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This means you won’t be able to customize the shape and size of the specific habitat you want to build. Creating habitats is an easy task, seeing they are already pre-formed. To create the best possible zoo, you will have to provide your customers with enough variety, as well as keeping an eye on your finances. These always deal with a different topic, which make them great to play again when you’re in need of a specific tutorial. You’ll be able to play through ten short tutorial levels. The game offers a decent tutorial mode for you to learn the ropes of the game. This can be accomplished by placing as many habitats as possible (duh!) but also by decorating your zoo and provision of the necessary shopping and entertainment possibilities.Įven though the game has a set of different modes, the overall goal and gameplay will remain unchanged through the course of all these modes. You will have to do your best in creating a zoo that attracts as many people as possible. Zoo Tycoon is a typical game in the Tycoon franchise. You’ll be able to listen to some subtle background music, but most of these tracks are never really that memorable or even noticeable.Ī great addition to a game like this would have been some spoken dialogues or instructions, but sadly these aren’t included. Other than the typical sound effects, there is not much that can be said about the music of the game. You’ll be able to enjoy the sounds of all your animals and the crowd that runs around your park.

Zoo Tycoon comes packed with typical sounds that would match a real life zoo. These are hardly noticeable and only when your zoo is starting to fill the map, these will become a tad more frequent, but they will never reach an annoying point.Īll in all, it’s clear that the developers did their best to offer a great looking game, and it’s fair to say they succeeded. Seeing it’s a graphically strong game, the game has some minor issues with ‘pop-ups’ and small frame drops. Most of the time it’s been done with a simple texture change, but extra options are always a plus. Species of animals come in different varieties as well. The game has enough habitats to offer, to create a diversity in your zoo.

For example, when an animal washes itself, it shows a clear difference.Įven though there is no real customization when it concerns building your own habitat, the lack of freedom is not a real issue. The texture quality is great and even the small details are not neglected. The game looks breathtaking when your zoo comes to life. Graphically Zoo Tycoon shows us what the Xbox 360 is really capable of. Then again a game such as this one does not really a story to be enjoyable. You will be faced with challenges during the creation of your Zoo, but that’s pretty much all the story value that Zoo Tycoon has to offer. Even though the game offers a decent set of scenarios or a campaign mode, the goal remains the same. The game is pretty much all about creating a Zoo that attracts as much visitors as possible. Zoo Tycoon is not really a story driven game.

Zoo Tycoon is one of those games that might just show the potential of simulation games on consoles. Microsoft did an attempt to provide us with the best of both worlds. The ‘Tycoon’ franchise has always been a popular one, yet it never really made its appearance on the current generation of consoles.