Even if you start at the lowest level, you can still build well beyond that as you research new species and larger exhibits. On that note of fun, the Sandbox mode is designed to let players loose without boundaries or objectives, as it gives you unlimited funds and starts you off at the best level you’ve achieved in the challenges. Luckily, the difficulty curve is very forgiving, because this game is clearly geared toward encouraging a more fun experience for all players. Sometimes it’s just a case of levelling up your zoo, which happens as you improve it via adopting new animals or building new facilities more difficult challenges might ask you to foster breeding within a specific species or they simply throw more and more objectives at you, increasing the pressure as the timer counts down to zero. These challenges are timed, giving you a deadline to complete a set of objectives as you manage your zoo. These come in three difficulties, the usual easy, normal and hard across three separate campaigns that span the original game’s content, plus two new locations in South America and Australia. It’s daft, but it adds to the charm of the game.
It even teaches you about wandering around your zoo, either on foot or by calling in and driving a little buggy “don’t worry about the visitors,” the game explains, “they’ll move out of the way!” That’s kind of true, although I’d say it’s closer to being shoved aside as you drive through the crowds. There are ten in total, each probably taking around five minutes or less and they walk you through everything from building exhibits and adopting animals, to more advanced techniques like encouraging breeding and eventually releasing animals into the wild. New players will want to jump into the tutorials first, in order to get to know the gameplay mechanics and see a general overview of how to manage their zoos. Fear not, those of you who enjoyed the slower pace of the original PC games, because you can still play the same way you did before concentrating on the building and management of the zoo.
This new game, an enhanced version of 2013’s Zoo Tycoon, aims to add a little more variety and challenge to it by giving you objectives and time limits that keep you on your toes. If you’ve never heard of Zoo Tycoon before, it’s a series that began on PC in 2001 and it tasked you with building and maintaining a zoo, similar to games like Theme Park and the earlier Tycoon game, Rollercoaster Tycoon. And what kind of unfeeling monster doesn’t like zoos? Too often these park-building games focus on the management overview, forgetting that sometimes players might want to take in their creations from ground level.
In fact, the mere ability to run around your zoo as you created zookeeper is probably the smartest decision developer Blue Fang Games could have made when making a game like this. It’s hard not to smile while feeding or playing with the animals in this game.
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