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Summary: Must Buy
Review: My opinion is since I have this game is to buy it. Also this game is not the best if you think it is. After awhile, it gets boring and the scenarios are pretty good but the game itself is excellent over all. I woule reccomend this game to anyone who is interested in this type of games. If you are not you are looking at the wrong game.
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Summary: SO FUN!
Review: My daughter, age 8, and I just love to play this game together. She thinks its great to buy animals and create cage environments where her animals are so happy they even have babies. She laughs when all of mom's animals are getting sick or even escaping a poorly designed cage. This game is clever, easy to work without endless hours pouring over the manual, and just plain fun. And now my 8 year old knows you can't put a lion in a deciduous forest!!
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Summary: Really fun and addicting game
Review: This game is about designing a zoo. It's a lot like Roller Coaster Tycoon or Mall Tycoon, only the graphics are better. This is reccomended to people who've played the other games just mentioned and enjoyed them--!Like Roller Coaster Tycoon, you need to beat scenarios. You have to complete a zoo, with all the goals completed (it will list the goals before you start your game). Usually, you have to achieve an average animal happiness of whatever, an average park rating of whatever, and sometimes you have to have a certain number of exhibits, if you complete all that, you will get a new scenario. You have to achieve all this with 75,000 or less dollars (it goes down the more scenarios you complete and the harder they get). In this game you're really trying to make both the animals and the guests content. To do this, design animals' exhibit well and make sure that their cage is well suited and that they are fed. Guests need places to sit and food to eat. The good thing about this game also, is you can play a "Freeform Game", which is a scene, but you do not have to complete any goals or anything, and start and the amount of money you want is optional. (Up to $500,000 is most to start--but here's a cheat-- hold down the Shift button and the $ button BEFORE you make any exhibits and watch your money go SOARING up!!) It's really fun to play this way, but after awhile, it does get boring to not have a challenge. This game crashes easily, almost always when you're playing a freeform game. About between 30-60 mins. is when mine usually crashes. Another reason why it crashes is if you're using a cheat on the game like trying to get a Yeti or Unicorn (I listed some cheats for you to try below, so get out your pen and pencil!). I suggest if you want to use a cheat for getting a nonexistent animal, make sure that the exhibit is NOT brand new. If you're bored with the game and need something fun to do, or you're going to recieve this game real soon, I suggest trying/writing down one of these fun cheats: *Unusual Cheats*
¤ Start freeform game, and hold down the Shift and $ button and watch your money go way up. The amount of money is unlimited, but eventually you'll get bored of holding down the two buttons. =P Don't do this with existing exhibits, otherwise the exhibit walls will crumble and break!
¤ Name a guest Steve Serafino and recieve all the endangered animals on your animals list
¤Place a lion, tiger and bear all in the same exhibit and recieve the Yellow Brick Road path *Rare and Unusual Animals*
¤ To adopt a Unicorn, name an Exhibit "Xanadu" and check your animals list. You'll have a Unicorn!
¤ To adopt a Yeti, start out with an exhibit named "Exhibit 1" then rename it "Kathmandu" to adopt a Yeti. Make sure it isn't a new exhibit!
¤ To adopt a Triceratops, name an exhibit "Cretaceous Corral." Check your animals list and you'll be able to adopt this dinosoar
¤ Rename a Panda "Blackly" and it will turn into a red panda
¤Name a kangaroo Sheila and it will turn into Spyro's friend Sheila
¤Name a Yeti Bigfoot and you'll be able to adopt a Bigfoot
¤ Name a reindeer Rulpoln and it's nose will glow red. Name another reindeer Dancer and it will dance with a female reindeer I suggest going to a cheat site for more cheats. =)
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Summary: An Educational and Challenging Blast
Review: We started my 4 & 8 years old boys with the original Zoo Tycoon game. Then we added the Dinosaur and Marine Expansion Pack. This whole set is so much fun for the little and the big. Both of them enjoy the challenge of making the animals happy as well as learning about so many of them. The 8-year old has little trouble playing the game by himself. The 4-year old needs a little help to play the game successfully--but hey, its a game and he can always start it over. This is really great!!
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Summary: lots of fun
Review: I bought this collection for my sons birthday last year and he and I fight over who gets to play it next. It is really addictive and you have to watch about playing, you can be on there for hours and is not a good thing for young childrens eye's but I consider it really educational and fun. Everyone should own this software.
