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Summary: OBSOLETE!!
Review: If you purchase the Marine expansion you get this included as a bonus. This is now obsolete when you purchase the Marine Pack.
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Summary: Great Double Expansion Pack to have!
Review: I was quick to get the first expansion pack (Dinosaur Digs) being a fan of Jurassic Park...how could I resist building my own Dino adventure. After playing with Dinosaurs....how could I see feeding fishes in this 2nd expansion any fun? Well, I'm happy to say it is...and this pack adds a LOT!
I admit, I only got this game because it was on sale....and I am glad I did! First, if you don't have Dino Digs...do not worry, because this pack comes with it included! That's right you get Marine Mania and Dino Digs both at the same time! For those previous owners of Dino Digs, there was a rebate available for buying this reduntantly. (check with Microsoft for current availbility and details).
So, the Dino Digs part....ya, its cool. You get dinosaurs to add in (which are violent and expensive as you can imagine) along with other ancient ice-age friends and some great prehistoric theming elements!
The Marine mania adds a lot to the gameplay. First, you are able to now think on another plane of building as your tank displays can be tall and deep opposed to the just the X & Y layouts of your other creatures. Second, some of these animals like to perform...not only do you custom build their show tank and arena for guests (unlike the other 1 click drop and place bear insta-shows in the game)...but you also customize the show "script" (ie: what tricks they do and what order) A neat little income aspect to control. Thirdly, there is of course a great variety of new animals ranging from dolphins to eels to squid along with a few amphibic animals...and of course the great marine life themed shops, statues, and attractions.
Everything else I've said about Zoo Tycoon in another review stays the same...the game is a bit challenging of a sim. There are tons of factors to control while building and caring for your park. If you enjoy Zoo Tycoon, you will absolutely love what this expansion pack opens your game to become. This adds so much that it'll make the game playable countless times (did I mention the wonderful "freeform" sandbox modes!?) All I have else to say that if Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and this Expanded Zoo Tycoon were all one game...I would never have to open my CD tray!
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Summary: My opinion on this great game
Review: I think this game is a great game because the animals need accual things to servive and u get to pick from 150 different types of animals whith all the expantions and you get to try to make the visiters happy.I recumend zoo tycoon and its expantions to all and me and my dad play and my dad doesnt like to menny games on computers to this should tell you that every one likes to play this reality game. Thank you for reading this letter.
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Summary: Just a little boring
Review: I was uber excited to borrow this game from a friend before buying (luckily) but I was rather dissapointed. I love the zoo and animals and my favorite game is Rollercoaster Tycoon, so I thought it would be super fun. The interface is pretty much self explanatory, but the actual gameplay is boring. The only fun part is watching the animals. You don't really do anything exciting. You build the animal cages, which was very difficult at first, and you have to do it quickly before the animal gets uncomfortable and they take away your animal purchasing rights. I was constantly running out of funds. Definatly check it out for yourself if it hits the dollar bin, but don't break the bank over it.
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Summary: zoo tycoon meets jurassic park
Review: 23 prehisoric animals!: ankylosaurus, apatosaurus, allosaurus, caudipteryx, lambeosaurus, styracosaurus (a cousin of triceratops), spinosaurus, camptosaurus, iguanodon, triceratops (name an old exhibit "cretaceous corral"), t. rex, plesiosaur (not a true dino, but a ancient marine reptile), velociraptor, kentrosaurus (an african stegosaur with more spikes than plates), coelphysis ( an early meat-eater, pronounced "see-low-fy-sis"), herrasaurus, meilonia (a giant turtle), deinosuchus (a 40ft. croc that can only be obtained by naming an exhibit "super croc") plateosaurus (must download from website), smilodon, mammoth, wooly rhino, and gallimimus (must unlock dino).
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Summary: Good, But Roller Coaster Tycoon is Better
Review: This Game allows you to create your own zoo, with lots and lots of different kind of animals, exibits, shops, and more! The Scenarios are allright, and the animals look really realistic! I would reccomend getting the double expansion pack also, so you can have water animals and dinosaurs in your zoo too. You can also download different animals and scenery on the original one, and put them in your zoo. It is pretty obvious Zoo Tycoon is competing with Roller COaster Tycoon. So if you buy this, get the double expansion pack with it or later, and the game will be well worth the money.
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Summary: Move Over Maxis..... Here Comes Microsoft
Review: Zoo Tycoon is loved by me. It is a very fun game. I hope to own it this christmas. I own both the original and Zoo Tycoon Dino Digs and they both caught my attention. If i could meet the creators of the game I would say thanks because it is amazing how an animal reacts. Sometimes it even gets funny when you lets dinosaurs out. They eat up the people! Here are a few pros and cons of Zoo Tycoon Pros
Very funny and amazing
Over 150 animals to choose from with all expansion packs Cons
After 5 hours of playtime it gets more boring, but it will always be a beloved game.
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Summary: It's great
Review: I love this game!!!!!!! I got it for Christmas and I play it all the time. What I usually do is make a zoo one day and show it to my family the next. It teaches me about animals; it teaches me about their habbitats and what they eat. It showed me some animals I had never seen or heard about. This is the best game ever!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Animals good, guests and zookeepers need improvement
Review: Zoo Tycoon is a good game. The animal reation is good. There's a lot of information about the animals. The Zookeepers good... well at least at the beggining and you can even download new stuff but there's one problem. The guests are are not responsive. Here's an example. I was playing ZooTycoon when they said a lot of the guests were hungry. I fixed that by adding food stands but they are still saying that they are hungry. So I added even more food stands and now I have a lot of foodstands all over the zoo and they continue to say a lot of the guests are hungry. There's also a problem with the zookeeppers. At the beggining, they feed the animals quickly. But soon they start feeding the animals very slowly. Pretty soon a lot of my animals were hungry because of this. So lets just say everything's good except for the guests and zookeepers.
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Summary: Looks like a RCT, with animals instead of rides.
Review: Because of games like RCT and other tycoon games here is a another nice tycoon game, but with some problems.
In this game you get lots of scenarios to play and the main things you use to attracted guests with animals all over the world(and very lots of them). And there are informations about animals in the park which would make the game more fun. But the problem is the creativity part is missing here. In games like RCT you can carve your landscape in the park very easily and make complex tunnels and do almost anything you can think of, but here the focus of the game is managing your animals instead of buliding creativity filled park. Overall, it's quite enjoyable(espacailly if you like to watch cute animals wander around in their cages and do cute stuff.),
but if you don't feel like taking care of your animals in the zoo, there are other great tycoon games to play.
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