
Microsoft - Microsoft
Windows XP
Release date: 2006-10-17
CD-ROM




Zoo Tycoon 2 Zookeeper collection is a really great game. Some of the animals you can chose from are giraffes, rhinos, wolves, wild dogs, pandas, komodo dragons, crocodiles, horses, gazelles, zebras and wild cats like lions. In the game you can put soda, burger and other food stands. You can also have gift shops and playground equipment like slides and jungle gyms. There are also jeep vehicle stations that your guest and you can ride in! Your guest can get upset if it smells or an animal is upset so you need to keep your guest happy. Your zoo can get up to five stars. There are three modes. In one mode you have to use money and you have to earn the animals in your zoo by getting stars and earthquakes can hit your zoo. In the other mode you have all the animals and don't need to use money or have earthquakes. The other mode has tutorials and scenarios. I love the Zoo Tycoon 2 series and have Marine Mania and Extinct Animals expansion packs.
I am an animal lover. I was really excited when I got this game!
There are 3 types of ways to play. Campaign play, Challange play, and my favorite, Freeform play. Campaign play are challanges, for unlocking special things for your zoo, I find it really boring! Challange Play is you get to choose your money, (it is basically building your zoo with limit amount of money and your start out with barly any animals, food carts, fences, paths. My favorite is Freeform because you get unlimited amount of money, and all the Animals are unlocked, Food Carts, I mean everything except the Campaign things you win.
Let me go down into the basics, You have to make the zoo PERFECT, I mean when you build a 10x10 square exhibit for Giant Pandas in freeform play (with the cubing den, tree stump shelter, lots of bamboo, with the temperate forest biome, with a little pond for drinking, enrichment items, filled with trees, zookeepers, all perfect) I put 4 female Pandas and 2 males (lots of males can lead to aggression) and are fine.
after a while all the Pandas go mad with socialness (needs more pandas) I put 2 more males, the first pandas are satisfied, but the 2 extra males want more, I put more pandas then they need more space! It is tiresome really. Then the zookeepers start firing me questions a million at a time like bullets, all at once, they say, zookeeper 2 can't reach Giant Panda 4, or Zookeeper 1 can't reach the bamboo, right when the pandas start eating it. It is tough tough tough! The zookeepers expect you to be perfect right on time!
Here are some positive things, there are a good variety of animals, good graphics, I guess you can't expect them to be perfect, It's just a game.
It is fun overall.
Hope this review helped .