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Zoo Empire

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Game Info

Publisher: Enlight Software

Developer: Enlight Software

Genre(s): Simulation

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: August 5, 2004

Summary

It's a zoo out there, and you're in charge! Go wild with your imagination running the most exotic, fun and exciting zoo ever. Tend to your animals' health, happiness and nutrition by hiring employees, and adopt new animals as you unlock the numerous features hidden within the game. Attend to visitors by providing facilities for them to eat, drink and buy souvenirs from as they revel in your zoo. Sporting flexible gameplay, choose from either the sandbox mode where you establish the rules of the game, or accept the challenge of graduating from rookie zookeeper to wildlife whiz in the challenging career mode! Keep your animals, employees and visitors happy, keep the money rolling in, and path by path, animal by animal, exhibit by exhibit, build your very own Zoo Empire! [Enlight Software]

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What The Critics Said

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My Gamer

A good choice if you're looking for something that is the complete opposite of the latest offerings of shoot'em, smash'em, kill'em brand of games.

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PC Format

Not so bad that you'll want to pluck your own fur out, but that's all. [Nov 2004]

Adrenaline Vault

Zoo Empire does add depth to the "Zoo Tycoon" formula, but plays it safe and doesn’t make any effort to change the established norm. If you tried "Zoo Tycoon" but didn’t think that it had enough options or graphical punch, Zoo Empire is for you.

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Computer and Video Games

The look is reminiscent of "Theme Park World" - colourful, but not particularly detailed - although the animals have been put together with some charm. This, coupled with the lack of any real challenge, makes the game a reasonable option for animal-loving kids, but not a lot more.

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IC-Games

There is not much here to hold an adult for long, but be warned this game takes up a hell of a lot of space on your hard drive its over 1GB installed and over 50% of this is game textures which is a little bit much when you see the graphics.

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Boomtown

Yes, I’m still disappointed by the lack of opportunities for the creation of chaos, and yes, the graphics do reek of things from ye olden times of management sims.

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Game Chronicles

Adults will want something that feels less childish to play, and kids will want a game that is less demanding in terms of micro-management.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Kim S. gave it a0:
Has a defect. We've tried this game on two different powerful systems (with the requisite video cards) - and it CRASHES time and time again - once your zoo is pretty full, Beware.

Greg Z. gave it an 8:
I played the game and really liked it. Therefore 8 points !!!

Mark H. gave it a 7:
A decent offering...basically if you liked Zoo Tycoon then you will like this, it's practically the same game only with 3D graphics and a few more options to boot.

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