Zoo Tycoon – Xbox 360
- With tons of beautiful species, reactive gameplay and real calendar tie-in, this zoo simulation will charm Tycoon fans and new players alike.
- Perform intuitive face to face interactions with your animals. Adopt, care, and release animals into the wild!
- Design, build and manage your zoo. Keeping your animals happy will keep your guests happy, and happy guests means more money flowing into your zoo.
The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets fully-remastered and set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Easy to start and easy to play, Zoo Tycoon on Xbox gets you up close and interacting with the animals and zoo, offering intuitive controls and fun tutorials that allow players of all ages to have fun. Play smart as animals and guests will react to your creative choices and ultimately decide your chances to become a Zoo Tycoon. Product Description • With tons of beautiful species, reactive gameplay and real calendar tie-in, this zoo simulation will charm Tycoon fans and new players alike.
• Perform intuitive face to face interactions with your animals. Adopt, care, and release animals into the wild!
• Design, build and manage your zoo. Keeping your animals happy will keep your guests happy, and happy guests means more money flowing into your zoo.
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 What happened?,
This review is from: Zoo Tycoon – Xbox 360 (Video Game)
I’ve played Zoo Tycoon on the PC, despite it having issues I still enjoyed it. When I heard news that Zoo Tycoon was coming for Xbox One, I purchase it. After playing for a few weeks, I have more cons about this game then pros. Cons: Lack of animal variety- True, the game says it has around 100 and so animals, but its deceiving. Each category of animal is broken down, Antelopes, Elephants, etc. When you open a category you realize there is at least a dozen of that species. There are no wolves, ocean animals, penguins, zebras, just to name a few. I do not mind if there is two or three antelope varieties but to have around ten is just ridiculous. Considering all the time they put into having such a variety with a single animal, makes me wonder why they did not spend that time making different animals such as those I mentioned above. No Construction- Zoo Tycoon on the PC allowed you to build from the ground up, pretty much making everything. This version, there is no construction. All the exhibits are pre-made and you have a choice between, small, medium and large. The small exhibits are too small for any of the animals to live comfortably; it’s like shoving them into a closet and closing the door. As before the concession stands are already build, but the issue with those is they are oddly shaped making them not only ugly but leaving gaps in-between other buildings/exhibits. After a while, seeing all the space not used up makes an ugly birds-eyes view of your zoo. Then comes the decorations, use to be you could personalized your zoo any way you wanted. Want a lion statue within the Hamburger Stand? Sorry you can no longer do that. Not being able to customize your zoo how you want hurts this game. Menu navigation- The navigation in this game is nowhere near the smoothness it once was. For example, say you want to put down a tree. First you need to find a patch that does not have anything on it, click, then click again and finally you’re at decorations, oh wait more clicking. Now you can place a tree down. But let’s say you want that same tree but in a different location. Instead of the item already being within your possession, you have to go back through and find the same item again. This becomes highly annoying when you’re placing animals within the exhibits. Mini-Exhibits- While a good idea, it just not work. On the PC, I loved to make a lemur exhibit and watch all the little babies scurry around. With them being shoved into a mini-exhibit, you only get to have 3 lemurs and what makes it worse, any animal within these mini -exhibits do not breed. So no baby lemurs or cute little baby sloths. If you do not have the money or do not want a Zoo Keeper, these mini-exhibits get dirty fast, causing you to stop every two minutes to clean them. Most of the time, I completely forget about the mini-exhibits, because I find them rather pointless. Limitations on Zoo Size- I have no idea what the developers were thinking when they decided to place a limitation on how big your zoo can be. PC version was based on land sizes, if you can fit the stuff on that land then number of items/exhibits you had did not matter. With this Zoo Tycoon, when you build a zoo, there is a bar right below the money and the guest number box in the upper middle of the screen. Once this fills up, you have no choice but to either delete stuff in your zoo or make a new zoo altogether. This is a huge problem. First of all the concession stands and the decorations will take up a good portion of the bar, leaving you with not much room for animal exhibits. This snowballs into a larger problem, the guest start complaining about the lack of animal variety and/or there is not enough entertainment. Beyond that you unlock animals and items all the way up to level 40. That is nice, but before you even reach level 30, your zoo is already at the max amount it can hold, so there really is no reason to stick around and continue to improve a zoo when you are limited on space. This of course then begs me to wonder, why even bother with the zillion different types of the same animal when you can only place X amount on the land to begin with. The developers need to go back and remove this debilitation, by doing so would make the game more fun to play. Facilities- (This includes the Bathrooms, Janitor, Zoo Keeper and Breeder. The reason it is on the list of cons is because it was poorly thought out. If you choose to sacrifice entertainment and concession stands for more exhibits, this means you’re going to need more facilities to coincide with the exhibits. For example, you assign Breeders to exhibits, but you can only have X amount of breeders working out of that building, even upgraded. In order to get more breeders, you have to build another building, (which takes up more land space) and upgrade it. I just do not understand why the…
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My 7 year old son loves this game. He is able to play the game completely by himself and does pretty well from what I have seen. He enjoys asking my wife and me to come see his zoo. He is always changing the layout and such. I appreciate that the game teaches him different things about the animals, such as their needs. This is much better than some of the titles I have seen and I feel as if the more he plays the game, the more he learns.
