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If you've been to a computer game store recently, you may have noticed
a trend: There are a surprising number of new PC games with the word
"tycoon" in their titles. Then again, one of the most consistently
successful PC games in the last two years has been the strategy
management game RollerCoaster Tycoon--which might explain all the other
"tycoon" games. The latest of these is Microsoft's Zoo Tycoon, which
lets you build a zoo full of animal exhibits, then invite lots of
paying guests who'll visit, buy snacks and drinks, and generally
support the zoo as a business. And while it may not be the next
RollerCoaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon is a mostly enjoyable strategy game
that's suitable for all ages, and it's a game that parents can play
with their children.

Zoo Tycoon's basic premise is simple: You start with what's more or
less an empty lot, then build several exhibits to house animals. The
game features about 40 different animals out of the box, and Microsoft
will make more available for download on its Web site in the future.
The best way to make these exhibits is to customize them around the
preferences of each animal, so that each will be as happy as possible.
For instance, lions prefer savanna terrain, so your best bet for a lion
exhibit is a savanna prairie filled with high grass.

The game features handy hints and status menus that let you determine
exactly what will make your animals happy. When you've built your
exhibits, you can start bringing in guests who pay admission fees and
generally prefer watching happy, healthy, well-fed animals. You also
build snack and drink stands for your guests and hire staff members who
tend to the animals, act as tour guides, or maintain the grounds. And
you can spend extra cash on research, which will eventually let you
purchase new items for your exhibits, improve your staff's abilities,
make new animals available for adoption, and buy more advanced
buildings and structures, such as the reptile house or petting zoo.

Accomplishing these goals in Zoo Tycoon is relatively easy to do
overall, despite the game's few but sometimes irritating visual flaws.
The game lets you build a small or large exhibit with different terrain
types and fence it in quickly and easily. Unfortunately, you can
sometimes make small mistakes, since the game doesn't let you get a
very close look at your zoo--Zoo Tycoon only features two "zoom"
perspectives, a far-out view and a really far-out view. You might have
similar problems when you're building an exhibit for an animal that
likes lots of foliage, since large trees can obscure your view of the
exhibit, despite the fact that the game also lets you rotate your view.
You'll want to place heavy foliage along the edges of your exhibit
rather than right in the middle, so that both you and your zoo's guests
can see clearly into your exhibit, but unfortunately, doing this for
animals that can climb (like chimpanzees and apes) may let them escape.
What's more, your animals will eventually trample the terrain in their
exhibits, which decreases their overall happiness. You can fix this by
replacing the terrain, but actually finding it in the game's far-out
view, especially through trees, can sometimes be more difficult than it
should be.

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