![]() Items can be rotated, raised, moved, height changed, well, they have it all covered. You need all of this in play to be successful.įrontier has really thought about how players want to place things in the world and they have added a load of options for object manipulation. Any good theme park has themed rides, attractive scenery to look at, and entertainers to keep customers enthused. The challenge is to keep them entertained and keep them engaged. Visitors will avoid rides if they are too expensive or have a high nausea factor, but each ride can be tweaked to get the balance right so it becomes a popular attraction. Park visitors can be a grumpy bunch and they will eagerly moan about a ride’s scenery, the prices of entry, and even the amount of litter. Keep the punters on-side and the money will roll in opening up more ways to improve a park. These visitors need to be kept happy, fed, watered, and even kept excited so they rate the park and make it somewhere they want to spend their time and money. After plonking down a pre-built coaster or a basic ride, customers start populating the park. Plus, the various modes and Frontier Workshop will mean that Planet Coaster: Console Edition on Xbox will have a long and healthy life on its newfound home.Confronted with a plot of land and a simple entrance onto the map, there’s a small budget to help players get started. The effort gone into that is noticeable in every single menu and button press nothing is restricted by the controller. ![]() For a park sim, it is incredibly easy to pick up and play as everything is explained and designed as this version was built up for consoles, as opposed to a simple port. It may have released on PC back in 2016 but Planet Coaster: Console Edition is quietly one of the best launch titles for the Xbox Series X|S, and made all the better by being available through Game Pass. The 4K and HDR assets really make Planet Coaster pop out of the screen and are a great example of highlighting the improvements between generations. Where it really shines though is in the visuals. If you pass a certain threshold these bigger parks will not work should you choose to jump back to play them on the Xbox One, but Planet Coaster will kindly inform you beforehand if you are nearing the limit. As well as the usual loading time improvements, you can also build bigger parks on the next-gen hardware. Planet Coaster is also one of the games optimised for Xbox Series X|S, having launched into Xbox Game Pass the same day as the new consoles dropped, and it really makes the most of this. It is always a concern when simulation games make the jump from PC to console, but Planet Coaster is one of the best examples of utilising a controller for a park sim. This goes for designing the park too not once did I feel hindered by the control scheme in creating the park exactly how I wanted it to look. The Park Management screen displays a lot of information should you dig further into it, but it is easy to read and incredibly simple to jump to a notification of a problem, and exactly where in the park it is too. It gives you an easy to understand overview of such items, and you can then choose to drill down into them if you want, but you aren’t penalised if you choose not to.įurther to this, is how well-optimised Planet Coaster is for consoles and a controller input. The Park Management screen is where you can check in on some of the finer details such as balance sheets, overall ratings, guest thoughts, etc. Even then though, there isn’t a requirement to use the features. Parks created in Planet Coaster feature many of the options you would come to expect in a park sim, but it doesn’t bog them down with extra, unnecessary menus that add layers of difficulty. Best of all though, you can download full theme parks designed by other users and play them in Challenge mode, meaning you can even make these creations your own. ![]() Already in there I have seen a Millennium Falcon, Super Mario and Xbox Controller decorations, and more than one roller coaster designed to net you some easy achievements. ![]() This marketplace for user-generated content can provide thousands more items to place in your park, really making sure that you will never get bored with what the game has to offer. In amongst the hundreds of rides and amenities you can build – and several DLC packs – is the Frontier Workshop. ![]()
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