RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack

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.

Really fun game but has problems on modern computers. If you want the best experience when playing this game use the open soucre program "open rct2" wich fixes bugs and allows the game to be played at modern resoutions and you can import scenarios from rct1.

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.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is a classic game, and has very little in it for me to complain about. Based on RollerCoaster Tycoon (RCT), RCT 2 is essentially the ultimate expansion to the first game, which is why on the surface the games look identical. But play with it for any length of time and you'll find that many things have changed under the surface. New rides, better AI, more scenery, parks, missions and so so much more. There's even a level editor if you are so inclined. So if you want to build your own theme park, this is the game to get. But if you want to do more, do yourself a favour. Obviously buy this game, but when you do and install it, also install OpenRCT2. As it adds a bunch of modern amenities as well as the ability to load in RCT1 scenarios (if you also have that game).