Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum | 
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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $18.55
You Save: $11.44 (38%)
New (9) Used (13) from $14.92
Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1098
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me
Genre: Simulation Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 27513
Model: 27513
UPC: 742725275133
EAN: 0742725275133
ASIN: B000HKGD4A
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED, FREE UPGRADE TO 1ST CLASS SHIPPING.
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| Features:
| • | Grab a front seat for the ride of your life with the jaw-dropping Coaster Cam | | • | See every detail in stunning 3D with fully controllable park cameras | | • | Cope with changing weather patterns and enjoy beautiful vistas, sunsets, moonlight, and more | | • | Add your own mp3 music to backgrounds, rides, and fireworks shows | | • | Spend the big bucks and build with unlimited funds in Sandbox Mode |
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Product Description
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of great strategy sim. It combines Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with the hit expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Enjoy more options than ever, as you build your own water slide or create your own safari with real animals. Watch guest reactions to your ultimate theme park!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Platinum September 7, 2008
Bruce E. Roberts (California)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have run all 3 versions of Roller Coaster Tycoon and this last version takes all the problems and glitches that were in the first release. It also has combined the two expansion packs (Wild and Soaked) onto the same disc so all games are installed at the same time.
A work of caution though. This is a very high end graphic and memory heavy game. You really need a top line machine with lots of Ram memory, a fast processor and a high end graphics card with lots of memory and very fast screen rendering. If you try to run this on a standard system it will slow down as you add rides and scenery to the point where it's impossible to use. And it doesn't run with Windows Vista. XP Pro is the best version to run this game on.
Tycoon 3 Rollercoaster July 8, 2008
James J. Cameron (Norristown, PA USA)
Once again they have done it, Great game , many hours of fun, keeps the children busy and intrested for haours on end.
Aside from some lagging a fun and charming title! April 27, 2008
Christopher Beck (New York, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a fan of the RC series from its inception, back in my high school days, with Chris Taylor eye-bleeding Roller Coaster Tycoon (those 2d textures really killed your sight). The newest (and possibly final, pending legal resolution) entry has now been packaged together with its two expansion packs - Soaked and Wild, into one pre-patched Platinum edition. The cost of the pack is commiserate with buying all three together (if you can even FIND a copy of RCT3) so the value is pretty high here.
The game itself is tons of fun, giving the player free reign to build the theme park of their dreams. Although a novelty, which is ultimately rarely used, it is rather neat that you can actually ride many of your rides from a first person perspective (this works especially well with Roller Coasters). Placement of rides, decoration, types of shops, research budget, ride prices, all are under the player's control - making it a micromanager's dream (you can even control the color of the ride and the color of the ride's queue).
My only two concerns are some technical problems and a general lack of challenge to the game's campaigns. It is very easy to reach gold tycoon in all of the campaign levels, although really this isn't much the point. The game is far more to play as a "sandbox" game. I had some lagging when attempting to place rides and decoration, and while playable, it is slightly annoying. Some users, with less up-to-date rigs have reported lots of lagging when their park sizes and guest numbers go to high, so make sure you have a bit higher than recommended specs here.
Good for all ages! March 18, 2008
H. Fuller (North Carolina, USA)
This game is great for all ages. The controls area little hard to figure out at first, but once you get the hang of it, they are really easy to use. It is really exciting to get to ride your own coasters, and having the new "autocomplete" is great when you can't finish the coaster yourself, or if you get impatient. My 10 year old loves it as well.
Fun game but with some flaws... February 9, 2008
Jennifer Snyder (New Tripoli, PA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have this game for about 2 weeks, and in the first round of playing the game, I found one important flaw. There is no undo button! It's annoying and frustrating to keep deleting the errors I make with going back and forth the trash can to delete sections of the coasters. I end up deleting the entire coaster and starting over.
On a positive note, the game does have some great graphics and it's really kewl that you can ride the coasters after you create them. I'm not a roller coaster person, or even a ride person persay, but this game is great - it's very addicting. Overall, this game is entertaining and a good buy.
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