Rock Paper Shotgun Planet Coaster 2 Feed

enWed, 13 Nov 2024 15:30:00 +0000Planet Coaster 2 review: a good water park is hard to buildhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/planet-coaster-2-reviewBrendan CaldwellWed, 13 Nov 2024 15:30:00 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/planet-coaster-2-reviewSandboxManagementSimulationXbox Series X/SFrontier DevelopmentsPlanet Coaster 2PCStrategy: BuilderWot I ThinkPS5

Theme park management sim Planet Coaster was all about making roller coasters that would push your park guests to the edge of puking up their overpriced burgers while making sure the excitement levels of your twisting rides remained high. Planet Coaster 2 wants to do that again, but this time adds water parks into the mix, with slides to design, pools to plop down, and raft rides that you can click together to form ambitiously speedy spirals. You can feel some creative pride when you look down on the watery wonderland you've made with these tools. But you may also wonder if it was worth the effort. As a newcomer to Planet management games, I've found this slippy sequel fiddly, cumbersome, and poorly explained.

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Planet Coaster 2 is out now, adding water slides and pools to the theme park construction simhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/planet-coaster-2-is-out-now-adding-water-slides-and-pools-to-the-theme-park-construction-simGraham SmithWed, 06 Nov 2024 20:50:22 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/planet-coaster-2-is-out-now-adding-water-slides-and-pools-to-the-theme-park-construction-simManagementSimulationXbox Series X/SPlanet Coaster 2PCPS5

We'll have a review of Planet Coaster 2 soon, but I keep making Brendy do other tasks so he's not had enough time yet to ride the rails. That means it falls to me to at least let you know that Frontier's theme park builder is out now.

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The blue pools of Planet Coaster 2 make me want to go to a real water parkhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-blue-pools-of-planet-coaster-2-make-me-want-to-go-to-a-real-water-parkBrendan CaldwellThu, 12 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-blue-pools-of-planet-coaster-2-make-me-want-to-go-to-a-real-water-parkSandboxManagementSimulationXbox Series X/SFrontier DevelopmentsPlanet Coaster 2PCStrategy: BuilderPS5

If roller coasters are humanity's way of injecting ourselves with a dose of fear just to stay on our toes, then water parks are our way of turning our old enemy, the sea, into a captive entertainer (or is that aquariums?) Either way, Frontier are hoping to cater for all humankind's quirky day-out desires with Planet Coaster 2, by adding water slides and wave pools to the teacups and train rides of their management sim. I had a short go on it, and while there's no chance two hours of hands-on time could give me a full impression of the building game's suite of creative tools, I was quietly pleased with the jungle-themed pool I nestled into the earth. And with the little shark mascot I hired to patrol it.

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New Planet Coaster 2 deep dive explains how you’ll need to sell your idiot guests sunscreen in case they blame you for the sun existinghttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/new-planet-coaster-2-deep-dive-explains-how-youll-need-to-sell-your-idiot-guests-sunscreen-in-case-they-blame-you-for-the-sun-existingNic ReubenThu, 01 Aug 2024 08:10:19 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/new-planet-coaster-2-deep-dive-explains-how-youll-need-to-sell-your-idiot-guests-sunscreen-in-case-they-blame-you-for-the-sun-existingManagementSimulationXbox Series X/SFrontier DevelopmentsPlanet Coaster 2PCPS5

Having a list of Suffolk amusement park mascots one desperately wishes to outlive out of an innate desire for revenge is, I imagine, not a universal experience. Still, on the day Pleasurewood Hills mascot Woody Bear is taken by the soil, I will jig and whoop under the moon. I actually cannot remember when the beef started, but my mum reliably informs me that I was terrified to tears by this bear as a child. He yet survives, but mark my words: when the Woody Copters finally fall from their rusted hinges, I will salt the earth.

Happily, I didn’t spot any bear mascots in Planet Coaster 2’s new deep dive trailer.

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Planet Coaster 2 revealed with water parks and multiplayer park-building for 2024 releasehttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/planet-coaster-2-revealed-with-water-parks-and-multiplayer-park-building-for-2024-releaseEdwin Evans-ThirlwellThu, 11 Jul 2024 14:52:33 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/planet-coaster-2-revealed-with-water-parks-and-multiplayer-park-building-for-2024-releaseManagementSimulationXbox Series X/SPlanet Coaster 2PCPS5

"It's going to be a good, good, good, good day," sings Frontier's announcement trailer for theme park simulator Planet Coaster 2. Not for me it isn't, because now I have to compare my shabby flat, in which there are exactly zero waterslides at the time of publication, with Planet Coaster 2, in which you can expect such aquatic attractions as "meandering lazy rivers", "adrenaline-pumping wave pools", "looping flumes" and "exhilarating water coasters". Please watch the trailer while I yet again revisit the possibility of sneaking into Stoke-On-Trent's Waterworld and trying to pass myself off as the resident ghost.

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