This is my opinion without reasoning as a fanboy but as a disappointed enthusiast, trying to be objective and not offensive.
Yet another DLC + free update which in my opinion is extremely controversial and which only brings the improvement of having souvenir shops (which should have been there in the base game) and some cute animals or those requested by the community.
All the animals are of excellent workmanship and the rating I give depends a lot on how necessary I consider them to be in the DLC and in the game rather than on their quality, which I repeat, seems excellent.
Wisent 7/10:
Not my first choice on the wish list, we can define it similar to the American bison and I would have included other animals before this, but excellent and symbolic if you want to recreate a European-themed zoo.
Wild Boar 0/10:
Classic clone to fill a DLC, but this is the worst of all for various reasons. We are full of pigs in this game, I have never seen this one in a zoo, and above all it is put in when the pecary was introduced a month earlier for the anniversary...disastrous choice.
Mute Swan 7/10:
Beautiful animal, beautifully recreated, but this choice also annoys me a lot. I think it was put there as a ploy to say "well, let's put a bird inside so they'll calm down"... in reality this is an animal that I've never seen in a zoo, you can easily find it in some public park and it's not exactly a flying bird of the kind you see in zoos and which this game desperately needs... the rating is only for the beauty of how it was recreated, but it only increases the disappointment of not seeing certain types of birds in the game.
Sloth Bear 7/10:
Also this beautiful animal, I look forward to seeing a screen, probably one of the most interesting bear species, but...we really needed another bear now instead of first inserting so many other animals that are necessary and that are not present in this game?
Wolverine 8,5/10:
I don't know if it's a popular animal in zoos, I don't think I've ever seen it in Europe. An animal that I really like, highly requested by the community. Definitely one of the few happy and successful choices in the pack.
Saiga 5/10:
Another animal that seems very well created to me, but how many zoos in the world host a saiga? I'm just curious how his nose will move ingame.
Takin 5/10:
The same goes for the saiga, an animal that has been recreated very well, but how many zoos in the world host a takin? Can he be put on the roster before many other much more popular zoo animals that aren't in the game and may never arrive?
Hermann's Tortoise 4/10:
Although it is a very cute and interesting animal, it is a very wasted slot as a show animal, both because there could have been a flying bird, and because it could have been included in a pet DLC.
Total rating DLC: 5
I think these DLCs are becoming very monotonous and with completely wrong choices or as often happens they tend to maximize profit with minimum effort.
There remain some sensational and unjustifiable gaps in this game which at this point I think will never be filled: flying birds, monkeys, animals from South America/Amazon, playgrounds for children, entry/exit gates for the indoor part of the enclosures, new and several feeders, games for the animals...
The only hope, because I'm resigned now, I think it's a PZ2...
They weren't cost effective, so Frontier stopped, but oh gosh, how much I wish we'd get them back.
