There is a small issue. First of all I love Frontier games. I have been a fan of Elite since 1984. That love still remains. And when I got Planet Zoo on the Xbox One, I loved every bit of it, it was a nice journey into gaming. So when I heard its successor was out, I never hesitated. But here we get issues and issues is a small setting, optionally nothing. Lets show you the stage:
It is the second run on the career. First we get Locate the Warthog Habitat. Which took seconds, just look to your zoo, soon in and soon you have it, nothing too fancy and it works, but then you need to Locate and select an Exhibit, so here the issue starts. After 10 minutes I was unable to do this. And as you see, there is an abundance of choices, but what to do? The issue is that after 5 minutes, the ‘educator’ should have said something according to the lines of “Are you having problems with this? Go to any exhibit and now press ‘whatever needs to be pressed’ or even illuminate the buttons/options in an illuminating colour like ‘gold’”. As I see it, the game has a lot more to offer, but in this stage the younger gamers will abandon the game, which would be a shame as the game looks truly inspiring, as much as the first game was.
So I feel a little sad that this was never discovered in the final testing. So when we get to that latter part Select a Lion and enter Animal Camera, I wonder why an earlier option Walk through the park and see what the visitors see wasn’t there (at present), and this is the second stage, the first stage was great, drive around in Africa and take a few snapshots. I had a blast and it felt like it was a great successor and it was a great look. So what went wrong, because either I am doing something massively wrong and the game didn’t pick up on this, or as I see it, they failed in educating the gamer. It could go either way, but I am not stopping this game. I loved the first game and I feel certain that this hiccups will be resolved. Perhaps the tester did this on a Monday morning, whatever the reason. This should’t be happening to a software house with decades of experience, but that might be merely my view on the matter.
Have a great day today
