Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
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…
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania is a simulator developed by Blue Fang Games, released 17 October 2002 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania is
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania is a simulator game developed by Blue Fang Games and released in 2002. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania is a 2002 expansion pack developed by Blue Fang Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the 2001 simulation video game Zoo Tycoon. Marine Mania adds marine animals and exhibits to the game, allowing players to add aquatic shows to their park. Upon release, Marine Mania received average reviews, with praise for the variety of new animals, objects and show features, but criticism for the lack of additions that altered the core gameplay. An expansion with an identical name and theme, Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania, was released in 2006.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania launched on 17 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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