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Virtual zookeepers return to their computer screens, to care for exotic animals and the people who come to visit them, in Zoo Tycoon 2. With its 'tycoon'-style business sim elements, its honest and detailed approach to real zoology, and some nice promotion from publishing giant Microsoft, Blue Fang's original Zoo Tycoon sold very well and remained on store shelves for an unusually long time, inspiring at least two expansion packs along the way. This sequel, from the same parties responsible for the original, aims to recapture that winning mix, and present it with full 3D graphics.

While players can still take an encompassing top-down view of their parks, they now can also zoom in, to follow behind individual patrons as they explore the zoo or give up-close and personal attention to an animal in need. As in earlier versions of Zoo Tycoon, creating good habitats to house the animals will be central to a zoo's success. Players can consult detailed, in-game information about each species they are considering adopting. Then, as in the first game, they can then modify the climate and elevation of land on their lot, to create ideal conditions for the new animals they plan to bring in.

Although most of us are probably too young to remember it, there was a time when most zoos were simply concrete and steel cages full of bored and depressed animals. Fortunately, zoo managers soon learned that their animals lived happier, healthier lives in exhibits simulating their natural habitats. And customers spent more money when the animals were happier. That's the driving mechanic behind Zoo Tycoon 2 (instead of, say, Cages Full of Bored Animals 2), a sequel to the best-selling tycoon strategy game that improves in almost every way on the original. Blue Fang Games and Microsoft have gone and created a tycoon game that looks good and plays well, even if it's not exactly a title for the serious strategy gamer.

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Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon on Xbox One! Choose from over 100 visually stunning animals and the largest, most detailed selection of environments ever, then build, manage and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players on Xbox LIVE.

The first major change in Zoo Tycoon 2 is the jump to full 3D, and the game looks fabulous as a result. You can modify the terrain to add mountains, hills, valleys, and more, all with simple modeling tools (and it doesn't cost you any money). The flora and fauna look terrific, with animals that move realistically and flowers and trees that look quite attractive up close. The customers are far less detailed, but they do come in a variety of ages, genders, and races. One nice touch is that whenever a customer has something from the park, such as an ice cream cone, you can see them carrying it. You can even see them with their gift shop purchases, so a customer who purchased a peacock backpack will be wearing it. There's a lot more detail this time around.

Another benefit to Zoo Tycoon 2's switch to 3D is that you can enter the park in a first-person view and walk around. You can even take over the roles of your employees, such as cleaning and feeding the animals and sweeping up trash, if you're so inclined. The first-person view also allows you to use the camera to take pictures. The only disappointment with the 3D camera is that the pitch is limited in overview mode. You can zoom, rotate, and move, but you can't tilt the camera to a position more to your liking. It's a minor annoyance, but it's odd that this game excluded that feature.

The sound is less impressive than the graphics. People speak in gibberish, cheer for the animals, and make other crowd-type sounds, and the animals make their appropriate noises, but the sound just doesn't register as interesting. Music doesn't exist at all in the game except in the menu system, unless you purchase a 'music rock,' an object that projects music to customers.

Zoo Tycoon 2 includes three types of play modes. You can select 'freeform,' to play with all objects already researched, no time limits, and no money issues. If all you want is to release your inner park planner, that's the game type for you. 'Challenge' games offer limited money and limited objects. The better your zoo's fame score, the more objects you'll get. 'Campaign' mode directs you through a series of themed scenarios. Both of the latter two scenarios unlock reward objects, including geographically themed objects.

In terms of difficultly, Zoo Tycoon 2 won't present much of a challenge to adults. It's a pretty simple matter to figure out how to make money, and as long as you follow that same formula each time you'll stay in the black almost all the time. The money-making strategies are slim. You can't set prices for food, drinks, and other purchases -- other than to set them as low, medium, or high -- and the animals require minimal care as long as you have enough zookeepers. Even some of the more challenging scenarios in campaign mode, such as ones that requires you to create a park with animals from nine different biomes, become merely an exercise in waiting for your money to build.

Which brings us to the game's other problem: it's not possible to speed up time in the game. A few scenarios require you to have certain exhibits created by a deadline. You can easily pause the game, lay down the exhibits, and then spend the rest of your time waiting. As long as you have a zookeeper to take care of your animals and a maintenance worker to clean up the messes of the customers you don't even have to be at the computer. One time while waiting for my money to recover I left the computer and stayed gone for about twenty minutes. When I returned, not only did I have the cash I needed, but nothing bad had happened to the zoo.

