Customer Reviews

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked! Expansion

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

RCT3 Soaked is the first expansion pack to be realeased and it solves some problems that have occured in the orginal RCT3. There are loads of new features and they all are very fun. Some of the things that are addressed are the tunnels. Like in the first and second edition, you can build tunnels right through walls. Also instead of having to click on a single person to view their opinions. There is a new button to group them all together like in the orginal RCT. This makes it easier to plan what you need to do to fix problems. The new feature gives you a concensus on peoples opinions. Also the mixmaster has been improved greatly. Now you can add water shows and lazer lights to it too. But the real improvement is the preview screen where you still select it, it will show you a preview of what it looks like. This feature is great since in RCT3 orginal. You had to put the fireworks in the schedule and then preview what it was by playing the whole fireworks segment. This makes it a lot easier to put fireworks together.

The new features in soaked are very good like you can build a water park altogether or add it with our original park so you can have a water park within a theme park. There are slides, flumes, and a river pool or lazy pools. Also a killer shark and dolphin show are here. It's like RCT 3 meets Sea World. There is also a neat shuttle hop on hop off transit shuttle. It looks like Universal Studios Backlot tour vehicles. They can be used as shuttles but you can place ride events like erupting volocano and make a ride out of it. It really makes it seem like the Backlot tour at Universal Studios. Many features plus a couple of new carnival type attractions and beach stores like sunscreen store keep this expansion pack fresh until the next expansion pack in Sept/Oct.

Of course, there is still room for more rides and attractions not yet released in this expansion pack, they are most likely saving those for the next expansion pack.

Great buy of any RCT 3 fan.

This game is great, but in some ways it lacks detail. Though it serves it purposes, it needs a wee bit of work.Heres the good and bad( thiis design is partially following after spotlight reviews) of the game

Good:

1. If you like waterslides, youll never want to play RCT3 without this EVER again. It is very addictive, and adds a lot of features.

2. The types of waterslides have variation.Starting from a tubeslide, to a lazy river, to a master blaster,and so on and so forth.

3Pool complexes have nice construction features. Like spas, wave machines etc.

Bad:

1.Although its nice to add a slide to your pool, thats where the slides are ONLY going to go. There is NO slide end runways, or pools JUST for the slide (you could make one, but people would just jump in who have'nt even gone on the slide.) for any of the slides.Excluding the H20 Slide (AKA Master blaster) but then youd have to make it in a complete circut.

2. It seems the peeps have never heard of a speed slide (you know, a tall body slide with one drop). You try making one using the body slide creator and all peeps will absolutley hate it. I havent tried the highest it can go, but trust me. Mine was pretty high.

3. The peeps lack just about any sense of danger. they will just swim right when someone exits a slide in the way they get out. Also when creating a body slide they let you go completely vertical.(like a full 90degrees !)Kinda unrealistic.


This game is definently a winner, despite its flaws.

So, buy it.

The Soaked expansion adds loads of new features to RCT3, including the ability to add water parks, waterfalls, lazer and water shows. There's also many new rides and coasters.

Paticuarly cool is watching the peeps play in teh swimming pools :-)

Anyone who does encounter a problem should visit the Atari forums, the developers are known to hang out there and there's lot of frindly fans to meet.

I really enjoyed R.T.3 but this expansion pack is very hard to master and has a few bugs of its own. It takes forever to actually make a water fall work and is very frustrating.
You have the ability to build rides through terrain now but this to is virtually impossible to accomplish. And often the rides won't function. I receive constant pop-ups saying the ride stations are not long enough for the ride cars, even though you can see the cars sitting in the station. Terrain is a major problem as que lines no longer line up with the ground, forcing you to spend alot of time trying to adjust the surrounding land to the proper height.
This expansion pack, if anything, is very frustrating, much more so than the original problems with RT3.
In the first 2 version of this game it was very easy to build through mountains and underground, those days are long gone here. Unless you have hours to spend mastering this new stuff, you may want to think twice before you add this pack.

My whole family loves this game! It is much more fun than I thought it would be. We have every Rollercoaster Tycoon game available and they all just keep getting better. I love how realistic the situations are. I would recomend this game to anyone who likes the Tycoon type games.

I would say this is a pretty good expansion pak; it adds new elements to the theme park and some of the additions gives a theme park countless possibilites. This expansion gets a 5- star fun factor for its creativity and effort. But overall, I will just give it a 4 star because it still has glitches and many has experienced lagging. But when compared to the RCT2's expanisons (time twister and wacky worlds), this one is a winner by far. Just a reminder, there's another expanison coming out in October call Wild!

This could've been an awesome expansion, but the bugs hold it back. When you zoom out it slows way down, the screen messes up, freezes, etc. You have to restart your computer. This one bug makes the game unplayable. There are minor bugs expressed in other reviews. It is incredibly frustrating. A side note: when you create your own scenarios and you're selecting what you want to have available in your park and what won't be available in your park, wouldn't it be nice to be able to select more than one thing at a time? Overall three stars. But if it worked, five all the way.

This is my daughter's favorite game. It is educational, progressive, and alot of fun.

If you have both soaked! and wild! expansion packs,you will be able to have laser light and water jet shows in the lion show/tiger show,and you
also have either a choice to make a coaster in a waterfall,or outside.
Also, on the peep creator,you can see there is a new kind of clothing -
a swimsuit of course! you also get to toggle if there is a cuddly waterproof animal,and you get to put in a shark show to add to the tiger/lion shows. did you know that it'll be fun with wild
if you had a enxlosure for a whale,squid,crab,shark,or even fish???
well,here's a chance to find out both of the expansion packs together!!!

It's a great addition to the main exspansion, and it will keep you thinking of all the other variety of ways to design the ultimate water park!!