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bad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 46
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is really bad.who would want a zoo game .Whats so fun about it. Get GRAND THEfT AUTO,VICE CITY. Your really stupid if you get zoo tycoon no matter what. thank you

Horrible game dont waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love Rollercoaster tycoon, its exciting and fast action. Zoo tycoon is so slow and scenerios are so short you have no fun trying to beat the scenerio. i just find it a waste of time and money

A Big Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game. I did. The concept was good, the features seemed exciting, and I thought that I would spend many weeks enjoying the game. I was wrong. The game play is awkward. There is a patch on the website that helps a bit, but it doesn't fix everything. The zookeepers and maintence workers do their assigned tasks and then wander off into the undevoloped areas of the park, and then when there is a problem you have to hunt them down and physically move them to where they should have been all along. I have a pretty decent computer with more than double all of the requirements, but the game will still crashed on me. Stick with Rollercoaster Tycoon and its add-on packs, and if you complete all of the theme parks there, then keep searching for a new game. Don't think that Zoo Tycoon will be the fix that you need until more Rollercaster Tycoon add-on packs come out like I did.

Worst Simulation Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: May 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Pros: None
Cons: Bad Graphics
Boring Gameplay
Money System guarentees you'll be broke unless you stick to th tightest budget possible.
[It's just like] Roller Coaster Tycoon
Unecaseraly Hard
More furnishing animals cages and keeping them happy than running a zoo
Price is overdown this plays like [a]game out off a bargain box
With in 25% hour of playing it you'll start to loose intrest

Zoo Tycoon

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: September 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Loaded fine but then couldn't get it to run. Couldn't even get back to a spot where I could get the unique product number. As it turned out, MS doesn't tell you that if you are running a newer version of XP (post Sep 2002, SP1) you have to buy a codec, online, from a thrid party company. For $14.95 additional you can get the game to work on your XP system. MS support was no help. I was very upset and will return to the store I bought it from, Staples.

Poor Graphics, Cheap animation.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: October 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is addicting, but the graphics are disaterous, and the sound clips like mad, maybe it's just my computer but the game seems to be pretty lame and pointless. (BTW I have a PIII 900MHZ, 512MB DDRAM)

Don't waste your money....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a very poor knock-off of Roller Coaster Tycoon (some of the details of game play are so close, in fact, it makes me wonder...), except that the close-up graphics are terrible, and it's very boring. It also takes too much time to get a "ride" up and running - by the time you do, your other animals will have died from neglect! Animal sounds are decent, but, overall, game sound is VERY boring - there needs to be more of it. It's really a shame, as the idea of this game has great potential. Yet, just another case of Microsoft trying to capitalize on someone elses success. In this case, they've failed terribly. Don't waste your money - I did.

Big yawn.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While this game had an interesting concept, it falls short very quickly. I do consider this game to be the most boring one I have ever fallen prey into buying.

By the time I was finished with the tutorial, my time with it was done. I did go back in and try a couple scenarios and free play, just to see if I was too harsh - but I was not.

The game has almost no fun factor, and there is nothing to drive you to play. Building an exhibit takes far too long time, and I always just find myself asking the in-game zoo keeper's advice: "Too much sand, not enough dirt" after every change I make to the show. And if you want to try to create a multiple-animal habitat, forget it!

I think the only fun I really had was the first time I put a lion in the camel pen.

Dull

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I hate my maintenance people, I have about a hundred of them and still my park is trashed they just walk around out back and do nothing. My food is maxed out and my Entrance fee is also and they still come in droves. Needless to say this is a dull and boring game with little challenge and little of that "pride of accomplishment feeling". I did learn some new things about my animal's habitats though...

I expected it to be better.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was eagerly anticipating this game before it came out but after playing it for only a month I found that I was quickly getting bored with it. It gets very tedious to make the animals habitats in a way that keeps them happy and I found myself getting annoyed with them wanting more grass, more dirt, more fresh water, on and on and on. The scenarios are particulary boring and don't add anything interesting to the gameplay.

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