What to like about Planet Zoo.

[leehonglocal]

This is what I like about this zoo game.

1. All four kinds of crocodilians in one game (crocodile (larger one especially), alligator, gharial and caiman)
2. one seal and one sea lion in one game
3. one African rhino species and Indian rhino in one game (I cannot/wouldn't expect real-life zoos to afford critically endangered Sumatran and Javan ones.)
4. Giant anteater
5. otter (most captivities, especially in Malaysia where I lived, had freshwater otters (like nowadays))
6. komodo dragon
7. Aldabra and Galapagos tortoise in one game (I like Galapagos ones, and most in captivities were Aldabra ones nowadays.)
8. two well-known tiger subspecies (Bengal and Siberian) in one game
9. Asian black bear (Farmosan was that subspecies)
10. Southern cassowary
11. one Malayan tapir and one New World (Americas) tapir species in one game

If African leopard, dromedary camel, baboon and gibbon will be confirmed and released in this game whether or not, I'll like and favor that game more. At least those animals above were in that game.
What do you like about this?

 

[biggest_dreamer]

You really nailed it with your first few points, the sheer number of options for certain zoo niches is so, so nice. It's not so unusual to have two tigers, elephants, and rhinos, but here we have four crocodilians, three lemurs, finally three deer, one and a half tapirs... they really go a long way. And then there's a few more roles that would reach that same level of sheer option perfection with perhaps one or two new addition - foxes, tortoises, suids, otters, hyenas, bears (need 3), big cats, penguins, apes.

...Although on the subject of variety we're still suffering for more small monkeys, antelope, small cats, and honestly small mammals in general but we're doing way better in that regard than we were 12 months ago.

It's nice to have a zoo game give a proper place to rodents (although at the moment that's entirely on the NA pack, but we more or less know the capybara is coming).

The exhibit system, for all its flaws, is still infinitely better than any other attempts at legitimizing small reptiles and insects in zoo games.