WorthPlaying writes: "Zoo Tycoon is a long-standing simulation series for the PC that's been released through Microsoft Game Studios for about seven years. With its detailed simulations of animal behaviors and tendency to take flights of fancy (including allowing your zoo to have extinct species in some expansions!) while still staying reasonably realistic, the series has been a great hit for its fandom. Now, Blue Fang Games has switched publishers and attempted to revitalize the series from the ground up with World of Zoo, coming to the DS, Wii and PC later this year. At the show floor of E3, several Blue Fang team members had the chance to show off the game and offered a fairly impressive showing."
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Developer Blue Fang has traditionally done a great job balancing the cute with the realistic, as in their Zoo Tycoon series. World of Zoo is no disappointment, and is especially well tuned to the Wii audience, that is accustomed to a higher 'Toon quotient than gamers on other platforms. These aren't animals designed to portray the majesty and gravity of the animal world, these are animals that will make your toddlers squeal with delight and have your older children scrambling for play time.
Nintendojo writes: "Some companies approach the virtual pet simulator with an intention to create a new experience, something that has not been done before, or something that enriches the very life of the player playing the game. Unfortunately, when it comes to World of Zoo, Blue Fang Games didn't. Instead the company went with the old standby of adding in as many thematically appropriate creatures as possible and hoping that quantity beats quality, which it doesn't."
