No matter how you choose to handle things, it’s all intuitive, driven by largely standard mouse controls.
Tracks can be tweaked easily, either with the gamer making manual changes to such things as size, shape and bank, or with preset parts, each of which can also be tweaked. The coaster editor is as good as it gets in the genre, giving you a bevy of different coaster options to start with (think wooden, hydraulic, etc.), and permitting plenty of customization within those. Planet Coaster doesn’t invent the rollercoaster wheel, but it does deliver a polished, deep experience, and it gives you every tool you could possibly need to make the magical ride of your dreams.Īnd it’s these tools that make Planet Coaster so terrific. And the latest amusement park sim from Frontier Developments is a love letter to the genre. It’s a genre that was once ruled by Rollercoaster Tycoon.īut now, the developer of Rollercoaster Tycoon returns with a new entrant in Planet Coaster for the PC.
The amusement park sim has long been one of gaming’s most underrated genres, a mad scientist playground of sorts in which you create the rollercoasters (and other rides) of your wildest dreams, then hope and pray that computer visitors dig them.
