Zoo Tycoon 2 |  | From: Microsoft
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 1498
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 98
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 1.2
MPN: Q29-00028
Model: Q29-00028
UPC: 805529927346
EAN: 0805529927346
ASIN: B000300HJQ
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Get closer to the action with all-new Zootopia functionality and enhanced 3D graphics. | | • | Features more than 300 hundred building objects. | | • | New gameplay scenarios in Campaign and Freeform modes. | | • | Camera mode to take pictures of your prized animals and favorite guests to share online with friends. | | • | Downloadable content |
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Product Description
Zoo Tycoon 2 cranks up the excitement, challenge and fun of building the ultimate zoo with 30 animals in incredible detail with more fun animations, a dazzling array of building tools and objects, including themed-buildings, moats, photo mode options, easier terrain altering options and rivers. Gameplay has been enhanced from the original title, with a new zoom mode and 3D graphics that allow players to keep an even closer eye on the action and craft more creative zoos. Main Features Manufacturer: Microsoft CorporationManufacturer Part Number: Q29-00028Manufacturer Website Address: www.microsoft.comSoftware Sub Type: Strategy GameSoftware Name: Zoo Tycoon 2 - Complete ProductFeatures & Benefits: Easy to start and easy to play, Zoo Tycoon 2 gets players up close and interacting with the animals and zoo, offering intuitive controls, and fun tutorials that allow players of all ages to enjoy the game right out of the box. Players are completely immersed into the zoo experience with new features including the Zoo Guest mode, where players can walk around and enjoy the game from a first-person point of view; Zookeeper, which allows players to interact with their animals like never before, and a brand new camera mode. Players can take pictures of their favorite animals and guests and share them online with friends. A Zoopedia, chock-full of entertaining and interesting facts about animals, rounds out the new and improved features of the upcoming game.Language Support: EnglishPlatform Support: PCLicense Type: Complete ProductLicense Pricing: StandardLicense Quantity: 1 User
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 114
 great game October 18, 2009
Michael J. Hudson
This is one of my all time favorite games. Very fun. Kids enjoy playing also. Just wish there was more senerios. nice graphics
Loved It!!! August 19, 2009
I got it for Christmas, it didn't work at first but, we got more memory and it worked. It is really fun!!!. I am a preteen and still like it! I recently got the other Dinosaur Digs and Marine Mania, it was fun, but I liked this one better by a long shot. Other people say it's easy, if want to play something hard, just go on campaign. But I have to tell you, you need a little imagination to really have fun! I had it for 3 years now. Only I got all the expansion packs and downloads. It's a ton of fun, and you should give it a chance.
Addictive, but too involved for young children February 6, 2009
Debbie Lee Wesselmann (the Lehigh Valley, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Zoo Tycoon 2 is lots of fun for those who like simulation games where you build your own worlds within the game's rules, as long as the gamer has lots of patience. Young children won't be able to operate this game on their own, not only because of the time it takes to build a zoo, even in the freestyle portion of the game, but also because it requires some dexterity to properly build moats, hills, and other construction activities necessary to contain some of the animals. Still, parents who play this with their children might find Zoo Tycoon fun and educational, both for the information available about the 30 included animals and for the lessons in money management and sales. Teens and adults will enjoy the game on a different level as they create intriguing exhibits that please both animals and zoo visitors and plot out a zoo that they can walk around as a guest.
For non-competitive people, the freestyle option allows you to build the zoo of your dreams, with unlimited funds and all 30 animals unlocked. For other who like a challenge, you must earn enough money and fame to expand your zoo. In all options, animals can escape and scare off guests, and overcrowded exhibits can result in lions killing each other or zebras starving. Zookeepers and maintenance workers can be lazy (and found lounging on park benches or in the staff center), requiring the gamer to assign them to neglected areas or, when that doesn't work, firing them. You can click on visitors, workers, and animals to find out their needs and thoughts, although an icon that floats above many displays their mood.
I run my game on a Windows XP virtual machine (VMware Fusion 2) installed on a Mac, and I encountered several glitches that I'm not sure would appear on PC: mysterious gray rectangles sometimes appear that obscure what's underneath, and the cursor sometimes disappears, wedging the view in one corner of the zoo. Less annoying is the way animal images break up when I get close to them; they reassemble themselves once I move away. Landscape construction is the most frustrating tool, as I find the terrain modifying tools too broad (I can't dig a narrow ditch, for example, and have to add dirt afterward) and not easily controlled by a mouse. The biome brush, with its different steps from deep water to trees for each kind of environment, is a great addition.
If you like Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, you'll probably have fun with this game as well. If I sit down to play this game, hours have passed before I know it. Yes, it's that addictive.
-- Debbie Lee Wesselmann
Zoo tycoon 2 December 26, 2008
Christopher Boyd (USA)
Zoo tycoon 2 is a fun game the fact that i liked about it was that you were able to actualy turn into one of the zoo kepers and walk around your zoo cleaning the anlimals area .I hate when the animals brake through thier fence.This game teaches you about animals and there spicies.but zoo tycoon 2/dinasor extinct is even better.But it is more work to take care off the dinasors.I would rather play the unlimited money challenge.But still you should get this game it is a fun game
Fun but you need the expantion packs September 9, 2008
L. Thomas
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoy this game, but zoo tycoon is kinda boring by its self, so I wouldn't recommend this game un-less you also buy the expantion packs, the expantion packs truely make this game great. If your a animal lover like me then you will really love this game, its very realistic and the graphics are pretty good. If you do not have a LOT of memory on your computer then this game won't run very well and will often crash, I have very nice work station so its not a problem with me, but if your computer has problems runing other games like sims 2, I wouldn't buy this game if I was you.
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