Zoo Empire

Enlight Studios offer you to appreciate their new time management game under the title Zoo Empire. Now it is your job to create your own zoo and make it as prosperous as you can.

The game allows you to choose two different modes to play. So the single player mode starts off nice and simple with a tutorial level that introduces you to the basics of creating a zoo. It carefully dwells upon the fencing so your animals won’t escape. It also covers the instructions how to provide them with everything they need. Your first level is as simple as they come; all you have to do is take some pictures of some of the animals. As you get into the swing of it, it gets a little more difficult but it’s a nice introduction to zoo life.

In the campaign mode you can either try to make yourself the zoo or try to earn as much cash as possible. The choice is yours but you’re not limited to what you do and can establish the rules of the game yourself. On the whole the gameplay is rather amazing but sometimes the affairs go too fast and make you as busy as a bee. So if you miss to feed animals, they will starve to death. It is pity when you have paid a lot of money for that animal. The menus are crowded at times with not enough room for all the information. You got lost more than once looking for specific things.

As for the graphics it is well-done, all the animals are true to life as well as the nature. The music is nice and cheerful without being annoying. Well, it is not bad economic strategy especially for children.

28, October 2009