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Zoo Tycoon
Zoo Tycoon is a business simulation developed by Blue Fang Games and released by Microsoft Game Studios. It is a tycoon game in which the player must run a zoo and try to make a profit. Although first released for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh in 2001, it was ported to the Nintendo DS in 2005. It was followed by two expansion packs, Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs and Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania, which were released in 2002, as well as a sequel, Zoo Tycoon 2, released in 2004.
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Reviews
52 reviews found85
Post Arcade (National Post)
Nov 18, 2013
Summary and quote unavailable.
83
Gaming Age
Dec 18, 2013
Overall, the game may be simplistic on the surface, and lack some of the real in depth creating tools that many PC gamers have come to love, but it could also be that the game is also meant to get the controls into the hands of little ones as well. There are ways you can up the challenge by turning off such things as unlimited resources and time for example if you really want to play realistically.
80
Guardian
Nov 22, 2013
The game struggles a little over the mid-to-long term: the difficulty doesn't fluctuate much and, soon enough, you're merely turning the cogs rather than responding to thrilling challenges, but Zoo Tycoon is pleasant and engaging, even in its absence of spectacle.
80
Polygon
Nov 18, 2013
Summary and quote unavailable.
80
X-ONE Magazine UK
Nov 22, 2013
Summary and quote unavailable.
80
God is a Geek
Dec 2, 2013
It may ultimately be a little shallow, but it has bags of charm and there is more than enough on offer here to provide hours of animal magic. VERY GOOD.
80
Eurogamer Italy
Nov 18, 2013
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80
Digital Chumps
Dec 9, 2013
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79
NZGamer
Nov 25, 2013
A simulation game fan looking for a hardcore micromanaging experience might want to look elsewhere, but for anyone else, Zoo Tycoon offers a whole lot of fun - with an important and oft neglected side dish of education and awareness raising.
75
Destructoid
Nov 22, 2013
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