Thrillville: Off the Rails
by Lucas Arts Entertainment
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Video Game Reviews of Thrillville: Off the Rails
Customer Review: What the name says
Summary: 5 Stars
My son and I have a great time playing this game! Making the park visitors puke is the best!Customer Review: Nice mission main area, great party mini games section
Summary: 4 Stars
Lucasarts makes great games. This one combines a nice strategy/mission of running a park w/simple adding marketing, training staff, building stalls, rides & games to make the customers happy. It's done simply that anyone over 10 years should be able to figure out. I dislike this type of game, but I found myself enjoying it. With a nice story that you run the park against sabotage from a rival theme park owner, etc. Finding your way around the park or transporting yourself immediately to a game, ride or person instantly is easy. The sounds help immerse you into the game, there's real voice acting for all interactions (you can FFW them) & there's real songs in the menu, cheer leading game, etc. The Doc Brown like character as the park owner is a nice touch.
freezing in main game
I did have a freezing issue, though mine happens after an hour straight of play. It never happens in the party/mini game section, just the main adventure area. I now save often after winning a game or mission which is annoying, but the only part of the game I found a let down.
Mini games
these are a collection of midway & ARCADE games. Each you can choose how many players, three levels of difficulty and levels & sometimes length of play.
1. Alley ball - skeet ball
2. Antigrav Racer - racing hovercraft
3. Auto Sprint Classic - racing
4. Auto Sprint 2 - protect bunches against thieves above
5. Bandito Chinchilla - old arcade side scrolling fighting
6. Black Beard's Booty - target shooting gallery
7. Bucking Bull - tilt wii to keep head in center to balance on bull
8. Bumper Cars - tilting usual wii controls
9. Coaster Tron - roller coaster guy & tilt for rings (I still have trouble figuring it out)
10. Coconut Shy - sim throwing balls to knock coconuts
11. Dune Buggies - racing dune buggies
12. Entertainer - shake nunchuck & remote like pom poms to beat of real music (train cheerleader)
13. Entertainer Turbo - same thing music speeds up
14. Event Horizon Classic - size scroll space shooter
15. Event Horizon II - side scroll space shooter better graphics
16. Formula Thrills - racing
17. Ghoul Gunner - target shooting cemetery
18. Go-Karts - racing go karts
19. Grounds Keeper - suck trash & wash vomit (train groundskeeper)
20. Hauntings - First person shooter w/pumpkin guys in cemetery (controls bit off, but deal-able)
21. Luftwaffe 109 - 1942 vertical scrolling plane shooter
22. Luftwaffe 109 Turbo - turbo speed fly through of 1942
23. Luftwaffe 109 II - more weapons, etc. of 1942
24. Mechanic - connect circuits on board, puzzle, but easy & fun (train mechanic)
25. Mini Golf - at least 5 different themes, simple style
26. Mini Golf Speed - mini golf on a timer
27. Monster Trucks - racing trucks outdoors
28. Pirate Raiders - FPS w/pirate theme
29. Pool - 8 or 9 ball, controls can be frustrating
30. Pool Speed - same thing except faster?
31. Prospector Stakeout - shooting target gallery
32. RC Wars - racing w/RC little trucks
33. Robo K.O. - sim boxing w/robots
34. Robot Invasion - FPS w/robots on alien world
35. Saucer Soccer - using hovercraft 2 vs. 2 soccer
36. Saucer Sumo - using your hovercraft to push off others of play area
37. Sparkle Island Classic - shooting & collect of little chicks (similar to Bubble Bobble)
38. Sparkle Island 2 - better graphics
39. Sparkle Island Quest - simplified Super Mario
40. Splat-a-Mole - uses gesture OR button
41. Squadron Ace - 3D WWII plane fighter, real plane like movements
42. Star Sniper - shooting target gallery
43. Stunt Rider - side scroller 2d guy on bike w/rag doll physics
44. Tank Frenzy - tank shooting arcade of ground/air opponents
45. Test Your Strength - all about timing on angle & center of target
46. Trampolines - bounce on time & hit buttons for tricks
47. Trojan Quest Classic - 2D top view arcade fighter
48. Trojan Frenzy - same thing but faster?
49. Vendor Tender - puzzle bobble/bust-a-move arcade w/coins instead of falling off
50. Wild Frontier - FPS w/pumpkin guys in wild west town
if just the mini games/party unlocked
... and don't want to deal w/the missions in the main area, there are cheat codes at gamefaqs com or other game sites like ign com
Customer Review: Crashes Over And Over, But Fun When You Can Play It
Summary: 2 Stars
The thing crashes like 5-15 min into the game - everytime. If you don't save as soon as the guy is finally done talking when you are actually in the amusement park, you'll be sorry. We had to start a new game - picking my son's character and listening to the 5 min opening, 5 times. Finally did get it saved, after my son went to bed, tried a couple of the storyline missions and was about to save it again and it crashed AS I WAS SAVING IT!!! There are no directions anywhere on-line that I can find to fix this. Nintendo does not even acknowledge that game crashes on Thrillville is an issue despite it being mentioned on the forums of numerous websites. This is obviously very frustrating.
HOWEVER, The game seems really fun when you can actually get it to work. I thought it was fun to go around and tweak the rides, talk to people, and generally see after the amusement park. Also, instead of loading our saved game after the last time it froze up, I went directly into the minigames and was able to play that for about 70 WHOLE MINUTES with no crashes. Have we turned the page - who knows - because of course no one wants to tell us how to fix the problem (although I've asked Lucas Arts). The minigames are somewhat simplistic, by vary enough in type and style to be enjoyable. A number of them require you to advance in your management role in order to unlock a game - pretty typical stuff.
So be aware - you are rolling the dice whether you will have Thrillville or FREEZEVILLE when you bring this home. I would NOT buy it on-line, through Ebay or from a store that does not allow returns. As it is, Office Depot will only allow me to return it for the same title - so we'll either see if I can fix the problem or we'll see how many copies of the game hae the same issue.
Customer Review: JTG
Summary: 4 Stars
My Kids 7 & 11 love the game. It keeps them busy for hours, and they are so excited to show me what they have done with their park. Customer Review: Addicting fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
My roomate and I love this game and find it very addicting... one of our wii favorites for half the price of many other games. We are both in our twenties and thought this game would mimic rollercoaster tycoon for casual play... then we discovered the challenges and minigames which keep you locked in the game for hours, opening new parks, completing missions, and even playing the minigames on multiplayer mode. A great buy for both people who want casual play at your own pace fun and challenging timed and scored fun!