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Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: May 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My Goodness! This Was The best Game ever! I got this game on
April 3 for my birthday. and i loved it! This had good graphics
Yummy animals, entertaining zoo keepers, funny tourists,
And the greatest plot.

People in my class
Envied me for having it.
Today I Beat it for
Over the
Second Time.
And i still love it!

zoo tycoon review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

zoo tycoon is a very interesting game you have to take care of a zoo and make animals feel happy. you can also put restaurants, restrooms or even animal theatres i liked it a lot i recommend this game to someone that is not sure if wants to buy it or not.

average zoo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In this you have the choice of the setting of your zoo and the money that you start off with up to $500,000 (like the computer version. You sart off with the normal buildings, restrooms, snack machines, and drink machines. You start off with the same scenery, picnic tables, benches, and garbage cans. You daily funding for Reaserch Conservation can go up to $66 ( reaserch and conservation is the best thing in zoo tycoon period). This game doesn't have as many features as the computer version but the missing features are minor and this game is as fun and is good to have because it is more portable than the computer version. My brother would llike to add that in this version you can't put different animals in the same exhibit.(that is all of my brothers input) This game, despite its average qualities is hard to put down once you make a good zoo and once you unlock everything, this game is the best. If you're patient enough to make one exhibit you'll begin to unlock animals and objects and you'll love the game. When you get to the main menu, the most fun thing to do is freeform game, but if you are a begginer you might want to start off with tutorial and scenario game to learn how to do things like please guests. When you start off, don't bother to look into cards because you don't have any. If you're looking for a game to share with someone, you might not want this one because I've played this game for quite a while and as far as I've found out you can only save one zoo. Impotant tip: after making an exhibit and putting the animals in, click on the zoo keeper with the exclamation point and you can see if your animal want things like more decidous floor or more quiver trees. To sum up everything I've said, BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

Fun - But Should have Been Better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 35 / 40
Date: September 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love the Zoo Tycoon series, raising and caring for zoo animals. I was thrilled to get a DS version to carry around. The implementation on the DS is a bit flawed, though.

First, the basics. You are in control of a zoo, and have to set up exhibits so that the animals you care for are happy. You choose the proper terrain mix, add in some trees and rocks, and maybe a shelter or two. Then you also care for your human visitors - giving burger stands, drink stands, restrooms and benches. If you care for everyone well, you have happy animals, happy visitors and a successful zoo.

This is exactly the kind of game I love. I can play the Zoo Tycoon series for hours and hours. However, I found many problems with the DS implementation that made playing it quite frustrating.

First, some of the changes that they made to simplify the game, which helped to make it playable on the DS. You set up an exhibit fence as a 'block', drawing it on the lower grid. Once it's set, that's it. You can't add or remove pieces later. You don't even set a gate on it. It's a solid fence.

Into each exhibit you place a zookeeper. No more managing zookeeper paths - each exhibit has its own zookeeper. You don't manage individual visitors' happinesses either, or shop incomes.

In a change which I found very saddening, you don't get any information on your animals any more! Surely having a page or two of text about each animal's lifestyle and habitat wouldn't have maxed out the DS card. I found this change very odd. Part of the fun of this game is learning all about the animals, and it doesn't make sense that they took it away.

I understand completely that games need to be "simplified" to be playable on the DS. Still, some changes don't make any sense. For example, if you set up an exhibit and add animals, and then decide you want the exhibit to be a little bigger, too bad. You are stuck for the rest of the level with that exhibit.

Also, if your task is to get X goal within 10 months - and you hit the goal long before then, then you have to sit there and wait the entire time to reach the end. It won't realize you have reached your goal. I had the same issue with the tutorials - I'd do what it wanted, but often it wouldn't realize it until I undid the task and then re-did it again.

The interface had many quirks which were frustrating. When you're drawing cages, you have a grid on the bottom and a picture of the area on the top - and the two don't relate to each other at all. You can't move the grid once you start drawing. It takes a lot of trial and error to get the cage where you want it, if you can even draw the cage size you want based on the interface's limitations.

Finally, the zoos are all *really* small and you can only save one save game. So if you have a great zoo you're working on, and you want to casually play another quick game in the meantime, you can't do it. If you're sharing your DS with your sibling, it won't work at all.

I really do love Zoo Tycoon so I play through the issues, and get enjoyment out of what I have. Still, I really hope if they come out with a Zoo Tycoon 2 that they fix a lot of these issues and make it more of the game I love.

Recommended.

Zoo tycoon ds rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 26
Date: October 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have got zoo tycoon and zoo tycoon 2 for the pc, and they were as brilliant as this game. The graphics are as good as on the pc and the variety of animals is as much as on the pc game. I hope that the expansions for zoo tycoon ds will come out because thay will make it more than fantastic! My only cons are that it is quite fiddly placing things and touchings things using the stylus as it is such a small screen. But overall, a fantastic ds game!

Very Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: November 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've never had a "Tycoon" game, so I thought that I'd give this game a shot. This game turned out very good! Through out this game, one can create his own zoo and see how it does in a simulated world. There are bunches of worlds to build a zoo, and this game allows you to create not only exibits, but also food stands, ponds, benches, trash cans, etc. There are many animals to exhibit along with many trees, terrain, rocks, and toys. It is very interactive with the touch screen, and can be very addicting!

Somethings I do not like, however, are the very small selection of employees (zoo keeper, tour guide, and the garbage men). You can only keep one zoo up at a time, so if you want to create a new file, but don't want to destroy your first zoo, you are in a tight spot.

Overall, I like this game, and it can become very addicting. I would recommend it.

Zoo Tycoon DS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Zoo Tycoon DS is a recipe for fun right in your own DS. Because it is portable, you can play it anywhere. At a boring grown up party, during a long car ride or plane flight, or when you just feel like it; you are always ready for Zoo Tycoon fun. Zoo Tycoon is an exiting game where you are able to purchase a block of land of your choice, and build exibits, place paths, and purchase animals for guests visiting your zoo to enjoy. Just like the computer version, you have to hire zoo keepers to feed and care for your animals, you must design suitable exibits in order to keep your animals happy, you can place food stands and wash rooms for your guests, and you can design rest areas and play areas for the guests visiting your zoo. The only differece between the original computer version is that the screen is smaller. I would recomend that children under eight would probably not enjoy this version unless they are used to a small screen, but might enjoy the computer version. This DS version compares favourably to the first computer version, and has the added advantge of two screens. This allows you to interact even more, and to have more control over your zoo. It can be difficult to get the hang of it, but when you do it is one of the best games made for a Nintendo DS.

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!!!

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