The kids were very excited and reported that they loved this game. They are boys around age 10.

This is a great game for the first 3 months, then you get bored.
I really liked it at first, it is exciting, making animals, and taking care of them, but it takes forever to build a really good zoo, and then when you have one, there's not much left to do after you have gotten 10,000,000 and you have 20 of everything, and it's dull starting a new one.

I had watched for this game to come out, planning on buying it, and I am so glad I did! I never played the first version, but I know that this is a great game. You can make any kind of zoo: desert, city, forest, anything! And with all the little concession stands and landscape brush, you can really get creative with this. I made a Sherwood Forest zoo, a New York City zoo, and Jerusalem zoo, among many others. That alone should show you the wide range of stuff you can do. Two more things: the camera and photo album is so cool, and I love how you can walk around your own zoo in guest mode. Anyways, yeah, I love it!
p.s. It's kinda like Age of Empires, which I love too, in that you create a little "world."

i love this game!!!!i got it for Christmas of 2004 and couldnt play it on my moms computer(not enough RAM or something like that).it didnt work on my stepsisters computer,either.But,YAY!It worked on my stepdad's Laptop!!i played it,and a few weeks later,we got a new "kids" computer!!it was a new thing you put the cd in(actual computer,new fact to wow you)and my mom's old moniter(thing you see the game on and see this review on).unfortunetly,the game takes FOREVER to load up a huge,5 star zoo.But all in all,PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved the game. It was so much fun taking care of the animals. Taking pictures in Camera Mode was fun. The interactions the animal gave were so real. It isn't a surprise that it already won awards. The graphics also blown me away. Using unlimited budget in free form was also a great option. Zoo Guest Mode also gave a feeling of what a guest would feel when you're in the zoo. One disappointing thing was the lack of animals. This game is not too easy and not too hard. First download the Zoo Tycoon 2 trial at Microsoft. This is a great game for Zoo Tycoon fans.