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Whether that appeals or not, is entirely down to your personal preference.

While it may not be quite as quickly accessible as the recent Zoo Tycoon, Planet Zoo looks to be an impressive and in-depth park-building game in its own right. Minus the smell of rhino dung and whatnot, which your keepers need to keep on top of. You can see the fur on the big cats, watch the peacocks strut their stuff and generally take in all the sights and sounds of your zoo as if you were there. It does look great though, building on the impressive visuals of the Jurassic World tie-in and adding even more detail for when you move the camera in nice and close.

Most of this is standard fare, but it did sometimes feel a little over-complicated for my tiny little mind. YouвЂ™ll have to adopt new animals and build new enclosures, all while keeping your visitors happy and the money rolling in. Taking over a zoo requires you to manually locate and remove flora that doesnвЂ™t suit the animals, not to mention dealing with protestors and looking after the animalsвЂ™ needs. You no longer have to send out teams to dig up fossils, what with everything already being alive in Planet Zoo, but there is a lot more maintenance involved here. Having played an awful lot of Jurassic World Evolution, Planet Zoo did feel quite familiar. ItвЂ™s a nice feature in this kind of game, as some of us do sometimes struggle to keep everything under control while time and pressure marches inexorably onward. Same goes for most problems, or if you just need a moment to monitor the rather exasperating number of systems and ensure your zoo is running at its best. If a wolf falls ill, you can stop everything and call in a vet. If all this sounds a bit overwhelming already, you should know that you can pause at any time while you continue to plan your next move. The animal kingdomвЂ™s equivalent to gym equipment, I guess. Your animals need to be stimulated through activity stations unique to each species as well, with some designed to feed them while keeping them active, and others there just to keep them in shape and entertained.

Best make sure you have zookeepers employed and have their own stations, otherwise those food and drink stations wonвЂ™t be restocked and the enclosures will fall into general disrepair. Once you have managed to get the terrain and plants in order, youвЂ™ll have to make sure food and water are available by building the relevant habitat additions. That is incredibly tedious work, let me tell you.ДЄn animalвЂ™s menu will also give you all the information you need to keep them happy. Annoyingly, there doesnвЂ™t seem to be a way to remove all of the offending articles in one go, instead having to find and delete each bush and tree manually. When an enclosureвЂ™s plant life doesnвЂ™t match the needs of its inhabitants, opening an animalвЂ™s menu will tell you exactly why theyвЂ™re unhappy and which plants need removing/adding. It becomes quite complicated if youвЂ™re taking over the reins of a zoo and have to sort out the mess left by its previous manager, which is exactly what I had to do in the opening level of Planet Zoo in the beta. Snow for snow leopards, mud for hippos, that kind of thing. Then, using the painting tool, youвЂ™ll need to strike the right balance of terrain to suit each speciesвЂ™ specific needs in the enclosures. This means choosing the right plant-life from the right area of the world, not to mention making sure that the animal is used to it. The basic building of perimeter walls and viewing glass is easy enough, but then you have to tailor each enclosure to the needs of its animals. PETA wouldnвЂ™t be too happy with that feature.ДЄs you might expect, building a zoo requires putting together enclosures for your animals and adopting various species to live in them.

#PLANET ZOO BETA RELEASE DATE FULL#

Well, at least that part wasnвЂ™t in the beta, though I suspect itвЂ™s not in the full game, either. Planet Zoo seems to do a lot of things the same way, but without the ability to tinker with the DNA of your main attractions. Jurassic World Evolution was all about building an animal park, only with the dinosaurs of the Jurassic franchise. ItвЂ™s not an original concept, and it isnвЂ™t the first time Frontier has done this kind of thing. But what about running a zoo? Will we enjoy that as much? ThatвЂ™s what Frontier Developments wants us to find out, in Planet Zoo. WeвЂ™ll fall in love with penguins, and weвЂ™ll be entertained by monkeys of all kinds: itвЂ™s just a great time for everyone. Even the most miserable of us will smile at the sight of lions and giraffes (not in the same pen, that would be a massacre).

Planet zoo beta release date