But you can also access a sandbox mode, where you can make a giant theme park free of monetary restrictions. Some of those lessons may only help when playing through the game’s scenarios, which have you complete specific tasks while maintaining a profitable park. This teaches the basics of Planet Coaster, including building rides, creating paths, decorating, and raising prices. It’s also relatively easy to learn these controls, and the basic mechanics of the game, thanks to a new, voiced tutorial.
These contextual controls change based on your activity, but the game will always tell you what they are on the left side of the screen. For example, if you’re placing an object, like a tree, you can hold the X button to raise or lower it. You can also access a radial menu with some shortcuts with the Y button.Ĭontrols change based on what you’re doing. You use the A button to select objects from your park, and you use the shoulder bumpers and D-pad to navigate menus. The right stick and trigger buttons control the camera. The console version does a good job of translating the PC game’s controls to a gamepad. If you see some awkwardness, part of that is me figuring out the console UI and part of it is dealing with the lag. This introduced a bit of input lag that shouldn’t be a problem when you’re playing on an actual console. Without a doubt, Sandbox is where Planet Coaster shines.I played my demo via Parsec, which allowed me to access Frontier’s console version remotely. These are things that can either be learned by partaking on Planet Coaster‘s career mode, or just by playing it on Sandbox mode, where money isn’t an issue and you can just go bananas with your stupidly crazy creations. You will need to constantly repair rides before they go kaput. If you build a shop, you need to hire a vendor. You will need to create entrance lines and connect a ride’s exit to a nearby path as well. If its physics don’t work, or if the ride is way too extreme for feeble human hearts to endure, you will either need to redesign it or delete it. You’ll need some time to get used to these mechanics, as well as some pseudo-bureaucratic steps before you can actually open a ride in your park.įor instance, you will need to test a roller coaster before opening it to the public. I appreciate the gesture, as this game is actually quite deep and complex, despite the seemingly family-friendly premise of creating fun rides for people to enjoy. Everything is assigned to a button, or a combination of buttons, and explicitly shown onscreen at all times. There is no cursor in this version of Planet Coaster. They don’t need to care about social distancing in this virtual world.
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