Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum
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!
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum Accessories
 Rollercoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked! Expansion
Rollercoaster Tycoon Deluxe (Jewel Case)
Zoo Tycoon 2 Extinct Animals Expansion Pack
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Wild! Expansion
Zoo Tycoon 2
Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game Win/Mac
SimCity Societies
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum Reviews
You really need a top line machine with lots of Ram memory, a fast processor and a high end graphics card with lots of memory and very fast screen rendering. If you try to run this on a standard system it will slow down as you add rides and scenery to the point where it's impossible to use. It also has combined the two expansion packs (Wild and Soaked) onto the same disc so all games are installed at the same time. This is a very high end graphic and memory heavy game. A work of caution though. XP Pro is the best version to run this game on. I have run all 3 versions of Roller Coaster Tycoon and this last version takes all the problems and glitches that were in the first release. And it doesn't run with Windows Vista.
Once again they have done it, Great game , many hours of fun, keeps the children busy and intrested for haours on end.
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. 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. The game is far more to play as a "sandbox" game.
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). 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). 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). 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 game itself is tons of fun, giving the player free reign to build the theme park of their dreams. It is very easy to reach gold tycoon in all of the campaign levels, although really this isn't much the point. My only two concerns are some technical problems and a general lack of challenge to the game's campaigns.
My 10 year old loves it as well. 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. The controls area little hard to figure out at first, but once you get the hang of it, they are really easy to use. This game is great for all ages.
Overall, this game is entertaining and a good buy. I'm not a roller coaster person, or even a ride person persay, but this game is great - it's very addicting. 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. 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. There is no undo button. I have this game for about 2 weeks, and in the first round of playing the game, I found one important flaw. I end up deleting the entire coaster and starting over.
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