Zoo Tycoon Expansion Pack: Marine Mania | 
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| From: Microsoft
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List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 14365
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 3 x 2.1 x 0.5
MPN: l93-00001
UPC: 805529127371
EAN: 0805529127371
ASIN: B00006IJMT
Release Date: October 17, 2002
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| • | Includes Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs Expansion Pack |
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Product Description
In Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania, you add a whole new level of fun to your zoo by building a water park with sea animals!
Amazon.com Review
Good news animal lovers! Microsoft's Zoo Tycoon gets another expansion pack, this time it's all wet with Marine Mania. First it was zoo animals, then dinosaurs (the Dinosaur Digs expansion pack, which is also included in this package), and now it's marine life. Marine Mania lets you build a water park like SeaWorld, complete with dancing penguins, bottle-nosed dolphins, or your own version of Shamu the Killer Whale. The expansion pack fits right into the existing core gameplay of Zoo Tycoon. You manage your park, listen to your customers, plan the layout, listen to your "specialists" (zoo keepers) for the right mix of exhibit size and food for your various critters, and watch everyone enjoy the park. Add an amphitheater to any pen and you've got ample seating for a show. There are 20 marine animals (from jellyfish and sperm whales to orcas and great white sharks) and some animals (dolphins, orcas, etc.) double as terrific entertainers. Once again, you can always mix animals, and of course the only violence comes from mixing carnivores with the gentler fishes. But Marine Mania is as kid friendly as ever, so the best you get is some thrashing during a great-white feeding frenzy, rather than red-tinted waters. Drop a human in the pool and they simply swim out. Darn. Keeping with the kid-friendly theme, the game also features an encyclopedia entry on each critter, which makes the gameplay almost as educational as a trip to a real water park. The only problems are the game engine and graphics. Microsoft targeted low-end computers, which is fine, but as time goes on each expansion pack looks more and more behind the times. The animation in Marine Mania is simple and quickly becomes boring, and that's something that should never be said about a shark feeding frenzy or trick-performing dolphins. Still, the expansion pack is an absolute must for fans of the original game, particularly those who skipped Dinosaur Digs since Marine Mania generously includes that earlier expansion pack. Parents should strongly consider this series a fun learning tool as well. And naturally, fans of water parks, marine life, and the Zoo Tycoon series can't go wrong here. --Andrew S. Bub Pros: - Kid friendly
- Educational
- Hidden animals and wacky "Easter eggs" revealed on Zoo Tycoon Web site
- Includes Dinosaur Digs
Cons: - Perhaps too kid friendly
- Simple graphics
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| Customer Reviews: Read 51 more reviews...
 Dolphins and Sharks to Make Your Zoo an Aquarium July 21, 2008
Zekeriyah (Chicago, IL)
As some previous reviewers noted, this is the marine expansion pack for Zoo Tycoon, NOT for Zoo Tycoon 2 (which ALSO has a marine expansion pack, confusingly enough). Just a word of warning there. As the name might imply, this expansion pack adds on the mainstays of aquariums for your zoo... dolphins, sharks, sting rays, seals, barracudas, eels, even giant squid! Basically, the features are the same as Zoo Tycoon, but with a nautical theme, such as making tanks instead of cages. However, there are also a couple of new features. For one, you can now put on 'animal shows,' having certain animals (orcas, sea lions, dolphins, etc) perform tricks to amuse your guest. Furthermore, you can combine land and sea exhibits for certain animals, like seals, hippos and walruses. This adds some new depth and complexity to the game, which comes into play with the new scenarios. Once again, this expansion pack is available pretty cheap and you'll get hours of use out of it, so I say go for it if you love the original Zoo Tycoon.
 BEWARE! Does not work with Zoo Tycoon 2 for Mac! December 26, 2006
Unhappy
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
My daughter really wanted the Marine Mania expansion pack, so I searched the internet until I found it at Amazon. All the details appeared to indicate that this product worked with Zoo Tycoon 2. However, it only works for Zoo Tycoon 2 for Windows, NOT for Macintosh. Therefore, I now own software that I cannot use, as we have Zoo Tycoon 2 for Mac. If you are a Mac owner, make sure that you do not get caught making this mistake.
