• See to the mundane tasks of animal care successfully - feed and water your animals, empty trash cans, scoop up piles of poop, and more
• 30 incredibly detailed animals, with a dazzling array of building tools and objects
• New zoom feature and 3D graphics that allow players to keep a closer eye on the action and craft more creative zoos

Zoo Tycoon 2: Zookeeper Collection lets you dig right in and get your hands dirty, as you do the hardest part of running a zoo -- taking care of the animals! Go behind the barriers and the fences for a truly hands-on approach to the care and feeding of your animals and their environments. You'll gain invaluable insight into the daily challenges (and rewards) faced by your zoo staff as they work to keep your animals and guests happy and your zoo running and profitable every day.

I bought this for my son and he has absolutely loved it. His friend has Zoo Tycoon 2 also but it doesn't have the expansion packs on it like this one does, and his friend paid more. I am a very pleased parent and am so happy to see games that really bring out our children's creativeness and imagination. Much better than just sitting at the Playstation all day. Shop with confidence from Amazon. I have not had a bad experience yet and have shopped with them for years. Thanks!!

For anyone who loves animals, this game is the best. I love everything about it. An absolute must buy!

Zoo Tycoon 2 Zookeeper collection is a really great game. Some of the animals you can chose from are giraffes, rhinos, wolves, wild dogs, pandas, komodo dragons, crocodiles, horses, gazelles, zebras and wild cats like lions. In the game you can put soda, burger and other food stands. You can also have gift shops and playground equipment like slides and jungle gyms. There are also jeep vehicle stations that your guest and you can ride in! Your guest can get upset if it smells or an animal is upset so you need to keep your guest happy. Your zoo can get up to five stars. There are three modes. In one mode you have to use money and you have to earn the animals in your zoo by getting stars and earthquakes can hit your zoo. In the other mode you have all the animals and don't need to use money or have earthquakes. The other mode has tutorials and scenarios. I love the Zoo Tycoon 2 series and have Marine Mania and Extinct Animals expansion packs.

I am an animal lover. I was really excited when I got this game!
There are 3 types of ways to play. Campaign play, Challange play, and my favorite, Freeform play. Campaign play are challanges, for unlocking special things for your zoo, I find it really boring! Challange Play is you get to choose your money, (it is basically building your zoo with limit amount of money and your start out with barly any animals, food carts, fences, paths. My favorite is Freeform because you get unlimited amount of money, and all the Animals are unlocked, Food Carts, I mean everything except the Campaign things you win.
Let me go down into the basics, You have to make the zoo PERFECT, I mean when you build a 10x10 square exhibit for Giant Pandas in freeform play (with the cubing den, tree stump shelter, lots of bamboo, with the temperate forest biome, with a little pond for drinking, enrichment items, filled with trees, zookeepers, all perfect) I put 4 female Pandas and 2 males (lots of males can lead to aggression) and are fine.
after a while all the Pandas go mad with socialness (needs more pandas) I put 2 more males, the first pandas are satisfied, but the 2 extra males want more, I put more pandas then they need more space! It is tiresome really. Then the zookeepers start firing me questions a million at a time like bullets, all at once, they say, zookeeper 2 can't reach Giant Panda 4, or Zookeeper 1 can't reach the bamboo, right when the pandas start eating it. It is tough tough tough! The zookeepers expect you to be perfect right on time!

Here are some positive things, there are a good variety of animals, good graphics, I guess you can't expect them to be perfect, It's just a game.
It is fun overall.

Hope this review helped .

Zoo Tyccon 2 Zookeeper collection is a really fun game where you design your own zoo, from the exibits to the guest amenities. Youe have over 70 animals to choose from!I suggest you get the Zookeeper collection, as for $10 more, you get a $40 value. Both expantion sets are a $20 value, so it's like your getting one expantion pack half off, and another one free! Plus, they add 105 new guest amenity items. They also add a terrian car tour of the zoo, and a wire-cart tour. They are both fun to build. You can also, in Zookeeper mode, enter the exibits as if your there! You can take pictures of the animals too! There are three modes. The sandbox mode let's you build a zoo with no limit on money. Challenge mode starts you out with some money and a limited amount of options for animals, zoo decor, etc. As your zoo gets more and more fame, you get more stars, which unlock new items. Plus, they give you challenges you can accept. You recieve rewards like zoo cash grants of an award that increases zoo fame if you manage to complete the challenges. Compaign mode takes you to a pre-started zoo and gives you a few hard challenges. When you complete them, you unlock objects that you can't even use in sandbox mode otherwise. This is a really fun game, and I think it is very reasonable priced. This game is fun for kids and adults alike.