Zoo Tycoon for the DS

Zoo Tycoon halfway meets my criteria. The graphics are ok, but they could be better. The animals look like what they are supposed to, but you can tell that if you got up close it would just be blobs of color. The landscape bothers me, because it is just blocks of coor for each different type,; they could havve made it to where it would blend and look a lot ore natural. There is no story , just senarios, which I guess you could say that there is a story within each one, because each one has a story behind the goals that you are trying to accomplish. There are different levels of senarios from beginner up, but you have to beat all of one level or type to get the next one. I very much like the controls for this game. The creators did a very good job taking the touch screen in to accordance when they made it. You are on the buisness side of it, so you don’t actually interact with the animals :(. One major down side to the game is that once you finish making the habitats for the animals, which is very easy, the tell you what kind of tiles to put in and exactly what the animal wants in its habitat, there is reall nothing left to do but twiddle your thumbs. Once youfinish all the goals for the senario, you have to wait until the alotted time for that senario has run out. So lets say you’re playing one that you have 12 months to finish, but you complete all the goals within the first 3 moths, then you’re left just to manage the zoo and wait for time to run out for 9 months, and they run on a month system, but they don’t tell you how soon the month ill be over. There had to be a better way to do that.

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