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Zoo Tycoon (PC) |  | Artist: PC-CD ROM
From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Seller: jinkeduk
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1898
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95
Genre: tycoon-strategy-games
Media: Video Game
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: X08-47341
UPC: 659556912284
EAN: 0805529132672
Release Date: November 2, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
MICROSOFT, X08-47341, 2001
Amazon.co.uk Review
Zoo Tycoon bears more than just a title similarity to Roller Coaster Tycoon: it even looks as if it's based on the same basic game engine. Building pens and paths, decorating, placing buildings and managing your staff, even the way your patrons look and how you tweak pricing all are extremely similar to the fun of Roller Coaster Tycoon. The game play consists of a series of inventive scenarios, sometimes building a zoo from scratch, and other times taking over a failing or failed zoo and bringing it back from the brink. Specifically, you've got to build pens and habitats with an eye toward the needs of each animal species. For example, putting bears in a savannah setting results in depressed, possibly sick, bears. You also have to tend to your human animals by including gift shops, restaurants, drink stands and bathrooms. Then you've got to adopt animals and hire zookeepers to tend your creatures. All of this costs money but cutting corners can result in irate customers and unhappy animals. Unhappy animals bore people, and worse they make it difficult to adopt more exotic and finicky creatures, such as pandas. Happy and well-fed animals will cavort and play, making your guests very happy. And happy guests mean more money for you to improve your zoo. It's a balancing act, keeping all the animals, keepers and little wandering people happy, but the game is also a decorator sim. You've got to beautify your park and it's easy to forget the specific scenario objectives and lose yourself in building the ultimate zoo. If you ultimately tire of the objectives, you can delete some of your fences and watch the animals run amok on your guests (sometimes, through negligence, they can break free on their own). The carnivores grab, pin, and fling your guests (no blood, and no killing here) and this lowers your zoo rating and dissuades people from visiting for a while. Still, it's great fun to watch.--Bob Andrews
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 38
 The kids liked it! January 30, 2010
Michael Lyons (Dublin14, Leinster Ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes the kids did like it, but I am always a bit put off at the thoughts of
how the kids feel when the animals are unwell or unhappy and the pressure they
feel to do something about it.
But you know what, kids are better equipped than you think.
How to plan, animal welfare and other skills are developed
with this game.
YES
Fun for Kids! December 29, 2009
C. Lockyer (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is very fun and can help children understand more about business and how to run it properly.
 Good, but i bought it a bit late April 30, 2005
iWANTaWOLVERINEandGAMBITcomicBYpanini
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Its a challenging fun game that takes at least some thought but its easy to work. I only gave it a 3/5 because i bought mine when they released zoo tycoon 2 so i was a little late.
In my opinion, dont bother renting or buying it to try it, just go straight for zoo tycoon 2. ;-)
Fun for all the family January 18, 2005
T.L. James
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A virtue of this game is that it is enjoyable for a lot of different kinds of players. My wife loves it, and she is not normally into computer games at all: it appeals to her design skills, and she is good at figuring out what is needed to succeed (hint: in the early stages, if you want satisfied customers concentrate on giving them food, drink and toilets). My six year old daughter likes it too, and can cope with it with limited adult help. And I like it, and I'm usually interested only in historical military strategy games. So good value all round (we got it free with our laptop, but it means we will upgrade and buy other tycoon games).
zoo tycoon rocks November 14, 2004
vix (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Zoo tycoon is one of the greatest games i've ever been on i love the way you have to make the pens and choose the animals. However it would be better if there was a greater variety of animals, enclosures, staff etc. But overall it ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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