Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4547 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2005-11-11
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 takes the series to new heights with brand new features including 3-D graphics, giving players complete control of views around the park, and a front seat to the action with a new Coaster Cam feature that allows players to ride the roller coasters.

Get ready for an entirely new RollerCoaster Tycoon experience... it's wet, wild and totally soaked!

For the first time, run your own water park - and ride all the rides - with this expansion to the smash hit RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. Celebrate summer as hundreds of peeps (that's RollerCoaster Tycoon talk for "guests") catch rays and waves with an amazing line up of super-splash flume rides, massive water slides, aquatic shows, beaches and more. Blast peeps with water cannons, build them outrageous coasters, and wow 'em with laser light water shows! Get drenched with this splashy summertime addition to one of the biggest games of the year.

With RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked!, the park guests will catch rays and ride the waves on more than fifty new rides and coasters including super-splash flume rides, massive water slides, wave pools and more. Players will also be able to create aquatic spectaculars with performing dolphins, killer whale shows and customisable aquariums as well as design dazzling laser light water shows and synch them to music with the H20 MixMaster. A new Swimming Pool Designer and Waterfall Designer will let players add hundreds of new park enhancements to create the ultimate summer fun experience as well as other new features that extend and enhance the original game.

Customer Reviews

RollerCoaster Tycoon & Soaked expansion pack
Huge improvement from the last two games. The graphics, gameplay and features are all fantastic. Most would agree who have played it, that you do need a decent computer to play this. I have something like a ATI Radeon 9600 (graphics card)and there are odd times in the game where your computer may skip. All I'm saying is, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU HAVE HAVE ANYTHING LESS THAN A GOOD GRAPHICS CARD AND A DECENT COMPUTER. Trust me.

The game itself is brilliant, the ability to create your own fully personalised theme park is great. You can even go online and trade rollercoasters with others (You can make other rides than rollercoasters in the game!). There are nearly a 100 or so different types of rides (different types of coasters too!)maybe more. There are weather effects and scenarios and different areas to build your own park. Or you can create you own area with the sandbox mode. This is where you get a huge piece of land and build whatever you like. Such as reforming the land, don't forget the rides. You can even design your own guests. There are loads of facilities to choose from as well as rides, staff also. You can create beautiful gardens and amazing landscapes. The soaked expansion adds even more fun aswell, there is another expansion out now aswell. Where you create your own zoo aswell. Soaked gives you more rides and features and scenarios and other things. The main thing with soaked is to build more of a water park!

The game has a huge lifespan (I'm still playing it) and a must buy. Thanks to Atari and Frontier for their great efforts into making a great game!

Made to Perfection
For the price, this game was well worth the buy. The graphics are amazing and the features are excellent, especially with the Soaked Expansion included. The "Ride your rides" feature is also brilliant. It does however require a very powerful graphics card. I bought a new PC not long ago with a 256mb Nvidia Geforce 6200 video card and even that struggles to cope with the lighting effects when it goes dark.

Wasted hours and sunken eyes and I don't care...
Having been a long-time fan of the old Theme Park games, I'd oddly never given any of the RCT's a try before, until I was berated thoroughly by some friends for this failing. I figured I might as well dive straight in at the most recent entry, and at first, all was not well...

Being completely new, the interface at first was overwhelming. I completed the tutorials but still found myself getting lost with so much to deal with, and ended up leaving the game after a few hours.

Soon enough though, I felt the clarion call of the game pulling me back, and this time found myself maddeningly addicted. After a while spent with the game you learn to recognise things such as raised entrances/exits (as the landscape is fully 3D) and how to deal with them appropriately. Attention to detail is the key here; a fantastic amount was put into the design of the game, and as such it demands a fair amount back from you. After the first few scenarios though the workings are second nature, and you won't be able to stop yourself creating enormous parks long after you've achieved your gold medal (Tycoon status). Contrary to another reviewer I found the scenarios very well paced and challenging whilst never impossible, and they provide a great sense of purpose compared to the endless and open Sandbox mode, which quite frankly bores me to tears.

The central feature of the game, as the name suggests, is the joy of rollercoasters. These rides will pull in more customers and money than anything else in your park, and if well designed can keep a park going almost on their own. The interface for building them is extensive, which certainly takes some getting used to - your first few coasters will be uniformly terrible, but once you get the hang of banking turns and running track through and around itself you'll be creating astounding coasters. The much-vaunted Coaster Cam is simply fantastic, and you'll find yourself filling every spare moment riding your creations with a grin. This camera is available on every ride as well, with a variety of different views and angles.

Unfortunately, as your park gets busier, you'll start to notice a fair amount of slowdown at certain zoom levels as the game struggles to keep track of all the Peeps on your display. Even more annoyingly (though this may not hold true for all computers), I had a fair number of stability issues on certain scenarios, where the game would suddenly blue screen and reboot my computer. This is less of a random occurence and more guaranteed on certain levels for me, as reloading the game again straight away will produce the same result in a few minutes. This ultimately broke my habit with the game, in a most frustrating way, but it could simply be an issue particular to my computer. It certainly doesn't stop the rest of the game being absolutely fantastic.

Just be careful. This is as close to crack as you can install on your PC.