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Fun game, but to many glitches

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I actually liked this version better than the PC game. To me it was easier to understand and the controls are really good, I just couldn't get into the PC game. The biggest problem is the no saving more than one game at a time.
Even tho this is a fun game the reason I gave it two stars overall is because I can never finish a game. I get the highest rating for my zoo, I have plenty of money, I have no more than 7 or 8 exhibits, and then it won't let me buy anymore, not even a trashcan. This is extremely frustrating. This happens every time I start a new game. I have friends who own this game and they don't have this particulat problem, but they have other glitches. This game should have had better testing before it was released. I really hope they fix the glitches and release a second one.

I like it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i liked this game. yes it does have its ups and downs and its true the PC version is much better. But once you get used to it, it really isnt that bad of a little game

Too complicated and impossible to read!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 6 yo DD. I tried it out first and had a hard time remembering everything once the tutorial was over. I am not even 40 and have great eyes, but I could HARDLY read the words on the upper screen...way too small!

We are trading for something else. (P.S. We are not huge gamers and are new to the DS system).

Help me please

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 61
Date: October 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ok I have both of the pc zoo tycoon games and I want to know if this is like the first 1 or the second 1 where you can walk around.

DID NOT RECEIVE THE GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 32
Date: February 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I AM WRITING THIS REVIEW BECAUSE YOU ASK FOR IT..I ORDERED THIS GAME FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTERS 8TH BIRTHDAY AND SHE NEVER RECEIVED IT WHEN I NOTIFIED THE COMPANY THEY SAID THE UPS GUY GAVE IT TO A MAN AT THE HOUSE AND IT WAS NO LONGER THEIR PROBLEM..I PAID EXTRA TO HAVE IT DELIVERED IN TIME FOR HER BIRTHDAY SO HOW I RATE THIS COMPANY IS AWFUL AND I WILL NVER ORDER ANYTHING THAT COMES FROM THEM AGIAN..THANK YOU PHYLLIS FEELEMYER

Very Disappointed in Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love Zoo Tycoon for PC and was excited to get this game for DS.
I was so disappointed with it and wished I could return it!
The graphics are terrible, the controls are difficult to use.
I wish I had read some of these reviews before I bought it or I would not have gotten it, I thought it was like the PC version. Now I want to sell it and get the Zoo Tycoon 2 Complete Collection for my PC. Anyone want to buy 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.

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.

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