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Roller Coaster Tycoon Expansion Pack: Loopy Landscapes

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Loopy Landscapes is the second expansion pack for the original Roller Coaster Tycoon.

For the price, you get quite a few extra goodies. Loopy Landscapes includes 30 new scenarios, 3 `real' pre-built-parks, new themes, new coaster designs, new shops/stalls, music and coloring options, plus a few new rides. It should be said upfront that this expansion also includes RCT's 1st expansion: Corkscrew Follies, so you don't need to purchase it as a separate item.

The scenarios, like the original and first expansion get progressively harder, and when you load it for the first time, only 5 of the scenarios are unlocked. You must complete a scenario here in order to unlock others. However, I think this is where Loopy Landscapes shines in game play: The new scenarios are much more dynamic, creative, and challenging than previous ones. Here, instead of the normal `Have 1,200 guests by the end of year 3', or `Have a Park Value of $XX,XXX' by the end of year 3', you'll find you have to create certain excitement levels on half built coasters, or create X coasters of Y type. My favorite so far is `Arid Heights' where you are free from any financial burdens....just a big sandbox mode in which to create a park that will attract 2000 guests. I like it because you are not restricted to time or money and can make a beautiful park.

Also Loopy Landscapes groups the scenarios by tabs. There is one tab each for the original game, Corkscrew Follies, Loopy Landscapes, Extra's, and Real Parks. Very cool to be able to switch between these. Also the `Real Parks' are just plain beautiful to look at and watch. Sure you can change them, but I like to study them for tips and hints on what you can bring into one of the other scenarios you are working on.

There are a few new coasters and a few new rides including `Jet Skis' and `Enterprise', but there are many new shops/stalls to choose from. The new coloring options have been expanded; you have more control over how a ride is now painted. There are many new tiles for roofing and ground cover, including snow, swamp, Martian, wood, etc. Also, there are new supports for different walkways and queue lines. The music scores for rides have been expanded as well; you must check out the `Oriental Style'....very beautiful. For a new expansion, I would have liked to see a few more new thrill rides.

Lastly is the new themes themselves. There is now Arctic, Medieval, Spooky, Space, and more. This adds so much creativity, but the biggest let down is that some of the older themes could have been expanded, but were not. Like Old West should have had maybe a saloon, more cacti, horse tie-ups, mine cars, etc. Or Jurassic could have had more dinosaur's, Egyptian and Greek could have been expanded too. There are some themes that are begging to be created, like Pirates, or Super Hero's, or Mexican. However, the Oriental theme was done very nice.

Overall, a worthy addition to RCT.

If you had the 1st RCT you'd love it but eventually the novelty wears off. Well if you pick up this expansion which has 2 add-on packs you'd be thrilled. However if you already have "Corkscrew Follies" you'd notice that their aren't that many new things added on. Still the game is worth it for diehard RCT Fans.

Some new things in terms of scenary. LL really has a lot of new themeing types, which is always fun. The CF features that carry over are new entertainers, music choices, painting colors and section painting. If you are really into the whole themeing thing then this is truly the expansion pack for you.

Rides: CF gives you a lot of new gentle rides, and a few thrill rides. Around 10-12 new rollercoasters really add to the gameplay as they are all different, and fun. One new thing you'll see alot of with LL is water rides. Jet skis, water coasters, raft rides etc. are all brand new which is a good change. In terms of ride improvements you get a lot of new rollercoaster cart types which is cool.

SHOPS: There are tooooons of new shops so if you wanna make more money this is an easy way. There is everything from tee-shirt and hat stalls to fried chicken and coffee shops.

BAD THINGS: Some major bummers: you can no longer charge admission to your park, which is wear [i think] a lot of the money comes from. Also you can't research ride improvements which I guess is OK cuz you get the stuff you'd be researching then.

SCENARIOS: The corkscrew follies scenarios are REALLLLY Hard. At least I think so. They have big goals and are all similar in that you have to have x number of people in your park by a certain time. The Loopy Landscape scenarios are fun because they are different. There is a huge empty park right in the beginning with unlimited money! Some new ways to win include "Finish building these 5 rollercoasters to have an excitement value of 6.7" or "earn $8000 a month with ride ticket sales." These new ways to play are really great!

So even if you already have CF this is a great expansion cuz you can get a rebate

Okay I will first say the bad things then I will move to the better things.

