Planet Zoo Review: Console Edition

All the wildlife comes to your console thanks to this version called Planet Zoo: Console Edition

When we talk about environment building games, the first that come to mind are those focused on creating cities, hospitals, amusement parks and of course zoos. I don’t know if this desire to take care of animals is activated in childhood and if we carry it throughout our lives, but the management of this type of parks always attracts attention and see how little by little it fills with diversity. A feat that is never easy, and now we will see it magnified thanks to Planet Zoo: console editionwhere the customization of our own zoo and the biomes that make up each territory shine at levels we’ve never seen before.

The call of the wild

Border development wanted not only to emphasize the efforts of the zoo itself, but also to concentrate a large part of its resources on highlight the importance of the animals that live there. While visitors (including our avatar) look caricatured, All the creatures in Planet Zoo: Console Edition are cared for in detail. Not only in its graphic section, but its behavior has been faithfully recreated with the biome that we put in it, and even the interaction between the different members of the enclosure.

The studio wanted to give each animal its own personality. This is why we will have to worrying about many factors that I at least hadn’t seen in other games of the same genre. We will have to take a lot of things into account. From basic elements like food and water, to others like objects to interact with, generating a favorable and appropriate environment with specific vegetation… or even thinking about whether to put translucent glass to prevent them from being stressed by so many visitors. A madness that fans of customization will enjoy like children.

Expert help

Planet Zoo: console edition It offers several game modes with small differences between them, but always with the same common denominator. Story mode serves as a tutorial (Or does the tutorial serve as a story mode? Well, it doesn’t matter) to learn all the aspects that the title has to offer. My advice is that you play it because It’s very enjoyable and the best way to learn the basics (and not so basic) to create spaces for our zoo.

Once you have mastered the playable aspect, you can now venture into the rest of the game’s variations. your own franchise and share animals with the rest of users, even loose challenges and even a free mode where we will simply create the park of our dreams. And I promise you that extraordinary things can come out if our creative capacity is inspired. Don’t worry, because if you don’t really want to think, You can still download community-created projectswhich are beastly.

The mouse will be our favorite species

There is an aspect to Planet Zoo: console edition which grated very badly at first, but luckily it can be improved significantly, and that has to do with the control of the game itself. It’s true that an attempt was made to simplify the controls so that the controller experience was as intuitive as possible, but I personally didn’t like it. There are many menus, tabs and accesses that are very difficult to manage with the pad. Actions which should be almost automatic but which will take us more time than necessary due to this poor accessibility, although fortunately we can connect keyboard and mouse to be able to enjoy all the options that the title offers as you deserve.

I strongly recommend the use of these accessories, because The time savings and dynamism they offer are brutal. Simply create barriers, modify biomes or go to the zoopedia to search for interesting data of each species becomes much more bearable if accelerated with a mouse. Obviously you can play with a controller, but for me it’s not the same.

Let’s talk numbers

Not long ago I appreciated the subtleties it offered Zoo Tycoon o Let’s build a zoo on consoles. While they haven’t aged badly and remain enjoyable, they don’t play in the same league as Planet Zoo: Console Edition. The two proposals mentioned are more “fresh”, joyful and although they have their playable depth, we can soon do all kinds of tricks. This cannot be done here.

The game invites you to know each species. Become a true animal expert. And its more than 100 species support these words. This makes us realize the importance of caring for animals. And even if a zoo is not the best place for them, it is in our hands to treat them in the best possible way. With the care and attention they deserve, even if it is virtually. If you accept the challenge, you have before you a great feat that could last for months and months.

Conclusion of Planet Zoo: Console Edition

Frontier Development surprises us with a console version of a very popular PC game. And it’s not surprising, because the customization of the parks, the game possibilities it offers and the large number of animals mean that we have a very complete zoo simulator. Complete and personalized, because the depth found in its customization is appalling.

Planet Zoo: Console Edition can be played with a controller, although we highly recommend using a keyboard and mouse thanks to the accessibility of the game itself on the console. If we do it this way, we will navigate a world full of data, statistics and notes on the more than 100 species we can raise in our facilities. Ready to go ?