Facebook Games: Zoo Paradise

Zoo Paradise is a theme park simulator that is brought to you by Crowdstar, the same people that brings you Happy Aquarium. The game is designed in such a way that allows you to build your very own theme park zoo and also to manage your customers from there.

Gameplay

The gameplay for Zoo Paradise is rather, well how should I put it, SLOW. During the beginning of the game, player will be introduced to your park and as a new zoo; the developers will throw in a free habitat for you to play with it.



Getting your first animal is the first step to be taken in the game. Since you have a jungle habitat, so the obvious reason is to choose a zebra, you can then choose to name your first zoo animal and its gender. Once done you will have to drop your animal at the available habitat.



You will then have to take care of your animal’s wellbeing like feeding them and make their stay as comfortable as possible.

You as the owner will also have to think about your customers’ well being. You will need to get food stall up and also toilets up and running, beside you are running a business here and you must think a bit business like. However, after 2 hours into Zoo Paradise, I do notice a lot of the customer who visit my zoo tends to go to the toilet a lot.



With a limited stock of items you can purchase in Zoo Paradise as most of the habitats, stores and even toilets are made in a way that it can be upgraded. Example will be like your zoo habitats when you first built it, will only be able to accommodate 1 animal, but as you upgrade it to higher level the more animals you can put in one habitat. Things like food stall also follow the same concept as you will only be able to intake certain amount of payments and also customers’ per-day until it is upgraded to a higher level.



Once in awhile there will be a small box drop out of nowhere onto your theme park ground. This is actually a mini-puzzle game that is provided by the developers to the players to get some fun out of the game and to earn some cash. The game is very similar to any gems puzzle game in the internet. Match a collection of animals head and you will complete the puzzle. Players are only given 1 minute time to complete this task and it is usually very confusing. Since the developer tends to use the symbols of animals head, it can be confusing to see which animal is which at times as due to the size of the box, everything looks almost a like. I tend to confuse with the monkey and the penguin head as they are so similar.

Graphic

Graphic department for this game is not top of the line, but nice nevertheless. You will see people walking around the zoo, animals animation as they either howl out or eat (Your zoo animal would not be seeing them walking around in the habitats). Other than that, I do not seem to see much that I can say about the graphic part.

Sound

Nice tune that keep repeating itself and also coyote and other animals making their natural calls. You might enjoy the birds singing in the background, but since this is a zoo, you will be hearing some other sound as well. Although I do find the coyote a bit annoying and creepy with its howling.

Conclusion

Great game if you like to build your own zoo and theme park, but I personally find this game slow and I do mean slow. Been playing it for 3 days and still I feel like I am going nowhere a bit here. Hopefully the game will catch up after a week.

I am giving this game 3 out of 5.

Zoo Paradise Links

1) Facebook- You must have a Facebook account to play Zoo Paradise

2) Zoo Paradise Application at Facebook- http://apps.facebook.com/zoo-paradise/