ZOO EMPIRE

From All Corners of the World...
From Koalas to Komodo dragons, choose from over 40 species and subspecies of animals including both rare and endangered species. As you continually invest in new research, new animals will be unlocked for you to include in your ultimate zoo. Please your visitors and enhance your zoo's appeal with over 200 buildings, items and facilities to create your dream zoo, all modeled in 3D.

Design, Build & Manage the Ultimate Zoo
Create a wildlife sanctuary without parallel with Zoo Empire. As owner of your zoo, adopt animals, landscape and build exhibits, hire and manage employees, and keep visitors happy as the money pours into your virtual zoo! Unlock animals, research new technologies and learn all about the challenges of modern-day animal care as you progress up the ladder of Zoodom.

Fun for All Types of Gamers
Zoo Empire features a 30-scenario branched campaign mode for those wishing to undertake their greatest challenge of their zoo career, or simply indulge yourself in the sandbox mode, where you make your own rules and play as you wish.

Become the Next Star Attraction
Train your animals to perform in spectacular shows that will please and entertain your visitors. Invest in advertising so your animals gains popularity. You can save your animal profiles for your best animals to perform shows and promote your other zoos!

Choose Your Own Career Path
Test your abilities as an financial whiz, or get your feet wet in the wonderful world of wildlife conservation. Zoo Empire features a branched path career mode that allows you to place the emphasis on the business or zoological end of running your very own zoo. Either way, no matter how you play, no two career paths, or challenges, are the same!

Tour the Zoo in Style
Choose from three train and boat designs as you set up touring facilities by laying out tracks or digging rivers for spectacular guided tours around your best exhibits. Then see your visitors line up for the thrill ride of a lifetime!

Capture the Moment from Any Angle
While your visitors are wowed and entertained by your cuddly creatures, build your own wildlife photo album by taking snapshots of your animals performing dozens of unique lifelike animations, all in full 3D.

Who Said that Learning is No Fun?
Not only is Zoo Empire fun, it is also the most realistic and educational zoo simulation! A comprehensive tutorial lets you learn to play the game intuitively and effortlessly. Then find out about animals, their habitats and behavior while building their very own sanctuary. You may be surprised from what you learn...

Features:

From Koalas to Komodo dragons, choose from over 40 species and subspecies of animals including both rare and endangered species. Each animal is animated with dozens of lifelike animations and well tuned and interactive animal A.I..
A powerful and robust in-game terrain editor gives players complete freedom to design their dream zoo, in any way imaginable, including exhibits naturally closed-off by the surrounding terrain. Build visiting areas and animal habitats, and place over 150 types of visitors and animals objects.

Build amazing touring facilities such as sky trains and river rides with an extremely user-friendly interface that allows you to design the perfect ride for your visitors.

Zoo Empire's flocking system shows butterflies, birds and fish, together with nicely modeled floras and rocks, bringing the natural wildlife environment to the computer screen.

Over a dozen different terrain types, each with unique dynamic grass effects allows players to experience the subtle landscape changes as they progress in the game. True real-time rendered water reflections accurately display every animal, item and staff, along with their animations. Using scattering sky technology, the player can experience weather changes and day/night cycles which not only changes the look and feel of your zoo, but will also affect gameplay. Dynamic real-time shadows allows players to experience a new degree of graphic realism.

System Requirements:

• Operating system Windows 98, 2000, ME or XP (Windows 95 and NT not supported)
• CPU type and speed 800 MHz Intel Pentium III or processors of the same grade
• Memory 128 MB RAM
• CD-ROM Speed 4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
• Hard drive space 1 GB
• Video card NVIDIA GeForce2, ATI Radeon, or 3D cards of the same grade
• Other needs DirectX 8 compatible sound card; Keyboard; Mouse

Recommended System Requirements:

• 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III or processors of the same grade
• 256 MB RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce 3 or above, ATI Radeon 8500 or above, or other 3D cards of the same grade