Marine Park Empire is a game that needed a little more time in development. While the basic premise of the game is a sound idea (raising and caring for animals while making some money in a theme park environment), the gameplay elements that feel broken, couple with the technical problems make the game almost impossible to enjoy.

Certain aspects of this game I feel could have been better.. the game seems to like to crash, for example. If you do have issues with the game crashing there's a download you can get from the Enlight Software site to fix it, but it doesn't clear up all the other problems you'll encounter in the game. It's also slow and laggy at times, the sound effects aren't impressive nor is the music, and to top it all off, there also seems to be a saving bug in the game. I could not get it to save a game prior to getting the patch.

It's best to start out playing the tutorial, which will teach you where everything is and how to use it, as well as what certain things mean, and how to do research, etc. After you finish the tutorial playing the scenarios is the next obvious best step. Making money is not a problem in this game as you seem to make more than you know what to do with. The biggest problem I have with the game is that it's extraordinarily slow - especially after you get a zoo going and you have over 200 visitors walking around.

There are some new marine scenarios, along with some new visitor items like the Butterfly House, Submarine Station, River Boat Station and Donation Box. The River Boat Station allows you to lay down a small river for guests to raft through around your zoo or park.

Some parts of the game were pretty straightforward, while other parts were just mind boggling.. I couldn't figure out how to move animals that may be ill, while creating new marine enclosures was relatively easy. The marine fences can only be placed as square models, instead of L models which you have the option with when placing normal fences. Marine tank exhibits will fill with salt water once the fence is placed You can create enclosures without the use of a fence other than an entrance,. Using the terrain editor to make things was also pretty straightforward – for example, when making steep hills, the grid will show you what's impassible for whatever sized animal and staff.

Some exhibits such as those used by deep sea creatures can be down right boring and time consuming. There is an option to save exhibits that you've created, which comes in handy when starting a new zoo and where you just don't feel like creating something new.

The AI for the staff could have been better - to get the zoo keepers or marine specialists to take care of animals consistently you have to add an exhibit marker to the exhibits, and it seemed no matter how many keepers I had going at least one whole exhibit would die of starvation – and if you replace the animals that died you'd have the same problem over again. You can also view all the zoo information center graphs and messages by using the F keys as well as by clicking the information center button.

You can control the camera with the mouse, holding in the right mouse button and moving the mouse will rotate the camera. Zoom is done by either using the scroll wheel on your mouse, scrolling up or down or holding the alt key and the right mouse button and moving the mouse up or down, you can also pan the camera by holding the left and right mouse buttons and moving the mouse.

You can take pictures and video of your animals by either clicking the photo button or pressing the "P" key, while video can be taken by clicking the video button. You can also go into a 1st or 3rd person view with your animals, staff and visitors.

There are a variety of animals to choose from, including a variety of dolphins and seals, as well as the less aquatic species from Zoo Empire. The graphics weren't too bad - basically the same as Zoo Empire, though I wouldn't go as far as calling it 3D but for a game like this they were decent.