Wildlife Park 3 Reviews

While the game has some flaws with lagging when going at highest speed and the music is really repetitive, I do enjoy the game. It has it's flaws like poor "decor" choices, silly animal models, boring people models, and the inablity to move bought buildings/plants/decor after placing them. I enjoy raising the animals, running a "zoo" and zooming in on the animals to take screenshots. The campaign is challenging at times and will give you rewards for your park. There's a bunch of maps to make more parks on which is good for replay value. You can also make multiple accounts ingame to play over and over or just reset the campaign levels. In all honesty, at $10 for full price it's good, but if you can get it on sale it's even more worth the money!

I can tell you the entire story of my experience with WP3. It began a few years ago, when I wasn't aware there even WAS a Wildlife Park 3, and stayed with Wildlife Park 2, working on my various parks. And then, I saw that my dad had bought this. "Wildlife Park 3", along with a "Dino Invasion" DLC. This was great! A new, improved version of my favorite game back then! And so I tried it out. Many new things were added, although there were a few new things I didn't really like; the new shop system, for one. The fact you can only have one park per map area was an enormous downgrade. and also how the dinosaurs didn't lay eggs for some reason, instead having the babies spawn already alive and walking around as if they were mammals or something. But the new, good features were more than enough for me to consider WP3 good. Except for one thing. Secondary Missions. Randomly, during the game, even if you're in SANDBOX MODE, secondary missions will occur. A random "important person" can appear in your park and want to see everything EVEN THOUGH VISITORS ARE DISABLED. Also, my dinosaur park got a secondary mission about adding and raising a gorilla. N O . I DON'T WANT MONKE! DINOS ONLY! It's even worse when there's no option to disable them (at least, not that i've seen), and you also can't skip/cancel them or whatever. Now, if your favorite game had a sequel with a DLC that combined dinosaurs and sci-fi stuff, there's no way I wouldn't want it. But with all sorts of less-than-stellar features ruining the experience, I'll have to say no. But if there was a "meh" option for reviews, I would give it that instead. Perhaps I'll get used to this stuff and change my review to positive. There is a good part though: they added a peeing animation to the visitors.

Updated because I forgot I had this game. Saw that there was DLC out for it. Got briefly excited and then very happy that I decided to play again before giving them money. The Good: The animals are not the exact same repeated model everytime. There are between three and twelve variants of each species meaning that your herd is interesting to look at. I actually could enjoy this game as just an animal care simulator except for a few problems. The Bad: The controls are literally madness inducing. The instuctions are unclear. The Ai for the humans is the worst I can remember. Do you remember being able to refill animal food, clean up trash and do basic park tasks in Zoo Tycoon, no such luck here. You MUST hire staff and they have very very limited range. So instead of a zoo keeper who will run around trying to keep all the exhibits clean or fool full these guys stand stock still the majority of their time because you simply can't have them responsable for more then a very small area. Same thing with the groundskeepers you will need for your plants which now require as much care as your animals. Guests also will not roam more then a few exhibits without complaining that their needs aren't being met so much of your Zoo space will go to redundent services.

Good game with a few bad points but worth a buy if you liked zoo tycoon 2 at all but let me do a pro and con Pros Realistic animals they actually climb the trees and use the enclosure to the potential offered they will even climb the fences if you use wrong type you have to put thought into closures unlike zoo tycoon games were tree were just a nice looking asset the animals In this game will sleep and play on them Realistic needs animals cannot be ignored and some campaign scenarios are actually fun and challenging unfortunately I haven’t seem to make predators actually hunt prey yet and when they die they don’t get eaten by other animals so making a live reserve is not possible however the other animals will feed from grass and pick fruit from trees and insects from insect mounds making them fully self sustainable but meat eaters will starve to death rather than hunting prey Plant needs you have to plant right things in right temp enclosures and zones and the right ground I liked this touch they visually die if you don’t meet there needs properly Actually looks nice the game runs bad when you get a few animals but you overlook it when you watch a few of your animal actually fully interacting with environment and acting like living creatures The economy in game is good you can lose money easily and go into red be banned from buying for a while making you need to balance income steadily for bigger builds The production shops you place can produce a lot of products all you can individually price it’s very very good The cons The guests EVERY guest is an annoying insert any curse word here they act like the animal don’t matter all they say is there is no where to shop here when u have 20 store literally 40 steps away or I want more decorative objects or plants it feels like a garden tour bus took a wrong turn and you have to deal with there need to see plants over animals to a unreal standard you will have 50 times more trees than animals in 1 area of your park The map is smaller or at least feels it from zoo tycoon games with a nice selection of animals you won’t fit even a quarter in a well design park usually to the guests need for a shop and plant and decoration every 4 steps The placement no matter how hard u try placing a perfect square enclosure will drive u Crazy they will always be slightly off The breeding of certain animals is a bit to fast I ignored my zebra for around 45minutes why I was making a gorilla enclosure I had 8 zebra when I returned due to a few messages they were falling ill I found over 12 The patching of guests is bad they will gather up on paths for no reason they start complaining there are no restrooms plants decor and shops cos they refuse to walk past a corner this is fixed later in game when you have learnt to lay paths to never go around a enclosure fully near map walls but until you figure that out this is a big issue The performance I sit around 30 FPS with a massively built up park and I have a very powerful computer i7 7700k and 16 g ddr4 ram with a 1080ti extreme edition I blame most of this on the bloody guests need for 50 plants per square foot That’s about it I think overall the game is worth it at full price defiantly but if your going to buy it save your money till u can buy the DLC with the game not so much the Dino dlc unless your into that but the other dlcs add a lot of animal selections and shops and without the torch’s added I wouldn’t have been able to meet guest decor need so easily overall I rate the game 7/10 losing 3 points for performance issues , annoying guests wanting so many bloody plants and decor come to see the bloody animals it’s a zoo not a garden centre and finally last point for map size

