RollerCoaster Tycoon is a series of simulation video games about building and managing an amusement park. Each game in the series challenges players with open-ended amusement park management and development, and allowing players to construct and customize their.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon World is a theme park construction and management simulationvideo game developed by Nvizzio Creations and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows. It is the fourth major installment in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series. The game was released on November 16, 2016.

Gameplay[edit]

Players are able to build rides, shops and roller coasters, while monitoring elements such as budget, visitor happiness and technology research. Unlike RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, the game does not include any micro-transactions.^[1] Similar to RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, the game features 3D graphics instead of the 2D isometric style of the first two installments in the series. When building roller coasters, the game makes use of a spline system instead of the old style of laying individual pieces. Players are also allowed to 'ride' the roller coasters they have created, and other rides they have placed in their park in the game, in either a first or third-person view. A new 'Park Pulse' mechanic was also introduced, allowing players to quickly find out how their park is doing and the customers' thoughts, similar to Zoo Tycoon titles.^[2]

The game contains several scenery and ride themes at launch, with more in development that will be released via free updates and paid expansion packs.^[3][4] The game also introduces an 'Architect mode', allowing players to plan and layout the coaster's model before constructing the coasters. Similar to the past installments, there are four different types of coasters available to build: steel, inverted, wooden, and launch-track coasters. In addition, there are ten roller coasters per type. Coasters can be built freeform or the player can place pre-made designs into their park.^[5]Unlike in the previous games, the roller coaster train may fly off the tracks if the roller coaster is built incorrectly. As a result, a new 'safety-rating' option and medical staff has been added. User-generated content (including custom scenery) was available from release, as well as Steam Workshop support.^[6] While terrain and environments are randomly generated in a map, players can still gain access to a terrain editor.^[7]

Development[edit]

When Atari announced RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, they also promised that a title for Windows was also being developed.^[8] The game was officially announced during Gamescom 2014 with a teaser trailer, subtitled World.^[9] The first screenshots and details of the game were revealed during PAX Prime 2014. Part way through development, Area 52 Games took over as the developer of the game from Pipeworks Software. The reasoning behind this has not yet been published by Atari, who announced the change along with the relaunch of the RollerCoaster Tycoon website. The game was due for release in early 2015, although it was revealed that they would not announce an official launch date until closer to the release of the game.^[10] A closed alpha was also in development.^[7] A new trailer showing gameplay was uploaded on March 5, 2015, showing an intro featuring real life POV footage of Goliath and Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain.^[11]

Atari later revealed that a third developer had taken over from Area 52 Games, later confirmed to be Nvizzio Creations.^[12] At the NVIDIA booth on PAX Prime 2015, Atari unveiled interactive gameplay for the game showing off their development build that featured coaster building and sandbox mode. On September 29, 2015, it was announced the release date would be December 10, 2015.^[13][14] Two beta weekends preceded the release of the game. The first beta weekend was the last weekend of October and this beta was focused on the new spline-based Coaster Builder.^[15] The first beta weekend took place as planned. However, feedback from this beta weekend led to Atari deciding to delay the game's release to early 2016.^[16] The developer noted the additional development time would allow them to add requested items and features such as “predefined piece” coaster building, additional coaster test feedback, a robust fencing tool, improved on-demand grid, and various smaller improvements.' Consequently, the second beta weekend was also delayed from November to December.^[17]

Release[edit]

Atari had decided that its theme park game, RollerCoaster Tycoon World, would be launched into Early Access on 30 March, instead of going with a full release. The early access release was met with negative reviews, mostly complaining about the poor graphics, coaster builder, lack of detail, and ride animations.^[18] In November 2016, Atari announced that the game will be released on November 16, 2016, one day before Planet Coaster's release.^[19]

The game was available for both standard and deluxe editions. The deluxe edition contained two additional maps, terrain texture additions, a digital art book, a gold park entrance, and the panda mascot from the previous games.^[20][21]

Reception[edit]

Pre-release[edit]