One of the worst things about loopy lanscapes is you can't charge money for addmission. That is bad because you won't make as much money than in the first ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON. The other bad thing in LL(loopy landscape)is that they don't give you that much new Rollercoasters, but the ones they give you are great.

The best thing is one of the first five levels you choose from is a great one because you get as much time you want and as much $ you want. Another great thing is that there more senarios. It also comes with more senery and shops to choose. If you really like ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON you should get this but if you think ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON is boring than I wouldn't recomend it.

Rct: Loopy Landscapes will make the world's greatest theme=park game (RCT) even better! According to recent press releases, Loopy Landscapes will include Corkscrew Follies with it. Among the new roller coasters will be the S&S Thrust Air 2000, the Vekoma SLC/Invertigo, the Arrow Arrowbatic, and the Premier Rides "Liquid Coaster". It will also feature a new donut shop, a coffee shop, and a T-shirt shop among others. Probably the greatest feature of all are the new stations and new types of queue lines. This expasion is guaranteed to be great!!

I have owned the original Rollercoaster Tycoon since May '99 and have literally played the games for hundreds of hours. Corkscrew Follies was a great add on with new scenarios and tons of new rides. Loopy Landscapes is nothing like Corkscrew Follies. First of all, (I can't believe that this hasn't been brought up yet) you cannot charge admission to your parks in any of the new scenarios! That means you have to generate all of your income from rides and shops. It can be tedious and boring when you are half way done building your new Air Powered Vertical Coaster and you run out of funds and half to wait 3 months (in game time) to make enough money to complete the coaster. On a positive side, the new rides added are good. Enterprise is a crazy thrill ride that will make your guests throw up like crazy. And the Water Coaster is an awesome mix between a log flume and a steel coaster. The new park themes are nice as well. I like how one part of the park can be a space theme with astronauts walking around the craters and on the other side of the park is a winter wonderland with snowmen and icy ground. If you own Corkscrew Follies, you can send your Corkscrew Follies CD-Rom with the UPC from the Loopy Landscapes box to Hasbro and get ... to bring down the rather steep price to ... . If you love Rollercoaster Tycoon, Loopy Landscapes is a worthy purchase but if you don't play Rollercoaster Tycoon much, this expansion pack is not really necessary.

This game is great! The new parks are great but hard work on your other parks before these. They have new scenery like Winter Wonderland, Medevil, Urban, and awsome new Space themes. I have gotten two new roller coasters but I am not very far in the game. There is a new train for Steel Corkscrew Coaster called the Hypercoaster Train. There are new shops and new costumes for the Entertainers. There is one park in wich you have nlimited oney! One down side. To make it harder you cannot charge admission to your park so you must generate all of your income from rides, ect. If you have the original and Corkscrew Follies you MUST buy this game. You will not be disapointed.

No RollerCoaster Tycoon player should be without the Loopy Landscapes/Corkscrew Follies expansion packs, both which are included on this CD ROM. It adds tons of new features to the already awesome original game, providing hours of fun and excitement. Some of my favorite new features are as follows:

MORE SCENARIOS - Over 60 challenging scenarios in all, enough to keep you occupied for months! Includes the new "Arid Heights" scenario which gives you a large peice of land and unlimited funds to build the park of your dreams without any financial constraints! (The only problem is that you have to wait for most of the rides and attractions to become available, and you can't pick and choose which type of rides or attractions will become available next.)
THREE "REAL PARK" SCENARIOS - based on real amusement parks in the UK and Germany
MORE ROLLER COASTER TYPES - including the Heartline Twister, Steel Wild Mouse, and Air Powered Vertical coasters
MORE THRILL RIDES, WATER RIDES, AND GENTLE RIDES - letting you give your guests more variety in rides
MORE FOOD STALLS AND SOUVENIR STANDS - now you can give your guests hot dogs, fried chicken, candy apples, lemonade, hats, T-shirts, and more!
NEW THEMES, RIDE ENTRANCES, AND ENTERTAINERS - now you can make your park a real "theme" park with jungle, space, dinosaur, and oriental themes, just to name a few
MORE LANDSCAPING OPTIONS AND FOOTPATH TYPES - to further enhance the look and feel of your park
NEW "UNIFORM PRICING" FEATURE - allows you to adjust the price of a certain item in your park uniformly throughout your park, rather than having to click on each stall individually to adjust the price at each one....makes life a lot easier!
COLOR-CHANGING FOR BALLOONS, UMBRELLAS, HATS, AND T-SHIRTS - now you can set different colors for the items that you sell at your stalls, resulting in a colorful mosaic of balloons, umbrellas, hats, and shirts...a really cool thing to see!
BANNER SIGNS - including special "no entry" signs which prohibit your guests from entering a certain area of your park (very useful when you're expanding and don't want your guests to enter the new area of your park while it's still under construction)
"REAL NAME" FEATURE - gives your guests names like "Bill W." and "Nancy P." instead of the more impersonal "Guest 1084"
AND MUCH MORE!!!

