I figured it out! The no cd issue- To start off, I'm running this game on a 2021 Macbook Air using Daemon Lite and Crossover.
One major drawback is the lack of a “campaign” game, where one might string together a career as a successful park manager. There several scenarios available with a wide range of difficulties and challenges on top of the many free-play maps available. Overall, Zoo Tycoon is a fun game that will appeal to planners, strategists and city-builders. Filling your park with amenities to keep guests happy is much easier, and you're far less prone to waste your money on screw-ups. The most time-consuming part of gameplay is tweaking your enclosures: while there is immediate feedback from animals in the form of increases and decreases to their happiness, the detailed “keeper” report refreshes more slowly, which can lead to the biggest in-game waste of money, especially since you have to build exhibits around animals rather than planning them in advanced. Of course, this is because most accredited zoos operate on public and private grants, donations, trusts and taxes rather than stuffed animal sales and elephant rides. The resultant zoos are an amusing paradox: animal habitats will be far more natural and enrichment-filled than what you would see in a typical zoo, while the spectacular theme park trappings also exceed what would be deemed acceptable or appropriate with a typical zoo. The latter perhaps has undue weight, as your zoo is principally funded by ticket revenues and concession sales. Your goals are two-fold in Zoo Tycoon: create enclosures that would make your animals content and offer amenities to keep your guests content. The results are a fun, if somewhat fiddly, experience. Additionally, it adds a more-than-thin veneer of educational value by including write-ups on the dozens of animals available and mechanics that reward matching species with their appropriate environments. The same also applies for the game’s array of sound effects, or lack thereof.Zoo Tycoon takes the classic “city-building” strategy game gameplay and transplants it to the design and operation of private zoos. The added advantage to this is that the game runs like butter on modern systems, and it was renowned for having very low system requirements at the point of release.The pixely computer graphics do demonstrate enough information to convey the sense of a bustling zoo experience, however for more mature players the results can be somewhat underwhelming. While the graphics are characteristic of the early 2000s era of when it was released, there were much better looking games released at the same point in time. Where Zoo Tycoon suffers is in its presentation. The game frequently requires the player to repair damage caused by the animals, which can be very difficult due to the distant nature of the camera, as well as objects getting in the way. Similar problems arise when the zoo animals create damage to their pens. While this creates a satisfying result when the player’s zoo is expansive in size, it makes designing more detailed exhibits much more cumbersome. Both of these perspectives are very distant from the actual structures you’re creating. For one example, Zoo Tycoon only offers two view perspectives to take a look at your zoo from. Unfortunately the age of Zoo Tycoon does show, especially with the hindsight of its later successors. New pens and exhibits can be made with just a few clicks, meaning that you can quickly amass an impressive zoo compound to appeal to your virtual guests. Zoo Tycoon’s biggest appeal is seeing your zoo slowly come to life as your roster of animals grows more and more. The base Zoo Tycoon that was released in 2001 features 40 animals to play with, but thanks to the Complete Collection’s inclusion of the Dinosaur Digs, Marine Mania, and Bonus Endangered Species Theme Pack DLC. Here is where they can begin to place the first bricks of their up-and-coming zoo.
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