Also, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 features the official Six Flags license. Alpine Adventures, for example, is set on an icy mountain that is more hospitable to skis than roller coasters, while Infernal Views seems to overlook the tourist-trap ring of Dante's Inferno. A number of the game's more challenging scenarios involve theme parks, which gives them a unique character that isn't provided by the traditional objectives. Fortunately, the developer at least had the foresight to let you play any of the scenarios at any time.Īlso, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 offers a bit more variety in terms of the parks you can build. If you've never played RollerCoaster Tycoon before, you may indeed find these objectives enjoyable, even challenging-but if you're a fan of the series, you've seen them before. And in another scenario, you have to erect 10 different roller coasters, each more than 3,937 feet in length and with excitement ratings of 7.00 or more. In another, you have to repay a bank loan and build your park's value to at least $500,000. In one scenario, you have to earn a monthly income from ride tickets of at least $10,000. The 26 huge scenarios feature nothing but fairly ordinary objectives, so while you are almost overwhelmed in terms of how much you can get out of the game itself-each scenario, even the three beginner parks, can take as long as six or seven hours to complete-you're basically doing the same things you did in the first game. The gameplay is cut from the same cloth as the original and its expansion packs in nearly every way. You can now build the Texas Giant from Six Flags Over Texas.įor the most part, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is more like a stand-alone expansion for the first game than a true sequel.
Though newcomers will likely find the sequel enjoyable for the simple, engaging fun that it shares with the original game, if you were already a fan of RollerCoaster Tycoon, you'll probably have a hard time believing that you waited so long for what the sequel has to offer: the same old graphics, the same old rides, and the same old objectives. It's both a blessing and a curse, because the millions of fans of the original and its two expansion packs will no doubt be happy to receive more of the same park-building fun but crestfallen over how few changes have been made by developer Chris Sawyer. Both the best and the worst thing you can say about RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is that it is nearly identical to its predecessor.
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