Summary
What is here is great, it's just not a complete game though
The Good
The game is really good at what it does. It has a really easy editor to use to create roller coasters. There are several options and the physics seem realitic. The three demensional ride through is the best I have seen in this genre of amusment park simulators. I have played both Theme Park in which the ride through is just the same movie, and I have played Roller Coaster Tycoon, were you can't ride at all. The ride through really is the highlight of the game.
The Bad
The problem with the game isn't anything that it does wrong. The problem is all the things that it doesn't do. You can dseign a roller coaster on a flat expanse of land. There is no landscape, nothing changes. In Roller Coaster tycoon you can theme the ride and add scenery, not here. You can't build wooden roller coasters. There really is no point to even building the ride except to ride it in the ride through mode. You can also have it evaluated, and find out what a panel of judges think, but really who cares? It's not much of a game. It's a neat, easy CAD for roller coaster design, and even at that it is limited.
The Bottom Line
This is a roller coaster design program. There are three "modes" in the game. The design mode, ride mode, and evalute mode. In these modes you can as chance would have it, design, ride, and have evalutated a roller coaster. You can't build a park or use the roller coaster for anything. You also can't add scenary or theme the ride. The game is very limited. It is basically a creative tool. Its fun game for a while, and interesting if your interested in the evolution of theme park based games. Eventually you just kind of run out of things to do eventually.
