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The bad outweighs the good. . .

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 22
Date: May 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I understand I'm reviewing an "expansion" pack as opposed to an actual game "installment," but Wacky Worlds is still rather disappointing.

If you're looking for new scenarios and lots more scenery to play around with, then you'll be completely satisfied with the Wacky Worlds expansion pack. But if you're a diehard RCT fan like me, you'll be extremely disappointed.

Sure, there's great new scenery and 17 new scenarios based on famous landmarks and tourist attractions worldwide - but that's it! The 50 "new" rides are nothing but graphic rebuffs of existing tracks in previous versions of RCT and are only available in the scenarios that fit their "theme" - which is frustrating. There is absolutely no creative freedom in Wacky Worlds.

Ever since the original RCT came out in 1999, we have been screaming at Chris Sawyer for not more items to scatter across the map, but more CONTROL over the design capabilities of the game. Chris Sawyer is not paying any attention to the very people who have made the RCT game series a hit in the first place - US! If you want us to build the park "of our dreams" - you've got to give us the control to do so, and loads of new scenery just doesn't do the trick. Wacky Worlds is far too constraining to even make an attempt. Take for example, the Killer Whale Submarine ride - you can only use it in the Antarctica scenario. Some scenarios don't allow free-form landscape design among other things. There's no option to have all rides and attractions available to combine the tools together so we have something to work with.

Chris Sawyer is forgetting the concept of QUALITY - NOT QUANTITY! No number of scenery additions - no matter how large - is going to vaporize what RCT gamers have been craving.

When is the scenario editor not going to have any contraints and allow all items to be added and accessed? When is the map size not going to have a maximum scale? When are we going to be able to import our own customized creations into the game (scenery, etc.) to build our "dream" park? When is the rollercoaster design going to be simple (as it is) yet with the ability to be tweaked to our own needs (vector lines and curves from other rollercoaster simulators come to mind)? When are the ride ratings not going to be ridiculously "childish" (for lack of a better word)? And when is RCT's game engine going to allow us to take the rider's seat on our own rollercoaster creations? That's what graphics cards are for. The competition is already ahead of Chris Sawyer there.

Chris Sawyer needs to LISTEN to the people he's marketing the game to, LEARN from his mistakes, and take what others have done and make it better. Only then will the RCT series be all that we've dreamed it can be.

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.

RCT takes a step backwards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love a good rollercaster snaking through the trees, and in RCT2 it was a great enhancement from RCT1 that you could build a coaster and have the trees automatically removed as you add track. So why would that functionality be removed from the expansion, Wacky Worlds? I don't want to spend my time removing trees, I want to build coasters. If you enjoy frustration and wasting your time, skip Wacky Worlds and go right for Tree Removal Tycoon!

Eek!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Time Twister even beats this one for the RCT 2 Expansions. This is not-well designed. Also, the map of your park is so primative. Can't you take screenshots -- or better yet, the game does it for you -- and assemble a map instead of orange lines on a dotty surface?

The game adds NO and I promises NONE new rides, just new "themes" for existing ones. For example, "Neptune" ride is really a new-vehicled Twist and you'll see it has the same ratings (for) Excitement, Nausea, Intensity.

I think (but this applies to the whole RCT 2 line) that the game leaves much to be desired.

Wacky Worlds simply is not there. Not close. We get scenarios like "build around the Great Wall of China". How stupid is that? Honestly? And then, we have an Eifel Tower scenery but no park to center it! It's just weird.

Not really worth the buy.

roller coaster tycoon 2 wacky world

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game screwed up my roller coaster tycoon 2 and I can no longer play the game that I just love. It was a sweet game until I installed wacky worlds.

Bad-Shameful Dun Waste $$

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: July 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay honestly Chris should destroy the contract with infogrames and team up wit hasbro the old rct company!
Don't Buy This Game Or You'll Be SRY!

It might be fun, if it would WORK!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have two fairly new computers. I tried it on BOTH of them twice, and it never worked. Although it installed it failed to run. The web site was no help. Sorry if this review is not actually about the game, but think of it as a warning in case this happens to you too.

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.

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.

Total Dissappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: May 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is without a doubt the worst RC Tycoon installment, I was happy with the scenery but the stupid and idiotice new rides, and the ride trains, you take the arrow suspended, a nice decent coaster, and turn the trains into swinging monkeys! What the... I am into tycoon to build parks for realism not ignorance, I guess the creators must have had some debt to pay off or else Chris Sawyer wouldnt have let this ... get released!

MY FINAL WARNING!!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!

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