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A western-themed park with a wooden roller coaster. Like the previous games in the series, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is a strategy and simulation game in which players manage all aspects of an amusement park by building or removing the rides, scenery and amenities, placing shops and facilities, adjusting the park's finances, hiring staff, and keeping the park visitors, known as "peeps", happy.
A bundle, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Gold, was also released, including the original game and the Soaked! expansion pack; this was followed by RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum (Deluxe for the EU version of the game), including both expansion packs and the original game. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum was released for Microsoft Windows and MacOS X.
Sawyer allowed Frontier Developments to develop RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 while he worked on Locomotion, a 2004 spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon. [2] Sawyer re-emerged in 2010 with the opening of 31X Ltd. a holding company for his Transport Tycoon intellectual property, and took 31X in a direction towards mobile development. [3]
The game contains several scenery and ride themes at launch, with more in development that will be released via free updates and paid expansion packs. [3] [4] The game also introduces an "Architect mode", allowing players to plan and layout the coaster's model before constructing the coasters.
A major update in 2022 allowed the game to use RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic (an official port of the original games) as a base install path. [13] OpenRCT2 Main Theme by Allister Brimble. In May 2023, Allister Brimble, who had created the themes for the first two games in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series, composed a new theme song for OpenRCT2. [14]
In July 2018, Vos released a video demonstrating a calculator created using roller coasters within RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. [3] [4] In December 2018, Vos demonstrated a ride which would take 12 real-life years to complete. [5]
Core Audio is a low-level API for dealing with sound in Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.It includes an implementation of the cross-platform OpenAL. [1]Apple's Core Audio documentation states that "in creating this new architecture on Mac OS X, Apple's objective in the audio space has been twofold.
Dan Adams of IGN gave Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 an 8/10, praising the game for the addition of the scenario and ride editor, as well as worth in value. [19] Brett Todd of GameSpot gave it a 7/10, praising the game's for the "more depth" audio and its new editors, but criticized the game for not addressing many of the issues of the first game. [17]