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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Slow and Buggy

Written by MB from Bangor

Aug 13, 2007

The main body of the game is too slow to enjoy. The interface is choppy at best, forget trying to use your itunes library the game just crashes.

Forget this one... find something else to entertain yourself until they remake it from scratch.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

VERY disappointing!

Written by MB from Englewood

Dec 23, 2005

I have never, in all my years of computing, been this let down by a game. I was an avid RCT 1 & 2 player when i owned a PC. I bought my iMac G5 4 months ago, and was thrilled to recently hear that the new RTC3 would be put out for mac. I bought it TONIGHT, and after fooling around with it for about three hours, i have these three words...DO NOT PURCHASE! It has crashed twice, and when it stays working it feels like I'm running it on a computer from the stone-age. I'm sick to my stomach. $50 lost! I have a brand new Mac that WELL, and i mean WELL exceeds the requirements to run the game, yet it is unplayable. Do NOT take your chances!

19 of 27 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Slow

Written by MM from marietta

Mar 28, 2008

Got a brand new Mac, 2.8 gHz, 4 GB RAM. This game lags for nearly a minute with any move I try to make. It's horrible and frustrating. Maybe I will later decide its worth it, but I highly doubt that.

80 of 150 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

NOT FOR NEW MACS

Written by HL from Batavia

Oct 23, 2006

I HAVE A NEW 24" INTE DUEL MAC AND THIS GAME CRASHED EVERY 30 MIN. UNTIL IT FINALLY HAD A MEMORY ERROR AND WON'T RUN AT ALL

29 of 51 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

To many crashes

Written by AW from Leusden

Nov 23, 2007

Even after installing the patch this game kept crashing. I also tried to remove the whole game and reinstalled it. I even tried before starting up installing the patch. I like this game but this crashing issue made me give up playing it. Money down the drain..

46 of 86 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

What happened?

Written by DD from Newtownabbey

Oct 13, 2007

I have this for the PC also and it works better than on a 3GB RAM Macbook pro HUH??????!!!
The PC is running on 128RAM.... What is going on??
Ther game crashes often and i have owned it for about 5 hours.
The keyboard keys are do not register and need to be pressed 8 - 9 times before becoming recognized... It is slow and sluggish and this is running on the top of the range computer... Yet halo will run at the higest setting and there is no drop below 30fps.
I am disappointed and will think twice before buying a game again unless i can download a demo...

Pros;
Brilliant idea and gameplay...

Cons;
Does not work on Apple computers

DO NOT waste you money here

37 of 68 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Total Suckfest!!!!!!!!!!!

Written by DM from Wellington

Sep 29, 2007

Terrible on Macbook so slow and it is hard to use. The only pro is that u can ride the ride, but even that lags like crazy.

28 of 50 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

DISAPPOINTING

Written by SH from Minneapolis

Mar 8, 2006

I'm running this game on a new imac with an intel processor and it's so slow and closes by itself, I am so disappointed and what a waste of 50$ dollars.

19 of 32 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

love the older rct's

Written by NN from stow

Mar 18, 2008

I used to play all of the older rct's and loved them....so naturally rct3 was a no brainer for mac.....wrong!! It worked one time and that was it. Crash Crash Crash.....49.99 wasted....

69 of 135 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Dosent even work

Written by KN from North vancouver

Nov 20, 2009

OK, I bought one of the new i7 imacs with 4 gb of ram and the game said you cannot play because i need a powerpc over 555mhz and this is a 2.8ghz imac i mean come on

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

I cant get it installed

Written by DU

Apr 29, 2007

When wever i try to install it it says i need to clear my disk because it needs 1MB to work. So i tired delete things that i have downloaded and it wont work. I'm not happy with this!

34 of 69 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

no starz!

Written by JR from Lomita

Aug 3, 2007

this deserves no stars because it stinks for mac. it crashes to much. I hate it. IF I COULD I WOULD GIVE IT NO STARZ!!!!!!

18 of 40 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Not that great !!!!!!!!!

Written by CW from Fayetteville

Apr 15, 2007

I was very very disappointed. It lacked good graphics !!!!!!!
I could only see the shadow of what I was buliding!!
Roller coaster tycoon the original was far better-and less expensive!!!!

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Dont understand?

Written by BD

Dec 5, 2007

I just got a brand new mac and this game still will not run right. Ive downloaded the patch i think its the updated patch? 2006 i think......Does it automatically go into RCT3 after i download the patch. I couldn't tell a difference with the patch.. Help Has anyone had a slow gm and fixed it with a patch or is it useless!?! Looks fun just can't play it.

143 of 252 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Beware of buying this Item

Written by KL from Pasadena

Jan 8, 2006

Ok. Let me start by saying this game looks awesome and could be awesome. I, however, have had nothing but annoying glitches and crashes. I am running a brand new iMac 20 inch with 1.5gb of ram. I don't know if it is an issue with Aspyr or with the video card apple chooses to use, but this is ridiculous. I would wait until the bugs are fixed. If the game worked smoothly, I would give it five stars. Unfortunately, it is impossible to play the game for more than twenty minutes. Save your game often!!!

37 of 47 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

3D ruined it..

Written by JY from Fair Lawn

Jul 10, 2009

i loved the first two games. they were amazing and very easy to pick up and play. RCT3 is just not user friendly. there is too much going on; and the 3D nature of the game ruins the quality and graphics.

while it is awesome to ride your own rides, [no question on the effectiveness of that addition. that is the reason for the 2nd star.] the gameplay is sacrificed. i would play the first two over the third any day.

the old 2D style was better, in my opinion, and the controls were easier. RCT3 takes a lot of getting used to for [what i feel is] half the pay-off; or less.

i just could not get into this one. i tried, but it's just not the best thing that happened to the roller coaster tycoon series..

plus, the graphics were not good enough to be a 3D game. they were choppy and had a very "out-dated" look to them; like a game from 95'.

the first two need to be remastered for mac. if they remade the first two with slightly better graphics and released them for macs, they would have two MUCH better games than RCT3.. the game was just not up to par in any way.

unfortunate when you look at the success of the first two..
:/

37 of 56 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Crashed often

Written by CW from San Francisco

Feb 3, 2007

I have a Macbook Pro 2.16Ghz and this program crashes just about every time I play it. I installed the patch and that helped a lot to smooth out the graphics, but it still crashes pretty much every day. Pretty annoying. It is a great game to play, but I guess get in a habit of saving often!

50 of 82 people found this useful

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Love It, But No iTunes:(

Written by CR from Encinitas

Jan 15, 2007

This game is totally fun, except for the iTunes problem i'm having. If you are going to get this game because you want to make really cool coasters that go along with your music, forget about it. I tried a lot of times to import my playlist to the game (and it says you can) but it always just exits.

37 of 57 people found this useful