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Summary: ccgr.org's review
Review: So you think you got what it takes to run a zoo? This game will help you find out. Not only do you have to keep your customers happy and coming back, but you have to maintain your animals' health and happiness. To keep your animal happy you have to have a suitable environment for them. Keep the environment the same as their homeland. Not sure where the animal resides? You can read info on them. This game can be used as a learning tool! To keep your animals healthy, make sure you have plenty of zoo keepers and rush them over when your animals are sick. There are so many elements to consider when running your zoo. The most important is location, location, location. This will determine how profitable your food joints or gift shops will be. Don't forget to put in restrooms or garbage cans. Also make sure you hire grounds people to maintain your zoo, animal cages and the fences themselves. You don't want your animals getting out. (Even though it is funny watching) There are two modes of play, free form and scenarios. There are tutorials as well. The intermediate and advanced scenarios are locked until you complete the beginner ones. The game also locks animals and objects and notifies you in the game when more objects have become available. Some animals, toys, plants and environments are locked until you complete research on them. If you still can't find the animal you're looking for chances are they'll have it for download. You can get animal, object and scenario updates from the internet. This should help keep the game interesting since there is no multiplayer. This game has many Easter eggs and other funny moments. For example if you put a lion, tiger and a bear in the same cage your paths will turn yellow. (yellow brick road) If you notice my screen shot has a Microsoft plane flying across the zoo. This game also has holiday effects. My visitors are wearing orange and black for Halloween. I was also able to add a Jack-O-Lantern for decoration. Witches were flying around too. The funniest moment in the game so far had to be when I was building a cage for a cheetah, I didn't notice a kid got in the cage until I added the cheetahs. The boy was running around screaming and eventually got out. I thought that was funny. Even funnier was the fact that, that particular incident did not affect my angry visitor rating. From a Christian standpoint, this game is pretty clean. There are Easter eggs for the holidays like witches and Santa Claus though. The game was easy to install. The graphics were good. Nice detailed scenery. Good music and sound effects. The game ran very stable, no crashes. It will run on all Windows platforms. (It is published by Microsoft) The animal AI is pretty good and natural. You can watch them play and react to their surroundings. (Don't put predator and prey together) My only complaint with this games when you build big zoos, it gets slower navigating through it. Zooming out and decreasing your resolution may help. That's my only complaint. I highly recommend this game.
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Summary: Totally!
Review: I totally love it! Its hard, thrilling, funny,wonderful and most of all, its fun! If you are alergic to some animals or just really really love them, then buy this game. Its better than perfect!
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Summary: Fun, but not forever...
Review: Alright, I agree with most people: this game is great!...but only for maximum 15-20 hours in total... because you get easily bored. Let me explain... First, I have to say that the tutorials are great and really explain you how to play. Although, the scenarios are not challenging. You can easily win and rarely go bankrupt. In the scenarios, you have to achieve things, such as "an average guest happiness rate of 75", "achieve an average animal happiness rate of 80", that kind of stuff... It is usually very easy to acheive what is required to succeed in the scenario. Let's say you are asked to "achieve an average animal happiness rate of 80"; you achieve it; although, let's say your animal happiness rate decreases to 60, well you still "achieved" what is required, therefore you cannot lose. For all those reasons, the scenarios are not that great and you easily get bored because you succeed so easily. Second of all, you can also play the "free-form" game, in which you just choose a map and make your zoo. That's pretty fun, but once you make 3-5 big zoos (using the shift+4 cheat is very useful in many cases :) ) ,well you get bored. When you start your zoo, you have a limited amount of objects and animals, so you have to invest some money in research. The thing is that the objects, buildings, animals and etc. are always rapidly researched, therefore you don't have any excitment and impatient feelings in waiting for new stuff to be available for buying. In general, the game is great! I agree with people! But you won't have as much fun as you would have playing Roller Coaster Tycoon. The graphics are very good and the game is very easy to understand, which is good! (unlike other games...) Although, you will get bored very fast, trust me. I really anticipated that game for weeks, but after playing about 15 hours (in total) well, I stopped playing because 1- I was bored, and 2-I finished the scenarios. If you have Roller Coaster Tycoon, I recommend you buy Zoo Tycoon, but if you don't have neither games, buy Roller Coaster Tycoon. Trust me, you'll have fun playing Zoo Tycoon, but for a limited time.
