which is a bit disapointing. Also, because of the new engine or something, the selection of rides is extended to include almost each type of car as a seperate ride (ie: in the old game, you could switch your boat hire ride to become swans or bumper boats....here, Swans, Bumper Boats, Row Boats are each considered a seperate ride to construct).
There are some great additions to existing themes from the first series (such as new water effects, icecubes, and new skulls) along with some brand new ones such as Pirate (argh matey!), Mechanical, Overgrown Garden, an "Old West" (not to be confused with the previous and still current "mining town") and more! The ability to put a wider array of signage is also much fun!
One of the biggest fun additions to the game is the ability to add walls and roofs (a skill sorta hard to master, but read your instruction manual carefully and practice with that shift/conrol key and you'll be a master builder in no time).
What you will find yourself doing is plenty more themeing and fine detailing your parks opposed to building coasters. Although, if designing coasters is your thing, then you will enjoy the on-board track manager and coaster designer which allows you to build outside of a scenerio. There is also the great sandbox of being able to design your own scenerios and even convert one of your saved games into a scenerio.

Oh ya, this game is also a bit of a PR [machine] for my beloved Six Flags Inc. Do not buy this game just for the advertised sims of 5 real parks....I can tell you from partial experience (and being an employee of one), these are poor representations (mostly because the DC/WB rights were not purchased by RCT with the SF rights...so all those great Looney Tunes and Batman themed attractions dont exist or are altered). The good news...there is enought Six Flags specific and other theming here that you can probably build a better representation of any of the parks yourself!

Don't fret...I'm sure all the missing fun of more pathway choices and more flat rides will be along soon with an expansion pack to squeeze a few more bucks out of us RCT fans. Some may argue that this game itself could've been just another RCT expansion pack...but since the retail price is so low, it doesnt matter...get this "upgrade" and if you miss your RCT1 scenerios that much, you can download the RCT2 adaption of them at the official website (oh ya, RCT always has excellent online support)

You can be disapointed in this game as a sequel, but you can not deny this is a great game!

Boring For Those That Played Out Rollercoaster Tycoon 1

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: December 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you've never played the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, than by all means, quickly buy the sequel because it's probably one of the most enjoyable games ever. It has a simple concept behind it yet the game keeps you hooked for months. If you love designing and creating, this IS the game for you as it's basically a layman's theme park builder. For those that did play the first game, I have a small warning for you: Unless you're hopelessly addicted to the first game and its many expansions, you probably won't get much out of the sequel. It's almost a carbon copy of the first game. Some of the rollercoaster building mechanics have changed, there are new attractions, and you can now play on maps that are realistic portrayals of the popular Six Flags theme park chain. Other than that, everything is the same, even the graphics (which are usually the first thing to get updated in a sequel) don't look any different. My recommendation for anyone that is the patient type and wishes to buy this game is to wait a month or two. There are already two expansions for the sequel. Games like these are quickly packaged into bargain combo packs and I imagine it won't be long before both expansions are available with the original game at a low price.

RollerCoaster Tycoon: The Marketer's Expansion

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The words of the title basically describe this long-awaited "sequel" to RollerCoaster Tycoon. Fans had aspirations of being able to ride on your own ride, night/day, fireworks, more original sounds, more intricate shops, a restaurant, parking lot, etc. That list was out there... on many notable RollerCoaster Tycoon forums. What did Infogrames and Chris Sawyer do? They inked a deal with Six Flags, called a combination of RollerCoaster Tycoon and Loopy Landscapes with a few new features a "sequel." This game would have faired as an expansion, but to call it an original game doesn't sound right at all. The same outdated (but yes, eyefriendly) engine has been used, rides look same... everything is how it was, with a minor interface change. Other than that, it's the same game with a large Six Flags presence. I loved the first games very much. Loopy Landscapes was great, but some of the parks were too "busy" and the actual looks of the parks seemed to take away from the simple joys of building a RollerCoaster and food stand. Anyway - back on topic - If you recently got the first game and the LL expansion, then don't bother with this one. You truly aren't missing anything. I'm very sorry that this series seems to be going where the Sims has gone - countless expansions without an actual new game.

Basically a stand-alone expansion disk

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game at a local retail store yesterday. (It was on the shelves early). Here's the good and bad.
GOOD- New rides, new scenario/coaster builders, guests do a few new things (like watch you build a new coaster)Six Flags parks, faster and higher coasters, new brake blocks cut down on accidents.
BAD- A few bugs here and there (waiting on a patch), Six Flags parks are incomplete (scenario tells you to finish the park yourself!) some real-world rides have different names ("Superman the Escape" becomes "The Escape"), still can't zoom in any closer to your guests, V2 coaster doesn't operate true to original, disk in a paper sleeve (no jewel case)
It may have a new engine, but it looks and acts just like the orginal. I don't feel this is really a sequel, it's more like an expansion.

The sequel to the most popular game has came out.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Infogrames decided not to make an expansion pack to Roller Coaster Tycoon, but to make a sequel to the original.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 has tutorials inside the game so for those of you who never played Roller Coaster Tycoon doesn't have to worry. The main feature of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is that the map got bigger than the original version. The original version was 128*28 but Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is 256*56. Basically, it got twice bigger. Also, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 has lots of themes. You can build your own park using jungle, jurassic, space, or ghost theme. There's even more. You can meet the real roller coasters of Six Flags. For examples, 'Deja Vu', 'Medusa', 'Chang', 'V2', 'X', and 'Titan'. The part that I was disappointed was that it didn't have new brand features. Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is not different from the original version, except that the graphic got a tiny bit better. If you are one of those fans who love Six Flags and roller coasters, I highly recommend this game.

I was a little disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game as a holiday gift and I tried hard to enjoy it but I've given up. I agree with a lot of the earlier reviews that there are a lot of improvements in the game but there is one large downgrade that just seems to ruin what should have been such a great game. The graphics. Essentially the graphics hasn't changed but what they decided to do was set the view farther out (on the closet zoom available). It gives you a larger area to see but ended up giving me a disconnected feeling. The people are smaller, the rides themselves feel smaller, the small details that made the first game so great have been blurred. The graphics also felt a little sluggish at times versus the original's smooth. I built the ride called Enterprise, having ridden the real version of this ride I know it's supposed to lift and decline smoothly as did all the rides in the original game; yet in this version the rides jerks and stops and jerks and stops until it rises to its peak and declines in the same fashion. If you are a detail oriented person, you'll love the new scenery and structures, you can easily spend hours on building one ride. As a casual gamer, I'd rather be able to build a ride in a fair amount of time and move on. It would be nicer if the game allowed you to build in the pause mode. I hope they add the best features of both these games
until then I'll stick with the orignal RCT.

A good game that still goes on and on...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 34 / 67
Date: July 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Chris Sawyer has done it again!
RTC2(Roller Coaster Tycoon 2) has new roller coaster based
on Sixs Flags. Also the game's graphic is 4-D and the A.I is much better. It has higher limit for the height of the roller-coasters, they have over 20 Sixs Flags rides, new shops, Sixs Flags scenarios, scenario editor, metalic wall, fences, gardens,
roofs, etc.!
RTC2 is going to work on 98, 2000, ME, and WIN XP.
Don't buy expasion packs of RTC, because now the big event is coming soon.
Currently I give 5 stars and this is the greatest simulation(RT)
game ever made!

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