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Theme Park World gives you the chance to build your own amusement park in four different themed lands. Entry to the various lands is gained with a certain number of golden keys, one of which you are given to start you off. One key allows you access to the Magic Kingdom and Halloween World. ... Read review
Ever fancied being the owner of an Alton Towers or Disney World from the comfort of your ... more
own home? Well withTheme Park Worldyou can be! The aim of the game is to build your dream park and keep it running, dealing with the day-to-day trials and tribulat...
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Ever fancied being the owner of an Alton Towers or Disney World from the comfort of your ... more
own home? Well withTheme Park Worldyou can be! The aim of the game is to build your dream park and keep it running, dealing with the day-to-day trials and tribulat...
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Just as in the originalTheme Park game, you're placed in the position of the manager ... more
of--you guessed it--a theme park, and it's up to you to build the rides and attractions, manage your staff and get the pint-sized punters pouring in to enjoy themselves.Theme Park Worldhas a spin in that you're not limited to one park: you progress through--you guessed it--a world of theme parks, each one having a different theme (jungle or space, for example) and different targets to meet to gain your golden tickets. These are the currency of the game, with which you can open other parks and--if you accumulate enough--actually go into the park you've built.Games like this are normally a little difficult to play on the PlayStation: you have to navigate through a series of menus (which are nevertheless clear in this game) and select options as you scroll around the park. On a PC, or with a PlayStation mouse, gameplay such as this is easier--but bless the creators ofTheme Park Worldfor developing an embarrassingly simple way around this: actions are carried out using just the four keys of your controller, which do different things depending on what is currently in the centre of your screen.If you're into world-building games, but are after something a bit more light-hearted and less complex (although the management of a park can be quite a challenge), thenTheme Park Worldcould be the game for you. The ease of gameplay, teamed with graphics and a fun concept, make it perfect company for a rainy afternoon. --David Bailey
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Just as in the originalTheme Park game, you're placed in the position of the manager ... more
of--you guessed it--a theme park, and it's up to you to build the rides and attractions, manage your staff and get the pint-sized punters pouring in to enjoy themselves.Theme Park Worldhas a spin in that you're not limited to one park: you progress through--you guessed it--a world of theme parks, each one having a different theme (jungle or space, for example) and different targets to meet to gain your golden tickets. These are the currency of the game, with which you can open other parks and--if you accumulate enough--actually go into the park you've built.Games like this are normally a little difficult to play on the PlayStation: you have to navigate through a series of menus (which are nevertheless clear in this game) and select options as you scroll around the park. On a PC, or with a PlayStation mouse, gameplay such as this is easier--but bless the creators ofTheme Park Worldfor developing an embarrassingly simple way around this: actions are carried out using just the four keys of your controller, which do different things depending on what is currently in the centre of your screen.If you're into world-building games, but are after something a bit more light-hearted and less complex (although the management of a park can be quite a challenge), thenTheme Park Worldcould be the game for you. The ease of gameplay, teamed with graphics and a fun concept, make it perfect company for a rainy afternoon. --David Bailey
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Ever fancied being the owner of an Alton Towers or Disney World from the comfort of your ... more
own home? Well here's your chance thanks to those wonderful people at BullFrog software and the PlayStation 2.Based on the PC title of the same name, the aim of the game is to build your dream park and keep it running, dealing with the day-to-day trials and tribulations of keeping the rides working and the punters happy. Strategy is all important here--place your burger stand too close to a rollercoaster entrance and the riders will stagger off the attraction and become "unwell" all over the floor. Too much salt on your chips and not enough fizzy pop results in parched visitors who vote with their feet and don't come back--this is not a game for those who like action fast and furious and pick up a game for a quick five minutes now and again.The user interface is a joy to use, makingTheme Park Worldeasy to play; in tutorial mode an interesting park advisor pops up to give tips on what needs to happen, where and when. But it's in the rollercoaster design phase that things get interesting. Lay out the track for your ride in full 3D, then alter it in differing ways to produce a killer ride--corners can be banked, straights raised and lowered and sections can be added and removed to create the kind of white knuckle ride Walt and Mickey would be proud of, then, using the game's first-person mode check it out from the front seat for that impression of being there.Successful park management results in golden tickets being awarded. Collect enough tickets and the player can progress to bigger and more challenging themed parks, each of which presents its own unique challenge.The long-term attraction of this game is doubtful, and only significant playing will reveal whether the whole procedure will become a little samey, but for a break from the traditional arcade-style fare usually associated with the consoles,Theme Park Worldholds bags of promise and is a worthwhile investment for the more thoughtful PS2 owner.
