Wildlife Park 3

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Wildlife Park 3 is a single player casual strategy game. It was developed by b-alive gmbh and was released on May 12, 2014. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

In Wildlife Park 3, manage your own unique zoo and create animal habitats with various enclosures, buildings, and plants. Oversee a team of staff, ensure financial stability, and maintain the well-being of realistically animated animals. With exciting campaigns, a free play mode, and terraforming tools, build the zoo of your dreams and promote conservation efforts.

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Audience ScoreBased on 384 reviews

graphics22 positive mentions

gameplay8 negative mentions

The game offers a nostalgic experience reminiscent of Zoo Tycoon, with a variety of animals and engaging gameplay.
Graphics are decent for a simulation game, with realistic animal designs and interactions.
The game provides a good level of customization for building parks and managing animals, making it enjoyable for fans of the genre.

The user interface is cluttered and unintuitive, making it difficult to navigate and understand controls.
Performance issues are prevalent, with frequent lag and crashes, especially in larger parks.
Many players find the game repetitive and frustrating due to demanding guests and animals, as well as limited animal variety and small map sizes.

graphics
86 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics of the game have received mixed reviews, with many players noting that they appear dated and low-tech, especially for a title released in 2014. While some appreciate the realistic animal designs and find the visuals pleasing, others criticize the overall aesthetic and performance issues, including lag and poor optimization. Overall, the graphics are seen as a weak point, with many hoping for improvements in future updates.
- “The graphics are absolutely amazing!”
- “The graphics are stunning.”
- “The graphics are beautiful and the animals are a bit more realistic looking than Zoo Tycoon 2.”
- “Just don't waste your money, the graphics are dated, some of the needs are an extreme annoyance, more so when you meet them but the damn AI can't work out when it's right on top of it.”
- “The overall aesthetic design of this game is atrocious.”
- “It seems they took out all the good stuff, added some bad stuff, somehow made the graphics worse yet I still only get 16-30 fps on medium settings, which for a zoo sim game shouldn't happen.”
story
34 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's story is primarily conveyed through a series of missions that initially present an engaging overarching plot, but many players feel that the narrative loses momentum as they progress, becoming repetitive and disconnected from their park's development. While secondary missions add variety and fun, they can also lead to frustration, particularly when they interfere with completing main objectives. Overall, the story is seen as a backdrop to the gameplay rather than a compelling narrative driving the experience.
- “Missions - there's an overarching plot throughout that ties them all together.”
- “I do recommend it to anyone that enjoys creating your own park, doing quests and taking care of animals.”
- “The missions have been interesting so far.”
- “I'm sure going through the missions and stuff it will tell you, but I mean come on, who wants to do missions for the next week to understand what any of the controls mean?”
- “(Also, often during the missions where you have to get a certain amount of stars, it gets really boring and partly frustrating to go all over the park to find one house and readjust the prizes again and again.)”
- “This is especially annoying because it's the reason the game won't let me finish some missions, because all plants have to be satisfied.”
gameplay
34 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Gameplay in this title has received mixed reviews, with many players finding the mechanics of managing animals, plants, and guests to be repetitive and tedious. The slower pace can be a double-edged sword, appealing to some but frustrating for others, especially given the game's technical issues like freezing. Overall, while the game offers a zoo tycoon experience, it suffers from a lack of depth and clarity, leading to a shallow gameplay experience that may not satisfy all players.
- “As for the gameplay, it is obviously a zoo tycoon type.”
- “I will say that I think more animals need to be added to the game and it could benefit from several more scenarios for more hours of gameplay, but now that I am able to play it, I recommend it.”
- “After about a couple of hours of gameplay and completing the tutorial and several missions, I want to weigh in on what this game has to offer.”
- “The mechanic of keeping every single animal, plant, and guest happy becomes obnoxiously pedestrian and hair-pullingly repetitive.”
- “The gameplay grows shallow after little play.”
- “Everything else, as far as the small bugs go, pales in comparison to the sheer lack of gameplay that can be found in this.”
optimization
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's optimization is widely criticized, with players reporting significant performance issues even on high-end PCs, resulting in low frame rates (around 5-30 fps) during gameplay, especially when expanding the zoo or during weather effects. Many users express frustration over the game's excessive demands for decorations and plants, which further exacerbate performance problems. Despite community feedback, developers have not prioritized fixing these issues, leading to a consensus that the game is not worth the investment due to its poor optimization.
- “Funny thing is, the developers decided to release a DLC but ignored fixing the performance issues that have been mentioned several times in community discussions.”
- “They all have stars to indicate their performance.”
- “It isn't optimized to run smoothly; opening menus causes crashes and long load times, and you have to wait for the game to run through it.”
- “This is running on a Windows 10 OS with 16 GB of memory, a GeForce GTX 970, and a 2 terabyte storage drive. There is no reason for this game to run poorly, but it does. The idea may have been decent, not great, but decent; however, due to optimization and other major issues, the game isn't worth the money.”
- “Even with a high-performance PC, the FPS drops significantly after you start expanding the zoo or during different weather effect animations.”
stability
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's stability is generally considered acceptable, but players report numerous unresolved glitches and graphical issues that detract from the overall experience. While the graphics are not expected to be cutting-edge for a 2014 title, the presence of rough edges and bugs remains a concern for many users.
- “It's good, however there are many unsolved glitches in the game.”
- “I purchased this game around the time Zoo Tycoon's 'Ultimate Animal Collection' was released in 2018, a game that notoriously bombed with audiences because of its buggy nature and shameful lack of creative control for the player.”
- “Graphics and animations are really important in a game like this, and there are quite a few rough edges and graphical glitches.”
grinding
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Players find the grinding aspect of Wildlife Park 3 to be tedious and frustrating, particularly as the game progresses. The repetitive tasks, such as managing an overwhelming number of animals and dealing with a limited selection, contribute to a sense of monotony and stress, making the gameplay feel more like a chore than an enjoyable experience.
- “Wildlife Park 3 unfortunately becomes something of a tedious chore as you play.”
- “That's pretty understandable no matter what, but it just gets tedious near the end of the game when you are constantly having to go back to your rabbit enclosure because your only female rabbit had 8 kids, and now, counting the breeding male and female you probably have, you have ten rabbits.”
- “The limited animal selection is boring, the campaigns are tedious, and the park leveling system is incredibly stressful.”
music
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is widely criticized for being annoying, repetitive, and monotonous, with some reviewers also finding the voice acting to be tacky. Despite these shortcomings, players still express enjoyment of the game overall.
- “The music is monotonous and the voice acting incredibly tacky.”
- “While the game has some flaws with lagging when going at highest speed, the music is really repetitive.”
- “Music is just annoying and repetitive.”
emotional
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The emotional aspect of the game is characterized by a lighthearted and whimsical atmosphere, with players enjoying the fun interactions with animals and engaging missions that evoke a sense of joy and playfulness.
humor
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is often highlighted through ironic situations, particularly the developers' decision to release a DLC while neglecting to address persistent performance issues, which has become a point of community amusement.
replayability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Players appreciate the high replayability of the game due to the variety of maps available for creating parks, allowing for diverse gameplay experiences.
- “There's a bunch of maps to create more parks, which enhances the replay value.”
- “There's a variety of maps available for building parks, contributing positively to the game's replayability.”