Zoo Tycoon

[Hitokiri]

Has anyone played this game before? I've been a fan for it for bout 2 years and I started getting back into it. It's a computer game where you build your own zoo and then you can expand and purchase new animals, etc.

I have all the EXPs

It first started out with the first ZT game which features loads of stuff. The animals included was:
African Elephant
Mandrill
Olive Baboon
Plains Zebra
Black Rhinoceros
Thomson's Gazelle
Common Wildebeest
Giraffe
African Buffalo
Hippopotamus
Lion
Cheetah
Leopard
Spotted Hyena
Greater Famingo
Ostrich
African Warthog
American Bison
Black Bear
Moose
Grizzly Bear
Siberian Tiger
Gray Wolf
Lowland Gorilla
Chimpanzee
Okapi
White Bengal Tiger
Bengal Tiger
Black Leopard
Clouded Leopard
Giant Anteater
Giant Panda
American Bighorn
Markhor
Ibex
Snow Leopard
Polar Bear
Arctic Wolf
Emperor Penguin
Gemsbok
Dromedary Camel
California Sea Lion
Saltwater Crocodile
Red Kangaroo

The next expansion is Jurassuioc Park style where you have to breed dinosaurs. You get less animals but you also get the original ones. When you purchase a dinosaur, you have to have a Scientest incubate the egg and after a few days it hcathces and after a varied period of time, the baby dinosaur grows huge. It's called Dino Digs.

Allosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Apatosaurus
Camptosaurus
Caudipteryx
Coelophysis
Deinosuchus
Gallimimus
Giant Tortoise ( Meiolania )
Herrerasaurus
Iguanadon
Kentrosaurus
Lambeosaurus
Plateosaurus
Plesiosaurus
Smilodon ( saber tooth cat )
Spinosaurus
Stegosaurus
Styracosaurusr
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Velociraptor
Wooly Mammoth
Wooly Rhino

Taking care of dinosaurs is fairly hard cause they require lots of space and food.

The next expansion pack is a take off of Sea World with Marine Mania where you get all the previous EXP animals. You build a tank, increase or decrease the deph. It's fairly easy. You also muct purchase a tank filter so the water doesn't get dirty.

Lions Mane Jelly Fish
Beluga Whale
Blue Fin Tuna
Bottlenose Dolphin ( performs in show )
Southern Sea Otter ( performs in show )
Elephant Seal
Giant Pacific Octopus
Giant Squid
Great White Shark ( performs in show )
Green Moray Eel
Green Sea Turtle
Hammerhead Shark
Harbor Porpoise
West Indian Manatee
Manta Ray
Mermaid
Narwhal
Orca ( performs in show )
Pacific Walrus
Short Fin Mako Shark
Tiger Shark
Sperm Whale
Humpback Whale

Then they released a complete set which has all the animals plus a new pack The Endangered Animal Pack which features whole bunch of new animals and features.

Japanese Serow
Malaysian Tapir
Common Sawfish
Mexican Grey Wolf
Przewalki's Wild Horse
Bigfoot
Macrauchenia
Orangutan
Komodo Dragon
Javan Rhino
Loch Ness Monster
Whale Shark
Bowhead Whale

The game is very fun for the entire family yet has a difficulty to it. Each animal has it's own difficulty level to keep. Such as the Gazelle is fine in a simple exhibit while the Markhor is a pain in the butt to get happy in it's exhibit.

They also have variou sother bpnus animals which I will post later. I will also post screens I took later

[Hitokiri]

heres the first set complete with pics (wouldnt fit on the first post)
African Elephant
Mandrill
Olive Baboon
Plains Zebra
Black Rhinoceros
Thomson's Gazelle
Common Wildebeest
Giraffe
African Buffalo
Hippopotamus
Lion
Cheetah
Leopard
Spotted Hyena
Greater Famingo
Ostrich
African Warthog
American Bison
Black Bear
Moose
Grizzly Bear
Siberian Tiger
Gray Wolf
Lowland Gorilla
Chimpanzee
Okapi
White Bengal Tiger
Bengal Tiger
Black Leopard
Clouded Leopard
Giant Anteater
Giant Panda
American Bighorn
Markhor
Ibex
Snow Leopard
Polar Bear
Arctic Wolf
Emperor Penguin
Gemsbok
Dromedary Camel
California Sea Lion
Saltwater Crocodile
Red Kangaroo

If you want mor einfo on thia game, go here: Zoo Admin They have tons of downloads and such.

[Inferno]

Nice! I a big fan of microsoft games. (like rollercoster tycoon, age of empires ect.) Zoo tycoo is one of my favs? But i didn't know you could get dinos in ZT, that rocks!