Postage & Packaging:free Super Saver Delivery Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Just as in the originalTheme Park game, you're placed in the position of the manager ... more
of--you guessed it--a theme park, and it's up to you to build the rides and attractions, manage your staff and get the pint-sized punters pouring in to enjoy themselves.Theme Park Worldhas a spin in that you're not limited to one park: you progress through--you guessed it--a world of theme parks, each one having a different theme (jungle or space, for example) and different targets to meet to gain your golden tickets. These are the currency of the game, with which you can open other parks and--if you accumulate enough--actually go into the park you've built.Games like this are normally a little difficult to play on the PlayStation: you have to navigate through a series of menus (which are nevertheless clear in this game) and select options as you scroll around the park. On a PC, or with a PlayStation mouse, gameplay such as this is easier--but bless the creators ofTheme Park Worldfor developing an embarrassingly simple way around this: actions are carried out using just the four keys of your controller, which do different things depending on what is currently in the centre of your screen.If you're into world-building games, but are after something a bit more light-hearted and less complex (although the management of a park can be quite a challenge), thenTheme Park Worldcould be the game for you. The ease of gameplay, teamed with graphics and a fun concept, make it perfect company for a rainy afternoon. --David Bailey
Postage & Packaging:free Super Saver Delivery Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Ever fancied being the owner of an Alton Towers or Disney World from the comfort of your ... more
own home? Well here's your chance thanks to those wonderful people at BullFrog software and the PlayStation 2.Based on the PC title of the same name, the aim of the game is to build your dream park and keep it running, dealing with the day-to-day trials and tribulations of keeping the rides working and the punters happy. Strategy is all important here--place your burger stand too close to a rollercoaster entrance and the riders will stagger off the attraction and become "unwell" all over the floor. Too much salt on your chips and not enough fizzy pop results in parched visitors who vote with their feet and don't come back--this is not a game for those who like action fast and furious and pick up a game for a quick five minutes now and again.The user interface is a joy to use, makingTheme Park Worldeasy to play; in tutorial mode an interesting park advisor pops up to give tips on what needs to happen, where and when. But it's in the rollercoaster design phase that things get interesting. Lay out the track for your ride in full 3D, then alter it in differing ways to produce a killer ride--corners can be banked, straights raised and lowered and sections can be added and removed to create the kind of white knuckle ride Walt and Mickey would be proud of, then, using the game's first-person mode check it out from the front seat for that impression of being there.Successful park management results in golden tickets being awarded. Collect enough tickets and the player can progress to bigger and more challenging themed parks, each of which presents its own unique challenge.The long-term attraction of this game is doubtful, and only significant playing will reveal whether the whole procedure will become a little samey, but for a break from the traditional arcade-style fare usually associated with the consoles,Theme Park Worldholds bags of promise and is a worthwhile investment for the more thoughtful PS2 owner.
Postage & Packaging:£1.94 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
...hearts out, creating your own theme park is a whole lot cheaper, and loads more fun. Okay, well for adrenalin rush junkies it's perhaps not more fun, but it sure is enjoyable all the same.
Theme Park World gives you the chance to build your own amusement park in four different themed lands. Entry to the various lands is gained with a certain number of golden keys, one of which you are given to start you off. One key allows you access ... ...it's faults...
Theme Park World, from Bullfrog, followed on some 5 years after the original version (Theme Park) was released in 1994. Although general game play has been taken to a new level of enjoyment and excitement with the different themed lands and new rides, the rest hasn't advanced so well.
The animations are still very cartoon like, close up viewing still painfully poor, and the visuals can appear blurred ... more
Alton Towers and Chessington World of Adventures eat your hearts out, creating your own theme park is a whole lot cheaper, and loads more fun. Okay, well for adrenalin rush junkies it's perhaps not more fun, but it sure is enjoyable all the same.
Theme Park World gives you the chance to build your own amusement park in four different themed lands. Entry to the various lands is gained with a certain number of golden keys, one of which you are given to start you off. One key allows you access to the Magic Kingdom and Halloween World. The other two lands - Wonder Land and Space Zone require three and five keys respectively so are initially out of bounds.
It doesn't really matter where you start as all lands present you with the same set-up to start - $50,000 to play with, the park entrance gates and a short path leading onto a relatively small fenced in plot of land, set within a further expanse of land for sale.
Your job, in which ever land you choose, is to build your park from scratch - lay the paths, put in the rides sideshows food outlets features and facilities from the initial 20 ish items available. Decide on prices, employ and train your staff, research new items, keep the park clean and well maintained and try to keep the customers happy.
There's an optional 'guide' to help you through the game and although his incessant rambling can get a touch annoying at times I'd recommend leaving him switched on. He'll help you to create and maintain a thriving park by giving little hints as to how you are doing. He tells you when new items are available for purchase, advises you if your prices are too high or too low, warns you when rides are about to break down, and suggests staffing requirements.
