You can also achieve the one thing zoos are good at: preserving endangered species and helping them to procreate. Considering the barely functional graphics, irritating music and repetitive gameplay, parents who buy this for their children could well be accused of cruelty to children. Developed by the new Blue Fang headed up by former developers at Sierra Online , this is their first game and the first zoo-related sim on the market.
You can play either a freeform game or a scenario. For a freeform player, any of the basic grass maps are the best to start with. You then construct your exhibits, buy your animals, hire zookeepers and other staff, set up a few concessions and guest services, and away you go. Scenarios are actually a little too simple and winning them should have been goal-based rather than timed. In cases like this, having speed control instead of just a pause button would be really welcome.
It would also be nice to have a better timeline, than just month to month. Also on my wishlist for gameplay options is the ability to assign zoo workers to specific tasks. Assigning a zookeeper to an exhibit is good, but it would also be nice to be able to tell it to feed the animals or to heal a specific one. Overall graphics are fairly decent- something along the lines of Age of Kings. However, like Age of Kings , even at a low resolution, many items are so small as to be very hard to see and click on.
When trying to find a single square of trampled terrain, for instance, it would be great to be able to turn gridlines on, and turn foliage and buildings off, to see exactly which square is the problem. Object animation is pretty cool. Each animal roams around in its exhibit completely and has a very wide range of behaviors, including some very cute little dances by some, like chimps and penguins.
There are also a few little easter-egg type features which appear from time to time. Almost too many, actually. Trying to put all of your exhibit houses in a small area, for instance, will result in the most annoying cacophony.
Each animal also has realistic noises every time you click on it I tend to click on my Okapi just for fun. Specific instructions on gameplay are very well explained. There are dozens of little, but easily fixable bugs such as text bugs and unfortunately several more serious ones. The system recommendations on the box, for instance, are woefully inadequate, as I was experiencing poor performance on even a very high-end machine, especially when placing a lot of very noisy objects close to each other.
In which case, a highly-deserved thwack to Microsoft. Another bug is that attendance starts dwindling to nothing late in the game, even after adding new exhibits and features it seems to top out around for some reason. Post Nov 13, 4 T We've updated our Privacy Policy and by continuing you're agreeing to the updated terms.
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Several times you work hard for a long time on a zoo and the for some reason you either save another zoo over it or the file gets corrupt because of random game crashings. After that your zoo is lost and all your hard work went to waste. That is extremely frustrating so to avoid that i always kept a copy of my zoos somewhere else in my computer, outside the ZT2 main folder.
I need help please. The zoo tycoon application stopped working for me completely after the computer suddenly shut down.
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