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First off, for what it is, the game is good. I’m not complaining about game-play, graphics, mechanic, sound, etc; rather, I’m complaining about the lack of DIVERSITY! I was extremely disappointed when I found out there where only giraffes, lions, elephants, bears, tigers, hippos, rhinos, and chimps for the main exhibits. This is horrible! Where are all the wonderful animals available in the Zoo Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon 2 PC versions? Where are my favorite animals? Surely no zoo is complete with out at least wolves, penguins, and pandas (three of my favorites). The series took a step forward with this release, thanks to it being available on consoles and its AMAZING graphics; but a giant step backwards with its content. Even the very first game available for PC (which came out in 2001, for crying out loud!) was far better than this (despite its more simple graphics). I hope that this game will get an update (NOT a DLC for which I have to pay MORE money for) in which they will add more animals. Until then, I will go back to playing my PC versions of the game.
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What happened?,
I’ve played Zoo Tycoon on the PC, despite it having issues I still enjoyed it. When I heard news that Zoo Tycoon was coming for Xbox One, I purchase it. After playing for a few weeks, I have more cons about this game then pros.
Cons:
Lack of animal variety- True, the game says it has around 100 and so animals, but its deceiving. Each category of animal is broken down, Antelopes, Elephants, etc. When you open a category you realize there is at least a dozen of that species. There are no wolves, ocean animals, penguins, zebras, just to name a few. I do not mind if there is two or three antelope varieties but to have around ten is just ridiculous. Considering all the time they put into having such a variety with a single animal, makes me wonder why they did not spend that time making different animals such as those I mentioned above.
No Construction- Zoo Tycoon on the PC allowed you to build from the ground up, pretty much making everything. This version, there is no construction. All the exhibits are pre-made and you have a choice between, small, medium and large. The small exhibits are too small for any of the animals to live comfortably; it’s like shoving them into a closet and closing the door. As before the concession stands are already build, but the issue with those is they are oddly shaped making them not only ugly but leaving gaps in-between other buildings/exhibits. After a while, seeing all the space not used up makes an ugly birds-eyes view of your zoo. Then comes the decorations, use to be you could personalized your zoo any way you wanted. Want a lion statue within the Hamburger Stand? Sorry you can no longer do that. Not being able to customize your zoo how you want hurts this game.
Menu navigation- The navigation in this game is nowhere near the smoothness it once was. For example, say you want to put down a tree. First you need to find a patch that does not have anything on it, click, then click again and finally you’re at decorations, oh wait more clicking. Now you can place a tree down. But let’s say you want that same tree but in a different location. Instead of the item already being within your possession, you have to go back through and find the same item again. This becomes highly annoying when you’re placing animals within the exhibits.
Mini-Exhibits- While a good idea, it just not work. On the PC, I loved to make a lemur exhibit and watch all the little babies scurry around. With them being shoved into a mini-exhibit, you only get to have 3 lemurs and what makes it worse, any animal within these mini -exhibits do not breed. So no baby lemurs or cute little baby sloths. If you do not have the money or do not want a Zoo Keeper, these mini-exhibits get dirty fast, causing you to stop every two minutes to clean them. Most of the time, I completely forget about the mini-exhibits, because I find them rather pointless.
Limitations on Zoo Size- I have no idea what the developers were thinking when they decided to place a limitation on how big your zoo can be. PC version was based on land sizes, if you can fit the stuff on that land then number of items/exhibits you had did not matter. With this Zoo Tycoon, when you build a zoo, there is a bar right below the money and the guest number box in the upper middle of the screen. Once this fills up, you have no choice but to either delete stuff in your zoo or make a new zoo altogether. This is a huge problem. First of all the concession stands and the decorations will take up a good portion of the bar, leaving you with not much room for animal exhibits. This snowballs into a larger problem, the guest start complaining about the lack of animal variety and/or there is not enough entertainment. Beyond that you unlock animals and items all the way up to level 40. That is nice, but before you even reach level 30, your zoo is already at the max amount it can hold, so there really is no reason to stick around and continue to improve a zoo when you are limited on space.
This of course then begs me to wonder, why even bother with the zillion different types of the same animal when you can only place X amount on the land to begin with. The developers need to go back and remove this debilitation, by doing so would make the game more fun to play.
Facilities- (This includes the Bathrooms, Janitor, Zoo Keeper and Breeder. The reason it is on the list of cons is because it was poorly thought out. If you choose to sacrifice entertainment and concession stands for more exhibits, this means you’re going to need more facilities to coincide with the exhibits. For example, you assign Breeders to exhibits, but you can only have X amount of breeders working out of that building, even upgraded. In order to get more breeders, you have to build another building, (which takes up more land space) and upgrade it. I just do not understand why the…
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