Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals
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Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals is a simulator, released 16 October 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals is
Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals was released in 2007. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Head out on a paleontology dig to search for fossils, assemble your finds, and then take them to the Extinct Research Lab to bring your Extinct animals to life! Unveil the drama of Extinct landscapes with misty springs, tar pits, glaciers and maybe even a caveman or two. Once you’ve populated your Extinct zoo, you can research and cure diseases, and even wrangle a pack of rampaging dinosaurs in first-person mode! Do your part to bring 'em back and the thrill of experiencing extinct animals will bring your Zoo guests back for more!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals launched on 16 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Halo 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Halo 3.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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