![]() Where you must please more than just your animals. I gravitate more toward Campaign mode – where you have a certain amount of money and must unlock all the animals, buildings, and objects as you improve you zoo. ![]() It’s 18 years old now, a little outdated to my year-old laptop, but I get it going without too much trouble. After a little tinkering, I get the game to boot. I don’t have a disk drive in my computer anymore, but I am able to find a (completely legal) download of the game online. I remember a little game I used to play a long time ago. I sit on a hand-me-down IKEA couch, a little base-level stressed at the various assignments I have to turn in, papers I have to read, and assignments I have to grade. I have my own laptop now, and my own apartment, too. There were no rules – just you, the panel of options at the bottom of the screen, a wide open space, and endless creativity. I used to crudely fashion my own indoor “houses” and custom “buildings” with a combination of the tank walls for walls and the elevated paths for a roof.Īnd the game would let you do it. The various creative tools – rudimentary with the benefit of hindsight, but at the time seemingly filled to the brim with possibility. Its wide variety of animals and their various unique behaviors. That would be a lie – there is something charming and simple and clean about the original game. I don’t mean to insinuate that the game is only worthwhile because of its modding community. Or, it’s a stable, open to the public to view my beautiful herd of horses. Now, every time I open up a new save file, it’s a wide grassland just for my beautiful herd of horses. Designed with multiple coat colors, and all the normal behaviors, environmental needs, and features of animals in the games, it’s the perfect mod for me. ![]() The fanmade horses are, with hindsight, extremely impressive. It’s taken me hours of trial and error (after all, I don’t understand concepts like “zipped files” and I only sort of know how to navigate the cavernous, mysterious depths of my file directory), but as I open up Zoo Tycoon 2, I give a cheer when I finally see the little horse icon appear in the list of animals available for me to adopt. This is why I’ve worked to overcome numerous obstacles to download a fanmade horse mod right into the game. They’re cute, but they don’t scratch that itch. But it’s small and squat and, very key, only has one boring brown color. It’s got something called a Przewalski’s Wild Horse – and it’s horse like. For the other, they don’t live in the grasslands of my feverish dreams. For one thing – they’ve only got one color, as interesting as that one color is. I want to construct family lines of wild, free horses, and I want to watch every moment of it, like my own personal Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. I want to watch them mingle, give them names, watch them have little baby horses together. What I want more than anything is to create wide-open grassy plain filled to the brim with wild horses. But, as I mentioned, I am a reformed horse girl. My favorite animals to do this with are animals I relate to, like the wolves. I observe the animals in their “natural” habitat. Once I’m done, I go into first person mode and explore the little habitat I’ve created. I open up a new zoo, close it down to guests, and then fully trick out the entire park’s area for one or two species of animals. Most of the time, though, I’m uninterested entirely in the “zoo” portion of the game. All of my animals must be perfectly happy and healthy at all times.īut this is only when I’m playing the game as it’s meant to be played… more or less. Reticulated Giraffe 3 needs more space! Manta Ray 6 dislikes being in such a smelly enclosure!) is like a shot to my heart, a little failure. Each red notification alert at the top of my screen alerting me of my animal’s needs (Emperor Penguin 4 cannot reach Food Dish 2. I don’t delete the fences on the lion enclosures and watch them chase the guests. I am a kindly goddess – I don’t play to torment the animals or the tiny polygonal people streaming into my zoo. All I know is drawing awkward, squat blobs in fence posts, plopping down 4 (2 boy 2 girl) animals inside, and using the “Zookeeper Recommends” menu to fully trick out each animal’s habitat. I don’t really know how to make my zoo monetarily successful. I have spent hours up to this point in Freeform mode, with unlimited money and access to every animal, building, structure, and building block in the game. I, a reformed horse girl and lifelong animal lover, have just found out how to download horses into my copy of Zoo Tycoon 2.ĭon’t get me wrong, I love Zoo Tycoon 2 just as it is. Picture me – I’m 10 or 11, sitting at the far end of our dining room table with my Mom’s old laptop propped open, fan loudly whirring away.
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