You can also go into visitor mode - or FPS mode, as I like to call it - and take the tour yourself.
Your visitors don\'t actually get run over, but the crossing guards do help to smooth out the flow of traffic a bit. Crossing guards are also available to keep pedestrians from having the Jeep logo imprinted on their foreheads, which is nice at crosswalks where Jeeps and people meet. It\'s a good idea to have them travel through as many exhibits as possible if you want to maximize profits. Jeep vehicle tours, appropriately sponsored by Jeep, also give guests an up-close and personal view of the animals in your exhibits. So maybe there isn\'t any real risk of vandalism after all. However, you also have to remember that the people in your sky trams are the same as the people that fork over hundreds of dollars in donations for your animals, even after you charged them a small fortune for admission, soda, and an ice cream cone. The job of doing both could become harder as you add sky trams. This would have added an extra layer in terms of employing security, or monitoring your animal\'s health. However, one opportunity that I believe was missed in the development of the sky trams was the idea of visitors throwing items at the animals while overhead. Now that they\'ve finally made it into the game they serve their purpose well. Quite frankly, sky trams and elevated paths are elements that should have been in Zoo Tycoon 2 in the first place. I still don\'t understand how giant concrete pillars inside the pen don\'t count as \"modifications\". You can also build a new sky tram or elevated path over the exhibit to help visitors get a glimpse of the rare beast. You can place animals, food, and toys, but you are not allowed to actually modify the conservation area itself. These are fenced-off areas inside your park that aren\'t really under your control. It\'s harder to create proper exhibits for them, and it\'s more difficult to make them happy enough to breed.Ĭonservation areas are another animal addition. These endangered species also add an extra bit of challenge to the game. With 20 rare animals - including the American Bison, Komodo Dragon, and Javan Rhino - players can have even more exotic and varied zoos than before. The most obvious element is the addition of endangered creatures. Yet for those who enjoyed Zoo Tycoon 2 there\'s still some fun to be had. Afterwards you can pretty much let your zoo go by itself as you wait for the congratulations message at the end of the scenario.Īnd without a fast fast-forward feature in sight, you\'ll be doing quite a bit of waiting. The core gameplay is still the same: fence, biome, add male animal, add female animal, assign zookeeper, do it again. This is Endangered Species in a nutshell a few added toys, but nothing that really feels \"new\". Nothing has really changed, but now you have new shiny things to show off.
Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species is an expansion for the original Zoo Tycoon 2 in the same way that buying a new set of tools is an expansion for your garage.