RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition

First off: I had played 1 & 2 before this game came out and I enjoyed both of them quite a bit. I will acknowledge that this one somehow is missing some bit of magic that the others had. That said, it's still an amazing game. It is a lot of fun and offers more variety than either of its predecessors. More importantly, it has yet to be surpassed by a followup because there hasn't been one. If you are interested in building a theme park and roller coasters, this is still the most recent option, and so I have to give it a nod. Even if you enjoy 1 & 2, heck, especially if you enjoy 1 & 2, this game is worth getting as it is a solid game in its own right.

GoG has done a pretty good job of summing up the good things about this game, so i'll focus on the not so good. 1: it doesn't seem like they ever properly tested the two expansion packs together. Placing pool paths over an animal enclosure would result in guests falling through the pool paths into the enclosure! 2: While the new "smooth ground" looked good it made building and connecting up paths a bit of a pain. since ground level paths could be at any of a huge number of levels while raised paths were limited to discrete units of level. 3: collision detection was buggy, sometimes you could build a combination of placements in one order but not in another. 4: As parks got big the game ran into performance problems. This was especially true if you used certain ride types a lot (aqua blaster slides were a major offender, they were the easiest way to get high ratings on a pool ride but they were also very heavy on the engine) 5: If an area gets too busy guests could get into a horrible tangle that was a major PITA to recover from (removing stuff and flattening ground was the only way I found) 6: if you tried to load any of the supplied audio tracks for mixmaster it would say they were in a format that could not be properly synchronised. Don't get me wrong, the game was great and I got many many hours of fun out of it but it always felt like it could have been so much better.

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It not GOG thats cranks the price, its the atari franchise. As far as i know of the last 5 years there is a large demand for the game (Netherlands) and Atari sells the game from first hand for 19.99 Euro. What bothers me is that the demand for RCT3 is still at large and this game is not in the retail stores, not that i want it to be, but it says alot about the price stratergy of atari. In this case GOG would only be a retailer of this game, so how could they cut the price? They cant. If i knew better back then, i would have bought all the available box copies from the all the stores on this world :-)

People complaining about the prices but it is still cheaper then Steam. This is a great game with many hours of game play, ignore the people complaining about the price. Some people forget the quality of this game and just try to get cheap deals.