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Marine Mania - addicting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game for my 7 yr old daughter. This really captures her attention. Our whole family loves it! My husband even plays it. Highly recommend.

Makes Zoo Tycoon worth having!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Again, this was purchased for my 9 year old daughter for Christmas. It was to go along with the original Zoo Tycoon that she received for Christmas. She wanted Dinosaur Digs as well but I wasn't about to buy all 3 at one time and since she is so into dolphins I figured this expansion pack would be worth it. And boy was it! I was pleasantly surprised when I received my shipment and it said it was a "double" expansion kit and included Dinosaur Digs as well! That alone was worth the price! When you put this double expansion kit together with the original Zoo Tycoon you can't go wrong! It made the whole "building your own zoo" come alive! The sounds, the people, the animals, everything is just thrilling about these games! And it is very educational for children as they have to keep the animals and zoo visitors happy at all times, whether it's with feeding the animals, feeding the visitors, lowering the price on the food and gift stands, putting up more restrooms, adding more foliage or animals to an animal cage, sending maintence workers to clean up an area, etc. Children will learn about money, responsibility, and so much more with this game without even realizing it!

This is a wonderful expansion pack to add to your original Zoo Tycoon!

A dream come true

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: September 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love Zoo Tycoon but have been disappointed by Dinosaur Digs, mainly because the animals are really hard to keep happy and I'm not that big on dinosaurs. I have told people that aquarium animals would be the perfect expansion pack and now it's coming! I have a degree in marine biology but have never worked in my field. At least now I can play in it!

A Great Zoo Just Got Better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Marine Mania expansion pack of Zoo Tycoon is great. While adding marine wildlife and shows to your zoo increases the level of challenge, I have personally enjoyed Marine Mania more in the past week that the past several months of Dinosaur Digs. But don't get me wrong, I still want my Dinosaurs.

The increase in features such as new marine animals, tanks instead of exhibits, new buildings for making $$$ and very decorative foliage all add a whole new look to any zoo, making a great zoo even better.

Don't Tell Your Kids, But It's Educational!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Educational because they'll learn (1) all about animals and their environments and (2) how to run a business. So, whether your a fervent animal person or a raging capitalist, this game has something for everyone!

The graphics are great, especially the actions of the animals. You can create your own aquatic animal shows, and those are really fun to watch, especially if your customers enjoy it (they stand up and applaud).

This expansion pack also includes Dinosaur Digs, so it's a great deal. And the possibilities of running a zoo with land animals, dinosaurs, and aquatic animals are fun, fun, fun.

All in all, it provides hours of fun!

Move Over Maxis..... Here Comes Microsoft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Zoo Tycoon is loved by me. It is a very fun game. I hope to own it this christmas. I own both the original and Zoo Tycoon Dino Digs and they both caught my attention. If i could meet the creators of the game I would say thanks because it is amazing how an animal reacts. Sometimes it even gets funny when you lets dinosaurs out. They eat up the people! Here are a few pros and cons of Zoo Tycoon

Pros
Very funny and amazing
Over 150 animals to choose from with all expansion packs

Cons
After 5 hours of playtime it gets more boring, but it will always be a beloved game.

Zoo Tycoon Marine Mania is a must!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first perchased the original Zoo Tycoon I was a little bit disapointed. The graphics wern't bad but there were no sea creatures or barely any aquatic animals beside the crocodile, polar bear, sea lion, hippo, and penguin. Yet when I purchased Marine Mania my troubles were solved. ( I have always had an enterest in marine biology. )You get new buildings, objects and animals such as the great white shark, sperm whale, and atlantic sword fish. Along with regular marine exibits you can build a marine mammal/fish show. But only the killer whale, bottlenose dolphin, California Sea Lion, Southern sea Otter and Great White Shark will preform in tanks.But when you create your marie habitat be sure to buy a tank filter or a marine specialize the maintenece of your tank. When you get marine Mania you also get Dino digs. With dino digs you create a Prehistoric and Ice Age feeling to your super zoo. You get new stuff and of course Dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts such as the Wooly Mammoth, Velocioraptor and of course Tyrannosaurus Rex. But tou don't just get them full grown you purchase them as eggs and assign scientists to help it hatch. So you get Sea World and Jurassic Park in one Box! Be warned the sharks, sperm whales and Tyrannosaurus will eat guests that you put in their exibits !!Its fun to watch a gust get devoured by The rex. But these animals will only eat grown men not women,or children. The creators must have been sexist. A few codes: put a mermaid stachue in a tank and a living mermaid will burst from it. To get all the dinosaurs at the begining of the freeform game Name a guest Dinoman and all dinos shall become avalible whith out any consevation funding. If you want to have unlimited money hold down Shift and 4 and your money will rise rapidly, just make sure you do it at the begining befor you create any exibits for the fences shall decay and the tank water will turn brown. For the Dinosucus Crocodile name an exibit Supercroc and you shall be able to adopt this animal. Name an Exibit Cretaceous Corral and the Tricerotops shall become avalible, make sure you leave the exibit name as Exibit 1, 2, 3 , ect. then rename it. If you do not do it in this order the game WILL CRASH. Bottom Line: Good game,should keep gamers on ther computers for days strait.

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this for Christmas from Santa and this game really rocks. It won't work alone, you have to have the original Zoo Tycoon. I really wanted this game and I was really excited when I saw it also had Dinosaur Digs on the disk! It's a lot of fun to play and I could play on my computer for hours, but my mom won't let me she said it's bad for your hands and wrists and eyes. But this game is still a lot of fun. I really like trying to make the animals happy! I don't really care about making the people happy but if they are not happy then the zoo will have no money coming in so I guess I have to keep everyone happy.

I am 9 years old and really, really like this game! You should get it!!

This game is addictive!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my daughter for Christmas. She loves it! I got so involed in helping her set her zoo up that I decided to start my own zoo. If you're in to landscape design this game is for you. They have just about every type of tree, bush and terrain god makes. They also have flower beds and topiary. Our expansion pack included Dino Digs too, so there are lots of fossil rocks,lava and mud pits as well. I think the best part is designing the zoo.

The aquariums are easy to build. There are lots of sharks and whales, but not many fish. The game includes several tutorials to make game play easier. It even has a kids map, with pre-built exibits. Excellent game, very educational. It's pretty complex though. I would recommend it for ages 10 and up

A MUST!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have always loved the Ocean and marine life, especially killer whales. My first sim game was Zoo Tycoon [must have to play Marine Mania]. I loved it. But it wasn't quite what I was lookig for. I wanted marine animals. This was the perfect game! It is so much fun. You can't stop playing it. You get to customize shows, create tanks, buy animals such as Killer whales, Dolphins, sea turtles, Humpback whales, and way more. Plus you get all of the animals from zoo Tycoon ,too. You do everything the way you want. You even learn a thing ot two. By Marine Mania and you'll be happy for the rest of your life.

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