A trailer released by Atari containing gameplay of RollerCoaster Tycoon World was received poorly by critics and fans.^[24][25][26] Some critics noted that the game appears graphically worse than 2004's RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and that it 'looks little better than a basic mobile game.'^[27] Atari later issued a statement that the game was still in 'pre-alpha' stages, and that the graphics were not yet coded to their full resolution and would also receive a major overhaul when the game's engine is upgraded from Unity 4.6 to Unity 5.0. They also promised that the new visuals would be of higher definition and higher level of realism.^[28]

Release[edit]

The release of RollerCoaster Tycoon World was met with negative reactions by critics. According to review aggregatorMetacritic, the game holds a score of 43 out of 100, based on seven reviews.^[22]

Eurogamer suggested to avoid the game, comparing the game to a 'car-crash into an orphanage for bush-babies.'^[23]

TechRaptor rated the game a 1/10, citing the large interface and variety of bugs and glitches within the game.^[29]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Rollercoaster Tycoon World coming to PC in 2015'. CVG. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
2. ^'RollerCoaster Tycoon World in-game screenshots revealed'. Eurogamer. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
3. ^Hayden Dingman (13 September 2014). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World preview: The ride never ends'. PC World. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
4. ^Mattlab. 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Production Blog Post #2'. Atari. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
5. ^Mattlab. 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Production Blog Post #3'. Atari. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
6. ^'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Production Blog #13'.
7. ^ ^abMattlab. 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Production Blog Post #1'. Atari. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
8. ^'RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile out now, PC version to be introduced holiday 2014'. Gamespot. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
9. ^'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Reveal Trailer'. IGN. 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
10. ^David Scammell (15 December 2014). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World has a new developer'. VideoGamer.com. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
11. ^'RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ Gameplay Reveal Teaser'. YouTube. Atari, Inc. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
12. ^Grub, Jeff (13 May 2015). 'Roller Coaster Tycoon World is still in development — but it's under a new studio'. VentureBeat. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
13. ^Hayden Dingman (30 August 2015). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World preview: A wild(ly easy to get into) ride'. PC World. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
14. ^Pr Newswire (20 August 2015). 'Atari® Rides into PAX Prime 2015, Unveils RollerCoaster Tycoon World™'. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
15. ^'Buy - RollerCoaster Tycoon World'.
16. ^'RCTW – Blog #23 – RollerCoaster Tycoon World Releasing in Early 2016 | RollerCoaster Tycoon World'. www.rollercoastertycoon.com. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
17. ^Pereira, Chris (13 November 2015). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Delayed Following First Beta'. GameSpot. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
18. ^Falcon, Jonah (25 March 2016). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World coming to Steam Early Access on March 30th'. GameWatcher. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
19. ^Livingston, Christopher (11 November 2016). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World release date announced, and it's one day before Planet Coaster's launch'. pcgamer. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
20. ^'RollerCoaster Tycoon World preorders now available at Steam & GMG'. Venture Beat. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
21. ^'RollerCoaster Tycoon World™: Deluxe Edition'. Steam. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
22. ^ ^ab'RollerCoaster Tycoon World'. Metacritic. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
23. ^ ^abLane, Rick. 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Review'. Eurogamer. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
24. ^Plunkett, Luke (5 March 2015). 'New RollerCoaster Tycoon Game Looks Like Shit'. Kotaku. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
25. ^Leack, Jonathan (5 March 2015). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World's Gameplay Trailer is Tragically Bad'. Crave Online. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
26. ^George, Daniel (5 March 2015). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World Gameplay Trailer Is... Something'. Fansided. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
27. ^Wesley Yin-Poole (6 March 2015). 'Puke! RollerCoaster Tycoon World looks...'Eurogamer. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
28. ^Owen S. Good (21 March 2015). 'RollerCoaster Tycoon promises graphics overhaul after gameplay trailer raises complaints'. Polygon. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
29. ^Blouin, Alec. 'Roller Coaster Tycoon World Review – How to Destroy a Franchise'. TechRaptor. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

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Rollercoaster Tycoon is a theme park building simulation series created by Chris Sawyer in 1999, released for Windows PC the game was hit among PC gamers that two expansions Corkscrew Follies, and Loopy Landscapes was included in the collection edition. It was followed by three sequels, titled Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, and RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile^CGW.

