Making a simplistic rollercoaster was an awkward affair, while creating something complicated might as well invoke the seven labors of Hercules. Whether that ends up a good thing or feels unnecessarily limiting to players, it’ll take more time with the game for me to know.Īs much as I love old-school RollerCoaster Tycoon, I don’t think it’s unfair to say that actual coaster construction in previous games has been janky. Sure, you could just throw every ride together in any configuration, but it’s clear the point is to have the experience gel like an Animal Kingdom or Epcot or Tomorrowland. Each theme has its own set of rides, and each of these rides features music and imagery tied to the theme. There are four themes planned for RollerCoaster Tycoon, each with its own mascot-a pirate area, science fiction, Western, and then a Disney-style 50s small-town America. Like Disney, like Six Flags, like that weird off-brand park your parents took you to because it was cheap and local, RollerCoaster Tycoon is now concerned just as much with your park feeling cohesive and planned rather than a muddled collection of rides thrown together just to make money. The point, however, is that the new RollerCoaster Tycoon focuses on aspects of your park beyond just the bare bones of a ride.
Now obviously you don’t want to watch a TV broadcast of an amusement park. The game is constantly interrupted by camera cutaways, shots of the benches, et cetera that add nothing as far as the core game is concerned, but change the mood-it’s far more like watching/playing a TV broadcast of an NBA game than watching a real basketball game. In order to explain how Atari’s approach to RollerCoaster Tycoon World has sharpened, I’m going to start by referencing something totally unrelated: 2K’s sports games.ĢK has an uncanny ability to focus on the presentation of sports rather than simply the core facets of the sport itself. I got an in-depth (but hands-off) look at the game recently, and here’s what I noticed. Here’s one: It’s 2014, and Atari is working on a RollerCoaster Tycoon sequel. I write some weird sentences in this industry.
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