You can go beyond simply laying track too as you can select the type of track, the method of locomotion (either passive or active)… turns, loops, train designs. There are presets to get you up and running, smaller rides and attractions to decorate your park with… but the Roller Coaster is the featured attraction and the most entertaining. Of course the main draw is the building of the park itself and Frontier Developments really give you a lot of control here.
It’s quite fun to build a ludicrous Roller Coaster with twists and turns and drops that no one should ever reasonably enjoy… then put yourself in first person view and send yourself along the tracks… or turn the camera around and watch your park visitors as they decide whether they made the right choice or not… near death experiences can do that to you!
Of these views the last two are the most entertaining. You have three camera options essentially cinematic, passenger (ie as if you were on the ride), or watching the patrons. I actually took a while before I noticed the little ride cam… but when I found it, it’s like the game developed a secondary level of fun. Watching the lights come on in your attractions filled amusement park as the sun sets behind the mountains is quite a sight. From the birds eye view to the close up shots of your little park visitors being scared out of their wits as they hurtle round the bends on your latest Roller Coaster. The irony is they could have used a very simple pop up instructional approach given there are pop ups to let you know how your park is going anyway.īut ignoring the tutorial issue… one of the most notable things about Planet Coaster is the graphics. Now I don’t know whether this is an attempt to make a few extra dollars from YouTube views or if it was more to reduce the overall installation size by “off siting” the tutorial component… but it is a big break in the immersion.
The tutorials kick you out of the game (it continues running in the background) and takes you to YouTube videos. This is actually my only real disappointment with the game (I have one other minor issue but I will get to that later). After that I figured I should have a look at he tutorials just to see if I was missing anything major. It took me a little fiddling before I figured out the controls but before long I was drawing the crowds and I achieved my goal. When I first fired this up I ended up jumping straight into a challenge where essentially you are given a park and asked to either improve it’s rating or build a ride with certain qualities (tallest coaster, sharpest turns that sort of thing). Now with modern graphics and an apparent boom in the return to simulation games Frontier Developments has built us a game in which we can build our own Roller Coaster theme park! We had transport Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon and we had Roller Coaster Tycoon.
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