If you love Planet Zoo, then I highly recommend the Southeast Asia DLC.
I sometimes forget I’m sat at my PC playing a game and find myself losing 3-4 hours admiring the options available. It still amazes me how detailed the animals are in Planet Zoo.
Planet Zoo 1.5 update offers multiple zoo entrances in all gameplay modes, water visual setting user interface, custom billboards, free time scenario at Scholey Manor, scenario rewards, and much more. Though I am always objective in my reviews, and the Southeast Asia DLC review is no different, I really commend Frontier for continuing to listen to their player base and make changes that gamers want to see. The pack not only brings new animals, but it also presents a new timed scenario in Perak, Malaysia, which I’ve mentioned above.Īlong with the new DLC, Frontier has released Planet Zoo’s 1.5 update which presents players with new additions and some quality-of-life changes. You can pick the Southeast Asia DLC pack up for £7.99/€9.99/$9.99 USD. The latest paid DLC introduces eight new creatures. The timed scenario has several goals, including having a set amount of unique animals, a specific park rating, and paying off a loan, which made managing money harder than I had expected. But of course, you can now run a sandbox game with the new map, so if you are like me and loved it, you can make it your own without the need to rush. The only issue with a timed scenario is that I worry I will make the park look worse by the time I’m done with it and you don’t really get time to make things look nice. Personally, I find the visuals on Planet Zoo often takes my attention away from the task at hand, so when I’m doing a timed scenario, it’s not helping that I keep stopping to admire the level of detail on enclosures, like ivy climbing up the walls, and the cool bare cave in the new Southeast Asia packs Sun Bear enclosure. So, for me, it was genuinely nice to jump into a scenario and get some inspiration, but being a tad rusty at the game, I did fail on the medium setting on my first attempt. I had taken a small break from Planet Zoo to go back to Planet Coaster, but this time on the console edition. In-fact, it’s been an inspiration for my current Franchise Zoo, which now thanks to the DLC I’m going to have to redesign a bit to implement some of these cool ideas taken from Kuala Bintu Taman.Īs you can see from the image above, there are some innovative designs on the viewing points for enclosures, placing sections of the fencing below ground, something I hadn’t thought about before, yet so simple. The new map for the timed scenario is stunning, the challenge park in which you take over has been extremely well designed. While the Franchise mode is what it’s all about for me, I tend to play the timed scenarios when they come out with a DLC as I think they’re a wonderful way to peek at some of the updated content DLC’s provide.