Microsoft Zoo Tycoon 2 Endangered Species Expansion Pack

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Expansion pack for Zoo Tycoon 2 adds a slew of exotic new content
• Explore 3D zoo world as a zoo guest or care for the animals as a zookeeper
• See exhibits from observation paths, sky trams, or while on a vehicle tour
• Erupting volcanoes; new endangered species-themed buildings and scenery
• Whole new set of challenges and campaigns

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000AB603A
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 18, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,987 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Endangered Species brings some of the world's rarest animals home to your zoo! This expansion pack for Zoo Tycoon 2 adds a slew of exotic new content for a zookeeper just like you! Treat yourself and your guests to breathtaking overhead views from the new sky trams. Or drive through your exhibits in the new Jeep vehicle tours. Build bridges and observation decks for a refreshing new view of your animals. And that's not all! There are also erupting volcanoes, new endangered species-themed buildings and scenery, and a whole new set of challenges and campaigns!

Features:

Endangered Species adds rare animals, like wolves and elevated paths

Rare Animals
Care for threatened and endangered species from around the world. Face new challenges by successfully breeding and conserving these rare animals.

Soaring Sky trams
Give guests a bird's-eye view of your zoo, or climb into a sky tram cart and soar over your zoo. Build stations and place cable poles to travel over rivers, chasms, or conservation areas for a breathtaking view of your zoo.

Exciting Jeep Vehicle Tours
Get guests off the beaten path or take a ride yourself. Build stations and roads to get your tour rolling to out-of-the-way exhibits, or drive through exhibits with no fence between you and your animals. Place crossing gates to protect pedestrians and keep traffic moving.

Awesome Elevated Paths
Build ramps, bridges, and observation decks for a better view of your exhibits. Place scenery items, donation boxes, and binoculars to entertain your guests and increase your zoo donations. And be sure to add railing to keep your guests from falling off the edge.

Amazing Tour Objects
Amaze your guests with spurting geysers, erupting volcanoes, or creepy bat caves along a sky tram or Jeep vehicle tour route. Place these so guests can see them from sky tram and ground vehicle tours and they give you a larger donation.

Play with new tour objects like geysers and volcanoes.

• Geyser
  A geyser is a form of natural hot spring that sometimes spurts steam and water into the air. Geysers can occur in locations where spring water seeps down through the rock and comes into contact with hot molten magma. The heated water turns into steam and then rises back to the surface, sometimes erupting violently.
• Bat Cave
  The bat cave is home to hundreds of small bats. Contrary to their frightening reputation, most bats are quite harmless. Having bats nearby can actually be a benefit, since bats eat annoying insects such as the mosquito.
• Rock Pool
  The rock pool is a beautiful addition to your zoo. Water-loving big cats, such as tigers, also love to play in the rock pool's cool waters.
• Volcano
  A volcano is a fissure in the earth where hot molten magma erupts to the surface, sometimes violently. Fortunately, this volcano is (usually) dormant!
• Sequoia Tunnel
  The sequoia tunnel allows ground vehicles to drive through a naturally-occurring fissure in a living giant sequoia tree. The sequoia tunnel can only be placed on a road.
• Snow Machine
  The snow machine generates a frosty snowstorm that will delight your guests. It's perfect for your tundra exhibits.
• Mineral Deposit
  This large geological formation will fascinate your guests. It looks especially striking in desert and scrub exhibits.
• Fog Machine
  The fog machine generates a thick fog that adds atmosphere to your wetlands exhibits.
• Crystal Tunnel
  Guests love traveling through the sparkling, shimmering interior of the crystal tunnel.

New Buildings
Entertain and educate your guests with new buildings, such as the tropical bounce house, face painting kiosk, or sky tower.

New buildings include a Conservation Breeding Center and a photo kiosk

• Conservation Breeding Center
  The conservation breeding center is a specialized research facility devoted to breeding endangered and critically endangered species. Having a conservation breeding center makes it easier to breed all endangered and critically endangered species in your zoo.
• Tropical Bounce House
  Children love to jump and bounce in the tropical bounce house! This large, inflatable structure is big enough for four children to play in at once.
• Discovery Kiosk
  The discovery kiosk offers fascinating information about animals and the environment to amuse and educate your adult guests. A guest's educational donations temporarily increase after viewing the discovery kiosk.
• Face Painting Kiosk
  Your young guests will love the face painting kiosk, where they can be made up as tigers, pandas, and other animals.
• Headset Kiosk
  Guests enjoy wearing the headset provided by the headset kiosk. The wireless headphone sets provide your guests with additional information about the animals in your zoo.
• Photo Kiosk
  The photo kiosk allows your guests to enjoy all the zoo photos you've taken.
• Sky Tower
  The sky tower provides your guests with a magnificent view of your entire zoo.

