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Not for Original RTC fans~

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: November 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This sequel is such a major disappointment for those of us who have played and fell in love with the original RTC and those expansion packs. Too many choices have been taken away and the real strategy and skill needed in the original game has been dimished. Very very limited graphic improvements, some even negative graphic changes. A few more rides but many of your fun choices for scenery and themes is gone. This pack is a HUGE disappointment for RTC fans and the only good thing is...it will definitely cure you of those late night, 5 hour RTC playing sessions. I played this game less than 10 times now, and have given the thing away. What a huge shame.

This is NOT a sequel, more like an OVERHYPED EXPANSION game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 24
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just a word of warning for anyone expecting a completely new game. Before you pre-order this title, take a look at the screenshots for the new game. You can find some on the company's website or any PC game review website. The sequel looks EXACTLY like the original game. They've altered the roller coaster design features a little and inserted a few different rides but overall, this game is almost a carbon copy of the first one. If you enjoyed Corkscrew Follies and the other expansion game, this game is for you as all it really is is more maps and a few more rides but if you're expecting something different (which I always do with sequels) you're going to be horribly disappointed. Even the graphics engine is still the same. This game is primarily meant to cash in on one of the most popular game series ever.

roller coaster tycoon 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

overall, i think roller coaster tycoon 2 was afwul.First of all, you didn't have senarios such as forest fronters wich were easy and you could build a park just like you want and you could win whatever you did.Also if you wach a guest he/she will think"i think someone is waching me"and leave the park.however,i did like the new rides.

buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game seem to have a few annoying bugs. Impossible or very difficult to build paths to rides that are raised. Buildings appear in one location but when view is rotated they appear in another making them unreachable.

No patches available so up on the shelf it went. Pity seemed like fun.

Don't Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Those of you who own the first three RollerCoaster Tycoon games should stick with them, there is no need to buy this "Not New" and "Not Improved" version of the orginal. At a time when software companies are competing with the likes of X Box and Game Cube one would think a little more time and consideration would have gone into the new and improved RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, sadly this is not the case. The new rides that are provided with this game are the only addition to an otherwise clone of the original, the remainder of the features and rides are mostly the same and new features are lacking. Keep your money in your wallet and skip this one!

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.

Good grief

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

We were looking forward to loving this game. We did love it the first three times we played it.

Then it quit working. Click the play button on the splash screen, and nothing happens. The other two buttons still work. But can't play the game.

Trying to play the game starts a task with a name that looks suspiciously like a Windows registry key, which hangs and locks up the CDROM drive, and eventually hangs the entire system (hard boot time -- ctrl-alt-del won't even unfreeze it). While we don't have a really new machine, our machine is comfortably above the minimum requirements for playing the game.

Uninstall the game (why not? maybe reinstalling will help, yes?).

Nope. It won't uninstall. There's some braindead message about an unknown error on an undefined group of files, or something like that.

Can't reinstall. The setup program assumes I still want to uninstall.

Good grief.

So, now, I'm really not looking forward to talking to tech support.

Even if it turns out to be simple and quick to fix, this is entirely unacceptable. The rct2 website ... doesn't help -- it seems they actually prefer a phone call, since they don't provide any help on the website.

The phone call, no big deal for most, is a problem for the hearing impaired (that would be me). I'll manage, but I'm one severely dissatisfied user at this point, and my 7-year-old son ("Mama, why don't you just fix it?) is even more so.

Good grief.

Yeah, sure, it looks like a terrific game. I'd love to have been able to give it 5 stars. Really. There's just this one little problem.

Good grief.

Beware of Infogrames

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought a copy of RC 2 for my 11 year old son. It wouldn't install properly and after making the suggestion of "go find some other drivers", the tech support team said "tough luck".

My computer is less than a year old and is a DELL. The Infogrames guys just do not support their product.

dissapointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i just got it today and its not what i expected. Its not that theres anything wrong with it but for the rct1 gamer you wont like it. Its really not that different from rct1. sure better graphics and a couple new rides but it still has most of the same problems as rct1 and its expansions. AI are just as stupid and its still lacking the game engine to recreate a real park. i was all hyped for it but now im very dissapointed. Still its on [...] i say u giv it a shot

Awful, just awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 28
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've never played so a boring game in my life. I'd rather play some other bad game like WarCraft 3 than this stuff. I almost fell asleep during the first park, and passed out while trying to beat the second one. I drank some coffee and but that won't help when playing this game. This game has a negative effect on caffine and actually negates it. If you hate your life and want to find something to make it worse play this game!!

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