Simply put, RollerCoaster Tycoon simply isn't complete without this expansion 2-pack. A must have for rollercoaster tycoons everywhere!

Although I am a fan of RCT, Loopey Landscapes has a few problems in my opinion. The new themeing is fine though I still feel they do not offer enough choices in each genre' to really make your park look unique. Why not add some animated animals for the "Jungle" themeing? Is it really necessary to have "Spooky" and "Creepy" themeing? Same situation with "Space" and "Martian" themeing. Why didn't they just combine these similar styles and offer other choices like "50's," "Wild West," or "Hollywood" themeing for example. Fans expecting 6 new themes are going to be dissappointed. The coffee shop, lemonade stand, and T-shirt stall are all great though I was wishing for even more shops and stalls. I also think that all RCT players would like to see more non-rollercoaster type rides. There are a few added but not many. As for the new scenarios, they are difficult (which I like) but there is a bug in the program that makes a few of them impossible to solve if you let your researcher develope to many new attractions. Until Chis Sawyer develops a patch for this problem, I'd wait on dishing out [the money] for a game that does not live up to the standards we expect from Hasbro, MicrosProse, and the RCT series.

REVIEW: Number one, the add-on gives you more Roller Coaster Tycoon, and I mean a lot. You get 30 new scenarios which in itself becomes just as good as some of the add-ons for different games out there. But you also get a lot more. You lots of stuff like new ride elements, new roller coasters, gentle and thrill rides, kiosks, themes, entertainers, landscapes etc... The interface is also changed a bit. In the add-on, almost every ride or attraction can play music and there are many different musical scores that can be played to pretty much any theme in the game. (eg. jungle drums for the jungle theme, roman fanfare etc...) Not to mention a few other small extras such as "real" names for guests, and a few more views.

THE UPS: Great new rides and attractions. A lot of work has gone into the theming aspect of aspect of Roller Coaster Tycoon, the addition of more music also adds more variety to the game which is definitely relief for my ears after hours of the carousel fair organ. The additional elements added to existing rides (such as the covered cars for the miniature railroad) are a great improvement.

THE DOWNS: There should've been less effort to create so many new roller coaster types (even though they are all very good) and more effort put into other rides such as the river ride, log flume, car ride etc... It would've been nice to be able to put scenery underground. The new scenarios are very hard.

THE BOTTOM LINE: I would just ignore everything I said in the "downs". This is a great package. A lot of hard work and effort has been put into making this worthwhile and I believe it is definitely worth the trip to the local software dealer. Despite a few unattended things that many would have liked to see, I still really liked this add-on pack. In comparison, this add-on pack also seems to have more "stuff" in it than other packs such as "Aftermath" for Command and Conquer Red Alert. Corkscrew Follies concentrates in every aspect of the game and pretty much makes the game even better than ever. I highly recommend it and I have given it a 90%.

This game, while a little bit overpriced, is worth it. You don't get very many new rides, which is a disappointment, but you do get the Air Powered Vertical Coaster which can get launched out of the station at 112 mph. There are a couple new shops and stalls, and lots of cool new scenery types, including space, oriental, castle, and snow. There are new types of music also. The new scenarios are a big step away from those in RCT and CF. They don't all have xxx guests and 600 park rating goals. They have interesting objectives, such as completing the five unfinished coasters with excitement over 6.7 or building 10 different types of coasters with excitement over 6. The one real annoyance is that you can't charge for entry to your park, which makes the game much harder. The scenarios are great though, and three "real" parks are included. They are sort of like scenarios, but they are listed separately and they are made to look just like three real parks in Europe! Blackpool Pleasure Beach is great, and so is Alton Towers. Heide Park is okay. Overall, this game is a must-buy for any RCT fan, but it is overpriced if you already have corkscrew follies.