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Marine Mania Rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 40 / 41
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This new expansion really brings zoo tycoon to a new levels you can add the folowing animals in the game:
Bottlenose Dolphin
Orca
Giant Squid
Manta Ray
West Indian Manatee
Shortfin Mako Shark
Great White Shark
Hammerhead Shark
Elephant Seal
Arctic Jellyfish
Humpback Whale
Green Sea Turtle
Pacific Walrus
Southern Sea Otter
Giant Pacific Octopus
Sperm Whale
Tiger Shark
Narwhal
Beluga
Harbor Porpoise
Green Moray Eel
Bluefin Tuna

Mermaid
Swordfish
Great Baracuda
(this list is correct, was provided by a beta tester)
You also get 8 fences, the ability to have certain animals perform in shows, 1 new staff member and plenty more!

Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 36
Date: September 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Zoo Tycoon is the newest addition to the Tycoon Games. Build a zoo and make your animals, and guests happy and get rewards and rare animals from around the World and open up secret animals and scenarios. With the newest expansion Pack for Zoo Tycoon, Marine Mania, Dive into the adventure!! With about 15 New Marine Life animals and some Bonus animals, 8 new fences, and 1 new staff member, How could you not want the upcoming game Marine Mania?

By looking at screenshots from web-sites, the newest expansion pack for Zoo Tycoon, will be a Big Splash!! With the newest expansion pack, train your animals to do shows for your guests, and a new feature, the under water viewing area, makes the animals from the Game Zoo Tycoon and Dinosaur Digs, be able to see them under water!!

Zoo Tycoon Marine Mania, will be a great addition for Zoo Tycoon and teaches kids and adults about the Marine Life!!

An excellent addition!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have been a huge fan of sim type games for literally yeras. I mean I have loved these type of games since the very first sim city on Super Nintendo. I picked up the first Zoo Tycoon on it's release date and loved every aspect of the game. Knowing, pretty much what I was getting into before I even played it, this game absolutely did not disappoint.
I also picked up Dinosaur digs on release date and got everything that I expected out of it. Although a bit smaller than I had hoped. This did not surprise me however because I have bought many expansions and many of them have been smaller than necessary.
Marine Mania is as good as expansion packs can get. Not only does the expansion pack include Marine Mania, but it also includes Dinosaur Digs, which kind of made me upset me because I just purchased it a couple of months ago. Anyways, I don't care too much for reviews that ramble on, but Marine mania is well worth the purchase, because not only do you get the one expansion, you get a full two expansion packs. So for those of you whoo liked the first Zoo Tycoon and have not picked up Dinosaur Digs yet (or even have picked it up) I suggest that you buy this expansion, it is seriously much fun. Pick it up and enjoy!

One of the best games ever!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! I am 13 years old and my three brothers, who are 10,7 and 4, love it too. My 4 year old brother needs a little bit of help when he plays it, and my 7 year old brother just needed a little bit of help the first time he played it.
And my 10 year old brother is really good at it(except on his first try, six walruses climbed out of their tank and scared the pants off of all the people), and of course, so am I.
We have just the trial version and it's really good but it will be even better with the real Zoo Tycoon(it needs it to run completly).
The animals are SOOOOOO cute! Especially the orcas and polar bears. You can even name all of them, too. Its like you're running your own zoo! You have to keep all the guests happy by supplying hamburger stands, drink stands and restrooms.
You can even make your own orca show and you can put which tricks you want to be performed in the order that you want them to be in.
It's a little tricky to keep the Allosauruses and the Velociraptors happy, but you'll soon find out that they like half of one kind of terrain and half of another.
Get this game! It's GREAT!

P.S: Whatever you do, DON'T use concrete walls for an Allosaurus! It'll break right through them. :)

Heres a rough animal guide to Marine Mania........

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 25
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

O.k i have a rough guide of aniamls that will be Marine Mania :-

1. Bottle Nose Dolphin
2. Killer Whale (Orca)
3. Giant Squid
4. Manta Ray
5. West Indian Manatee
6. Mako Shark (Fastest Shark In The World).
7. Great White Shark (Fearest Shark In The World).
8. Hammer Head Shark
9. Tiger Shark
10. Elephant Seal
11. Jelly Fish
12. Octopus
13. Sea Otter
14. Blue Whale (Biggest Mammel In The World)
15. Giant Sea Turtle

I hope this is some help to you......
Oh and Zoo Tycoon Rules you should visit my site for more info [websites]...........

My opinion on this great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 24
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is a great game because the animals need accual things to servive and u get to pick from 150 different types of animals whith all the expantions and you get to try to make the visiters happy.

I recumend zoo tycoon and its expantions to all and me and my dad play and my dad doesnt like to menny games on computers to this should tell you that every one likes to play this reality game.

Thank you for reading this letter.

Splash out on Marine Mania and you won't be disappointed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania is a very cool expansion pack for Zoo Tycoon.

Although it was very good, I actually prefer this to the first expansion pack Dinosaur Digs. There are a lot more new features. You must put your marine animals in tanks instead of exhibits, adjusting the height and choosing the right foliage.

You can hire marine specialists to look after the creatures, which include orca whales, seals, rays, squids, otters, great white sharks and many more - over 20 in total.

There are loads of new shops and attractions to please your guests with.

You can also put on shows with some of the animals. You can choose exactly what the animals do in the shows, in which order, and schedule it as to how often you want the show to happen.

There are several new scenarios for those players who like the challenges.

You also now get the ability to pick up guests and put them wherever you want...including in exhibits and tanks!

I think this is a great expansion pack for Zoo Tycoon. It really makes the original Zoo Tycoon game a lot more interesting and also included Dinosaur Digs, so it'll keep you playing the game for much longer than before!

Wasn't too impressed with original...this is great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Like i said in my title, the original Zoo Tycoon did not thrill me. Just when I thought I had wasted ...Marine Mania came to the rescue. It took me a while to finally decide: what the heck, I'll get it. I was not dissapointed. I mean, great whites and T. Rex's, who could possibly pass it up? With almost 80 new animals, this game is vastly expanded. You can build tanks that actually have depth (unlike the previous water terrain tool), and house animals such as orca whales, giant squids, and many different kinds of sharks. Plus, certain animals can put on shows! You can impress your guests by having your orcas of dolphins do amazing jumps and breaches, play with balls, and many more amazing tricks! THe great white shark can even perform in shows; you can have your sharks do breaches and feeding frenzies! You can hire marine specialists to train, feed, and doctor your marine animals. You can even put marie plantlife and sunked ships into your tanks to make your animals feel right at home. Many new scenarios and freeform zoos are also available, includinga Kids Zoo, in which everything is unlocked! Plus, this expansion includes the Dinosaur digs expansion as well! Finally, we can turn our zoos into Jurrasic park! You can house dinosaurs such as fast and lethal velociraptors, the huge Apatosaurus, and of course, a T. Rex! This is definitely everything I hoped for in an expansion, even though the original was pretty unsatisfactory. Also, here is a little cheat:

Hold down Shift, then 4 too get lots of money, but be careful, it could delete some or your fences, so do it early in the game!

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.

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.

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