It's the ultimate! For the first time ever, all the animals and all the thrills of Zoo Tycoon 2 and its four fun-filled expansion packs - Extinct Animals, Marine Mania, Endangered Species, and African Adventure - are combined into one most excellent zoo. Welcome to Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate Collection!Make way for more than 100 of the most awesome animals ever - from the aardvark to the zebra. And don't forget those dinosaurs, from the toothy T. rex (Tyrannosaurus rex) to the spiky doedicurus. Play minigames galore, create marine shows, and more in this zoo of zoos. It's the ultimate and it's yours!Award-winning and wildly popular, Zoo Tycoon 2 is the cornerstone title of the Ultimate Collection. Get up close and personal with your animals - healing, grooming, and, yes, cleaning up poop. Trick out exhibits and guest venues to create your own zoo world! Make your animals happy, your guests satisfied, and achieve the five-star fame of a true zoo tycoon!Bring extinct animals to life in your zoo! Set out on a dig, assemble fossils, then bring them back to life in your own Extinct Research Lab. Create palatial prehistoric exhibits. Be an animal disease detective and sleuth out cures. You can even use the tranquilizer gun to deliver a time out to the tantrum-prone T. rex!Experience an ocean of fun with the animals of the marine kingdom! Train orcas and otters to do tricks, then dazzle guests with splashy marine shows. Take a break from the biz to catch an underwater ride on a sea turtle. Plunder a pirate's booty of marine-themed scenery and buildings. Make yourself a zoo tycoon on land and sea!Create multispecies exhibits filled with zebras, wildebeests, and Masai giraffes. Add predators to the mix to maintain your savannah ecosystem. Observe wild animal behaviors as if you were on the Great Plains of Africa. Themed Jeep vehicles let you take guests on a viewing safari in safety and style. Build an African animal adventure!Save the world's rarest animals in your zoo! Create conservation areas and build a breeding center to aid in the recovery of endangered species from every corner of the world. Send your guests soaring above exhibits in sky trams, over beautiful bridges, and more. Add erupting volcanoes, bat-filled caves, and exotic habitats, then introduce guests to these rare species!