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A Rollercoaster Tycooner's Dream

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a wonderful game!! The graphics are top notch, the music is beautiful, and the gameplay is fun for kids. It's nice to have that "brings back an old memory" experience after the first Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Up's:

More coasters/rides/attractions

Six Flags theme parks (great similarity to the real parks, too)

Lots of cool music

More ways to build a better (and more realistic) park

Down's:

The objectives are kinda hard. I haven't even won the easiest level yet!!

A few things are harder to find. Ie...the "Finances" menu.

Other than that, it's a great game!!!

the best even better than the first one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

it is super cool you have amillion kinds of rides and you can even design your own scenario. other new stuff to. you should definetly get it it is awesome

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome!I got this game for my 11th birthday,and I play it almost every single day.Great graphics,and easy to play!I suggest you buy it!!!!

More of the same

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game should have been a cheaper expansion, not a new 29.99 game. The game play is almost identicle to the first RCT. There is not much difference between RCT and RCT2 except for the Six Flags rollercoasters. The game was a real disappoinment for me.

Not as good as the first one,yet fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I already had Roller Coaster Tycoon w/expansion pack.Then I went to a store and saw Roller Coaster Tycoon 2.I thought WOW! Then I installed it and played it.I was unsuprised.It was pretty much the same thing!The only difference was that you could make your own secenrio.Unless you want to make your own secenrio,just buy the first one.

October now please

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What can I say that will convince you how good this game really is. One thing I can say is it is able to drag me away from the sims. Not that it replaced them, I just spend a little more time with RCT. I have seen the screen shots and I had to say wow, the peep got a little smarter, the graphics are a little cleaner and the building techniques are expanded.
From what Chris did when he made us Corkscrew Follies and Loopy Landscapes was improve and give us more freedom. I have a feeling that he did it again. I think we will be more pleased and glued to your computer for hour after entertaining hour. And hey for all you who have never tried RCT get the demo. Then look at the pictures on Chris Sawyer web site of the new changes.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Buggy!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was anxiously looking forward to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 after having enjoyed the original for so long.

The official site at one time offered a sneak peak into features which were absent from the original, and hinted that fans could look forward to seeing those features and more in any major future revision of the game. Well apparently this wasn't it.

As others have indicated, it really is a weak offering and lacks anything so spectacular that you are able to ignore the major glitches in the game. I won't list them because I notice other reviews have found most of the same ones I encountered.

What's really sad is RollerCoaster Tycoon seems to have been embraced by educators as a teaching tool for students so I expected much more out of this offering.

A little disappointed...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a really big fan of RCT1 and all of it's expansion packs. I play for hours on end. I was very excited about the new RCT2 coming out, however now I am now disappointed. RCT2 was not necessary for what they did to it or didn't do to it. It might as well have been another expansion pack for RCT1. I played for it for about two weeks (giving it a shot) but I am back to RCT1, it's a much better product!

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a better Rollercoaster Tycoon than the origional. You don't have to delete the trees before you build something, and the set up of the game itself is better.

RCT2 - more of the same - and better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is definitely an "E" ticket purchase.

What this game does better than any other coaster designer game is let you simulate building entire amusement parks, complete with rides, food and drink stalls, and other attractions. The roller coasters are the main attractions, but you can design and build entire parks with this game. RCT2 includes a massive number of different coaster designs and examples of each type, and also allows you to try to build your own roller coasters. There are many other types of amusement park rides, including log flumes and water slides, merry-go-rounds and ferris wheels, go kart race tracks and car rides, and many others. There are also over a dozen scenarios ranging from fairly easy to fairly difficult. The fact that all the scenarios are accessible from the beginning of the game is a big plus.

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 fun 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 costume to keep kids happy while in line. Finally, you must make enough money to be successful - most 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.

It also contains themes for your park, including the new and highly anticipated "Six Flags" parks and rides, and others that allow you to create Jurassic Park rip-offs, Futuristic fantasies, Children's Wonderlands, and many others. I especially enjoy the addition of themes - many real parks have themes such as the Wild West, the Far East, Americana, and others, and themes give you a chance to make your park look more real.

The replay value of this game is great. I find myself coming back to see if I can better my previous rating or ending park value, or both, or add something to my previous parks to make them more interesting. I know I've spent countless hours designing little tweaks to make my parks or rides "just right".

And my original complaint has finally been answered - there is a scenario design package included with this version. RCT2 allows you to begin designing an entire amusement park in minutes in whatever way you desire. You decide where the scenery goes - as well as the buildings and other features. You decide what it takes to win - money, rides, happiness, or other goals. You can then upload them to the official RCT2 site and share them. More importantly, there's a roller coaster designer utility that lets you design and build new coasters and try them without spending the money to design them "in game". You can also share rides you have designed and download other people's rides. There's also a utility to help keep your rides organized, which was a nice touch. Even better, there's many more scenarios to download and install from the RCT2 web site, some of which have been updated from the old game, and some totally new, as well as a couple of patches and the "pink water" scenery add-on.

If you've never tried Roller Coaster Tycoon, and you like amusement parks, you'll love the ability to design and build your own amusement park. RCT2 gives you almost everything that the old game had. But if you've already tried RCT1 you may find that this game just isn't different enough from the original, even though it includes the new scenario designer and other new features. The graphics haven't been updated much at all - and the graphics were already a little dated in RCT1. This game is a great beginning, but I feel like that it's not as updated as it could have been. There's already an expansion pack called "Wacky Worlds" due in May. This shows that more material could have been added at the beginning. I don't know about you, but having already spent money on RCT2 and finding out everything wasn't included on one disc, I feel a little cheated.

However, I believe that if you've never tried to build your own amusement park, and had a secret yen to try it, that RCT2 is a great game. Watch out Walt Disney - here comes Roller Coaster Tycoon 2!

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