Overall, Zoo Tycoon 2 is a good game for the younger set and those with little experience with games. It's stable, almost bug-free, and has easy-to-use controls, which makes it a nice way to introduce kids to the genre. But anyone who has spent any significant time with tycoon strategy games will probably find it a little light on the strategy.

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  1. Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection
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Description of Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection Windows

Here is the video game “Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection”! Released in 2003 on Windows, it's still available and playable with some tinkering. The game is set in a compilation / shovelware theme.

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Chabra2020-10-010 point

I have the same problem as AQUADRAGNELL, i remember that there were a lot more animals from all dlcs, like panthers, siberian tigres, etc. What happened?

AquaDragnell2020-09-102 points

When I installed the game I didn't have all the dinos or marine animals what happened?

Cheddar2020-09-090 point

Download works perfect!!! Thank you so much!

Theepieguy2020-08-302 points

For those having problems with 'Insert CD' errors and the like. Windows likes to do something silly whenever it updates- it un-mounts all CD's. So if you still have the MARINA.iso (Which there shouldn't be a reason you do not.) That's the ISO you need to mount once again with a right click. I just created a shortcut to it on my desktop next to the complete collection icon and re-mount the file with a right-click on the shortcut. That should fix anyone's Insert CD problems.

APenguin2020-08-261 point

So I worked out why KC's fix works, and can recommend a shorter route for anyone. In the ini file, just change fullscreen = 1 to fullscreen = 0 and it should boot fine. Seems to be an issue where a lot of older games crash on startup on windows 10 if they are fullscreen.

LaBg2020-08-200 point

Dear ZSO, hire a zookeeper. Maintenance workers are there to clean up garbage and fix fences, not feed the animals. I'd recommend playing the tutorial :)

zso2020-08-17-1 point

my maintanance worker doesnt wanna give food to the animals :o what do i do??!

Sophie2020-08-130 point

RE Previous comment, sometimes I can get past the 'No CD' message, in which case it appears for a second, disappears, and leaves me unable to use my mouse for a minute until it presumably crashes. I am not at all computer savvy, but I do really want to play zoo tycoon i-i

Sophie2020-08-13-2 points

Downloaded OK, but when I try to open it says 'please insert CD ROM'. I tried the 'NOCD' file thinking maybe that is meant for that, but it doesn't open anything. Is there anything I can do?

ren2020-08-110 point

I got it to download, works fine. Thanks (-:

Anon2020-07-161 point

Works fine, I haven't got any problems (win 10)
You have to mount the zoo iso file and then the marina file which contain both expansions. If you have the no CD error just use the NOCD exe.

Aristocat2020-07-141 point

My game starts fine. However, crashes after 5 min of gameplay.
If anyone knows a fix please let me know.

kc2020-06-142 points

For anyone having trouble running the game, here is what I did to make it work on my windows 10 laptop:
1. I started by doing what everyone else in the comments said to do: mount the game via daemon tools and install it. The problem was that clicking on the game did not result in anything.
2. I watched a youtube video which told me to run the game in Windows XP compatibility mode. Same result.
3. I saw a suggestion somewhere to rename the zoo.exe file to zoodemo.exe. This caused the loading screen to pop up and then disappear.
4. In a last ditch effort, I tried copy-and-pasting the contents of zoo.ini into zoodemo.ini (which was automatically created when I renamed the exe file). THIS WORKED. I don't know why, but it did. Not that these files are found inside the Zoo Tycoon folder of your program files.
I don't know why this worked, but I decided to post it in case it helps anyone else.

RG2020-06-06-1 point

Any ideas for Mac?

help2020-06-050 point

it says the setup cannot find or read the language specific setup resource dll

Hannah2020-06-014 points

I downloaded works fine, but the packs were not included?

Snacko2020-05-206 points

Got the base game to work. How do you add marine and Dino digs?

mike12020-05-19-1 point

anybody have an installation code that the old games required

chibarger2020-05-130 point

I have the original disk. but windows 10 stops it from installing it

Admiral Moo2020-05-072 points

For anyone having trouble with the game not starting, heres a video tutorial on how to solve the problem in the grand majority of cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhBez_vKxNY

Light2020-04-29-1 point

Game doesn't open. Been following some of the guides in the comments but nothing works. Also the patch won't work either.