The other thing he does is talk about golden tickets that you can win. These tickets are awarded for various achievements such as getting a specific number of people into your park, making a certain percentage profit, building a particularly large roller coaster or a very exciting go-cart track, or it may just be for making all your park visitors very happy.
The tickets can be exchanged for mystery rides to place in your park, but more importantly for every third ticket you win you are also awarded a golden key. As stated earlier, the golden keys unlock new themed lands to build up, so it's well worth aiming high and collecting as many tickets/keys as you can.
As well as tickets and keys, you are offered challenges to attempt with quite large financial rewards given on successfully completing them. There are various tasks given such as getting 15% of your visitors to buy a balloon in 60 days, keeping your toilets very clean for 30 days, or building a particular ride. Some of the challenges are really easy to do and others are pretty tough... the good thing is there's no penalty for failing a challenge, so they're always worth accepting and success is great for your profits
If the worst happens and you find yourself in financial difficulty you can get a loan, but beware! Some of the interest rates are very high and you may end up in deeper water than you were before. The best way to avoid this is to spend no more than half your initial $50,000. Although it's tempting to blow the lot and get all the rides as soon as you can, you have to remember that for a while you'll be paying more money out at the end of the month on staff and stock than is coming back in, so take it slowly.
Hopefully, you should find over the period of a few game years (a game year in real time is not even an hour) you are raking in the profits and your park becomes pretty self-sufficient. Then comes the time for buying up the surrounding land and really going to town with large exciting roller coasters and the like. Tweak your rides, speed them up, buy upgrades, and don't forget to try them out - yup, you can try all the rides! The air tour is a great way of viewing your park from above, and riding the roller coaster gives you an insight into what your park visitors’ experience. Great fun, but remember you only have yourself to blame if you feel sick afterwards.
As long as you have the required number of keys, you can access whichever land you want whenever you want. You simply save your current land progress, exit to the lobby and enter a different one. Each themed land runs independently of the others so financial status/customer satisfaction etc is not carried over. Great if you cock up and want a fresh start, but a little frustrating when a particular park does really well... it would be handy to be able to carry over or borrow the funds. On the plus side though, tickets and keys do carry over from park to park.
What I'm not sure about is if the game ever ends. I currently have 4 pretty successful parks including one that's been running for 13 (game) years and has made over $1,000,000. I've also accumulated 8 golden keys but they seem almost purposeless as just 5 allow access to all the lands. I keep wondering if there is something more to the game? Perhaps a hidden land that will be unlocked after a certain number of keys? Or maybe further bonus rides and attractions for the existing parks? But whether my interest will hold up long enough to find out I don't know.
This game is highly addictive and has certainly provided me and hubby with many hours of fun. At £9.99 from HMV I'd say it was a great buy, but it does have it's faults...
Theme Park World, from Bullfrog, followed on some 5 years after the original version (Theme Park) was released in 1994. Although general game play has been taken to a new level of enjoyment and excitement with the different themed lands and new rides, the rest hasn't advanced so well.
The animations are still very cartoon like, close up viewing still painfully poor, and the visuals can appear blurred and blocky. The game gets pretty slow and unresponsive as you make progress in your park, and the sound follows suit causing the park guide to repeat himself over and over and over and over and over and over and.... you get the idea.
The instruction manual is lacking too. Theme Park had a book to accompany it, which really aided a beginner, but Theme Park World basically carries installation instructions, and some support website addresses and telephone numbers.
If you are more into technical perfection than fun game play this game will probably annoy the hell out of you. You'd perhaps be better with Roller Coaster Tycoon which certainly offers a very clean cut amusement park game, although in HMV it was twice the price.
Overall, despite the imperfections, Theme Park World is a great game. The website is fun too, and offers you the chance to publish your parks online and visit parks submitted by people from all over the world. You can also download new rides and a patch that fixes a couple of bugs you might encounter during play. You do have to register, but it is free and only takes a minute. In case you can't guess its www.themeparkworld.com
The minimum system requirements are Windows 95/98, 200 MHz processor, 32 MB RAM, 300 MB hard drive space, 4x CD-ROM drive, 4 MB Video Card and Sound Card compatible with DirectX 6.1
Advantages: good graphics, looks fun Disadvantages: complicated, seemed to get stuck at one point
I was given Theme Park as a birthday present, after many happy hours playing Theme Hospital and expected to love playing this game. I installed it easily enough on the computer, read the booklet, then began to play. However, I seemed to get stuck in the same place every time I tried to play it. I could build and position the first ride, then I seemed to grind to a halt and I wasn't sure what to do next. I consider myself to be quite computer literate ... ...The CD-ROM computer game, Theme Park, was made by Bullfrog in 1994. The graphics are very good and it looks like it could be an absorbing and quite addictive game, if you have the patience to pursue it. The game comes with a New Business Portfolio, which is actually a detailed booklet about the game. The aim is to make your theme park the best and you receive a statement which rates yours against 40 others in six different categories - Richest Owner, ...