Zoo Tycoon Expansion pack:Marine Mania February 21, 2006
John L. Smiter (Spring Lake, MI USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just a NOTE of caution--THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH ZOO TYCOON 2!
My grand daughter found this great price on Amazon, and talked me into buying it for her--only to have her in tears when it arrived would not load. I did what I should have done before I bought it and realized our mistake.
A fun expansion to Zoo Tycoon November 29, 2005
tortoiselover8
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this as a birthday present a while back, and have recently started playing it again. Here's some quick Pro's and Con's:
Pro's:
-A bunch of marine animals
-Some animals can perform
-Marine animals are easier to care for then zoo animals
-New objects
Con's:
-Show animals won't perorm well if hungry
-Marine specialists can be very dumb
-Guests are still idiots
-Cannot get tank service filter intill late in game
Now I'll explain these pro's and con's in more detail.
Pro's
There is a bunch of marine animals, all who are easy or difficult to care for. They are generally more easy to care for than zoo animals though.
Show animals!!! You can make a profit off some of your animals by having them perform in shows. Be sure to make them perform "Infrequent" so they don't get mad. If you over work them they will get angry and so will your guests.
New objects. There are a bunch of marine objects, making your zoo look more appealing. Also, just as a tip, if you put the mermaid statue in a tank, it becomes a real mermaid!
Con's
Show animals won't perform well if hungry. This has been a problem for me. My orca's will go into the show tank with a full stomach (If they don't I cancel the show) and leave with a empty one. They miss/screw up the ticks if they are hungry and this causes my guests to boo and think "What was that?"
Marine specialists are, like zoo keepers, idiots. I'll get a notice saying my Tiger Sharks are hungry, and I'll see my ten billion marine specialists running around "Monitoring" the zoo.
Guests are idiots. I'll see a starving guest wandering around, so I'll drop him in front of a burger stand and he'll walk by. My problem with the seafood resteraunt is I'll drop a guest by, they'll walk in and come out with all bars up, but the happiness bar which is at zero.
Tank filter. If you make a tank without a filter it'll eventually become dirty making your animals mad. A marine specialist can clean it, but that takes forever.
Overall a good game worth buying. Plus you get Dino digs, which I am not gonna review, cause this just took me too long to type.
Educational...Exciting...Everything you'd ever need! March 17, 2005
This is great for all ages, all types of people. You don't need to be a teenage computer geek to love this game, or a child future vet to love this game.
The graphics are really good, and the animals are so real. It's more detailed than RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2, but it doesn't have quite as many options.
We recently went to Animal Kingdom at Disney World, and I knew all about every animal we saw on the safari: okapi, Thompson's gazelle, clouded leopard...when we were passing the okapi, I even said to my mom, "Man, those animals are high maitenance. They're never happy, and always have to live by themselves!" Of course, she was wondering WHY IN THE WORLD I would know about an animal she had never heard of until then. After passing the Thompson's gazelles I said, "Oh, I love those things. They are so easy to take care of, and I can even add other animals in there with them! They love to be with zebras, and even giraffes! They mostly just need savannah terrain, so it's pretty simple." Yet another awkward stare at my astounding knowledge.
Who would've ever guessed that it could be this educational? You can even see what different animals eat, and what their poop looks like!
Now let's talk about the shows. You can get some dolphins or killer whales, or some other animals, to come out and do a show for you! It's quite simple. You just have to conduct a show with the already-purchased toys, buy stadiums for the audience, and sit back and enjoy the show! It's really cool seeing the dolphins swimming around and performing tricks.
The Dinosaur Digs part isn't that great. I personally don't really enjoy the dinosaur part, unless I'm freeing them to kill everyone. Sometimes I block the exit so the guests won't leave, fire all of the workers so they can't stun-gun the animals, and free everyone: the lions, bears, tyrannosaurus rex's...it's so fun to see all the people running away and screaming...
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