There are other managerial elements to the game that IвЂ™ll get back to later. 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. 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. In order to develop and run your park, you need to employ some staff. 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. Every so often, youвЂ™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. However, there is no clear route to winning the tickets. In turn, these golden keys allow you access to the two parks unavailable at the beginning of the game. Your overall aim is to earn golden tickets, which you can exchange for new rides (that wouldnвЂ™t have been researched by your scientists) and golden keys. Whereas inВ RCT you had to attract so many visitors or earn so much money, here you are left without a specific purpose. There doesnвЂ™t seem to be any real aim in building the parks. For example, there is a standard вЂњbouncy castleвЂќ ride in each park in the Lost World, it is a bouncy dinosaur and in the Haunted House, it is a bouncy brain. 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. 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 inВ RollerCoaster Tycoon).В EAВ are, however, planning add-ons to increase this number. The others are dependent on you gaining a certain number of golden keys (which you earn by building impressive rides and attracting so many visitors to your park etc). There are four theme parks that can be built, but you can only access two of them to start with. You do this by building rides, sideshows, shops and features (plants, toilets, bins etc), some of which have already been designed and some of which can be researched by your scientists вЂ“ should you employ any. OK, basic premise is you have to create a theme park. Whilst there are some problems / annoying little asides with the game, there are some great ideas too. I couldnвЂ™t help but compare the title toВ HasbroвЂ™sВ Rollercoaster Tycoon, and let me tell you, it measures up quite well. Theme Park WorldВ is the sequel toВ Theme ParkВ (surprise) and is the latest game to be released byВ EAвЂ™s Bullfrog. So naturally, in games likeВ Theme Park World, the log flume is always the most daring and exciting ride in my park.

Fast forward 18 years, and now IвЂ™m the first one in line for all the rollercoasters, complaining if they donвЂ™t do enough loops, donвЂ™t go fast enoughвЂ¦but I still hate that log flume. All the waiting and the excitementвЂ¦and I hated it. The log-flume had just opened and we queued for hours to get on it. I remember going to Alton Towers when I was five.

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