Atari announced that its highly anticipated
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 game will include new photo features and a full version of Microsoft
Photo Story, which will enable players to tell the story of their park experience and share
it with their friends.
In RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 players can create and share
elements of their parks and roller coasters found in previous versions of the series like
never before. In addition, owners of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 will be able to create
customised park guests, groups of their friends, fireworks shows and guest photos, as well
as CoasterCam and park videos directly from the game. New scenery items called Photo Spots
can be placed in a park and enable park guests, Peeps, to pose for the camera. In addition,
cameras can be placed directly on roller coasters to take shots of guests as they ride.
These in-game photos are then easily transferred to the Photo Story software included on the
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 disk so that players can create a digital slideshow of their
experience by adding music, narration and pan and zoom effects which can then be shared with
friends and family via email, CD, VCD or posted online.
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
features stunning 3D graphics, a CoasterCam that lets players ride the rides, a Fireworks
MixMaster to create fireworks displays, dozens of new rides and themed attractions, a Peep
Designer, VIPeeps, a Sandbox Mode, customisable music, day and night cycles, and the ability
to save photos and movies of your park.
Photo Story lets users create fun and
exciting digital slide shows from their pictures. With Photo Story, users can add motion
effects, music, and narration, and save their experience as a digital slideshow that can be
viewed with Windows Media Player 7 or higher, or other programs that support playback of
Windows Media Video 9 files (WMV). Because Photo Story uses advanced Window Media
compression, Photo Stories are small enough to easily share via e-mail and post to the
web.
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is being developed by Frontier Developments, Ltd. and has
a European in-store date of 5 November. Customers who pre-order the game from participating
retailers will receive a Coaster Pack that contains three professionally designed coasters
that were created exclusively for RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and are only available through the
pre-sell
program.
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