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Summary: A Nagging Bore
Review: I found this game to be dull and tedious. No matter how you design your cages, you'll be nagged to death with endless messages about "Too much grass, too much sand, too much rock, too much dirt..." -and that's just about terrain. It's fun to let the animals out and watch them go wild, at least once or twice. The game itself, however, is a snorefest.Another thing to keep in mind. This game installs DirectX 8.0 on your machine. If you run Roller Coaster Tycoon on Windows ME, you may lose all access to your game. I've yet to find a solution and Microsoft does not acknowledge the problem on its web site.
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Summary: Not a game you want to play over and over....
Review: I thought the concept of this was pretty cool at first but when I started playing this alot it got very boring. In this game you build a zoo, feed animals, make them shelters, clean their pooh etc,. But when you play this alot it gets annoying and boring. Heres an example, you make a place for animals to live, say you have 5 living there. Make them a shelter, give them food, put some trees and your done. But thats not it, animals have to be happy at all times and that when the game really gets boring. They complain there is not enough foliage, or food, or a certain type of terrain they want, or too much trampled terrain, and the list goes on and on. You must make every animal happy at all time or visitors won't like your zoo. IF you have a big zoo its even worse, you must change the terrain every damn second of the game because its allways being trampled on or an animal is not happy with it and I mean every second almost literally. Theres allways something you must do to make them happy, and I just got sick of it. It was a waste of my time. So you might like it the first time you play it, but when you get use to it you will hate it to death. Please take my word for it, it is very repetative and gets boring fast!
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Summary: Great Game but can be Slow
Review: My husband gave me this game for Christmas and I was completly sucked into the gaming pit for three days before I came up for air. So I think that this is a great game. The animals are make cute sounds and -- especially the babies --- and it is great fun (but expensive) to put a flamingo into a Lions cage. Hee hee. There are times though when the game play is tedius. Just waiting for things to happen, for example money to come in to buy new animals or improve existing animal displays or waiting for advances to be found can be pretty boring and I would love to have a fast advance button like in the Sims. Other than that this is a great game.
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Summary: Great Game!!!
Review: I just got this game for Christmas and let me tell you it is FUN!!! Great graphics, easy gameplay, and a lot of enjoyment playing this game. Get this game if ya can, you won't regret it!!!
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Summary: PRETTY COOL
Review: I got Zoo Tycoon for Christmas and I think it is pretty cool. If you are a animal lover, this is the game for you! There are tons of animals I love it. The only problem is it's a little confusing. It's not as easy to figure out as Rollercoaster Tycoon, but I think it more fun. I still don't know how to get toys for animals and other things, but all in all I am having a lot of fun!
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Summary: Tough But Addicting
Review: Zoo Tycoon isn't as good as Roller Coaster Tycoon in my opinion. But that is because Theme Parks have more to work with. But this is a helluva game. The features are countless. I have not discovered all of the secrets but I will let you know once I do. This is a great game.
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Summary: Fun but Unfinished
Review: This game is fun to play, but it seems unfinished. The graphics only look right at about 1/2 the angles, and if you zoom in they look really bad, I guess they didn't bother making new sets of graphics for each zoom level, too bad, because the main graphics are pretty good, considering it's a 2D isometric view. Gameplay is good though, easy to understand and fun, and there's lots of animals and objects to build with, as well as a free-play mode in addition to the scenarios. The only bad part is you have to wait till more objects are 'unlocked' to use them, even in free-play mode. All in all not a bad game, but not great either, especially considering the price.
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Summary: My Favorite "Sim" Game to Date!
Review: My interest in simulation games goes back to the original SimCity. Since then, I've played everything from SimAnt to Sims: Hot Date (haven't gotten into it, yet... I spend too much time designing & building the houses & environs for my characters ;) and RollerCoaster Tycoon (fun, but I'm not a big rollercoaster fan). Zoo Tycoon is the perfect mixture of everything I like in sim games -- flexibility, challenge, knowledge acquisition and a bit of devilish fun now and then. My only complaint about Zoo Tycoon is it's extremely limited zooming capabilities -- you only have two views on the world you create, a normal wide view and a "close-up" view that doesn't get you nearly close enough, particularly when you want to admire your handiwork. If Zoo Tycoon had the zooming capabilities of, say, Tropico or even The Sims, I'd be in hog heaven with this game! As others have already admitted, Zoo Tycoon sucked me in immediately after I started playing it. I purchased it a couple weeks before the Christmas holiday season, and I had to extricate myself from the game lest the holidays pass me by entirely. I'm 27 years old and do not do much gaming except in short spurts (an afternoon, now and then), but Zoo Tycoon easily captured a three-day weekend and left me wanting to play more. It's a very fun, educational game, when you approach it as such. Every now and then, I get frustrated with the slow pace at which my "dream zoo" is taking shape, and it can be fun to unleash lions in your chimpanzee pen or your Yeti (what, you don't have a Yeti?! What's an zoological park without a prized Yeti?) into, well, any exhibit. Hours, days, weeks of fun. Like other popular simulation games, this should probably have a strongly worded Surgeon General's warning on the box lid... I'd love a Zoo Tycoon on steroids, something with the depth and breadth of information you get from National Geographic or the Discovery Channel. Then again, I probably truly wouldn't stop playing. PS: That windchime sound you hear in the game once you've had an established exhibit with animals for awhile? That's the sound of your zoologist administering medication to a sick animal. I'm sure its mentioned somewhere in the documentation or advanced tutorials, but if you jump into the game after the forced beginner tutorial, as I did, it could take awhile to stumble upon that tidbit.
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Summary: Fun and Entertaining Game For the Whole Family!
Review: What a great way to spend (...)! I love these games where I get to run the world and Zoo Tycoon makes it even better because now I take care of animals. If that isn't enough, I also get to make a profit as I run my own zoo, watch my animals have babies, make designer animals pens and more! This game is easy to play and a lot of fun. There are also a lot of extras out on the net so make sure you press the convenient "Check for Downloads" button on the main screen. It automatically checks the net for updates and downloads them into the correct directories for easy use. Great feature!
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Summary: Zoo Tycoon is a winner
Review: Zoo Tycoon is a great game for all ages. This is a very simple idea where you get the hang of it fairly quick and design your own zoo. The scenarios are challenging, the concept is fun, and if you like games where you get to design as you go along this game is a winner. The only downfall I have noticed so far is the rare occurrence of the graphics being just a bit choppy. This game is quite addictive because it is so enjoyable. It is definitely worth the cost. I look forward to an expansion at some point!
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