Planet Zoo already bought Rock Paper Shotgun’s “bestest best” stamp when it launched in November. If doable, it’s now even bestier than earlier than with its first DLC which provides arctic animals to your zoo’s record of potential inhabitants. There are two new eventualities, new buildings, foliage, and—most significantly—polar bears.
The Arctic Pack DLC provides two new, seemingly fairly completely different eventualities so that you can try. The first is ready within the precise arctic: the fjords in northern Norway the place you’ll construct a sanctuary for arctic animals. The second is in Mexico the place you’ll increase an present zoo and try and make it liveable for the entire animals that may by no means naturally be subjected to near-equator temperatures.
The most vital half, in fact, is the brand new animals. The Arctic Pack provides 4 new chilly buddies: Reindeer, Arctic Wolf, Dall Sheep and Polar Bear.
As Nate Crowley mentioned when telling us wot he thinks of Planet Zoo, this DLC has seen me coming. I really like snow ranges and snow maps and winter in-game occasions and absolutely anything snow-covered in any game. I additionally like polar bears rather a lot. Consider my opinion doubtlessly compromised.
As the resident polar bear liker, I really feel it’s my sworn responsibility to name your consideration to at least one particular element. Nate referred to as Planet Zoo’s animals “profoundly stunning” and “delightfully real,” which extends to the bears of the arctic DLC. In many, many games with bears you’ll discover that polar bears or black bears are re-colored variations of a grizzly bear or black-ish bear all sharing the identical anatomy.
It’s an affordable concession given the calls for of game improvement. One bear mannequin will do, actually. Still, I all the time discover myself a bit upset that my beloved polar bears are simply decreased to “white black bears.” For Planet Zoo, that merely gained’t do. Look at these pretty bears and their apparent individuality. That face profile is unmistakably a polar bear. As I mentioned, I’ve been seen.
Image credit score: Bear footage submitted to the Planet Zoo wiki by TheAgent41, DeeFoxy and Frankenstein’d by me.
A free replace for all gamers has rolled out alongside the brand new DLC. According to Frontier Developments, it features a vary of fixes and enhancements corresponding to “a new aging slider to slow the animal lifecycle, immediate family members have been added to the animal info panels, new heat maps including crime and inbreeding, new nature assets, enrichment items and a range of fixes and improvements.” You can learn the complete 1.1.zero replace notes in Frontier’s Steam news post.
You can seize the Arctic Pack DLC on Steam for £8/€10/$10 or, in the event you’re getting Planet Zoo for the primary time, the presently discounted Arctic Bundle together with the bottom game for £37.51/€47.96/$47.96.
