Common Sense Note
This is an expansion pack to the excellent RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, which means you have to have the original game loaded on your computer before you can play with the material provided in this new software. As with RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, there's a fair amount of micromanagement required, so don't give this game to kids who aren't willing to work through the tutorials to learn how to play.
Parents might want to ask their kids what they think makes a good water park and then see if their experience is mirrored in the game.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Jinny Gudmundsen
Kids scream with excitement as they zoom down a water slide. Nearby, people walking underneath the newly constructed Roller Soaker coaster are drenched when the riders above release gallons of water. Sounds like an amusement park your kids would love? It is, and they can build it on your computer with RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked!
Soaked! is an expansion pack to the top-rated RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (RCT3), which means you must own RCT3 before you can play with this new material. Soaked! adds new water park attractions and eight water-based scenarios to the main menu of RTC3. With it, players can build a variety of water rides, pools, and water slides for their parks. They can also add cool waterfalls, fountains, and other water attractions, including a player-designed whale and dolphin show.
RCT3 gave players the ability to design their own fireworks shows. With Soaked, players can now expand the fireworks shows to include lasers and water effects.
Soaked also gives players the ability to create tunnels for coasters and footpaths -- a feature that was available in the original RollerCoaster Tycoon but was glaringly absent in RCT3.
This expansion pack comes with its own tutorials that aptly demonstrate how to use all the new building tools. After working through the tutorials, kids can easily build shimmering pools with multiple levels, hot tubs, and diving boards. They can interconnect pools with water flume rides. And if they stir up the water with their cursor, they can create whirlpools.
As always, the challenge in these tycoon games is to balance the fun of building new amusements with the ability to manage them. If players forget to put enough cleaning fluids in the pools, the pools will be declared a health hazard and closed.
If you can't take the kids to a water park this summer, here's the next best thing -- and with Soaked, they will learn a little business acumen while they swim.
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