Endangered Species-Themed Objects
Outfit your zoo with exciting new endangered species-themed fences, food stands, and fountains.

Amusing Animal and Guest Behaviors
Take a look! Not all tigers are of the same stripe, and unhappy ones have quite a snarl. Guests also have some snappy new clothes and might stop for a chat or puppet show.

New Zoo Challenges and Awards
Tackle a whole new set of challenges, campaigns, and tutorials to test your skills as a zoo tycoon! Conservation areas preserve the natural areas of your zoo and add some special challenges for you. Win the conservation breeding center to improve your chances of breeding endangered species.

Product Description

Invite the world's rarest animals to your zoo!Product Information[Requires Zoo Tycoon 2 to Play]Zoo Tycoon 2 gives you the chance to build the ultimate zoo and enjoy itfirsthand. You can explore your 3D zoo world as a zoo guest or even care foryour animals as a zookeeper. The Endangered Species expansion pack will give youeven more to love about Zoo Tycoon 2!With the Endangered Species expansion pack you’ll care for and enjoy some ofthe rarest animals in the world. See if you have what it takes to bring theseunique animals back from the brink of extinction. Whether it’s the lovableKoala from the jungles of Australia or the exotic Komodo Dragon from the LesserSunda Islands these wonderful new animals will inhabit your dream zoo andchallenge your zoo skills!Many new threatened and endangered animals will be available along with newmodes of transportation and tons of new animal and zoo building objects. Newtransportation options will allow your guests to get close to your animalswithout disturbing the natural habitat you’ve created for them. Build avehicle tour around specific animals or even experience the thrill of riding thesky tram in first person mode. Build a conservation center to increase guesteducation while encouraging donations to your zoo and the preservation cause.You can even see your exhibits from elevated observation paths sky trams orwhile riding in a vehicle tour. Zoo Tycoon 2 Endangered Species brings you arare animal experience as you create the ultimate world-class zoo.Product Features 20 Rare Animals including: Spanish Lynx Galapagos Giant Tortoise Orangutan Komodo Dragon Scimitar-Horned Oryx and more! Exhilarating vehicle tours Elevated observation decks New endangered species challenges Tons of New Zoo objects Create new habitats for your exotic animals Soar over conservation areas and protected swamps in sky trams Build vehicle to

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Love the expansion but wish it had more scenarios..., October 25, 2005

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ThisThatNEverything "thisthatneverything" (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Microsoft Zoo Tycoon 2 Endangered Species Expansion Pack (CD-ROM)

Any fan of Zoo Tycoon 2 should love this expansion. This expansion pack includes:

* 20 new rare animals with many endangered
* Vehicle & Sky Tram Tours
* Elevated paths
* New challenges
* New objects with some themed

The new animals are really near & the 2 kinds of tours are an excellent addition. My only complaint is that there aren't more challenges. There are only 3 categories with 3 scenarios in each. The 3 scenarios in 1 of the categories is just taking certain pictures. How easy is that? I want more challenges!!! The only other thing that I could nit-pick on would be that fact that the zookeepers still have trouble getting to some of the poop. Overall though I would recommend this game as long as you can get it at a good price.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Expansion pack means Expansion of fun!, October 22, 2005

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S. Shackleford "Craft Nerd" (Detroit, Mi) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Microsoft Zoo Tycoon 2 Endangered Species Expansion Pack (CD-ROM)

This is really a great expansion pack! Well worth the money to get it! The addition of the new animals is alot of fun! Besides that the sky track and jeep tours are really interesting. The new facilities are great. A must have for all zoo tycoon fans!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is such a good game!!!!1, December 18, 2005

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70's teen "a fan" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Microsoft Zoo Tycoon 2 Endangered Species Expansion Pack (CD-ROM)

this is a great game and i love it! i have played it for days and just cant stop. it's cool to have jeep tour to take your guests through the exhibits with no fences. there are also now volcanoes and they erupt.there are new animals and themes. you can make bridges over the lions cage or water. dont forget the railing or the guests will fall into the lions cage.the game has great graphics and every animal has a different pattern. the guests now have sappy new clothes. if you're like me and cant find the cd to your zoo tycoon 2 then buy this and you'll get more than what you had. i love this game and i found time to write this review by wanting everybody to know about it. but i still have more to tell. there is a bounce house for all the young people. also don't forget about the photo kiosk.now you finally can have your wolves fight against the legendary emporor penguin! waddle little penguins! waddle! don't forget about the sky tower, hedset kiosk, face painting kiosk and the discovery kiosk. no! i almost forget about the breeding center, crystal caves, fog machine, snow machine, sequioa tunnel, rock pool, bat cave, and geyser. we also have sky trams and elevated paths. i love this game and it well worth the money. this is a must have game!!!!!!!!!!