While this might sound like a list of chores, it actually makes for wonderfully compulsive gaming. Whether managing animal wellbeing or cleaning water filters, you will find yourself constantly under pressure to improve your zoo.
Zoo Tycoon 2 is a fantastically detailed sim, and has all the depth of more sober equivalents. As well as laying out your menagerie and tinkering with marine-based furnishings for the cages and toys for the animals, you can trade your watery prisoners, and even train them using some simple action mini-games.ĭon't let the focus on animal care and decoration mislead you, though. Of course, predictable game mechanics like feeding and cleaning are in place, but there is far more on offer than you might expect from a typical pocket sized asset management game. Most of your efforts are focussed on catering to the needs and whims of your aquatic animals, but almost as much time is spent constructing your zoo, pleasing your punters, and maintaining your cash flow. The niche within a niche is undeniably a tiny genre of gaming, but this month alone mobile phones have had their catalogue of releases boosted by Zoo Keeper and now Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania.Įssentially combining the classic SimCity formula with a developed version of the faddish Tamagotchi toys, Marine Mania is actually a surprisingly substantial god game. While the rise of The Mighty Boosh has given working in a zoo a little cultish kudos, the enduring popularity of the zoo simulator is still a curious phenomenon.
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