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Theme Park Inc: Classic Range | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £9.99
Buy New: £2.92
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Rating:  5 reviews
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Genre: strategy-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 3 - 18 years
EAN: 5030930028589
ASIN: B00005UWGU
Release Date: February 22, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The latest instalment in a long-running success story for Bullfrog and EA. The "Inc" in the title shows the business bias--you start off at the bottom end of the corporate food chain and must work your way up to the top by pulling in the punters and keeping them happy while attending your park. That's also while you either satisfy all your immediate directors who have their own (five) departmental demands, or play one off against the other while you try and rise through the ranks yourself. Satisfying them earns you Golden tickets, which serve as a second currency and allow access to the other Artic/Polar and Arabian areas of the park you are expected to run, along with their rides. Like the previous instalments, preventing people from being sick on your rides, especially the roller coasters, is a constant challenge, or if you're not playing properly, an excellent unintentional source of fun. There's an element of the Sim Games that keeps you glued to the screen, namely that these areas must be closely managed to stop your visitors coming to physical or gastric harm. The roller coaster design section is more of an improvement to Theme Park than a total challenge to the game Roller coaster Tycoon, as you have the extended business to run--less than 50% success and you fail. Mix in 18 different coasters to start with before you even build your own, three different customer types who might hate your star attraction and must all be pleased in their own way, and there's plenty to keep you entertained. It's also quite spec-friendly: 2-year-old machines (PIII/550 or Athlon/650) with 128Mb RAM and good 3-D cards can handle the graphics and any gore is likely to be cartoonist bodily fluids rather than Quake-style blood and gore. It's good that an element of Bullfrog still exists at EA, and this shows the benefits of gaps between sequels for gameplay improvement, though fans may miss the fourth Zone from Theme Park World. If you enjoyed any of the Sim Series as well as previous Theme Park episodes, pick up your latest instalment here.--Kenneth Henry
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| Customer Reviews:
 Theme park, is it better than the real thing? March 16, 2002
Rob/robbee101@yahoo.com (England,Bridport)
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
The original theme was and is a big hit, being able to create your own theme park and test it from a customers veiw. so the other game creating commities created theme park world but was not so successful but now there's theme park.inc the best theme park creating game ever!!! (very good)
 it's OK September 1, 2002
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
i got this game because i was bored over the holiday.
At first it took a bit to get used to the controls but soon it was easy and i quite enjoyed playing the game.
It's great that you can ride the rides which you build or explore the park in first person.
the graphics are a bit basic with what we have now but they are good enough for the game.
overall i liked the game and spent hours playing it - i just hate the time that it takes to load.
hmmm not bad October 8, 2002
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this game expecting a game that would keep me at the computer for a long time. DOH!! Theme park inc is a very good game to begin with but after a while you get a distinct feeling of deja-vu. The missions are all different on the outside but on the inside you can't help but notice you've done it all before. I'd go with Roller Coaster Tycoon if i were you!
Addictive August 18, 2003
O. Doyle (Ireland)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really enjoy this game. It's one of those games that you go to sleep at night thinking 'if I'd put that there it might have been more successful'. So the next day you're up and at it again. It's suitable for all ages and both myself and my 10-yr old nephew love seeing who can outdo the other first!
Bit of a disapointment December 18, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a bit of a disapointment compared to Theme Park World. I don't know what to say about the graphics, I don't know if they are better or worse. The game is not as brightly coloured as the first game thats for sure. I didn't find the gameplay brilliant compared to Theme Park World. It is slow even if your computer is triple the speed of the system requirements, bad development, EA never brought out a patch for it! I didn't enjoy it as much as the first, same concept but much more complicated. I actually prefered the assistant in THW who wasn't as annoying as the assistant in this one!! Luckily you can turn her turn off! I have given this 3 stars as I am a loyal fan of Bullfrog and it wasn't as bad as I made it sound.
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