Sim theme park patch for vista

Although the parks take a while to complete, I think that four is a rather small number for the game to ship with compared with 21 in RollerCoaster Tycoon. EA are, however, planning add-ons to increase this number.

Each park is set around a certain theme, Lost World, Haunted House, WonderLand and Space, and the rides and features all correspond to this theme.

For example, there is a standard "bouncy castle" ride in each park; in the Lost World, it is a bouncy dinosaur and in the Haunted House, it is a bouncy brain.

There doesn't seem to be any real aim in building the parks. Whereas in RCT you had to attract so many visitors or earn so much money, here you are left without a specific purpose. Your overall aim is to earn golden tickets, which you can exchange for new rides that wouldn't have been researched by your scientists and golden keys.

In turn, these golden keys allow you access to the two parks unavailable at the beginning of the game. However, there is no clear route to winning the tickets. Every so often, you'll be informed that you are close to winning one, if you can just squeeze in a few more visitors a fire hazard, surely , but apart from that, the tickets appear sporadically and without warning.

I won two in five minutes for earning so much money in a certain space of time, but I had no idea that I had been attempting this. In order to develop and run your park, you need to employ some staff. Each category is important, the cleaners, mechanics, entertainers and security all make sure people are happy in the park, and the scientists research new rides, sideshows etc.

However, the staff have to be kept happy too, if you pay for some training they will be more efficient at their work and unless you build them a staffroom, so they can have a break, they might go on strike. There are other managerial elements to the game that I'll get back to later. The actual hands-on building of the park is a lot of fun, but marred by a few problems. The main problem is that rides can't be turned round, they all face one way, which is a little constricting in the whole designing process.

However, laying out paths is very straightforward, click where you want one end of the path to be and then where you want the other, and a straight path will be drawn between the two points. This is much easier than in RCT , where each section of path had to be laid down individually. Designing your own rides is pretty easy too, things like rollercoasters, log flumes and rapids have to be designed individually a couple of ready-made coasters wouldn't have gone amiss , here you lay out the basic track same principle as the paths and then add the height and banking tracks etc afterwards.

The attractions in the park can all be customised, you can change the rides' names, how fast they go, how many people they can carry etc, food prices can be changed as can fat content, quality of goods etc. In fact, the only thing that you don't seem to be able to do is change the paintwork, which isn't a problem. But back to those managerial elements. The main factor here is money. You have so much to start with, and if you spend it all and go into the red for six months than you can be declared bankrupt.

If you are close to going bankrupt or if you need more money to build rides you can take out a loan. Here you have a choice: different banks lend different amounts with different rates of interest, if you don't need too much money it doesn't make sense to get a large loan with more to pay back.

Other financial matters involve the cost of entry to your park, and the amount of money you want to spend on training your staff, the more you spend, the more efficient they become. There is a lot to manage at once, but you do have help. The onscreen advisor is always present with hints and advice about pretty much everything.

The first time you open any window, he will give you a basic run-through of what you can do there, and if there are any other messages if there are any areas of excessive litter, if people need more drinks stands, if new rides have been developed etc he'll let you know about them too. Unfortunately, he keeps coming out with the same phrases, which get annoying, and I haven't found any way of removing him from the screen.

Another problem with this is that, although most of the messages are relayed on the screen, there is the odd one that isn't, so if you want to turn your speakers down to avoid the advisor, you might miss the odd message too. Your visitors are hard to keep track of. Unlike RCT , you can't click on them to find out what they are thinking, or what they have bought. Instead, you have to go to the "all-visitors pop-up screen" where you'll find out visitor moods, how long they've spent in the park and how much money they have remaining.

You also have a handy map, which lets you know the hotspots for litter, vandalism and enjoyment; all this will help you decide what you should be doing in order to keep your visitors happy and in the park. If only these screens were easier to find in the first place - I spent ages looking round for them.

The best aspect of the whole game though, is the camcorder mode, the ability to wander round the park and have a go on the rides.

By doing this, you get to experience the park first-hand and consequently know what is missing do you need more flowers, more shops and how the rides feel to ride are they too slow, too high.

I've never come across such a feature before and it really is a great addition. You can also take pictures of your park and send them as e-postcards to your friends. This is only part of what EA are hoping for though. They also plan to set up a community for Theme Park World owners, which will allow members to visit each other's parks and have a go on the rides.

Which should be wonderful if it works out. Theme Park World benefits from some great innovative ideas, the camcorder mode is inspired, and the ease of creating rides is a godsend. However, there are a couple of niggly little problems which let the side down, there are only four parks included, that onscreen advisor did become far too annoying and occasionally the interface did prove difficult to navigate.

There are a lot of sim games around, and, although Theme Park World is not a bad game, it needs to do more to be my preferred theme park title. You may also need the NoCD exe. Screenshots from MobyGames. Mike 0 point. I have the same problem, game seems to be running fine but theres no visible cursor :. BuffCityBoi -1 point.

Zeze 3 points. Funny thing is that I was able to get it working on my intel 5 laptop, but not my amd ryzen 7 desktop.

And it runs very smooth despite my laptop being slow as hell. Zoner 1 point. Use to rotate blueprints. The goal-less and stress-less nature of the game is what makes it great. It's a sandbox, for your creativity to shine. Nor are the additional rides you could download. Vukling 1 point. Ah man.

Any solution? The game crashes during load after a GPU driver update but was unstable even before that on my Surface Book 3. This is the USA version. If I cannot figure it out should I uninstall and attempt to find another source. Thanks for posting, this was one of my favorite games growing up. Hi Marissa. Hope that helps! Totally had forgotten about this! Did I do something wrong? Hi Brianna! I hope that helps! Not technically, but the company who made this game is no longer functioning.

Basically, no one cares if you download a 21 year old game made by a defunct studio. Thank you so much. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Download Link The game is considered abandonware and can be downloaded in its entirety from this website. I have this same issue is there a fix? Will this work better in WIN 7? Where could I have gone wrong in the install?

Do these patches still work? Many Thanks! I hope this thread is still active cos this is a bit of a nuisance. Any clues? Error: Engine failed to initialize Reply. Thank you Reply. It still says I need the disc. How do I play without the disc? That should work Reply. I made a temporary mediafire download. Windows compatibility mode and running as admin have done nothing. I always get confused, so its legal to DL abandonware? This website uses cookies to improve your experience.

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