Apr 13, 2020 Get your zoo working, buy some animals for cash and make your zoo profitable. 2 to 3 species is fine before we move to making the CCs. But happy guests and positive cash flow is essential. In the following chapter, I will teach you how to go on. Things Get Serious! Red Panda This is, in my opinion, the best starting animal.
About This GameBuild a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim, featuring authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them. Experience a globe-trotting campaign or let your imagination run wild in the freedom of Sandbox mode. Create unique habitats and vast landscapes, make big decisions and meaningful choices, and nurture your animals as you construct and manage the world’s wildest zoos.Meet a world of incredible animals. From playful lion cubs to mighty elephants, every animal in Planet Zoo is a thinking, feeling individual with a distinctive look and personality of their own.
Craft detailed habitats to bring your animals’ natural environments home, research and manage each species to allow them to thrive, and help your animals raise families to pass their genes onto future generations.Manage an amazing living world that responds to every decision you make. Focus on the big picture or go hands-on and control the smallest details. Thrill visitors with iconic exhibits, develop your zoo with new research, and release new generations of your animals back into the wild. Your choices come alive in a world where animal welfare and conservation comes first.Planet Zoo’s powerful piece-by-piece construction tools let you effortlessly make your zoo unique. Every creative decision you make impacts the lives of your animals and the experience of your visitors. Let your imagination run wild as you dig lakes and rivers, raise hills and mountains, carve paths and caves, and build stunning zoos with a choice of unique themes and hundreds of building components.Join a connected community and share the world’s most creative habitats, scenery and even whole zoos on the Steam Workshop. See your own designs appear in zoos around the world, or discover fresh new content from the Planet Zoo community every day.
I have a confession to make. I have never played a management sim, and honestly never intended to. I’m more of a run-and-gun, yell loudly, curse-at-my-screen-when-I-lose type of person. So when I was scheduled to play Planet Zoo at Gamescom, I was sceptical that building and maintaining animal enclosures would deliver quite the same rush as flanking and wiping out a whole enemy team.
All I knew was that I liked animals and that I was willing to give it a try. I was ready to embark on a journey to be the best zoo manager, builder, architect, and animal looker-after-er I could possibly be.That journey begins with my introduction to Fearn Hilborn, senior artist at developer Frontier, and the person who will soon become my Holy Grail of zoo information. She informs me that there is a rhinoceros called Ryaan rampaging through our zoo, and I need to help him out.So after getting to grips with the camera (which, coming from an FPS background, took me a lot longer than I thought humanly possible), I find Ryaan chasing crowds of people around the park. He seems to be having fun, but I’ here on official zoo business and he’s scaring the guests.
Something has to be done. I am now on a mission. Who else isn’t living their best life in my zoo? I turn to Fearn (heh), who tells me to find a (a critically endangered fish-eating species of crocodile) who goes by the name of Rishi, and to check the water in his enclosure as it is getting pretty dirty. “That is unacceptable”, I find myself muttering.After more lengthy negotiation with the camera, it finally agrees to reveal Rishi resting next to a water sprinkler. “I bet the sprinkler has clean water in it”, I grumble to myself, ashamed that my zoo has failed this beautiful scaly beast. I move the camera below the waterline to get a sense of the contamination in which Rishi is forced to swim, and on a murkiness scale of one to ten it is a solid nine.Okay; that is not good.I am advised to buy a water filtration system and place it nearby to clean the surrounding areas.
I pop it down, wondering how long it will take: ten seconds? I’m beginning to realise how much I don’t know about games like this, but I’m willing to learn.I swear I can feel the crocodile's glee through the screenSome time later I return to Rishi wondering how he’s getting on, half expecting to see a dehydrated crocodile looking at me with sad eyes as if to say ‘how could you leave me this way Caroline, you arsehole?’. But instead I find him swimming in crystal clear water, clearly having the time of his life. Is that a smile I see on his face? A grin from one side of his huge toothy jaws to the other? Probably not – that’s probably just how toothy creatures like crocodiles look – but I swear I can feel his glee through the screen.It has happened.
I have really started to care for these creatures, and that’s by design. Love of animals, and the desire to impart it to the player, runs through Planet Zoo at every level. For numbers nerds there is a dedicated welfare tab brimming with stats to keep you informed of how your animals are doing.But the care I feel doesn’t originate from quotas to hit, or from the well-being percentage charts I aim to turn green in order to satisfy my minor compulsive tendencies. It instead stems from the animals themselves, and from their wonderful models and animations. From the feelings I gauge in their eyes, to the way their fur picks up in the breeze, to how they interact with the environment and each other – it’s as if they are fully autonomous beings.So am I now going to go forth and build the most spectacular zoo the world has ever seen? Probably not.
Will Frontier call me to star in a YouTube video titled ‘how Caroline shocked us all with this incredible feat of zoo engineering and management’? Definitely not. I’ll be starting small, spending most of my time just looking at the fluffy critters (assuming I can train my camera skills beyond amateur level). But most importantly I’ll be making sure my furry friends are happy. Because while I may not be able to build the most impressive zoo, I can be damned sure I’ll have the happiest animals, and to me that’s all that matters.