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IT'S AWSOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 36
Date: February 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think it will be just the WORLD'S best computer game. New roller coasters, shops, thrill rides, seanery, and more. I hope they have the real park for CEDAR POINT!!! GET THIS GAME!!

hmmm... ok add-on I guess.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 33
Date: February 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow, I didn't know Chirs Sawyer(the company name and real person's name's the same) would plan to release a expansion pack for RCT2 so soon. I got RCT2 because I liked RCT1 and the expasion packs but two years of playing and it is true that it's getting a bit boring.
But who knows, this expansion pack might have something unique to play and I strongly recommend for people who really likes RCT2, but we'll see what kind of expansion pack this will be.

Add on so soon?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 29 / 31
Date: March 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK - the good news is - this seems to be worth =some= money.

This expansion pack (you will need the original Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 to use this) adds a lot of new scenery like the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, and other scenery to make parks an international experience. There are almost 20 new scenarios, 50 new ride types, and about 250 new game elements, mostly scenery.

OK - the bad news is - I don't think it's worth the current price of admission.

A lot of the "new rides" are just re-designs of old coasters. There's no new stores or other new goodies. Still only the Scenario Editor allows you to use the mountain maker. Many of the new scenery elements take up a lot of slots on the scenario editor. For instance, the "Golden Gate Bridge" needs five (5) slots - thus taking up room that could be used for other park scenery.

With this coming out so soon after RCT2, I can't help but ask if this was just a way to squeeze more dollars out of RCT fans. I would have been much happier if these "extras" had been included with the RCT2 first disc. Sure, we might have had to wait a little longer for RCT2, but we would have gotten a much more developed product. This "extra" pack had to have already either been in development or already totally developed for the short time between RCT2 and the first expansion pack release date.

I'll be watching carefully for any future RCT2 releases within a year - and see if they might include "Wacky Worlds" as an extra feature, just as they did with RCT1's "Loopy Landscapes" (which also included the add-ons from RCT1's "Corkscrew Follies"). Those who want to save money might want to wait till the end of the year, when either a third disc (with this second disc included) might be released, or the prices come down as they do for all video games.

Recommended, but only for Roller Coaster Tycoon purists.

The new Roller Coaster Tycoon Wacky Worlds

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 34
Date: April 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

1. The new Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 game has gotten much harder.
And now Wacky Worlds... what are customers asking for? Not wacky cities, none of that. Just medium challenging regular games. Unless some want it to be hard, Wacky Worlds is not for you. Neither is it for me. Just forget about it... This, just the RCT2 game will not be an ultimate seller like other simulation games. At least it is not..... gulp.... Sim City. Now that is a complicated game.

milking the franchise

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was seriously looking forward to this add-on, since I thought there was still so much more they could do with Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. However, this is not an add-on worth the same price as the game itself.

* Chris Sawyer seems to still demand you play the game his way. There is no way to use new designs in old save games that I can find. You're extremely limited in the number of items that can be active on any particular map. There is no reason for this.

* Most (like almost ALL) of the new designs are simply different cars for old vehicle designs. For example, one "new" design is a TGV-themed coaster (TGV is the French bullet train). It's simply the LIM-launched coaster with different looking cars--yet it's marketed as a completely new type of rollercoaster.

* The popular mountain-editing tool is still missing from in-game. You can only use it in the scenario editor.

* Some of the new game elements count for multiple objects against your object limitations. The suspension bridge is a pretty poor take-off on the Golden Gate Bridge. It takes 5 separate object elements to use it--which means there are 5 other objects (walls, flowers, or other things) you can't use.

* The "North America" theme really should be called "USA" theme.

* The manual is horribly underwritten. Things are purposely omitted so you can "discover things on your own"...or buy the strategy guide.

If you're obssesd...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this and for $$ it's not worth it. All of the extras just include new scenery items. There arn't any new rides either. What they call new rides are just the same tracks with different cars. Want new food stands? well there arn't any! However, for those who want more pre-made games, this add on has a few. Overall if you're an obssesd fan of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 than I guess it's worth the $$$.

Worst RollerCoaster Tycoon to Date!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: May 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a huge let down! There are 17 new sceneros and a little over 50 new rides..... nothing worth mentioning. I recomend any RCT fan to wait till this ones price drops because this game requires the RCT2 disc to run it! That's right, the Wacky Worlds disc does not play the game. on the RCT2 disc the Wacky Worlds parks simply have a WW next to them. It really isn't worth it's price!

Not clever, not imaginative, not fun, not cheap.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: May 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this does not work or play like the RCT 1 expansion packs. All it does is fill your RCT2 directories with new stuff, and you use your original RCT2 disc to play it.

