Which since I am a big Jurassic park fan I couldn't wait.
PARK BEYOND PC
Park Beyond is coming to PC (via Steam), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2023.I was very excited when I found only one copy on ebay and fortunately I won it. The cannon module and ramp module will both be a central component of the playable demo at Gamescom, but they're also promising that dozens of other modules will be available on launch day.
They can either share entire parks or share individual components to allow others to place them in their own laughing place.īandai Namco and Limbic Entertainment hope to give players more than enough tools to push the limits of what a theme park can do. Park Beyond will feature a slew of sharing options, where players can save blueprints of their designs. Of course, a player shouldn't keep their imaginative creations to themselves. They can create mountains for sky-high coasters, rivers and other bodies of water for water-based rides, and even floating landscapes for totally surreal shop and restaurant designs. This allows users to completely shape the theme park's layout to their liking.
PARK BEYOND FULL
Park Beyond will utilize a full creative suite that includes voxel-based terraforming tools. Each of the board members specialize in a certain aspect of running a theme park and will impart their knowledge onto the player.Īnother major component to building a park that pushes imagination boundaries is freedom. Part of the story will involve pitching ideas to common solutions to a Shark Tank-like board of directors, where players are encouraged to come up with something that's both practical and outrageous. The campaign will tell a story centered around the idea of impossification, teaching players Park Beyond's various mechanics and features. The key to getting anywhere in Park Beyond is to learn its various mechanics, which is where Limbic hopes its single-player campaign will succeed. This can also extend to shops and restaurants, where players are encouraged to create the type of architecture that isn't typically seen in an everyday theme park. Imagine a submarine ride where a giant squid can pick up each of the cars, shake them around, and then safely deposit them back on their track.
However, impossification can go much farther than that. That's the sort of idea that Limbic is shooting for with their take on this classic genre. Then picture a spot where it gets loaded into a cannon and blasted across the park, where it then lands safely on another set of rails without losing any momentum. Picture a standard, on-rails roller coaster that reaches great heights with loops and S-turns. Park Beyond is filled with these types of moments. That word is "impossification." Limbic describes "impossification" as something that's based in realism, but ultimately something that can't fully be experienced in real life.
Limbic and publisher Bandai Namco have a single word that they want to use to describe Park Beyond, which was first revealed during Tuesday's Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase. In Park Beyond, Limbic wants to see where imagination can take this tried-and-true idea. However, Limbic isn't content to make another Roller Coaster Tycoon-like game to add to the pile.
Now that El Presidente has conquered the world, where the does the house that created him go next? The answer is to go from city builder to theme park builder. Limbic Entertainment has gone just about as far as it can go with the city building Tropico franchise.