Triforce Games: Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

Roller Coaster Tycoon is a series of games where you make and create your own theme park and run it from many different angles. You mange it financially, where rides and shops are placed and even down to how much ice you get in the drinks.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 is the third game in the series and also takes a big leap from the later games graphically. The older games (1 and 2) both have isometric graphics but now Roller Coaster Tycoon goes 3D. Which is a bad thing. This is because many people (myself included) liked the graphics style of older games even if they looked a little dated. The older games had more character and felt more realistic then the new 3D cartoon look.

But going 3D does have some advantages. Such as placing rides is so much easier and selecting visitors and your employees from out of the crowds.

The most important thing however, like in any video game is the game play and if you like the previous games you will not be disappointed. That's because it has hardly changed! Sure you can do everything in more detail like decide if the burgers comes with cheese and how much chocolate sauce is put on the ice cream. Apart from that the game play is basically identical.

That does not mean some things have not changed though. For instance sometimes a celebrity will visit your park and to make them happy you got to do certain things such as put them on a ride which has a 7 in excitement.

Or sometimes they can not stand the sight of rubbish meaning that you have to send you cleaners on a cleaning rampage like you do before your Grandma and Granddad come over.

They have also added a few new modes in too. Such as the sand box mode where you have unlimited amount of money to do what you want with. You might want to make a dream theme park or maybe you might make all the rides faulty to see how many guests you can injure! Its up to you with no goals you can let you imagination run riot! You can also make your own guests using a simple character creator. It isn't anything like the Sims but its a nice touch.

Closing Comments

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 is a nice addition to series although the graphics are not up to much and the gameplay is exactly the same but if you like manager based games or the Roller Coaster Tycoon series you cant go far wrong!