7/5/2023 0 Comments Planet zoo xbox![]() ![]() Many of these statistics are also quite easily accessible and the in-game notification system does a decent job of giving you a heads-up of situations before they spiral out of control. All these mechanics and more are thoroughly covered during the scenarios in the career mode and are introduced gradually to ensure the player isn’t overwhelmed too quickly. ![]() With a huge variety of diverse, interesting animals available for you to adopt and care for, you’ll need to modify aspects like enclosure temperatures, plant variety, species social groups and individual animal’s privacy needs whilst also considering fertility rates and various other statistics for the suitability of your breeding program. These niche, micro-management mechanics also extend to the animal husbandry side of Planet Zoo as well. Expect to familiarise yourself with maximising staff efficiency for moving between enclosures, minimising path congestion, tweaking staff pay rates and prioritising research projects. If you plan on playing Planet Zoo’s traditional management sim mode (aptly named Challenge Mode) by starting small and expanding over time, there’s a huge variety of niche mechanics that you’ll need to become intimately familiar with in order to survive your first financial year. These scenario missions are not only a great way to learn the fundamental mechanics in Planet Zoo, they’re almost a prerequisite in learning how to successfully navigate the deep management mechanics working in the background of every successful park. Another teaches you about electricity generation as you maintain a zoo in third-world country with power-supply issues. One early mission teaches you about crisis mitigation as you track down an escaped monkey in a simian research facility. Each scenario focuses on a different aspect of zoo management and runs through a light tutorial sequence, however I found the scenarios to be so compelling that I often forgot I was participating in a tutorial. Unlike traditional, boring tutorial missions in management campaigns where the entire goal is to complete a specific tutorial sequence, the missions in the Career Mode of Planet Zoo are structured around a light narrative with a variety of characters and a vast range of backdrop circumstances. If you’re more interested in the challenge of building, managing and expanding your own sprawling zoo, the Career Mode offers a huge variety of fun, customised scenarios that will teach you everything you need to get ready for the role. You can also take your zoo online in Franchise Mode where you can connect with other players to trade animals and visit a friend’s park. Fences, paths, plants and all manner of park features can also be placed and adjusted quickly with the implementation of some clever snapping mechanics that result in more natural-looking features. The creation engine allows you to quickly and easily terraform the land and create impressive-looking structures that can be customised down to the most minute detail. If you simply want to design a gorgeous zoo to immerse yourself in without the hassle of balancing a budget or maintaining the welfare of your animal residents, the astonishingly impressive creation tools in Sandbox Mode allow you to do so with relative ease. ![]() Much like Planet Coaster before it, Planet Zoo offers a variety of game modes for you to flex your creative-management muscles. The studio blew us away with their spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon in 2016 with Planet Coaster, and ever since then many fans (myself included) had been hoping the developer would attempt to work their magic on a similar revitalisation of the classic Zoo Tycoon series. If ever there was a developer capable of revitalising the zoo management subgenre, it’s Frontier Developments. Not only does it recapture the creative, ambitious joy of building and maintaining your own zoo, but it implements a plethora of modern systems and fantastic graphics to produce one of the most fun and engaging management sims that I’ve played in the last few years. Some people are coming to this review looking for one thing, so I’ll just say it upfront: Planet Zoo is most certainly the modern spiritual successor to Zoo Tycoon that you have been waiting for since childhood. ![]()
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