Secondly, of all of the "new" roller coasters, I have yet to find one that is not simply an old roller coaster type with new cars or scenery for that Scenario, and if you want to use the Asian roller coasters (for example) in ANY OTHER PARK, forget it; the game doesn't let you mix and match.

Thirdly, of all of the "new" (slightly revamped) coasters available, none of them come with pre-designed tracks that I have found. I don't enjoy building my own tracks, but if I want to use any of these new coasters I am forced to build my own.

Finally, of all of the neat things that they could have done to enhance the Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 experience that we all enjoy, this falls very very short for the money that they are asking for it. (When are those of us with expensive graphics cards ever going to be able to ride our rides?)

Not worth it at all. . .

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: May 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is just wrong! When the original RollerCoaster Tycoon game came out years ago - THAT was a smash; the new RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 : Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack - ? - that's a bunch of [hooey]!

The new "more than 50 rides" available in this expansion pack are merely different train styles or track substitutions. I think there's five different versions of the same rollercoaster - but they're different only because the cars are different designs. Chris Sawyer and Infogrames Interactive need to understand that taking an old ride, polishing up the cars and slapping a new name on it - does not make it NEW! Now if the box said "50 new car designs" then I would have known beforehand and wouldn't have wasted [money] on this wasted bulk.

And that's not all, the "wacky" themes are pretty bland and not creative at all. Sure, it's clever in some surreal way, but it loses it's appeal five minutes after initial game launch. If I'm sick of it after five minutes, I doubt I'll want to finish off the 17 new scenarios in this expansion pack.

The four things Chris Sawyer does not take into consideration for RollerCoaster Tycoon are. . .

(1) Scenario Editor. When using the scenario editor you are limited to the number of objects you can select - that needs to go. You should be able to use ALL of the objects and have a completely dynamic palette for constructing your park and not worry about skipping some options and hope not to regret it when you can't find the tool upon creation of your park. There is no limit to creativity, so don't limit our options. Simple as that.

(2) Map size. It's understandable that some people play this game just to pass the scenarios and feel like they accomplished something with their day, but I like to create my own parks - and sometimes the map size constraints don't make it too easy. Trust me, guys, in some cases, size DOES matter.

(3) Design. RollerCoaster Tycoon has come a long way since its original release years ago, but the element of design in the rollercoasters isn't exactly realistic. Game-wise it's okay to obtain context-sensitive "ratings" on your rollercoasters - but come on! - some of them are so unrealistic that sometimes you can't help but wonder if you should build a rollercoaster with one hill and the station brakes just to get people to attempt riding it. How many people go to a park and say "Rollercoaster 1 looks too intense for me!"? I know I don't. There should be an option to turn ride ratings OFF.

(4) Rollercoaster Design. If you've ever played NoLimits Rollercoaster Simulator for the PC, you'll know what I'm talking about. Now THAT'S rollercoaster design. If you guys just implemented some of the design capabilities from that program into RCT, there'd be one less problem. Rollercoasters curve - and are most often free-form - they aren't rigid and boring in appearance - there is a continuous smooth curve to them. That needs to be touched up.

Sometimes it just feels like we are restricted to play this game a certain way - and no other way for that matter. I don't want to feel like a prisoner - creative freedom is much more liberating.

Expansion packs are supposed to make the game BETTER. Add all the car designs you want; add 50 more themes; it doesn't make a difference. You can't mask these elements from the game by marketing new installments just to cover up the above things you fail to direct your attention to.

To wrap it up. . .don't waste your money. . .consider P2P.

Biggest Disappointment in any Game or Expansion - Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: May 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Let me begin by saying I have been playing RCT since it was first released. The expansion packs for RCT1 offered new rides and stalls. I was always pleased with those.

It claims to have 50 new rides. Listen up -- NO NEW RIDES! None! The Twist or Scrambler has been morphed hmm, lets see...5 times. So you have 6 scramblers that look different. They made a killer whale ride -- guess what that is -- the submarine ride. You now have dolphins that were jet skis. They added a turtle instead of logs for a "new" flume ride. There are two new flying saucer rides that just look different. They made unimaginative new rollercoaster trains that really look stupid -- ie, the taxi cab coaster (?) , turned the inverter ship into a Chinese Junk ship -- same stuff in different clothes. As I went through the rides, I was so amazed -- amazed how they can get away with saying there are 50 new rides. But let me reiterate, folks: NO NEW RIDES WHATSOEVER. No new types of coasters...No new food stalls. NOTHING, but some really tacky scenery.

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