KarenUK 17.01.2001
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Advantages: Enjoyable game, fantastic graphics, lots of varying factors Disadvantages: Can get tedious, been done before (many a time)
...have control over how a theme park is built and designed, to see what it would be like to make a mockery of your career without it affecting your real-life personal financial income, or just to mess about, scaring the pants off hundreds of people and having to clean up the inevitable visible consequence? I have.
And after enjoying the thrills that the original Theme Park brought so many of us some 6 or 7 years ago, I was eager to try my wits against ... ...you who don't know already, Theme Park Inc. is the latest in the sequence of 'sim' or simulated games to be released by Bullfrog (other games released include 'Theme Hospital' and 'Theme Park World'). The aim of the game is to try and access all three theme parks which the game allows you to develop from scratch into intricate and complex theme parks, bringing in as much money as possible in the process.
Only one park is available at the start, ...
craigy_baby_2000 06.09.2001
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Advantages: Good fun - keeps you occupied for hours, days and weeks Disadvantages: Hard to do anything else! Oh, and the end is a bit disappointing.
...the shows. Imagine your favourite theme park. Imagine you were the boss of that theme park. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Well, you are pretty much imagining what it is like to play Theme Park World.
I am not going to go into all the details of when, where and how the idea came up but it is here and it is fab!
In the beginning (no, this is not an excerpt from the bible but it could well be the TPW bible!) there are four parks. You can only ... ...parks extra successful you can build up points to proceed to the other parks. Each park is on it’s own little island. You are given a set amount of space within which to build your park. You have a budget to buy paths, shops, rides, and staff. Once your park is open you begin to make money from visitors. These people (all kids) arrive by bus, boat and plane and pay for their entrance fee at the gate. Once they are inside the park they are at ...
Clare_1 27.09.2001
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Advantages: Fun while it lasts Disadvantages: Dodgy engine
...nice, solid and improved original, Theme Park World was a bit of a let down, it didn’t have the addictive pull of the original game so Bullfrog are at it again with Theme Park Inc. The clue is in the title. This game is far more business orientated than TPW and the original come to that. You now don’t just build a park, improve it, make money and get bored. You start off as assistant manager and must climb to the top to take over as president ... ...in each zone). Theme Park Inc also provides new functions for staff. Engineers can be trained to upgrade rides or master the art of stone masonary, and cleaners can put out fires or clean rubble, these skills are sometimes needed to complete a certain objective, this is a welcome addition to the game because TPW just left staff as they were. As ever the staff will demand wage rises and this can become tedious because you need to go through each one ...
3rdRockSatan 26.05.2001
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Advantages: the game was good for young players Disadvantages: the graphics are a bit poor, it was quite hard for me to keep out of the debt.
...have recently bought the game Theme Park world for the PC, by E A. I heard that the other games like this are quite good, so I thought I would give this game ago. As you do.
FEATURES OF THE GAME
· Build - plan and place rides, shops, side-shows and other features to how you want them
· Visit –Check the park out in realistic 1st person mode
· Ride –Experience your fantastic creations in person
· Employ -Front line staff, and you can ... ...job
· Adjust –Tweak the performance of your rides and shows
· Research –Bring the professors in to invent better rides and up-grades
After I saw these features I wasn’t that sure about the game but I still had ago. To begin with I thought that the game was quite addictive, as you do when you first buy a game, but then within a short place of time, I was really bored of the game.
With the choice of park you want to create was ...
watchfulspice 19.08.2001
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How often have you thought that it?d be a good idea to manage a hospital? Well, if you?re like me then the thought won?t ever have entered your head.
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Advantages: A game that will keep you with something to be getting on with for ages Disadvantages: It may be old, but the graphics are very poor even for a PS1 game
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Price and Age reccomendation:
ThemeParkWorld can be found as cheap as £4.99 these days since it came out around 1997 on PS1. It may be more expensive on PS2 though since it's a later model and would probably cost about £15.00 more! The PS1 version would play in your PS2 anyway so what's the point of buying something largely more expensive? The only difference is that the PS2 version won't have some poor graphics whilst the PS1 version will. But anyway, the age reccomendation is 3 and up so is a safe game for anyone to play. Some fun gaming for a great price! ( PS1 memory card is ...
You Design It. You Build It. You Ride It.Build and manage your very own theme park. Design your very own roller coasters from scratch, and even take them for a ride when you are done. So hop on board, strap yourself in, and hold on tight as you build the greatest theme park in the world.
