Aquazone Desktop Garden 1.0

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $1.69

Features:

• State-of-the-art virtual aquarium for your PC
• 20 different species of fresh or saltwater fish
• Digital food--feed them and watch them eat
• Fish cam--closely follow your favorite fish friends
• Pop-up interface--customize your aquarium on the fly

Accessories:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade [OLD VERSION]	Doom 3	Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Upgrade	Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 Upgrade [Old Version]	AutoCAD LT 2005 [Old Version]

Customer Reviews:

Total Ripoff! [Posted on 2005-08-15]
I purchased 2 aquarium programs prior to the Aquazone purchase, so I know what "realistic" looks like, and I assure you, this program is anything but! The plants are stationary, and don't sway with the motion of the water; the bubbles look like drawn circles, as opposed to my other programs, where the bubbles look like a real aerator; the fish in this program swim, then freeze for a second, with no motion at all - then swim haltingly again; the backgrounds are anything but convincing, and I recommend looking at other programs before wasting your money on this one.

Fuming in Florida [Posted on 2005-08-16]
I hate this software! I'm upset that I wasted my money! I can't believe this product is on the market. It is so lousy... the scenery in the tanks is really, really ugly and very fake looking... what's up w/the moss covered bowling balls ? The fish keep freezing for 4 seconds or so. When I try to access the settings, feeding, etc, it stalls and twice i've had to reboot.. i don't have anything else that causes this. Don't waste your money like i did .. fif

If Your Really Want A Desktop Aquarium Go For Marine Aquarium 2.0 [Posted on 2005-09-29]
What can I say? I just had to see this one. It was made by the Allume guys--you know the inventors of StuffIt files. How could I go wrong... By buying it. That's how. On the positive side, you get a virtual aquarium, a lot of different kinds of fish, and a lot of different kinds of backgrounds. You even get to feed the little buggers with virtual fish food and can 'tap on the glass' to 'interact with them.'

When I was looking for one of these screensavers, I really wanted a site that would show me a good comparison between these screensavers. But there was none.

The major problem with Aquazone is REALISM. The movements of the fish are at times jerky but they are three dimensional. They are realistic, but still seem cartoonish. When they grab for the 'fish food' they really look fake... But this one really fails in the background department. The backgrounds are very poorly done and not at all realistic and are only sparingly three dimensional. What's worse, the fish also make 'errors' in the dimensionality of the tank and seem to swim over things that they should swim around. The Windows XP Plus fish screensaver is more realistic than this one...

All you need to know about virtual aquariums are four words--SERENESCREEN MARINE AQUARIUM 2.0. Those fish at times seem like they are alive. Their movement is natural. Their eyes move before they turn! The aquarium is the most realistic one that I have seen and the fish are beautiful. There are no options for human/virtual fish interaction, but that doesn't matter, but maybe they'll add that later. Besides, it's no fun interacting with fake-looking, poorly-swimming, cartoonish fish. Unlike the Allume/Aquazone people, the Serenescreen folks allow you to download a demo--so if you don't believe me you can see for yourself before you buy. And you will. I did. I just assumed that if they could do it the braintrust at Allume could do just as well or better. But it was not to be.

Aquazone's scope is just too small--so I'm gonna throw it back. But Serenescreen, it's a keeper!

Not good [Posted on 2005-10-03]
The quality of the animation reminds me of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python cartoons. The edges of things are very distinct, which gives the background a flat, 2-D appearance. Unfortunately, the fish are not nearly as amusing as Monty Phyton.

Nice Try But Get Marine Aquarium 2.0 [Posted on 2006-01-23]
This could be a nice little product except the graphics are not very good. The fish movements do not look very natural and they look a little like cartoon characters so you will probably be disappointed. Check out Marine Aquarium 2.0 instead.

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