Theme Park Roller Coaster

"Best Simulation game for PS2!!"

Finally the PS2 has a really good Simulation game. No it's not a racing game, or a game where you ride around on roller coasters the whole time. This is something differnt. This is where you can build a whole park with differnt themes, such as Halloween, dinosaurs, and other cool themes. You build a park and then you can ride around on EVERY ride you build!

Gameplay
The gameplay is really cool! You start out with 30K dollars and you can build some rides and hire some staff and put in things like security cameras, trash cans, and bathrooms. Then you open up the park and the little kids come in. Every time they come in you, of course, get admission money. This gives you money for more rides, you're proably saying, ''How can that little amount of money give you a lot of money??'' Well the more people that come in, the more you get. Also you can raise and lower the price. But if you really run out of money, you can always take a loan out. But make sure you repay it! What's proably the coolest thing in the game is the ability to become one of the people in the park. You can walk around and ride the rides. And the controls are easy and basic. Nothing to complacated. And if you stink at this kinda stuff, don't worry, there is this little dude who tells you what to do if something goes wrong or if you need to do something. There is also a tutorial.

Story
There really isn't a story to the game unless you wanna say that the story is that your a guy who runs a park and builds new rides and such. That's pretty much the story.

Audio/Video
The Audio is very cool! You can hear every kid who coughs, pukes, screams on a roller coaster, and laughs. You hear every detail. The sounds of the rides are so realistic. When you ride a roller coaster you swear you were on the real thing. The graphics are amazing. They didn't make anything stupid or blocky. When you ride a roller coaster you alsmot wanna swing your arms up and scream! The controller shakes to the coasters and stuff! I think the graphics are the coolest part becuase you really get the feeling that you are on a roller coaster.

Replayability
Once you've beaten the game? Hmmm....I don't think you can really the beat the game because there is so much to do and so many goals to reach. If you beat the game you will have done so much and it would have taken so much time you will not want to play it again.

To Rent or To Buy
BUY!!!! Renting this game for 5 days isn't enough to get the feel for it. And once you do you don't wanna stop playing!!!!

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 06/29/01, Updated 06/29/01