Zoo Tycoon

by Aspyr

Product Features

• Build, manage, and maintain the ultimate zoo
• Easy-to-learn interface
• Start planning and building the moment you start the game
• Over 200 animals, exhibits, and zoo materials
• Your success depends on your ability to keep the animals happy

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009VFYK
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches ; 6.4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 21, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,195 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #77 in Video Games > Mac Games > Strategy
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac

From the Manufacturer

In Zoo Tycoon, you'll be challenged to build the most healthy and vibrant zoo possible. With an easy-to-learn interface, you can begin planning your strategy and building your ultimate zoo the moment you start the game. Which is a good thing since you'll need to build, manage, and maintain a zoo with over 200 animals, exhibits, and zoo materials. Plan wisely, because your success depends on your ability to keep the animals happy! Zoo Tycoon--enjoy the fun and challenge of building and managing the ultimate zoo.

Product Description

Zoo Tycoon puts your ability to design and market your ideas to the test -- see if you can build a world-famous zoo! If you design & manage well, the lions, tigers and bears will be great performers. Plan poorly, and they'll start attacking humans!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars dangerously addictive, November 24, 2003

By 

Shelley Gammon "Geek" (Kaufman, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zoo Tycoon (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Who doesn't love a graphically rich, high-quality SIM? Not me! A SIM has to be pretty good, though, to engage me for hours, and this one does. Employees, customers, bathrooms, escaping animals - so much going on. The animals are adorable and you can tell that the creators of the game put a lot of thought and loving care into the sound effects and how the animals move.

Die-hard fans of "The Crocodile Hunter" will not be disappointed in the animals' behavior.

I have caught myself playing for hours on end and realizing only because I had to go to work the next morning that I had better save the game and come back later.

Now that there are expansion packs, I'm more encouraged about future play.

My less than perfect rating is due to some missing components. When animals escape, the zoo keepers find them immediately and crate them. No one gets trampled, no one sues the zoo, no reporters, no fines from environmental groups, no protestors ... no realism there.

There could be more expansive research programs such as cloning of rare animals or cross breeding for hybrids such as Leopons and Tigons (they exist - I'm not making them up). How about animal loan programs - such as loaning my rare panda to another zoo for their fertility program for a year in exchange for more money for my zoo?

I also wish I could zoom into places like the reptile and monkey houses and see what goes on in there.

Getting employees to stick to one area is not easy. It would be better if you could color code them in addition to naming them... and putting an animal label on them so the animals they care for would be obvious without having to pause the game, highlight the employee and then get info on them.

All in all, great game play and a lot of variables make for hours on end of fun - and that can be a good thing and a bad thing.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zoo Tycoon is the Best!, October 18, 2004

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C. Paven - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Zoo Tycoon (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Zoo Tycoon is one of the best computer games I have ever played! You get to select buildings, animals, and your staff, have people come to your zoo, earn "money", get awards... on the long run, it's amazing! It is usually hard for me to find computer games because I own a Macintosh, but this was the best one yet! I'd rate this game 5 stars.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great game, September 14, 2005

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D. Nishimoto (Maui, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Zoo Tycoon (Mac) (CD-ROM)

My eight year old son loves animals and really enjoys playing Zoo Tycoon. It took him a while to become accustomed to creating his zoo. He has become aware of what the needs are for the animals and is very excited about creating his zoo. I'm not sure if it's because we have a MAC computer but it doesn't seem to have the same sound effects compared to a PC.

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