Up front, if you already own Platinum Edition from a couple years ago before it was taken off of the store due to Atari being Atari, this doesn't have a whole lot of improvements in comparison to make it worth it to upgrade for most people. While I don't mind too much, I do think a couple more quality-of-life improvements wouldn't have hurt to justify getting a more recent version.

That being said, if you never had a chance to own it or had a disc but lost it, this is still one of the best theme park games out there! RCT3 with all of it's included expansions has a ton of content on it's own. It's a little bit dated on the graphics as this is still a game that came out 16 years ago, but turning the settings to max and setting the draw distance and LOD sliders to max can still make beautiful looking parks (especially at night!) and the rest is charming in its own way.

Compared to Frontier's other popular roller coaster game franchise, Planet Coaster has a more free-form approach while RCT3 uses a grid-based system for just about everything like the older games in the franchise. I personally like working with grids more as it's less of a hassle to line things up to look good so this is a positive for me, but someone who prefers absolute freedom in placement would better like Planet Coaster instead.

For what it's worth, I'm still having fun with this game all these years later. And I'm sure anyone even mildly interested in making a theme park to either trill or torture guests will find a lot of enjoyment out of this to this day!

Up front, if you already own Platinum Edition from a couple years ago before it was taken off of the store due to Atari being Atari, this doesn't have a whole lot of improvements in comparison to make it worth it to upgrade for most people. While I don't mind too much, I do think a couple more quality-of-life improvements wouldn't have hurt to justify getting a more recent version. That being said, if you never had a chance to own it or had a disc but lost it, this is still one of the best theme park games out there! RCT3 with all of it's included expansions has a ton of content on it's own. It's a little bit dated on the graphics as this is still a game that came out 16 years ago, but turning the settings to max and setting the draw distance and LOD sliders to max can still make beautiful looking parks (especially at night!) and the rest is charming in its own way. Compared to Frontier's other popular roller coaster game franchise, Planet Coaster has a more free-form approach while RCT3 uses a grid-based system for just about everything like the older games in the franchise. I personally like working with grids more as it's less of a hassle to line things up to look good so this is a positive for me, but someone who prefers absolute freedom in placement would better like Planet Coaster instead. For what it's worth, I'm still having fun with this game all these years later. And I'm sure anyone even mildly interested in making a theme park to either trill or torture guests will find a lot of enjoyment out of this to this day!