With the tutorial behind us, it was time to take it to the sandbox mode. With consoles being played on large TV screens in the living room, the Frontier team moved to a more “metro” dash look, with large tabs and panels to show how your guests, park, staff, and finances are doing. She’s going to help you yank dollars out of the pockets of your guests by adjusting the prices in the new Park Management sections. Thompson also introduces you to another character - park CFO Cynthia Clarke. Once placed, the ride immediately asks you to place the entrance and exit, instead of attending to those after the fact.įor all of that money business, Mr. It’s also here that we see our first improvement coming over from the PC version - the entry and exit system.

Advanced move is in here as well, letting you change Z-axis, tilt, and shuffle your ride to fit any theming that may require it. Clearing the field for placement also introduces us to the new radial menu that will allow you to duplicate, move, delete (and/or sell) and otherwise adjust any objects in the park. First up, building and placement.įrom what I’ve seen so far, the differences between PC and console are minimal.Ī new character, Eugene Newton, helps you get your ride positioned and placed, showing you how to rotate, move, and place your rides within your park.

Thompson, your narrator, park coordinator, and self-described “theme park impresario.” His goal is to teach you the basics of ride and attraction placement, how to properly squeeze your guests of all of their hard-earned cash, and how to use that money to build fresh and exciting rides. Focusing on radial menus, this demo started off by introducing a few new characters.

Headed to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as well as the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, could the team capture a completely new audience with their coaster theme park creator?įocusing on the PlayStation 4 version (which looked essentially like the PC version, from what I could tell from the stream all the way to Cambridge, England anyway), the demo kicked off with a brand new tutorial designed to introduce new players (and double-dipping PC players) to the new control scheme built specifically for the console versions of the game. Recently we met up with the Frontier Developments team and got to go hands-on with the console version of the game, cleverly named Planet Coaster: Console Edition. If you’ve been reading the site for a while you know my love of sim games, and there is one I love above all others - Planet Coaster (you can read my review here).

Is there a planet coaster demo