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A Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love zoo tycoon and it is a great game, but there is somthing they diddn't put in the instructions. The animals can escape, and it is very hard to fix the fence because the instructions don't tell you how. If the instructions told you how to fix the fence, the game would be perfect.

bought for the kids

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

it is a good game for the kids. if you tired of allthe shoot'em up games i say go for it.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is really kool. It isn't like the computer version, but it is still great and has alot of the same characteristics. I would reccomend this 4 sure.

The greatest game ever made

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 46
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is patiely like the PC vison but better!!!

Fun But Has Problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game and it was fun but i hardly ever got anywhere and every time i got some where it either froze or i never reached there because it was too boring to get any where and too wait so long so i just turned it off

The Best Zoo Ever Until!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was chill'in with a friend in Maine. She showed me all her games for Nintendo DS and nintendo DS Lite (Zoo Tycoon was one of them). I poppped it into my DS Lite and started playing. It was awesome!! I was managing my own Zoo!! I played for ever!! But there is one minor glitch!! I was in dept!! Only I still had money but I couldn't buy anything!! Not even a trash can!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I had to start OVER!! I was mad!! But my over all score (for this game)is 3 STARS!!

PC game is better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As my 6 year old son loves the PC Game, I bought him the DS one. His reading is not so good yet and therefore it is more diffucult to play, then the PC one. He got used to it and loves it. But me, I like the PC one better.
If you own the PC one, stay with it.

I'd recommend spending your money elsewhere

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game hoping my daughter could play it on our plane trip. I tred it out first to see how easy it would be for her. It doesn't even work right. I own the DS and I only play the Brain games so it gets used a couple evenings a week. My DS is in great condition. This game was so difficult to play. The touch pad is nothing like I expected. You can't touch where you want to place an object. You instead have to move around using the arrow pad. Problem is that the game is set in a diagonal mode. So you can't simply make a straight path by clicking up or down. You have to zig zag back and forth to get your path straight. Then the touch part is quirky. I thought I was doing it wrong, but you have to touch the object a couple times before it selects it. Then I tried to place the water reed and it never let me. It showed green and yet no matter where I tried to put it, it would never actually place the reed. Again, I thought I was doing the wrong steps, but when I tried to place a tree in the zebra exhibit, it worked fine. So it wasn't user error. In free mode you start with a few animals. Problem is that when I placed the zebra, the foliage that pleases the zebra isn't available yet. So they were unhappy. Never mind that you can't see anything because the screen is too small. Yeah, this game is going back for sure!

sucks!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game would be cool, but you can't even tell what kind of animal it is! If you absolutly love zoo tycoon, go ahead and buy it. If you don't, then leave it on the shelf.

Freeform-Game Mode Lets A Player Design a Lavish Zoological Garden

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A caveat: I'm over 50, with no experience yet of Zoo Tycoon on a PC, but I recently bought both Zoo Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon 2 for the DS. Playing the campaign games, in which a player has to satisfy increasingly harder goals, held no appeal for me, but I loved the idea of using freeform mode to custom-build a zoo. This style of play is much more fun in Zoo Tycoon. Zoo Tycoon 2 has severe limits on the number of scenic items you can place in a zoo, does not let you alter the zoo terrain outside an exhibit, and has a selection of scenery items that were less appealing to me. In Zoo Tycoon I've had a lot of fun using the fountain and fresh-water tiles to create little water gardens throughout a zoo, an impossibility in Zoo Tycoon 2. Similarly, in Zoo Tyccon I could be generous placing park benches; Zoo Tycoon 2 let me place about 30 scenic items total. If designing a zoo is as much fun for you as acquiring animals or meeting challenges, you may prefer Zoo Tycoon over Zoo Tycoon 2.

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