Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum | 
 enlarge
| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $15.65
You Save: $14.34 (48%)
New (12) Used (9) from $15.65
Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 684
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 2000, Windows 98
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: 27513
Model: 27513
UPC: 742725275133
EAN: 0742725275133
ASIN: B000HKGD4A
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED. FREE UPGRADE TO 1ST CLASS SHIPPING.
|
| Features:
| • | Grab a front seat for the ride of your life with the jaw-dropping Coaster Cam | | • | See every detail in stunning 3D with fully controllable park cameras | | • | Cope with changing weather patterns and enjoy beautiful vistas, sunsets, moonlight, and more | | • | Add your own mp3 music to backgrounds, rides, and fireworks shows | | • | Spend the big bucks and build with unlimited funds in Sandbox Mode |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of great strategy sim. It combines Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with the hit expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Enjoy more options than ever, as you build your own water slide or create your own safari with real animals. Watch guest reactions to your ultimate theme park!
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Tycoon 3 Rollercoaster July 8, 2008
Once again they have done it, Great game , many hours of fun, keeps the children busy and intrested for haours on end.
Aside from some lagging a fun and charming title! April 27, 2008
I am a fan of the RC series from its inception, back in my high school days, with Chris Taylor eye-bleeding Roller Coaster Tycoon (those 2d textures really killed your sight). The newest (and possibly final, pending legal resolution) entry has now been packaged together with its two expansion packs - Soaked and Wild, into one pre-patched Platinum edition. The cost of the pack is commiserate with buying all three together (if you can even FIND a copy of RCT3) so the value is pretty high here.
The game itself is tons of fun, giving the player free reign to build the theme park of their dreams. Although a novelty, which is ultimately rarely used, it is rather neat that you can actually ride many of your rides from a first person perspective (this works especially well with Roller Coasters). Placement of rides, decoration, types of shops, research budget, ride prices, all are under the player's control - making it a micromanager's dream (you can even control the color of the ride and the color of the ride's queue).
My only two concerns are some technical problems and a general lack of challenge to the game's campaigns. It is very easy to reach gold tycoon in all of the campaign levels, although really this isn't much the point. The game is far more to play as a "sandbox" game. I had some lagging when attempting to place rides and decoration, and while playable, it is slightly annoying. Some users, with less up-to-date rigs have reported lots of lagging when their park sizes and guest numbers go to high, so make sure you have a bit higher than recommended specs here.
Good for all ages! March 18, 2008
This game is great for all ages. The controls area little hard to figure out at first, but once you get the hang of it, they are really easy to use. It is really exciting to get to ride your own coasters, and having the new "autocomplete" is great when you can't finish the coaster yourself, or if you get impatient. My 10 year old loves it as well.
Fun game but with some flaws... February 9, 2008
I have this game for about 2 weeks, and in the first round of playing the game, I found one important flaw. There is no undo button! It's annoying and frustrating to keep deleting the errors I make with going back and forth the trash can to delete sections of the coasters. I end up deleting the entire coaster and starting over.
On a positive note, the game does have some great graphics and it's really kewl that you can ride the coasters after you create them. I'm not a roller coaster person, or even a ride person persay, but this game is great - it's very addicting. Overall, this game is entertaining and a good buy.
A little too easy, but very fun. December 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am 13 & an writing this on my mom's account. I have owned this for a little more then a year.
I have owned all the Rollercoaster Tycoon games, & I have enjoyed each of them. For those who liked the original camera angle, there is a isometric setting.
With an old (by electronic standards) computer you can't see features like reflective water, but with a newer one it looks great. I have a 2 GHZ processor, 2 GB of ram & 256 MB graphics card & can run it at full detail settings & get great frame rates.
I have noticed 3 problems however, when a crashing roller coaster hits a wall, it just bounces off! Also the guests can still walk through each other & when simulating wind, the whole trees sway; not just the leaves! The games also a little too easy, & parks are earned without a major effort.
But the "ride the rides" feature is great! Now I can show my older brother why his custom roller coasters are "guranteed to make you puke"!
|
|
|
