Make and ride your own rockin' roller coaster in the third iteration of the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise.

Overall it's a good sequel that looks impressive. Veterans of the series will probably have been expecting more to have been changed though.

It's not often that a popular game can make the leap in to a fully 3D world - usually a vital aspect such as gameplay gets missed out, with the likes of Lemmings 3D being one candidate that we'd really rather forget.

When Rorschach reviewed RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 , he joked that he thought maybe somebody had slipped him RollerCoaster Tycoon instead, because the sequel looked and played so much like the original.

I once worked in an amusement park, in the gift shops at a Six Flags near my house. The pay was awful, but for the most part I liked my job. That was, until I made some comments in my online journal about the job.

Making a sequel to a hit game is tricky business. If you simply rehash the original, fans will complain that it's more of the same. But if you change too much, you risk losing what made the original special. The RollerCoaster Tycoon series stands as good evidence of these potential pitfalls.

Beautiful 3D graphics come alive; Plenty of built-in content; Virtually ride all the rides; Build your own fireworks show

Serious bugs affect gameplay; Big parks can slow performance

The RollerCoaster Tycoon series holds a very special place in my heart. Not only was it my gateway game to the wonderful world of economic simulations (I'm serious) and the joy of strategy and planning they can bring, but it was also among the best of the genre for the simple fact that it had...