A short news story announced the pending game thus: "The original RollerCoaster Tycoon may be partly responsible for the flood of tycoon games that currently afflicts the PC market, but it was nonetheless a brilliant game. You almost have to admire their chutzpah as well as their 30 grand salaries and company cars. Nevertheless, RollerCoaster Tycoon certainly was a largely brilliant game. Back in April , erstwhile gimp Charlie Brooker whatever happened to him?
The same graphics, the same interface, the same rides. Whether starting from scratch, or attempting to manage one of the pre-built parks, it sucks you in and eats up the hours of your life like some giant voracious carnivore. It really is quite appalling. You then have the option to carry on regardless, or switch the sodding thing off and get on with your life. That fun can be administered in many ways, the most effective being the application of unnatural G-forces. Rollercoasters can either be placed in situ ready-made, or painstakingly constructed yourself.
And compared to the ready-made designs, the coasters you make yourself usually look like something a bunch of drunk scaffolders put together for a laugh. Nevertheless, actually managing to create a working coaster is mildly satisfying, particularly when punters start queueing in their droves to hand over their hard-earned cash in order to ride it. Much as I loathe the practice in real life, within the game I have no hesitation in charging guests for what many consider the basic human right of taking a piss.
What else are they going to do? Shop around? Yep, the captive audience are at your whim, and providing you can keep them captive, they will begrudgingly hand over the readies. It is with particular affection that I recall the day my first monorail opened, transporting guests from one end of the park to the other in an efficient yet leisurely manner.
In conjunction with a decent marketing campaign, it proved a roaring success, offering a reasonably priced opportunity to simultaneously see the sights and save your legs. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is a heady mix of flamboyance and practicality, with the big rides augmented by more mundane issue such as paths and litter. The interface can be overtly fiddly though. For instance, raising and lowering land has to be done a small square at a time, which is not only incredibly tedious, but irreversible too.
And only being able to rotate the scenery 90 degrees at a time, again causes inevitable problems. Ultimately though, there is enough here for several late nights, and I myself have been party to a couple of 6am finishes. And not just three and a half years ago. Browse games Game Portals. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher. Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game.
Game review Downloads Screenshots Overall rating: 8. Download RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. They're mirrored here for posterity. The RCT directory contains the original scenarios from RCT1 already, but they can be removed and replaced with the recreations if desired. Uploaded by M Sikma on November 25, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass.
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