On the fence about buying it because it's 20 bucks? It's plenty worth it. I've played this for 5 years or more and this game is so awesome. And very advanced, especially considering the publication year.
Get the game and you really will have no regrets.
I've played RCT 1 & RCT 2 a lot, over and over again so when RCT 3 came out i immediately went to the store to buy it. I think till this day I haven't played it for longer then 48 hours. The graphics looks better then RCT 1 and 2 but i guess that's the problem, at least for me. It needs to look a bit old and nostalgic. That made RCT 1and 2 great. I just don't get the same feeling with RCT 3 like I get with 1 and 2 (which i still play) Only thing that works out great is that you can actually be in your rollercaoster you've just made and the fireworks
I got this one with a special priece offer (like half price then the normal), i own the chapeter one and two, and i can tell that if you got the previous like me, this one adds not much to the gameplay compared to the old ones.
This one is a bit weird when you want to go into the economical menagement of the park, infact if you go to check how much you are earning / loosing and any statistic regarding the economy of the game it seems its not reflecting at all whats happening, and seems the game is showing a bit random numbers about that, especially when you want to monitor a specific stall or ride.
To tell the truth this problem ruins quite a lot the menagement side of the game, still the game can be fun as building and developing a park.
The fact its 3d compared to the isometric bitmap of the previous doesnt really help in anything, its just better looking, but bit harder maybe to build on the fly.
The game has the expansions which should add more to the gameplay but imho the pools developing is a bit confusing.
At the end i can recommend this game only to the ppl who dont have any other rollercoaster game, even if personally i think that the chapter 2 is probably still superior, at least due to the fact this chapter 3 seems quite inaccurate as economical menagement.
i was chugging curdled milk and d*cking down a buttered up dinner roll while listening to africa by toto and found it difficult to play the game while doing all those things in tandem.