Zoo Tycoon
by Microsoft

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Product Summary

• Start building & managing your zoo right from the start -- plan out your exhibits and design a layout
• Do your very best to please customers and the animals
• Inhabit your zoo with the right animals to draw in the big crowds
• Over 200 animals to exhibit, plus all kinds of new & interesting plant life to help make your zoo more exotic
• Manage your zoo wisely -- meet the needs of both the people and the animals without losing all your money

• PC Gamer (1-year)

Video Game Reviews of Zoo Tycoon

Customer Review: Yes, it does work with Vista!
Summary: 5 Stars

Description of Zoo Tycoon

Specifically, you've got to build pens and habitats with an eye toward the needs of each animal species. For example, putting bears in a savannah setting results in depressed, possibly sick, bears. You also have to tend to your human animals by locating gift shops, restaurants, drink stands, and bathrooms. Then you've got to adopt animals and hire zookeepers to tend your creatures. All of this costs money, but cutting corners can result in irate customers and unhappy animals. Unhappy animals bore people, and worse they make it difficult to adopt more exotic and finicky creatures, like pandas. Happy and well-fed animals will cavort and play, making your guests very happy. And happy guests results in more money for you to improve your zoo.

It's a balancing act keeping all the animals, keepers, and little wandering people happy, but the game is also a decorator sim. You've got to beautify your park, and it's easy to forget the specific scenario objectives and lose yourself in building the ultimate zoo. If you tire of the objectives entirely, you can delete some of your fences and watch the animals run amok on your guests (sometimes, through negligence, they can break free on their own). The carnivores grab, pin, and fling your guests (no blood, and no killing here), which lowers your zoo rating and dissuades people from visiting for a while. Still, it's great fun to watch. --Bob Andrews

Pros:

• Plays like Roller Coaster Tycoon
• Addictive and fun

• Plays, maybe, too much like Roller Coaster Tycoon
• Simple graphics

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