RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack

This game is just as awesome now as it was when it first came out two decades ago. The default GOG installation runs good even on Windows 10. However, there are limitation that can be a problem. Fortunately, when you run the game with the OpenRCT2 engine, it runs much better with modern features & resolutions and integrating RCT1 & RCT2 together in a single engine with all original features and scenario's intact, including the expansion packs! Whether you want to play the game from the default GOG installation or use the OpenRCT2 engine, you will enjoy this classic game! Buy with confidence!

This game plays, works and looks exactly as RCT1 but with some improvements. There are more rides and attractions to use in game, a scenario and landscape editor, a track editor to design, test and save coasters. The game is fun and building coasters is enough various and challenging to give satisfaction, anyway the game isnt so perfect. Sadly, as the game is basically an expansion or re-edit of the first one, it carries in also the issues present in the old title. The main issue is related to AI pathfinding, the employees when given a specific zone to care can be stuck in some circumstances so its required to manually pick up them and drop in the right path or redesign some footpath/intere zones, especially the AI seems to find hard interacting correctly with footpaths not at ground level, which restrict a bit the idea of developing some exoctic builds avoiding intricate footpath designs. Another issue always related to AI pathfind happens to the park customers, which in some cases will start looping in a corner of the park or a little zone like they had no exit or they were blocked by something, when it happens the only way to solve it usually is to understand where the AI wants to go and erase all / create footpath in that direction, which is a lot annoying and sometimes just ruins a great park design. There are some other minor issues, still present but not very important. A word about the scenario editor, it doesnt have a random map generation option and it starts with a plain empty terrain, so to build up a big and cool scenario its needed at least to work on it some hours, if not days. Luckily its possible to load in pre-existent maps and also savegames, modify them and save as new scenarios. Also the scenario options are not many, as winning and start conditions, surely the editor should have been done better. At the end its a great concept, a good and fun game like RCT1 but those issues keeps this title and his predecessor a couple of steps behind the masterpiece rank. Still a good game anyway.

Between Rollercoaster Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, the sequel is the superior version. Simply because it is essentially RCT1 with more rides, themes, maps, and a scenario editor. The only thing RCT2 hasn't got is the original's scenarios. Overall I recommend getting this game because it is great fun to build your own theme park (and create custom rollercoasters!), and for my reasons stated earlier. Have fun!

I wanted to buy this because of nostalgia. It still is a great game, fallen a bit out of time, just a little old. Game gets a lot better after installing OpenRCT2. There are essential features, like unlocked framerate, multiplayer, new coaster track pieces, better performance. OpenRCT2 is free and you can help out with development if you want to. Development still is active. Can't really go wrong if you came for nostalgia and buy it for a reduced price. You will find it is greatly enhanced with OpenRCT2. Game with OpenRCT2 runs great on Win10, AMD Ryzen 3600X, GTX 1070 and also Win10, AMD 5600, GTX 1080ti.

I'm fairly certain more people have played Rollercoaster Tycoon than caught chicken pox. It's a franchise that is just as fun to me now as an adult as it was when I was 9 smacking down pre-made coasters and rigging some to explode. That is a testament to the basic premise of RCT and Sawyer's work in making a basic concept work. RCT 2 is less of a direct sequel and more of a refinement on RCT 1, and out of the three I'd advise you do RCT2, then either 1 or 3 depending on if the graphics of 3 scare you. But like the first game, you manage a theme park, build rollercoasters and make a killing off of charging people to use the bathroom. The graphics have a lovely chunky feeling with just a little detail to them, the music is Allister Brimble's bleepy MIDI fun, and it sits in the same tier of time sink as Civilization where you can lose hours of your life perfecting coasters. The only real con is that your park goers are serious light weights when it comes to coasters, and I don't even mean ones where you rigged it to max out the G forces. Even a mildly exciting coaster will be repelling attendees like nothing else, meanwhile the baby coaster will print money like nothing else. It's not a bad criticism, if anything it's funny to watch massive queue lines to my coasters that are little more than flat tracks on the ground.