A remastered version of the old Zoo Tycoon game

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is not a HD update of the old Zoo Tycoon game, it is a top-down remake with current-gen graphics and gaming technology. The primary focus of the old game is still present, but the game has become complicated in some areas and dumbed down in others.

Graphically unrecognizable compared to the original

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection allows 3D movement and rotation around your park, and the visuals and art are far better than they ever were with the original game. The animations and menus have a photo-realistic styling, and yet each creature has been designed rather than photographed, which means a lot of work went into this game. Your job is to build a working zoo where you must care for your visitor’s user experience and care for your animals. As with the original, you need to set up each enclosure to match the preferences of your animals. This is especially true if you wish to make money by breeding your animals and selling their babies. The biggest gameplay difference between the old version and the new version is that most enclosures are pre-made, which means you cannot have fun customizing your enclosures in the same way you could with the original. Customizing enclosures used to be a very important factor for the game, but it has been dramatically dumbed down in this game.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is ideal for people who are pulling out their hair trying to find an abandonware version of the old Zoo Tycoon game that actually works on modern computers, and for people who cannot run the CD-Rom version of Zoo Tycoon because it is not backwards compatible. The game is well worth whatever you pay if you are a fan of the old game because you will never find a working version of the original, and Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is eerily close to the original while also having vastly updated interfaces, graphics, and NPC (non-playable animals) interactions. Even people who are not fans of the old version of this game will be impressed, especially when games such as the Jurassic Park park-building games were such a disappointment.