Easy enough for kids?

[Commander AFK]

I remember playing Theme Park Tycoon (I think that was it) as a kid and I loved it and I would like to buy this as something to play myself as well as kids.

I realize that the coasters creation may be advanced for kids, but could a 5-10 year old have fun dropping in stores, walkways, prebuilt rides or does everything require design?

Is there a creative mode that would allow "free-play" where money is not important and you can focus on the design and not the economics?

Clearly, I have not read anything... I just watched the steam video... and searched the forums with "kids" but it seems all related to people complaining..

Thanks for any throughtful responses.

[Erico]

As rough as this application is right now, I don't think it would be appropriate for 5-10 year old. It seems a bit more advanced than Roller Coaster Tycoon 1, 2, and 3. It has a "sandbox" mode which the money issues could be ignored and quite a few prebuilt things that placed about as well as quite a bit of trees, shrubs, flags and the like.

It is going to take a pretty strong graphics related computer to make it work. Higher end video card, massive Memory, and a pretty fast processor.

I would still recommned RTC2 or 3 for a 5-10 year olda (or older like me!). They are also available on steam and SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper.

Narad

[Fishook]

I would wait, until both this and Planet Coaster are fully realeased (Currently in Alpha Stage) which is just what you are describing as alot of the advanced features not be implemised yet, The design aspect is brillant at the moment as I am creating a nice pirate park in sandbox mode without worying about stuff at the moment, but kids are brillant at creating the own bulidings and stuff (Minecraft).People do give them annough credit when playing games

Then make up your mind, To me there is only one clear winner at the moment, but both are for fans only at the moment, but like Narad says try RCT3 as a tester as that development team is the ones behind Planet Coaster.

[Lawgman]

Will the kids play alone or with you? My 10 year has been playing RCT3 for a couple of years by himself and before that I played with him together. For my 6 year old, we play RCT3 together (she chooses the rides, food, drinks, bathrooms, mascots, etc. and I help her with paths and coaster building). Always in sandbox mode so they can just build what they like. If you plan to play together, RCTW should be fine but I think you are better off with RCT3. My kids like building swimming pools and safari animal areas which is in RCT3 only. My son also likes to make his own version of thunder mountain (meaning a mine train coaster that goes in an out of a western themed mountain). This can be done in RCT3 as well. Lots more to do and cheaper. The graphics are only OK (it is an old game) but if you are computer savy, you can set your graphics card to apply anti-aliasing to the game which in my opinion makes it look fine (certainly no worse that RCTW).