It's truly a bizarre concept when you think of the "tycoon" genre as something people become addicted to and spend hours upon hours enjoying. It comprises a group of videogames whose sole purpose is to simulate the tedious tasks of a management job like accounting, regulating lines, and deciding the best place to put a restroom. Where...
By this point, you've probably realized Frontier Developments' Zoo Tycoon isn't secretly a first person shooter designed to make everyone at PETA have a heart attack. We're ok with that, surprisingly, and these new screenshots showcase the game's cuddly side with apples and meerkats and a giraffe-patterned helicopter.
The collect-'em-all zoo simulation Zoo Tycoon, due for release on Xbox One on November 22nd, has a lot of animals. Not a "grains of sand in the Sahara" or "number of times I've dropped my keys in the toilet" kind of numerous, but enough to get excited about. A complete list of all 101 animals in the game has just been released, and yes, it's got sloths.
It feels weird for me to say, but the most visually impressive game we got to see on the Xbox One so far is Zoo Tycoon. That’s not a knock on the other Xbox One games, that’s simply a statement of how great Zoo Tycoon looks. Texture detail is crisp, realistic, and colorful. The character and animal models look incredibly lifelike and their animation is equally as impressive.
Frontier Developments' Kinectimals was one of the earliest Kinect games available and allowed you to play with, poke and rummage some animals, but it lacked depth. Perhaps their Xbox One game, Zoo Tycoon will solve this? Up to 4 players can join up online to design a Zoo and manage it together; all the time using Kinect to play with, poke and rummage the animals.
