Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. Now you'll get your chance in Blue Fang's Zoo Tycoon . This resource-management sim is much like Sim City or Roller Coaster Tycoon , but instead of buildings and coasters, you get to play with animals. For example, you can choose a giraffe and place it in a garden-like habitat, but he's unhappy, so you plant some Sahara grass to appease him. The developers are working on making the user interface as simple as possible.
Players can choose to play in scenario of free-play modes.
The latter is self explanatory, while the former puts you in situations like making your zoo worthy of receiving endangered animals. Both modes require you to keep the animals happy, manage your staff effectively, and keep the visitors excited. Microsoft hopes Zoo Tycoon will have mass-market appeal as well as enough gameplay to satisfy the hardcore. While I think it's well on its way to being a mass-market success, I didn't spend enough time with it to see how well the gameplay is developing. Our writer has images and other materials provided by the game's publisher.