Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania Expansion Pack (PC)

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Marine Mania is an expansion pack for the original Zoo Tycoon 2 game (i.e. you must have the latter installed first in order to play). For fans of the game who have already completed the original game, Marine Mania provides a fresh challenge and injects some fresh interest into the game.As the name suggests, Marine Mania enables the budding virtual zoo manager to build tanks and adopt dolphins, whales, sharks, turtles, fish etc. Tank building is very similar to building conventional enclosures (indeed, these can be used for many of the new species, through use of the deep water tool). A suitable biome must be selected (there are several new ones added), plants and rocks added, and food and enrichment objects provided for the animals. Zookeepers, who can now swim, care for these as well the terrestrial species.The more original and entertaining new feature of Marine Mania is the ability to create marine shows. To do this, the player must build and equip a special show tank, train up animals (not all species can perform in shows), and devise show programmes. Training the animals can be very time consuming and, as training involves being able to trace the cursor over a particular pattern at a defined speed, can be tricky, especially for laptop users with touchpad mice. However, for experienced players, the challenge is welcome as just caring for a new bunch of animals is not particularly hard for the well seasoned player.There are also some new objects (flora and fanua, buildings, statues etc.), the capacity to swim with the marine animals, and the ability to interact with certain enrichment objects while in zoo guest mode (e.g. kicking pursuit balls). Disappointingly there are only two new campaigns, one on looking after marine animals and one on creating marine shows.If you enjoy Zoo Tycoon and want to continue playing, but with some fresh material, I would recommend Marine Mania. If you've had enough of the whole thing, this probably isn't different enough to rekindle your interest.

Great expansion for a great game, my 8 year old son and I both love to teach the Orca's and Dolphins tricks and put on shows. 20 extra animals here of the marine variety which gives a nice twist to the gameplay of this great game.Recommended!

Great game in addition to zoo tycoon, free play mode and great hours of fun. Fast shipping. Very happy. Item was brand new and sealed, good instruction.

I bought this game as stress relief during my exams at the same time as the extinct expansion pack. Its good fun, although a bit repetitive. The graphics arn't great and during animal re-homing the game can get a bit boring, especially if you've run out of money or land to build on.This game would be good for children and young teens, around 10-15.

I loved the original Zoo Tycoon series and I loved the original Marine Mania add on. Therefore I dutifully went out and bought 2 and all of its add-ons. Unfortunately, I just don't get into this as much as the original. I agree that many of the new features are superior, the range of animals, the views and being able to walk around your own zoo. However, I also find the terrain and building in general to be far more fiddly, my paths are on an angle and I can't seem to get my zoo as 'neat' as it once was! While the blending and smoothing of terrain is great in a cage, it makes no sense when trying to lower a pathway to peak into your aquarium! This makes for very frustrating building when your existing buildings and guests suddenly fall into a crater that I then can't get rid of! Anyhow, Marine Mania (2), it does have a host of new animals and many new ornaments and statues. I was disappointed to find no new kiosks such as the Jungle theme or Tundra kiosks and was sad to see that most of the ornaments only turn up later in the star spectrum, but the ones they have are very good. At first I was very excited by the prospect of training the animals, but after training 4 belugas to do exactly the same thing over and over again (traning takes at least 4 attempts at the same challenge, for each trick, only speeding up each time) I was bored to tears! If you love Zoo Tycoon 2 then you won't find any faults, the main fault that I can find is that is simply isn't as good as the original and I suppose, unfortunately that clouds my judgement.

I have all the Zoo Tycoon games and they are great when I heard that marine mania was being bought out for Zoo Tycoon 2 I had to download the demo and see if it was worth buying and believe me it was. This game has great graphics and you can actually swim with the animals as well as train them it's so cool. Buy this game, it's one not to be missed.

My friend had first gotten, Zoo Tycoon, then, as soon as it came out, Zoo Tycoon 2. I went over to her house, and played it, at once I was captivated by it, and quickly purchased a copy. The next Christmas, I asked for the Endangered Animal's, and got it.Soon after, I purchase, Marine Mania, and I love it! The graphics are amazing, the tricks you can teach your animals, are brilliant too!It is a fantastic game, and a brilliant present, but, please remember, you do need the original game, Zoo Tycoon 2, to run it, so to avoid mega disappointment, purchase this before.I hope you found this helpful!