wraggster
December 5th, 2006, 23:15
While Electronic Arts' Japanese studio is hard at work bringing Sim City to the touch screen handheld system and toonifying Sims for the Wii, it is also working on a port of another popular EA franchise: Theme Park. The company made the announcement in Japan that the Bullfrog-created strategy game is being reproduced and retooled on the Nintendo DS for a spring release.
Theme Park puts players in control of, obviously, their own amusement park. The game will give players the ability to lay out their creation and manage the economics of it all to keep things running. Players can adjust the ticket and concession prices to keep attendees happy while raking in the bucks, and earned money can then be converted into liquid funds that can be spent on bigger and better attractions. The touch screen should make things easy to navigate in the game design as the original version of Theme Park was made for mouse control.
Previous console ports of the design had "Sim" attached to the branding, but according to the official release it seems as if Theme Park will be reverting to its original namesake on the Nintendo DS. The game will indeed be released in the US according to sources within Electronic Arts, and it's expected that the Spring 2007 release window will apply to the North American release of Theme Park as well.
Via IGN (http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/749/749057p1.html)
Theme Park puts players in control of, obviously, their own amusement park. The game will give players the ability to lay out their creation and manage the economics of it all to keep things running. Players can adjust the ticket and concession prices to keep attendees happy while raking in the bucks, and earned money can then be converted into liquid funds that can be spent on bigger and better attractions. The touch screen should make things easy to navigate in the game design as the original version of Theme Park was made for mouse control.
Previous console ports of the design had "Sim" attached to the branding, but according to the official release it seems as if Theme Park will be reverting to its original namesake on the Nintendo DS. The game will indeed be released in the US according to sources within Electronic Arts, and it's expected that the Spring 2007 release window will apply to the North American release of Theme Park as well.
Via IGN (http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/749/749057p1.html)