Posted on: December 20, 2022
Sok4R
Games: 1597 Reviews: 5
Basic mobile port of a classic game
I love RollerCoaster Tycoon, especially the first game. Played so many hours. RCT2 I don't remember as fondly, at the time I preferred other genres and it had no windowed mode, my preferred way to play such a game. This version includes all scenarios from RCT1 and 2 with all the expansion packs, plus a couple of new ones, but I didn't get to those. I think the sorting is better than in RCT2, which sorted scenarios not by difficulty, but alphabetically. Remember the casual Amity Airfield? This version is a port of the mobile version, and it shows. The UI is made with a touch screen in mind, which make it unnecessarily clunky to play on PC. The buttons aren't that big, but the placement and structure of the menus is horribly unintuitive. I had to guess that the main menu is hidden behind the prominently placed time scale button. Settings are also hidden behind this button, often used functions like hiding supports is very hard to reach. I could live with the UI, but the gameplay has also changed. I can't build a classic looping coaster design, the Shuttle Loop. Because the station breaks only work in one direction, so I can't build a very space efficient design. Selecting special parts is clunky and doesn’t work sometimes. Selecting small things like visitors is quiet hard to do. Some of the scenario requirements have changed. I've only beaten Forest Frontiers for old times sake. I don't know what else has changed in other scenarios. I really can't recommend this version. If played on PC, and after all, GOG is a PC platform, its inferior to the original. And especially to the community driven open source port OpenRCT2, which is meant and build for PC and has a lot of advanced features. It requires the original, still available here. The only case I can see for this game on PC is if you have a convertible or detachable with a touchscreen. Then the touch-based UI makes sense. If you play with mouse and keyboard, its inferior to the Original and especially OpenRCT2.
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