But actually, anything that a certain animal would be unable to cross constitutes a barrier, such as a pool of deep water, a pile of rocks, a building, a canyon, whatever. To make an enclosure, we thought we had to use the barriers from the barrier menu, as provided by the game, and we thought that only something from that menu would function as an animal enclosure. In fact, if anything, we were held back by being too genre-savvy of simulation/management games. In this game, generally, if you can imagine it, you can probably do it. You can make really fancy setups with bridges and viewing points over and under, and in a tunnel, and under the water, and just wow. We don't have to just make a square that people can walk around. Coming from older games such as Zoo Tycoon, we wouldn't have even thought to do some things that are perfectly possible in this game. We certainly made the right choice to start with the career mode, not just for the benefit of being introduced to the game mechanics in a more staggered way, but also so that we can see some premade zoos to know what even can be done in this game. This premade zoo is very elaborate in that it has this whole building with glass floors, and you can see the pandas through the floor and out the windows and over the balconies. So we work on this zoo for a while and learn a few more mechanics. Denise was in Washington DC when the baby panda was born at the National Zoo, and it was a big deal. When we were first playing this, we immediately went, oh, WOW, imagine what an attraction that must be, a baby panda born in a zoo. In fact, a baby panda named Lin Lin was just born the other day. If you do really well, they might even breed, and you are rewarded for releasing endangered animals to the wild.Ĭontinuing with the career mode, we are sent to a whole park themed around pandas, focused on breeding programs to save the panda. And your job is to make good homes for these animals, and make them happy. All of the animals have had lives and a history. The animals may have scars from fights with other animals, or injuries from being hunted or mistreated. Some are part of breeding programs from other zoos whose animals started from these other categories. Some are custom seizures from poaching activities. Some are rescues that are unfit to return to the wild. This information is readily available next to their name and age. All the individual animals that you take in have their stories and their reasons why they can't be released to the wild. We're not kidnapping animals from the wild and keeping them in concrete boxes. Good zoos today are sanctuaries for unreleasable animals, provide education to the public about nature, and try to save endangered animals with breeding programs which ultimately release to the wild. He's endearing and he really does want to make a difference in the world.Īn aspect that the developers of this game really wanted to emphasize is the reason why zoos still exist. Bernie Goodwin is a jolly old man who really loves animals and really loves his corny jokes. The story goes that we've been doing a fine enough job with Nancy that now the owner of these zoos wants to meet us. He's got one of those mugs with an unfortunate design. This game really has more stuff than we'd expected. We learned about features such as the one-way glass, which allows people to see the animals without them getting stressed, and the air conditioning, for animals that need cooler temperatures. We went to a few premade zoos with Nancy, and we were given the goal to improve them in various ways. Nice!Īround this point, Rosy was starting to think, I think that's enough tutorial, let's go to the sandbox mode and make our own zoo. In the first scenario, we play as a new hire in the zoo, and the head zookeeper Nancy is showing us the ropes of how to create a new enclosure, and how to make sure the animals are fed. When we start the Career mode, our first surprise is that this zoo simulation game has characters. So, this time around, we chose to start with the Career mode, which seems to have a tutorial! Let's learn about this massive game bit by bit, rather than being expected to do this all from zero, while also not getting vandalized and having visitors puke all over the place. We had previously played its sibling game, Planet Coaster, by just jumping in and trying things, and we were very quickly overwhelmed. The camera follows them as they walk around. In fact, these are some of the best 3D models of animals we've seen in anything ever. And you can see them up close! In full high definition. When we first heard about this game, we were like :) game with zoo :) just like Zoo Tycoon back in the day, but modern! With more functions.
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