I've played this game for a few hours and ultimately I've decided that it's just a bad game. The limited animal selection is boring, the campaignes are tedious, and the park leveling system is incredibly stressful. The interface is also incredibly complicated and awkward to use. The music is monotonous and the voice acting incredibly tacky. If you want a time decently fun time waster, I'd say you could go for this game. Definitely only get this game if it's on sale, though. I got it for around $3 and I'm glad I didn't spend any more. It's not worth $10.

MEH. When I first saw this game, I was totally excited. I had the old one (Wildlife Park 2) and played the crap out of that when I was younger. I was hoping this one would be that game, just better graphics. Boy was I wrong. Pros: - animal interactions are A+ - graphics are OK; not the best, but definitely an improvement to what they were - they removed those stupid animal house shelters (THANKGOD) - customization is still there - slight color variations in the animals is cool Cons: - gardeners are annoying; zoo keepers stand in the middle of their assigned exhibits and never move - annoying that all staff have to be assigned to areas at all; why do I need 10 vets when one or two animals only get sick at a time? - guests are whiny and never satisfied; I wish there was a way to turn guest complaints off in the notification board bc OH MAN they were flying in fast - no matter how big an exhibit is, there's always the same herd size cap. Eight lions in an entire zoo board will always become unhappy after the 9th lion is born. That's kind of stupid to me, and really annoying when you're trying to play an open ecosystem game - speaking of open ecosystems, those are impossible. Predators will just attack anything in sight - it doesn't matter if there are enough carcasses around to feed them, it doesn't matter if they're not hungry; they will kill everything that's not their species, including other predators. - no family trees or indication of parents or ancestors (not really original to their former game, but I like knowing which animal came from which pair) Overall, I had high hopes for this game, but I was just disappointed.

I kind of felt obligated to write a review for this game. You can tell by the amount of hours I've put into it that I really do love it. I know many say that they had troubles running it or that it was boring, but honestly I think they have misconceptions about this game and crappy computers. First, this game has never crashed on me. I have run into a couple bugs but nothing major and nothing that wasn't instantly fixable. I do have a great PC and maybe that is part of it, but I would say most bug issues have been resolved. As for the gameplay, it is obviously a zoo tycoon type. If you go into expect anything else, you would obviously be disappointed. I really enjoy the amount of control you have over your park. You can adjust prices on each item in the park including each item sold at each stand or shop. This gives you a lot of price flexibility. There is also a lot of real knowledge abou the animals and plants in the game which I thoroughly enjoy and wish more games would do. The educaction factor might not appeal to everyone, but I can appreciate developers including this. Lastly, I feel like this is a fair game. If you put even just a little time into planning things out, you can become succesful and get through the challenges fairly quickly. Putting that aside the sandbox modes with different maps are my favorite and I am enjoying making several different kinds of zoos in each of them.