[Hitokiri]

I was afraid someone wouldnt post

I worked hard putting those pics up.As promised, heres some screens I took of my game. This zoo is one of my bests. I used a medium size map. I have bout 110 animals (alot are hungry cause my staff stinks) and I have bout 1000 guests. Guests are divided by if they are hungry, thirtsy, tired, mad, or have to go to bathroom. My highest of these is hunger where I have like 6 while the rest are like 4, 2 or 0 people who are that. Thats really good considering I have 1000 people.

The last pic is my Dolphin Show

[madphilb]

Nice! I a big fan of microsoft games. (like rollercoster tycoon, age of empires ect.)

Now you take that back..... Rollercoaster Tycoon is Atari, not MicroSoft!

Haven't played Zoo Tycoon yet, not sure if it would hold my attention as long as RCT does... might have to pick it up sometime when I see it pre-owned at EB.

[Hitokiri]

im the complete opposite madphilb...I find RCT rather boring. One reason why I like Zt sooo much better if cause you can do both scenarios and freeform (meaning no goals or anything, its just there to have fun).

Here's some screens with my largest zoo up to date with 308 animals and bout 1050 guests.

[Fsiphskilm]

WOW, the

[Hitokiri]

lol

thanks volt!! Sad to say though you could of saved your touble and got Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection which features the first Zoo Tycoon, Dino Digs, and Marine Mania PLUS tons of new set of aniamls and items exscluive to the CC game (and also downloads on the internet).

Here's some pictures that are considred add-ons (downlaods) mabe by the developers.

Reindeer
African Wild Dog
Blackbuck
Barracuda
Mountain Lion
Llama
Bongo
Sable Antelope
Swordfish
Asian Black Bear
Galliminus
Asian Elephant
Magnet the Polar Bear - a animal that won in a contest.
Megatherium
Plateosaurus
Yeti

[Fsiphskilm]

I still havn't

[MasterDias]

Heh.
Sounds interesting. I've never played any of the Tycoon games but I used to play some of Maxis' Sim games some years back(Sim Park, anyone?).

Who wouldn't want to own a loch ness monster or bigfoot?

[Hitokiri]

alot of people dislike the mystical animals (yeti, lochness, bigfoot, unicorn). Sadly, Dino Digs is the least favorite of all the EXPs

here's a pic I took of a spinosaurus eating a guest!! (I released all my dinos into the zoo )

[ThaKladd]

wow, you really have worked hard on this thread

I've tried Zoo tycoon for like half an hour. I messed up everything :-p

[Hitokiri]

I just want to promote ZT. It's hard at first but I can spend hours ....days on the game!!

Here's some pics I took that have the dinosaurs in it..enjoy

Just a note: In order to keep dinosaurs in thier cages, you must use the Electrical fences. However, they're ugly looking and also if dinos or guests touch them, they get mad. So you can download from ZT sites (th elink I provided earlier in the thread) where one designer create invisible fence (well they're dots that appear on the ground...look closely and you may see them). Nothing can break out of the fences so to look more like an exhibit, I put real fences in front of the invisible ones.

One hting that makes the game cool is A.P.E. (Animal Program Editor) where you can create your own animals!! Most of the animals that are created are recolors (some are good while others stink) and millions of these user-created animals have been created by fans. A few extraordinary programmers and designers ahs created thier own aniamls without recoloring a current animal. I've recolored aniamls but I do a good job. So far (this was a while back) I've create a Secretary Bird, Eastern Gray Kangaroo, Ethiopian Wolf, European Brown Bear, Liger, Pronghorn Antelope, and Balrog. I've also created alot of items such as Butterfly Flowers (where butterflies fly around a plot of flowers), animal statues, and I also ripped some items from RCT and put it in the game.

Thats very fun to do but atkes alot of time, patience, and programming know-how. Plus you need to know how to use Winzip good cause you use it alot.

[Inferno]

Man this thread must have taken you FOREVER to make, I'm glad you did!:thumb:

[Fsiphskilm]

I just bo

[Hitokiri]

ZT2 looks pretty cool...pretty much revamping the entire first game into 3-D. Some ne wfeatures is:

-Camera Mode wher eoyu can tak epictures
- Zoo Keeper mode where you can actually take th erole of a zoo keeper such as feeding your animals and stuff.

[Chazz]

i don't play any of the tycoon games because they're always releasing those stupid expansion packs that add like 3 things.

I played the original simcity and simcity 2000, maxis kind of deteriorated once it joined with EA games, they mess games up. (Sims, medal of honor, etc)

EA big makes some good games though.

yeah, i hate multiple expansion packs.