Planet zoo ps4 review Pc#
Planet zoo ps4 review plus#

Of course, you’ll need to make sure each species has its food and water, plus enrichment items such as scratching posts or food dispensing toys, and let’s not forget some cover under which they can sleep, or hide from the public if necessary. This requires selecting individual bushes, trees and bracken to remove, then finding out which plants are needed and placing everything by hand. Or perhaps it’s organising an enclosure’s vegetation, making sure it’s tailored to the animals within.

Having to set up information boards and speakers, before specifically selecting what each board displays and what each speaker plays. Some will love this level of management detail, though. Hopefully that’s something to be fixed at a later date. And don’t get me started on the “objectives” panel, which constantly reappears whenever you complete anything on its checklist, despite repeatedly closing it. A lot is made of accessibility (and rightly so) but the text is far too small by default and enlarging it only results in enlarging every menu, to the point of barely being able to see what’s actually going on in the zoo because so much screen real-estate is taken up by oversized menu boxes. Building the enclosures is mostly simple, though the UI doesn’t always make it so. Going through tutorials (it has several and they’re all needed), it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the number of things that need doing when setting up your zoos. Those details are unfortunately what turned me off of Planet Zoo, I must admit. Planet Zoo isn’t going to be for everyone, thanks to its more in-depth management, but the more hardcore park-building fans will love taking care of the tiniest details.

Planet zoo ps4 review Pc#

This isn’t Frontier’s first attempt at a zoo game, having co-developed the most recent Zoo Tycoon that was initially released on Xbox 360 and Xbox One (later updated and re-released on Xbox One and PC by Asobo), but it’s certainly its most complex. I would say that nobody wants to see animals escaping, but given the way people love to torture their Sims, I’m fairly sure those same people would deliberately attempt to set lions upon their zoo’s guests. Planet Zoo is quite similar to Frontier’s previous game, however, in that you’re still building an animal park and doing your best to keep those animals happy and, almost as importantly, contained. Except with present-day animals like monkeys and lions, not murderous dinosaurs from a bygone era. Frontier Developments knows it, as it follows up its movie-themed park-builder, Jurassic World Evolution, with another foray into the same genre.