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Summary: Rollercoaster Tycoon Goes to the Zoo
Review: Every company loves to make a tycoon game, especially after the financial success of Rollercoaster Tycoon, and to Zoo Tycoon's credit, it is probably the best tycoon series since the rollercoaster titles and can be a fun game to spend time with. Unfortunately, most mainstream games such as this one have limited content in the original game and require you to purchase subsequent expansions to fully enjoy the game. Thus, the first Zoo Tycoon probably didn't have enough animals, scenery and other goodies to make it a worthwhile purchase. However, now that the original game and both expansions can be had for the same price as the first game, it's a good buy. Casual gamers will probably have a lot of fun with this title, especially consumers that want a family game. Hardcore gamers that have seen it all will probably be entertained for a day or two and then look elsewhere. Anyone that enjoys games that allow them to create and build will get a kick out of Zoo Tycoon. I especially enjoyed the free form option that allows a gamer to build a zoo from scratch instead of sticking with scenarios that have preset goals. It's a decent game, nothing spectacular, but creative enough to keep you playing for a few days.
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Summary: 3 in 1!!
Review: I got the original Zoo Tycoon awhile back and played that game SO much for weeks! I also played both expansion packs - and got myself hooked all over again! Then I got a new computer, quit playing it for awhile to play some other games... and when I wanted to go play it again, I realized I had lost the disks! Argh! So, you can imagine, I was very pleased when the Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection came out - now I can buy all three together - YAY!! The game is a lot of fun - one of my favorite tycoon games ever made. I am an animal lover though, so I am a tad bit biased. Basic idea of the game is that you build a zoo from the ground up! You build the cages, put water and plant and caves and houses in the cages for the animals - though each animal is different so its somewhat tricky! You have to get stuff for each cage that the particular animal likes. Also, some animals are unhappy unless you give them a mate... but this has consequences! The animals in my zoos were always EXTREMELY prolific! Every few seconds some animal was having a baby (sometimes 2-3 babies!). This was fun, except when you get too many animals in one cage, it makes them all unhappy and crowded. You can sell the babies though, which can make you some cash for your zoo. When building your zoo, you also get tons of pre-made exhibits to purchase - like an insect house, a snake house, a monkey house and tons more. You can't really do a heck of a lot with them, but the guests at your zoo like them! The graphics on the game are decent, it ran well on my old computer and on my new computer - I never had a single problem with installing it and it never crashed. Beware though - it is EXTREMELY addicting! I would load it up sometimes and play for what seemed like a short while, look at the clock and realized 4 hours had passed!
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Summary: Put the kids to bed.......
Review: and lock the doors! This game is too much fun! The first time I played it I was amazed at the realism. You not only have to build a layout that is asthetically pleasing to your guests but you have to maintain it as well. The animals you add to your zoo must be kept happy at all times or you won't be able to purchase more. An animal advocate group will actually prevent you from purchasing new animals until you fix the existing exhibits. The guests have to be kept happy or your zoo won't make any $$$$$ and you won't be able to purchase new animals. From the animals to the zoo workers to the concession stands and right down to the public restrooms and trash cans! You can check the status of your zoo, how many guests are visiting, how many are happy vs. unhappy (Make sure you have plenty of restrooms and benches for guests to relax). Watch the filters on your Marine life water tanks! And be careful to watch the fencing around the lion cage (I accidentally removed a section of fence by accident and one of my guests was attacked)! This will teach your children (if you let them near it) to manage money and given them a sense of responsibility. BUY THIS GAME!!!
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Summary: dangerously addictive
Review: Who doesn't love a graphically rich, high-quality SIM? Not me! A SIM has to be pretty good, though, to engage me for hours, and this one does. Employees, customers, bathrooms, escaping animals - so much going on. The animals are adorable and you can tell that the creators of the game put a lot of thought and loving care into the sound effects and how the animals move. Die-hard fans of "The Crocodile Hunter" will not be disappointed in the animals' behavior. I have caught myself playing for hours on end and realizing only because I had to go to work the next morning that I had better save the game and come back later. Now that there are expansion packs, I'm more encouraged about future play. My less than perfect rating is due to some missing components. When animals escape, the zoo keepers find them immediately and crate them. No one gets trampled, no one sues the zoo, no reporters, no fines from environmental groups, no protestors ... no realism there. There could be more expansive research programs such as cloning of rare animals or cross breeding for hybrids such as Leopons and Tigons (they exist - I'm not making them up). How about animal loan programs - such as loaning my rare panda to another zoo for their fertility program for a year in exchange for more money for my zoo? I also wish I could zoom into places like the reptile and monkey houses and see what goes on in there. Getting employees to stick to one area is not easy. It would be better if you could color code them in addition to naming them... and putting an animal label on them so the animals they care for would be obvious without having to pause the game, highlight the employee and then get info on them. All in all, great game play and a lot of variables make for hours on end of fun - and that can be a good thing and a bad thing.
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Summary: Lions and T-Rex and Dolphins, oh my!!!
Review: I love this game and so do my kids. this is the best sim in my opinion. every time you play it it's different because you decide if your zoo is top rate or could use some work. I love to watch you animals and of course i love the baby animals.
But save your money and buy the complete edition that comes with the two expansion packs so you don't fork out the 25.00 each for the expansion packs when for the price of one you can get all three.
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