• 2Why It Rocks

Gameplay

Players in this game are allowed to build their own theme park in 21 scenarios while meeting the scenario goals. The player can spend the money they have to, players can choose from dozens of roller coaster types and can also build log flumes, carousels, bumper cars, haunted houses, go karts, ferris wheels, and swinging ships, among other rides. They can also customize rollercoaster rides to balance out the intensity and excitement rating for customers to enjoy. They must meet the needs of the customers hunger and thirst and bathroom urgency by building food and drink stands, bathroom stalls, souvenir stands, balloon stands and information stands with umbrellas.

The player must make sure they park they build satisfies customers (known as “peeps” in the third game) and makes them feel happy while at the same time you must maximize funding for research for rides and stands. You must also hire workers including Handymen (known as “janitors” in the third game) to clean up the litter, empty trash bins clean the barf on the path, water flower gardens, and mow lawns. Mechanical workers (known as “mechanics” in the third game) to fix and inspect rides to make sure they're safe and working properly. Policemen (known as “security guards' in the third game) to prevent vandalism on light poles, benches, trash bins. Entertainers in animal costumes to entertain customers and make them happy. You can also give customers the option to buy umbrellas or build indoor rides in case in rains or there's lightning.

You can raise and lower land, add water and add scenery to various scenarios.

Why It Rocks

1. You can build your own theme park in any form anyway you like.
2. The Handymen, Mechanical workers and Entertainers are useful to hire as they can help keep the theme park clean, safe and help customers be happy.
3. The Merry Go Round plays memorable classical theme music.
4. The park theme songs are composed by Allister Brimble.
5. If you build a good layout for your theme park, build an awesome rollercoaster ride, and charge the right amount of money at the entrance or for rides or food stalls, it can make customers happy and earn you money to keep going.
6. You can pause your game if you're overwhelmed by problems in the theme park and go back and fix it by reassigning areas for your handymen, mechanical workers and entertainers.
7. You can maximize research funds for your rides, food stalls which is highly recommended as you'll need new rides to increase the popularity of your theme park.
8. Each time you complete the scenario you are rewarded by customers clapping hands and you're rewarded with a new scenario.
9. Both expansion packs include new rides and scenarios.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2

1. The designs to rides were updated.
2. The Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansion packs gave flat rides, coasters, and stalls unique versions of themselves.
3. This sequel retained all of the coasters from Corkscrew Follies and Loopy Landscapes.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3

1. The graphics were given an upgrade, from 2D pixelated parks to next-gen 3D parks.
2. RCT3 also introduced a 360-degree rotation method, so your parks are not restricted to isometric viewpoints.
3. You can’t kill the Peeps, although which is a great addition, infuriating if you want to make a death park.
4. Various new track pieces were added to coasters like the Looping Coaster, including corkscrews and twists. The Wooden Coaster now has a loop (a Son-Of-Beast thing).
5. Expansion packs named Soaked! and Wild! now introduced proper coasters and attractions since RCT1. Soaked! introduced water slides and pools. Wild! introduced safaris and zoo animals.

Bad Qualities

1. Each scenario is on a set time limit so one year takes 90 minutes to complete and there's no option to speed up your scenario so you'll have to not pause your game.
2. The Policemen you hire in the game are generally useless as they don't do much except prevent vandalism and drain your money.
3. Having your Handymen mow the lawns is considered a waste of time as you can use the shovel button to clear the tall grass on the lawn.
4. Tragic issues will occur If the rollercoaster station brakes fail, then you run the risk of rollercoasters with customers on it will crashing into other rollercoaster cars, they die and your park will have a high risk losing popularity.
5. No form of Sandbox mode or scenario editor, which the later games would include.
6. The Xbox version is pretty much identical to the PC version and lacks additional features. It does include the scenarios from the expansion packs though.
7. RCT2’s WW and TT expansion packs didn’t introduce any proper coasters, unlike RCT1 and RCT3, just new ride designs.

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