+ The graphics look good for a 7 year old game with limited budget + Together with the DLC there's a wide variety of animals. + Because of the lack of competition from zoo tycoon and the like this game got new DLC almost 7 years after release! How crazy is that?! + Few games get tutorials right. I absolutely LOVE the tutorial Wildlife Park 3 provides here. It doesn't threat you like an idiot and teaches you everything you need to know. + The controls are really good in general. - Graphics and animations are really important in a game like this and there are quite a few rough edges and graphical glitches. - At first making enclosures is fun but it gets really repetitive after a while. The reason for this is that the demands are to easy. You see, in Zoo Tycoon every animal had very specific needs, a bit too much at times. In this game it's the other way around. It's possible to make enclosures for completely different animals to look almost the same and still make all the animals completely happy. - While the UI is good, the color scheme can be a problem for many people as it's hard to differentiate the different icons and buttons. - It's good that the game doesn't threat you like an idiot and tells you exactly where to click at all times. But it should still provide all the information you need. It can be really tricky finding the right ground hardness for animals and plants or finding the right plants for the right enclosure. It's definitely not a bad game, Wildlife Park 3 does a lot of things right. And I spend a lot of time thinking if I should give this a thumbs up or down. Ultimately the repetiveness and the glaring but relatively easy to fix mistakes makes that I can't recommend this. However, if you're really looking for a Zoo Tycoon like game, there's not really a lot of options out there. I'm afraid this is the best you're going to get.

I loved Wildlife Park 2. It probably is the next best zoo management game after Zoo Tycoon series. So, despite the negative reviews, I gave this one a shot. I thought that WP2 has negative reviews as well but that is a damn fine game. Maybe it's the same with WP3. Played it for a while, doing some campaigns to get the basics of WP3 and then started playing freemode. Here is my overall impression - [h1]Pros[/h1] + Runs on Windows 10. At least it worked for me. + Much better-looking than WP2. The animal textures, terrain, trees etc. everything looks really good. + You don't just buy workers. You hire them. They all have Stars to indicate their performance. Hence, workers don't require their own building like in WP2. Work area has a larger radius and can be increased where in WP2 workers already has the max radius set which is not that big, you could only decrease it and then increase it again if needed in WP2. This is not the case with this game. + Everything is sorted in different categories, unlike WP2 where there was no sorting option. + Realistic AI. [h1]Meh[/h1] +/- UI isn't very good. Things are sorted into different categories, yes. But the texts on tooltip have weird colors. WP2 has a simple UI, but it will take a bit time to get used to this one if you have played WP2. I felt really uncomfortable with the overall UI at first. +/- Saving system is a bit confusing at first. I thought I lost my campaign progress after I started playing freeplay mode. [h1]Cons[/h1] - Performance is REALLY bad. Worse than WP2. Even with a high performance PC the FPS goes down really hard after you start expanding the zoo or during different weather effect animation.. In case of WP2, it's kinda okay because it's very old. But WP3 was released not very long ago compared to WP2. To be honest, WP2 run BETTER than WP3. Funny thing is, devs decided to release a DLC, but ignoring to fix the performance issue which is mentioned several times in the community discussion. Even I have posted about it and got no reply. This is the third game of this franchise, yet the worst compared to the previous games of this series. - Limited animal variety. This might not be a con for you though. - Poor tutorial system. It does not clearly say what you will need to do next. It does explain why you need to do this and that, but fails to show you how. - Every map feels really smalls after you put a few enclosures. You will have trouble regarding space. Visitors want to see more animals, yet there ain't enough space to add more. - Every time I want to see the detailed information of something, another preview window opens and I have to close it every time. This might not be a problem for you, but in WP2 it was really simple to check information so I find this system in WP3 very annoying. - Music is just annoying and repetitive. I had to turn it off. - The whole game just doesn't feel fun. If you have played WP2 and loved that, then you might not like the gameplay on this one, except for few people maybe. I really wanted to love this game but it just fails on so many levels. It has it's charm but very little and it gets boring very fast. If you want to play this series, then just get the previous titles.

The obvious Error on release aside. Wildlife Park 3 is actually a pretty enjoyable Tycoon game. Whilst it's no Zoo Tycoon 2 beater, It definately holds its own in the Zoo Management genre, and is definately better than the recent Zoo Tycoon effort that was released on 360/Xbone which is a pretty poor Zoo Tycoon game considering the title its meant to live up to. Being a fan of this genre though, I thoroughly enjoy this game thus far, whilst I'm not expecting any expansions or miracles etc, I think its a damn good attempt at the Zoo management effort. The variation on the animals is a pretty neat idea, For those that have Played Zoo Tycoon 2, they will know that having 8 Elephants that all look the same can look like a copy/paste effort. I find the overall experience exactly what you'd expect from a game like Wildlife Park 3. If people can overlook the negative reviews about the game considering they all pertain to the error which has since been fixed and won't happen again, It's definately worth grabbing a copy to waste a few hours.