Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania Add On

• More than 20 new marine animals including: bottlenose dolphin, killer whale, giant squid and great white shark.
• Create your own customized killer whale and dolphin shows! Amaze audiences as your featured stars tail-walk, flip, spin, play with balls and perform other unique tricks!.
• Add exhibit tanks, animal toys, aquatic themed buildings, and fun new attractions such as the boat ride and shark tunnel. Guests even swim with the dolphins!.
• 10 new scenarios put your Zoo Tycoon skills to the test!.
• Fun and easy tutorial lets you plunge into the game right away..

Product Description ------------------- The Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania expansion pack seamlessly integrates with Zoo Tycoon allowing players to immediately add aquatic creatures to their ultimate zoo. In addition to offering new creatures, ranging from the great white shark to the giant squid, Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania allows players to enhance their zoos with customisable aquatic shows including a dolphin show. Zoo guests can now enjoy attractions such as the shark tunnel and the dolphin ride, which enables them to swim with the dolphins. Players can enrich their marine exhibits with a variety of objects, including over 20 species of underwater organisms (including kelp and sea anemone), five new animal toys and sunken treasure. Players are challenged to create and manage underwater exhibits or merge aquatic tanks with traditional land habitats. Interactive tutorials and marine spets are on hand to help players maintain animal happiness. In addition, 10 new scenarios test players' ability to manage and maintain a successful zoo. .co.uk Review ------------- Here's good news for animal lovers: another expansion pack for Microsoft's Zoo Tycoon. Marine Mania lets you build a water park like Sea World, complete with your own dancing penguins, bottle-nosed dolphins or your own version of Shamu the Killer Whale. The expansion fits right into the existing core gameplay of Zoo Tycoon: you manage your park, listen to your customers, plan the layout well, listen to your "spets" (zoo keepers) for the right mix of exhibit size and food for your various critters and watch everyone enjoy the park. Add an amphitheatre 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 double as terrific entertainers (dolphins, orcas, etc). 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 thing 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 encyclopaedia 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 animations in Marine Mania are simple and quickly become boring to watch and that's something you should never have to say about a shark feeding frenzy or dolphins performing tricks. Still, the expansion is an absolute must for fans of the original game. --Andrew S Bub