Planet Coaster - PlayStation 5

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• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Good Game

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  Good fun game. Worth buying. Some small issues I had were I wanted items to be resizable, I wish there were more rides and scenery, although DLC's are available, and I had to leave one of my challenge parks early due to maxing out the build limit . Also, the controls when you lower or raise an object, will cause object to move around horizontally which can be annoying.

  Posted 5 years ago by Blah

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Amazing

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  • Owned for 3 months

  I play Planet Coaster and Parkitect. Both great games and you should try both of them. Personally, Planet Coaster beats Parkitect by A LOT. The graphics, the challenge, (it is hard because you have to keep staff and guests happy and have to care fr your park. It is so fun. I started Parkitect, played for a few days, then I got Planet Coaster and could NOT stop playing. Every day after school I run to my PC and open Planet Coaster. I play for like 2 hours and just build, go on rides, and work on keeping my park an enjoyable experience for the guests. I love how the guests have happiness, hunger, thirst, tiredness, and need for the bathroom ratings, and have a taste for different rides, so you have to cater to many different ride preferences from really calm to crazy thrill-seekers. Also how the staff can get really tired or really grumpy, and they can quit at any moment. It adds a nice challenge to it, makes it so much better. if it was possible, I'd give Planet Coaster a 10-star rating. I play on low graphics yet the graphics are still amazing. I love how you can go on the rides you build. All of the different scenery, buildings, shops, and ride options make the game so much more enjoyable because you can let your imagination soar to new heights, I like how you have a variety of game-modes (Sandbox, Challenge, Campaign) and DLC packages that you can buy off of Steam to get many more options for scenery and rides, and buildings, etc. Also, it is amazing that you are able to design an avatar that you want, instead of choosing between premade avatars or not getting one at all. There are so many more amazing things about Planet Coaster, but I feel like I have said enough in one review. Thank you, Frontier for creating such an amazing game, that I enjoy so much.

  Posted 4 years ago by Thereviewer

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Best game of this type since RollerCoaster Tycoon!

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  If you have played RollerCoaster Tycoon, or games similar to it (theme park management sims, park builder games, other "tycoon" games, etc.), then you pretty much know what to expect here. This is pretty much just an updated version of RollerCoaster Tycoon. You build, manage and maintain a theme park, build rides, try to get as much money, guests and star rating to your park as possible. There are three different game modes. Career, Sandbox and Challenge. Sandbox is where you are free to do whatever you want! Build a park however you like, build craziest rollercoasters you can think of, etc. All with unlimited time and money. If you are looking for something similar, but want the challenge of building your own park with limited money available, than the Challenge game mode is for you. Challenge mode gives you objectives to complete, but you can completely ignore these, if you wish to just focus on building a park and seeing how well you can do with it financially. Then, finally, there is Career mode. Career mode throws you into a pre-made park (some parks slightly made, some pretty well developed), and then give you objectives to complete. The great thing about this, is you can either choose to ignore these objectives, kind of like Challenge mode, and just play how you wish. Or you can choose to stay in that park and keep playing in it to your heart's desire, even after you complete all the objectives. The objectives do not have time limit constraints, at least none that I've seen so far. However, I have not finished the career mode yet, so they might give you time limits in the harder career missions. Basically, your goal in any mode, is to build a successful theme park. That means making profit, making customers happy, and having a fun and pretty park. You can hire staff, like janitors, security guards, entertainers and extra vendors for stalls. You also got to make sure to keep your staff happy, or else they might not work effectively or maybe even quit. You can also build custom made rollercoasters. Build any coaster that comes to mind! Just try to make sure it's exciting and not too scary or nauseating, so people will actually want to ride it. All this sounds pretty overwhelming at first, but you get the hang of it all pretty quick. Especially if you played other games like it. The game is pretty laid back about most of this stuff, so you are not rushing to keep everything together at once. Trust me, for the most part, this is a good game to just sit back and relax to. Some of the challenges in challenge mode can be pretty difficult to pull off, but even if you fail them, it doesn't kick you out of the park. Like I said, you can keep playing however you want for as long as you want. The controls do take a little getting used to at first. But they aren't all that bad. If you feel like you are spending too much time building a coaster, while your park is suffering with other problems, you can always pause the in-game time while you build that coaster or those pathways to your rides and stalls. It also looks like, from the settings menus, that you can also play this game with a keyboard and mouse, even on PS5. However, I have not tried that out yet, so I can not speak on how well it works. There are also some neat little features in the game, like having a camera to where you can ride on your rides (even your custom built rollercoasters!) in first-person view. You can also choose a random guest in your park and watch a camera of their view of your park in first-person as well, as they travel around your park visiting stalls and riding rides. I thought this was pretty cool! When it comes to the graphics, they aren't anything too crazy, especially for a PlayStation 5 game. But they are actually more impressive than I thought they were going to be. The game also runs very smooth on the PlayStation 5. I haven't noticed any significant frame rate drops, or anything like that. Saving and loading are extremely fast, as well. Overall, I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys these types of games. If you've never tried a game of this type before, but are interested in it, I say go ahead and give this one a try. My only advice to newcomers is to do the tutorial and the "Beginner" Career mode missions. They really help you get a feel for the game and show you some of the other tools at your disposal; like loans, priority guest passes, researching new rides, etc. RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of my favorite theme park building games ever, and I feel this one tops it in pretty much every aspect. The only thing I miss from RCT, that I have not seen yet in this game, is weather effects, like rain.

  Posted 5 years ago by BloodySky