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Summary: My Experience with "Zoo Tycoon"
Review: Having received this game as a gift for Xmas, I've spent QUITE a lot of time building, tweaking, and overseeing a couple of zoos, and very much enjoying it. It's a great game, very family-friendly, and can teach one much about animals. Kudos also for the new animals available from the website (...): I'm hoping we'll eventually see some extinct animals added as well as the extant ones not yet coded (after all, there's a Yeti now--can a unicorn be far behind?) COMPLAINTS: Most animals look just fine, and the designers have made it a point to create graphics for different sexes (e.g. lion/lioness, moose/moosette). While in real life many animals are not visually distinctive as to sex, it would help game play if all those that ARE, were made so in the game (female ostriches are grey, and one might more easily tell at a glance why your pair is not breeding IF the females were depicted that way). In the same vein, most of the baby animals they've created are fine, but a few should be more than a scaled-down version of the adult graphic (e.g., bison calves should LOOK like calves, not like toy bison). Trampled terrain is a major problem, which can be very difficult to find under heavy foliage! It makes animals unhappy, often your first indication that there IS trampled terrain in a given exhibit. It would be nice to have a tool for finding it more easily, OR (hint hint) some way to train those maintenance workers to take care of it themselves. Heck, I'd hire a specialist to do it, were s/he available... WHAT I'VE LEARNED: Polar bears really, really hate giraffes.
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Summary: Fun game but doesnt work on my computer!
Review: I got this game for Christmas and It didnt work on my computer, it would go to 38% and then screw up and start making weird sounds and not install anymore. I tryed it on my friends computer, she has a much newer computer and more memory and it worked, its a wonderful game and I really hope I can get it to work so I can play it.
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Summary: Great Fun for All Ages
Review: The tycoon games get more and more fun as each new one comes out - the developers definitely learn from past experience and build suggestions into the new versions. Zoo Tycoon, the latest release, is about as fun and addictive as you can get! This is just about the ultimate sim game from a number of points of view. First, like SimThemePark and RollerCoaster Tycoon, you've got the whole "please-your-people" aspect. You want them to have pretty paths to walk on, easy access to food, drink and restrooms, rides and attractions to see. Your visitors love looking at animals, and the happier the animals are, the more the people enjoy their experience. But in Zoo Tycoon, instead of "boring" rides that you merely maintain, you now have incredibly animated animals! Put in a pair of lions, and you'll find them running around with glee, chasing each other, and lounging on rocks you give them. If you don't give them an environment they enjoy (say arctic tundra with cactusses) they'll pout and growl instead. If they're content, they might even have lion cubs, that you can watch grow over time! The game is great for kids, adults, and everybody in between. I have friends with 3 computers in their house and all 3 are running this at the same time, as each little zoo is being worked on. You can have lions, tigers and bears ... flamingos and ostriches ... black leopards and rhinos, elephants and giraffes. You can research the ability to work with endangered animals, build aviaries and other special buildings. The scenarios are great. You take over badly-run zoos, and cringe when you see the concrete-and-steel tiny homes these poor animals had! The pleasure you get when the once-miserable animal runs around its new home, happy and content, is very real. Their free-form games mean that you can build yourself your ideal zoo, too, on any number of map-styles. Highly, highly recommended as a game that will be enjoyed for months and months!
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Summary: If you have the time to sit for a while. . . .
Review: This sim game is awesome. If you have the time to sit for a while, you could make changes and add things all day. I wan't much into sims, but this is a cool game. I particularly like the instand feedback from the animals and the ability to get zoo visitors input.
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Summary: Zoo Tycoon
Review: Okay, it's not Rollercoaster Tycoon, but what is? An intriguing premise, easy to play, but hard to master, due in no small part to some poor programming of the actions of the zookeepers (who are responsible for the feeding of, cleaning up behind, and tending to the health of, your animals) and the maintenance workers (who are *supposed* to empty trashcans, mend fences, etc.). Your zookeepers, for the most part, tell you what your animals need, although they aren't as reliable as a zoo-owner would hope. And your maintenance workers don't always seem to notice the completely collapsed fences that will allow your elephants to trample your guests...But the variety of animals, complete with their necessary terrains, vegetation, and shelters, makes this game fun, it a bit frustrating, to play. Recommended, with caveats.
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Summary: A Day At The Zoo
Review: Want to get away from the house, but are having problems doing that? Zoo Tycoon is GREAT for you and your family then! You could spend hours just building the park! I own this game, and ALL The Sims games, and they are great,fun interactive games. They are challenging, fun, and great for ALL ages! So check them out today!
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Summary: Zoo Tycoon is the Best!
Review: This game is very fun and addictive. The easy guides and manual help you get into the game right away. Your goal is to make the best zoo park for your guests and keep your animals happy. No game simulates as good as this, and everything is easy to use. You can buy many animals, shops, and scenery while trying to make a profit running your zoo. There are different scenarios which you must meet a goal, or you can play a freeform game where all you are doing is trying to make the best zoo ever with plenty of money. Great game for tycoonists around the world who try to have fun while running certain themes. If you are a fan of RCT (Roller Coaster Tycoon)and an animal lover you will enjoy this game. An A+ game to have! Enjoy!
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