RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack

by Atari

Product Features

• Fill your theme park with famous landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal and Mount Rushmore
• Twenty-one interesting and exciting new scenarios based on real-world locations
• Over 50 new thrill ride possibilities in as many locations -- even Antarctica
• 250 new game elements that fully integrate into Roller Coaster Tycoon 2

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000089SOW
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 6, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,265 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Climb the Great Wall of China, witness the awesome splendor of the Taj Mahal and have lunch in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower--all in the same day! Now, you can include the most exotic rides and attractions from around the globe when creating the ultimate virtual amusement park. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds provides you with all new rides, scenarios and scenery themes from every one of the Earth's continents...even Antarctica.

Product Description

Build incredible amusement parks around the world!Product Information[Requires RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game to play]Find your passport and pack your bags! RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2 is takinggamers on the ultimate trip around the globe in the all-new expansion packRollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Wacky Worlds! Travel the globe creating high-flyingroller coasters and exciting theme parks filled with exotic rides profitableconcessions and the most famous landmarks known to man. Build crazy coastersover the Great Wall of China around the Eiffel Tower above the Grand Canyonand more! Each location is packed with opportunities for success fun and uniquechallenges.Product Features All new rides scenery and attractions based on Earth's seven continents: Asia Europe Antarctica North America Africa South America Australia Fill your parks with famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower Big Ben Great Wall of China Statue of Liberty and more! 17 new scenarios based on real-world locations. Over 50 new ride types from around the world to thrill your park guests. Over 200 new game elements that integrate into RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2.System Requirements Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Pentium II 300 MHz or equivalent 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended) 150 MB free Hard Disk Space (200 MB recommended) 4X or higher CD-ROM Drive (8X Recommended) Windows 98/Me/2000/XP compatible video card * Windows 98/Me/2000/XP compatible sound card * DirectX version 8.1 (included) or higher* Indicates device should be compatible with DirectX version 8.1 (included)or higher.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Overrated and Overpriced, June 3, 2003

By 

Joe Tracy "JoeTracy,com" (Wilsonville, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack (CD-ROM)

With this expansion, Roller Coaster Tycoon is getting into questionable territories.

1) The so called "new rides" are actually rides you already have, just with different cars. And the cars is breaking the game away from its realistic nature. For example, you can have "Football" vehicles on your roller coaster. These corny additions are making the game more like Sim Theme Park - unrealistic.

2) Many of the objects, like trees, now take up four squares instead of one. The look and design is different - making it look like a completely different team put together this expansion.

3) The scenarios greatly limit the number of Scenery Themes you can have in your scenario (many only allow ONE). Thus when trying to place a prebuilt coaster, you'll get the message, "scenery Unavailable for this Design" again and again and again.

4) Many of the prebuilt coasters also say that the car design for the coaster is "unavailable" and therefore could affect performance of the ride. Um... hello??? Why put the prebuilt coaster in there if the cars that go with it are unavailable?

5) There are several new bugs that are introduced with this so called "expansion pack". For one, the clear scenery object no longer works on several trees that you must now manually remove before you can place a ride. On some maps, the scrolling feature is [messed]up, making it so that you can't scroll to certain areas of the park.

6) Another new annoyance and limitation is that on the majority of the scenarios, they don't allow you to use the landscape tool at all! They might as well remove it from the game!

Wacky Worlds is a very disappointing Expansion Pack and if it is an indication of things to come, then the Roller Coaster Tycoon franchise is in a lot of trouble as corny cartoony items replace realism and limitations replace fun. I'm almost to the point where I'd like to see Microsoft's Zoo Tycoon team take over this game because the current makers are doing it no justice.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars milking the franchise, May 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack (CD-ROM)

I was seriously looking forward to this add-on, since I thought there was still so much more they could do with Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. However, this is not an add-on worth the same price as the game itself.

* Chris Sawyer seems to still demand you play the game his way. There is no way to use new designs in old save games that I can find. You're extremely limited in the number of items that can be active on any particular map. There is no reason for this.

* Most (like almost ALL) of the new designs are simply different cars for old vehicle designs. For example, one "new" design is a TGV-themed coaster (TGV is the French bullet train). It's simply the LIM-launched coaster with different looking cars--yet it's marketed as a completely new type of rollercoaster.

* The popular mountain-editing tool is still missing from in-game. You can only use it in the scenario editor.

* Some of the new game elements count for multiple objects against your object limitations. The suspension bridge is a pretty poor take-off on the Golden Gate Bridge. It takes 5 separate object elements to use it--which means there are 5 other objects (walls, flowers, or other things) you can't use.

* The "North America" theme really should be called "USA" theme.

* The manual is horribly underwritten. Things are purposely omitted so you can "discover things on your own"...or buy the strategy guide.

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Add on so soon?, March 8, 2003

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Bruce Gray "gurpsgm" (Shenandoah Valley, VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack (CD-ROM)

OK - the good news is - this seems to be worth =some= money.

This expansion pack (you will need the original Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 to use this) adds a lot of new scenery like the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, and other scenery to make parks an international experience. There are almost 20 new scenarios, 50 new ride types, and about 250 new game elements, mostly scenery.

OK - the bad news is - I don't think it's worth the current price of admission.

A lot of the "new rides" are just re-designs of old coasters. There's no new stores or other new goodies. Still only the Scenario Editor allows you to use the mountain maker. Many of the new scenery elements take up a lot of slots on the scenario editor. For instance, the "Golden Gate Bridge" needs five (5) slots - thus taking up room that could be used for other park scenery.

With this coming out so soon after RCT2, I can't help but ask if this was just a way to squeeze more dollars out of RCT fans. I would have been much happier if these "extras" had been included with the RCT2 first disc. Sure, we might have had to wait a little longer for RCT2, but we would have gotten a much more developed product. This "extra" pack had to have already either been in development or already totally developed for the short time between RCT2 and the first expansion pack release date.

I'll be watching carefully for any future RCT2 releases within a year - and see if they might include "Wacky Worlds" as an extra feature, just as they did with RCT1's "Loopy Landscapes" (which also included the add-ons from RCT1's "Corkscrew Follies"). Those who want to save money might want to wait till the end of the year, when either a third disc (with this second disc included) might be released, or the prices come down as they do for all video games.

Recommended, but only for Roller Coaster Tycoon purists.