So what's new? Well, Mr Sawyer has stepped aside, and in comes the man behind the classic Elite , David Braben, and his company Frontier. And they've brought with them a topnotch 3D engine. So now you can zoom in and watch those families squabble, gorge themselves on ice creams, and best of all, hurtle round your pride and joy - the rollercoaster. With a really solid, 'toy town' kind of feel, the detail is superb.
The facial expressions of visitors - or 'peeps' - change from joy to anguish when they can't locate the loos, kids cry when balloons pop, and you'll even spy young lovers sticking their tongues down each others' throats.
We're also treated to flexible difficulty levels for each mission, a sandbox mode, the added headache of visiting VIPeeps to keep happy, as well as scenario and visitor editing tools. It's the most polished version of the game so far, and those who've never made a small child puke before will be in store for hours of fun. But the new interface with its streamlined minimalism hides a baffling array of build options, and is not the best for the newbie.
For vomit veterans, RC3 is like a visit to Alton Towers; you know what's in store, but it doesn't stop it from being a laugh. After all, when a game this popular isn't broke, you don't fix it. Despite this, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is making a gravitydefying attempt to become the most realistic fairground ride simulation ever created.
Obviously a Rollercoaster Tycoon game wouldn't be much cop without a collection of decent rides, so the team has spent a lot of time researching new attractions, which you can now climb aboard in 3D using the new Coaster Cam.
Based around five themes - classic, spooky, western, sci-fi and adventure - rollercoasters include the Thrill-lift and Tilt-coaster, and classic flat-rides' such as the Zipper and Skywheel. Each coaster has a wider range of components and you can now add animatronics, triggered by the ride, including a T-Rex attack and an oil tanker bursting into flames. These show-stopping visuals can also be synchronised to the in-game music or your own MP3s imported into the game see Fire In The Sky', right.
Of course, the people who'll hopefully benefit from all your hard work are the thousands of fully-animated park visitors that you'll have to keep happy with spectacular attractions and state-of-the-art facilities. The technology for the people is new, based on a principle we first used in the game Frontier, says Braben, where different body components such as clothing, hairstyles, and faces are put together to make a huge number of different possible combinations.
We have thousands of visitors in RT3, all different, with facial expressions, each doing their own thing, telling jokes to each other, arguing - even bursting into tears. You'll be able to create your own characters with the People Editor, so you can put family, friends, work colleagues and celebrities into the game as park vistfprs - we'd personally relish the opportunity of seeing TV saleswoman Linda Barker throwing her guts up in terror.
Also, if you group people together as a family, the Al will change their behaviour accordingly. When we first included groups, we found that very few people were going onto the rides, continues Braben. This was because when a particular group member wants to go on an extreme ride, the others may not, so it ended up with big crowds of people just standing around waiting next to the extreme rides. To fix this we added another factor - peer pressure - where the guy who really wants to go on the coaster would try to persuade the rest, which now means that groups go on the ride together more often.
Another important aspect of the Rollercoaster Tycoon games are the extra ways of persuading visitors to open their wallets in your park, so you'll be able to augment the rides with numerous shops and stalls. Sneaky ways of improving profits include offering free chillis on the burgers, which will have visitors gulping down drinks and syphoning money straight into your pockets.
However if you'd prefer to just concentrate on building the biggest and most hair-raising rides, the Sandbox mode allows you to unleash your most ambitious ideas with unlimited funds. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition. Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
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