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I'm a fan of the Zoo Tycoon games, so this seemed like a good purchase. And the price was fair, so I brought it on a whim.
First, the pros. The graphics are stunning. The game is almost three years old, and still I'm taken away by how realistic the animals look. (Although the people look rather crapy) The animals are much easier to please than in Zoo Tycoon, and the neat addition of weather makes this game seem a lot more realistic. Unlike Zoo Tycoon, you're not limited to a grid system, so you can rotate items 360 degrees and plop them down wherever you'd like.
Now the cons. The game is a lot more complicated than it really needs to be. You have to grow your own food for the animals, for one. For two, the game controls are cumbersome and confusing. A tutorial would have been greatly appreciated, but the only clues you get when stumped come from a vague digital manual (in .pdf format) that installs with the game. I spent almost a half an hour trying to figure out what to get for my camels, when they wanted to scratch up against something, before finally stumbling on the correct item. The animal selection is rather random, as well -- I would have liked to have had wolves, my favorite animals, but there are none in the game, despite the fact that there are groupers (a type of fish) and saurian (some sort of reptile?), neither of which are what I'd consider "popular" animals. All animal items, and there are a ton, are grouped together -- items for feeding, for play, for training, etc as well as items for aquatic animals, for savannah, for jungle, etc.
The animals and guests are also not very "smart" -- guests to the zoo were complaining about there not being anything to drink, standing about 30 feet from the drink stand; and my zebras were complaining about needing to forage even though the food container on the other side of the pen was full.
All in all, the game is strikingly similar to Zoo Tycoon, right down to similar buildings (drink stand, snack stand, ice cream stand, etc), staff (animal caretaker, "handyman", etc), even displays (smiley faces above animals to show how they're doing, similar controls, etc.) The whole thing just feels like a low-budget ripoff of Zoo Tycoon 2.
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