You can build some gnarly roller coasters, and thanks to some abusable quirks in the physics engine, you can make a ride that goes magnitudes faster than the speed of sound and exerts the g-force equivalent of slamming a 747 into a brick wall. In most ways, it’s like the other roller coaster games from this period. Ultimate Ride skips the theme park and lets you build roller coasters in fantasy landscapes, like this trippy asteroid
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Disney had some experience with this genre, having previously published a game that was simply called Coaster back in 1993, so perhaps it made sense for one of the biggest names in theme parks to get in on the action again too.
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Maybe it’s because graphics for home computers and game consoles had reached the point where they could render a roller coaster ride in 3D with some level of smoothness and graphical fidelity, but the late 90s and early 2000s saw a flurry of theme park games hitting the market, like Roller Coaster Tycoon Coaster Works the first installment in the NoLimits series the next installments in the Theme Park series and a bunch of budget-priced imitations. Ultimate Ride landed at a moment when the theme park game genre was having a spike in popularity.
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That makes Ultimate Ride even more interesting, because it’s a game where, like Imagineering, you design your own theme park rides. But if they felt comfortable putting the Disney Imagineering brand name on a video game, that reads like an endorsement. And they didn’t actually develop Ultimate Ride themselves, besides giving their “support and guidance,” according to the credits. Granted, Imagineering has designed their share of interactive experiences, notably the defunct, hyper-stylized digital indoor theme park concept DisneyQuest.
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Out of all the games published by Disney, Ultimate Ride is the only one credited to Disney Imagineering – the legendary, secretive R&D division of the company’s theme parks.