![]() The good: initially very fun nice clean graphics great music offers an entertaining insight into the gaming industry. When you take into account low price, loads of fun and developers’ quite original approach to fighting piracy that became viral marketing effort, how can you not buy this game? I for one just couldn’t resist. Not everything is perfect, there certainly still is some room for improvement, so I’m hoping we’ll see a patch that would address some lingering issues, but the game is still VERY fun and I cannot recommend it enough to everyone. The game is fairly cheap, but it’s rather short as well: you can easily reach the end in one afternoon evening. ![]() However, this time around you earn those piles of cash by living through the history of gaming, trying to recreate those legendary titles dear to all of us gamers. Kept me in front of the screen for hours, didn’t even notice I was playing it for 6 hours straight! I guess the replayability is limited, but hey, which game today isn’t boring on fifth playtrough? Game Dev Tycoon is a typical business-management game (well, it does say ‘tycoon’ in the title, so no surprise there), and making money is your primary goal. It’s easy to play, and although the interface isn’t state of the art and the gameplay is highly repetitive, it’s still very fun. It’s easy to play, and although the interface isn’t state of This fun little game is one of the most pleasant surprises on the scene recently. It has certainly piqued our interest.This fun little game is one of the most pleasant surprises on the scene recently. ![]() It might not be the most talked-about launch title for Xbox One, but from this outing it could well be the most individual. We only use that as an example, but are assured that there is plenty of this kind of interactive element planned. If a certain target is met, Microsoft will then donate a set amount of money to the real-life preservation of snow leopards. These might even be based on true-to-life ecological events, Pocket-lint was told, where players will be told of the threat to snow leopards, say, so they must try to get snow leopards into their own zoos. There will also be competitive gameplay, and the team will be instilling a sense of community by introducing fresh challenges to the wider Zoo Tycoon player network later down the line. You can also choose to take on tasks together. You can build and maintain your zoo with the help of a friend on another Xbox One, and in real-time. A child will freak over this feature, we're sure.Īnother massive new feature introduced with this title is the option for co-op play. This satisfied one of the requirements for that animal, and therefore made the whole family of elephants happier.Īnother we were told about is "Monkey See Monkey Do", a game that uses the Kinect sensor to track body movements and even facial expressions, these are then repeated by a monkey in the zoo. It came across and was happy to receive a good soaking in order to get clean. In our Gamescom demo, we watched while a Frontier developer squirted water at an elephant in its enclosure. You can actually interact with the animals à la Kinectimals and help their progression by feeding or washing them for example. Plus there are multiple mini-games dotted all around. You will still have to place areas and buildings as before, but rather than do it all from a top-down screen, you can manipulate the surroundings from a more personal perspective. You can run around the zoo yourself, interacting with animals and elements of the zoo in order to get a more hands-on feel of the game. ![]() ![]() The latter comes in the form of a park keeper that you can opt to control in 3D mode. However, this Zoo Tycoon borrows elements from other big Frontier games of the past, namely Kinectimals and Kinect: Disneyland Adventures. Steelseries celebrates its 20th anniversary, a legacy of glory It is intended to be a showcase title for parents to grasp the concept, and from what we saw at Gamescom, we can safely say that it will capture imaginations. So when Microsoft wanted to shift one of its most sustaining franchises to the Xbox One, Frontier had all the nous to make it happen.Īs one of the launch titles for the next-generation console, Zoo Tycoon utilises just about all of the new aspects of the machine that Microsoft is promoting: the new, more sensitive Kinect sensor, the cloud, and the greater level of graphical detail available. The two Xbox 360 Kinectimals games helped put Frontier on the console map. Not only has it plenty of experience with simulation games, having had enormous success with Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and subsequent expansion packs in the past, but it is also one of the foremost development studios when it comes to rendered animals. (Pocket-lint) - Switching the development duties for the new Zoo Tycoon game to Frontier seems to be an inspired move. ![]()
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