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Building a water park of your dreams!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Soaked while its been out for a little while (over a year), added more content to a very good tycoon sim. I feel it doesnt get the attention it deserves both from people who were dissapointed with it as well as the designers who have abandoned the RCT franchise for Thrillville which I think is a bad move.
RCT3 came along way with its previous hits RCT2 and the original RCT. The graphics are delightful, the amount that can be chaged to your liking is good as well. The play factor is good, and the retail version was stable considering many titles out there that just had enormous bugs that hurt the game. Granted the original RCT3 had some minor bugs its a wonderful game. It certaintly started the huge flux of tycoon games (starting with RCT 1).
In short, you are given the opportunity to build water parks as well as pools, water rides, and theme objects associated with Soaked. You are also now allowed to build underground and thru mountains which in the orginal RCT3 you couldn't. The Soaked expansion adds more scenarios associated with the Soaked theme. Also within the mixmaster you can create laser light shows. I believe you can also create dolphin and whale shows. Something I missed in the orginal RCT when you can place wild west shows and dolphin shows. I only wish we could of had the option of creating statiums or mini-stadiums.
Minor problems which havent been addressed. The people known as peeps while their animations are good and almost lifelike, they are a little cartoonish. I also wish that the time would model real-time or at least slow down. Seeing the park get dark and the lights turn on then 3 minutes later the sun comes out is not realistic. If the time was slowed down to mimic real-time we could have the option of fast-fowarding. Also when rides are created or paths as well It would be nice to have the effect of construction going on (allowing areas to be shut down). The mechanics are too slow in getting to do repairs, and when you have a large park its tough to maintain your rides thru inspections and getting them fixed. i wish we had the option of closing the park down to do all repairs and inspections which is what real parks do. None of this 2 full days and bam your into the next week or next month like certain games. Real-time, 365 days in a year and buisness hours would be great. If Im at my computer at 6pm it would be nice to see my park when I load it at 6pm and the sun not as bright. I oculd have an announcement that the park is closing in a few hours and so fourth. Also if you say,"well what about in the winter monthes", a window can pop up and ask if you want to fast foward to opening season.
So much can be done, and there is a great foundation, but it's a total shame how Frontier and everyone ese involved has turned their backs on this highly addictive and good buisness model. It's the one tycoon game that got it right. With a little more tweaks and added realism this game can be a huge money-maker and put it along side Civilization 4. I gave it 4 stars because it's a great game but just needs a little bit more. The 4 stars has nothing to do with the company throwing the game to the side for Thrillville. I hope they change their minds and continue what is a terrifc game that needs a little TLC and added realism. I love buisness games as well as strategy games. First thin in my mind when I buy a game is the realization factor.
This is one of my favorite games and I still play it along with all of the expansions. Its one of the few games that I havent deleted.
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Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really liked this edition, now sure the bad things from the original game are still there but this makes it WAY more fun! You can have water rides and pools and a bunch of new rides and coasters all together. If you are thinking about buying either this expansion or Wild buy this one!

Not that good for an expansion pack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: October 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't that good. The worst thing is that the waterslides don't have enough pieces, passenger types (for example, a single tube), and slide types. But I really like it that you can create tunnels and create underwater paths! The aquarium is not very good at all. It has a crappy amount and variety of fish tanks and pieces. Why couldn't Atari put in escalator paths for the aquariums or add more fish tanks with giant squids or octopuses? The waterfall feature is really cool! Then you can make rollercoasters go through them and get all the peeps soaked from head to toe! Another thing that is bad about this game is if you change the Giant Flume's train car colors, it will just stay the same color all the time! Then you can't make a detailed replica of Canobie Lake Park's Boston Tea Party! Too bad Canobie fans! And one last thing is, get RCT3: Wild expansion pack after you get this, so you can double the RCT3 fun!

ditto

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 24
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ditto of the above. We are out $30 too. I am actually in Amazon.com to repurchase our RCT 3 when "Soaked" ruined everything. I will never put "Soaked" in our computer again. I truly feel soaked

not bad but not good either

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 50
Date: September 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

okay it is bad and very poorley done. i got bored after playing it for 2 days. at least its better than the 1st one and the 2nd one. he................he(emabbarssed and shamed of buying this game)*sob*why did i get it???? *sob*

help

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 39
Date: July 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

you need to let the prople drop into the a couple of ffeet above the pool

Need another software program

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was not happy when I received this product because you cannot play it alone. You have to buy another software to play it.

Don't waste your $$

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Like many others, I found that "Soaked" is impossible to install if you had previously installed the demo version of RCT3. I'm an expert user, but I can find no way, including editing the registry, using the RCT3 uninstaller, etc. etc.
to get the installer to recognize Soaked.... And as others have pointed out, there is no user support available. More likely than not, you will get a 'wrong version 4' error too . and you'll end up returning the software or just dumping it.
Don't waste your money.... what poorly written garbage!

Excellent, uber-fun, but hard to install

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Really fun. It needs some of these things though:

Capped Ring/Raft Slide
Kiddie Area
Splash Pool (peeps get into your splash pools, thinking they're regular pools!)
Goggles
Conveyorbelts
More Ride Events

But I wanted an octopus ride REALLY, and I am planning on getting WILD soon.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked! Expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Great game! The waterslides and swimming pools have great detail!

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