Friendlyneighbourhoodzookeeper2020-04-264 points

For those having trouble with the 'insert disc' problem. Replace the zoo.exe in the game's directory (always know where you install your games!) with this file.
https://easyupload.io/mhjlxe
https://gofile.io/?c=tXYXof (mirror)

glockenspeel2020-04-253 points

Shut it Boomer, this game made me actually give a shit about the planet...

animals experd2020-04-231 point

I LOVE THIS GAME

Anonymous2020-04-222 points

The game doesn't open to begin with.

SAD12132020-04-200 point

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It crashed on my mac while its loading as well, any idea on how to fix it? I have it running on Wine

lain2020-04-191 point

in response to tia, having the same issues :(

Tia2020-04-184 points

Was playing just fine for a couple days, now I get an error message that pops up upon startup saying Please insert your Zoo Tycoon CD-ROM.
Anyone else encounter this?

FΞNRIR2020-04-173 points

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- Download and mounting both images with DaemonTools goes without a problem. - - - Installing both of them as well.
- Bonus Animals have no instructions on how to install, will post if/after I figure it out...
- Patch doesn't work (saying 'Your computer does not have an appropiate version of the game installed. Setup can patch only the original Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs Version.')

Elwinra2020-04-121 point

Tried to install it with wine on my mac but the game crashes when its is charging.
:(

Hambone2020-04-091 point

I just downloaded this and ran it using Wine HQ on my Mac. It worked perfectly!
- download the file
- open it, type wine then open the downloaded folder and drag the 'setup.exe' file into wine. this will set up the game. When you click play the game it will give you an error. Just open wine again, type wine, then drag in the setup.exe file one more time. Click play and you should be good to go!

tryingoverhere2020-04-080 point

I find I'm unable to rename any of the guests or staff. Anyone else having this issue?

Cali2020-04-040 point

Hopefully this works!

Samuel2020-04-042 points

can i play this game without CD ?

SnarkyHufflepuff2020-03-30-3 points

Hopefully someone here can help because this game is outrageously priced on Amazon...
So I've got it on Daemon, and I can get into the installer. But when I try to install the game, it says 'Zoo Tycoon encountered a disk error while writing to the file. Make sure your hard disk is not full, and that the file is not in use.'
Any tips on how to fix this? My hard disk is certainly not full. I feel life I'm so close but so far!

GG2020-03-291 point

Is anyone having trouble with the zip file? I've tried using WinRAR, 7Zip and JZip and they all act like the file is corrupted. :( Is there another download link?

gforce man2020-03-27-4 points

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its good but man its missing alot of animals like the T Rex and the Dolphin

ashack192020-03-25-6 points

I have downloaded this. I am eager to play!
Could someone kindly give me a simple step by step on how to make it work? I tried with another game and failed so I gave up.

Becxter2020-03-244 points

This is what worked for me:
To run the base game in Daemon, use 'quick mount' and select the ZOO_TYCN file. You will do this to launch the game each time.
To utilize the expansion packs, do the process listed above, but choose the file, 'MARINA'. Install, and then open a saved zoo file from the base game (unsure if this part is even necessary, but I was already playing the base game). A pop-up should say that new animals and such are available.

Brooke2020-03-240 point

For the people who are getting the error message about 'please insert CD', go to your File Explorer and open up the CD Drive. In there you should find the game! There will be several folders, to start the game select the folder labeled 'Setup'

KingLich2020-03-231 point

A blast from the past

TheKree2020-03-211 point

I downloaded this, but only the base game runs. Are there special steps I missed to get the expansions working? I'm not super tech-savvy

Helpme2020-03-214 points

Hello, I've download the game, but when i open it, it says 'Please insert your Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection CD-ROM'. I don't have the CD. I read that I needed to download Daemon to solve this problem, so I did. But now I don't know what to do.. I can't choose a Zoo Tycoon file which opens in Daemon. Hope someone can help me. Thanks!

grandpa2020-03-17-17 points

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is this what them whipper snappers played on the google back then? stupid millennials

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