If you are reading this review, why haven't you already bought this game. Its the best thing since sliced bread and will demolish your time as fast as the blink of your eye. Believe me by the time you finish playing this game you won't be able to open yours eyes because you will be asleep.

What's it all about then. Well, it all begins with the selection of a theme park which you much either develop from scratch or rescue from being so crap. You have a set time limit from which to complete your mission goal. If you ever played Transport Tycoon you will recognize the look and feel. Its similar to sim city in the respect that the area you build on is split in to many small tiles. Each ride, shop or anything in fact, you build will take a number of tiles.

You gain money from the rides and shops you build. You can even make on ride photos to sell at the usual expensive theme park profits. The most fun to be had with this game is the ability to build your own rides. This ranges from water slides, go karts and even your own roller coasters. You do have to be careful not to build the coasters too fast else they will fall off the tracks, or make the riders sick. Each sim that enters your park has a preference to what time of ride they enjoy, so you have to build slow crap ones too keep the none adventures happy.

The sounds are just like being in a real theme park, and the graphics are useful, but not always top notch. The developers have decided to keep the game playable rather than opt for the awkward 3D like Theme Park World. The game should take you many weeks to complete and you always find that you just keep coming back for more. The game is a tad too easy though, and this makes some of the missions a little boring since I found that I had completed the missions sometimes in a quarter of the allotted time, and had to just leave my computer running till the end of the mission. Another good aspect of the game is the ability to save and distribute your riders to anyone who wants them, and there are numerous sites that allow you to download hundreds of new coaster designs, but it is better to build one yourself.

The AI is sometimes a little iffy since guests will ride on the coaster at £20 a ride until the ride excitement rating as been set by the coaster going around a number of times, which means you can make a fortune from some rides.

It may of been nice to have a ride your ride thing like Theme Park, but this would only be an extra for a brilliant well thought out game. Its a pity we don't have more games like this to play. Roll on Rollercoaster Tycoon 2!!

Overall

Rollercoaster Tycoon was in my opinion, the best Rollercoaster game ever made, and its variety will make you want more and more. If you don't have it buy it, since its probably really cheap now its been out a while.