Planet zoo exhibit animals
In Planet Zoo, when building and maintaining exhibits, you need to make sure the power is on. While zoos and animal keeping are getting more attention these days thanks to a number of reality show taking viewers behind the scenes, my somewhat jaded view at this point in my career is that the average person thinks I spend my time playing with the animals and has no concept on what goes on in the day-to-day behind the scenes labor that makes modern zoos possible.
On multiple occasions, I was stunned that the developers thought of that, some minutia that really wouldn’t occur to anyone outside the profession. What blew me away was the obvious research that went into this game. Throughout the course of this review, please note that I had played Zoo Tycoon back in the day, though sandbox type games aren’t really my thing.Īs stated before, this is an absolutely breathtaking game in terms of visuals. Completing the tutorial opens up a range of missions, such as a primate center based in Madagascar. The head keeper walks you through constructing a new habitat, ‘adopting’ new animals from the marketplace (you can spend either cash or ‘Conservation Credits’), unboxing them in the habitat, and making sure that your animals, staff and visitors are happy. The game opens with an extensive tutorial, where you are placed in charge of the day to day operations of a privately-owned zoo in England. There were instances where the graphics weren’t doing what they were supposed to, though (a lioness being clipped half into the grass or visitors walking directly through a wrought-iron fence). Everything was moving relatively correctly, as well.
I didn’t get a chance to vet (really, no pun intended) every species featured in the game but what I did see was correct. I was constantly bracing myself for the wrong species to appear.
PLANET ZOO EXHIBIT ANIMALS TV
This often manifests itself in the keeper by, for example, loudly complaining to whomever is in the room when the incorrect species is featured on TV (yeah, that ubiquitous ‘eagle scream?’ That’s a red-tailed hawk.
PLANET ZOO EXHIBIT ANIMALS PROFESSIONAL
One occupational hazard of professional animal care is dealing with the fact that the level of animal accuracy outside of the zoo world is often lacking. This attention of visual detail continues throughout the game. The title screen opens with a realistically-rendered baby elephant running through the logo and the animation is very good. Frontier spent two-and-a-half years researching animal behavior and it is absolutely time well spent. Having now had the chance to spend time with the title, I was blown away by the sheer amount of detail in this game. The trailer looked beautiful everyone was both excited and wanted to know where they could get their calloused hands on those poop vacuums. Because it’s such a specialized profession where everyone knows just about everyone, keepers form a close-knit group and I’d been hearing about Planet Zoo in the Facebook groups for months now. During that time, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of animals, from African elephants to poison dart frogs. I’ve been an animal keeper at several small and medium-sized zoos across the United States since 2001, with three years off as a vet tech. What follows are the words of Meghan Bohn, my wife, an experienced keeper of animals small and large, smelly and cantankerous. Since she is a casual gamer, more Yoshi than Doom, she also took some time with the title and decided to share her thoughts. Of course, I listen to her, but playing the game helped me gain a new appreciation for the intricacies of her work. Playing Planet Zoo was quite the experience for this reviewer since I have the unique pleasure of being married to a bone fide zoo keeper that has been doing it for almost twenty years.