Wildlife Park 3

61%
Game Brain Score Based on 192 reviews
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  • story
  • gameplay
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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.

  • PC
  • Windows
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Reviews

61%
Audience ScoreBased on 192 reviews
graphics11 positive mentions
gameplay4 negative mentions
  • The game features a wide variety of animals and realistic animal behaviors, making it enjoyable for animal lovers.
  • The graphics are decent for a simulation game, with detailed animal models and environments.
  • The game offers a nostalgic experience reminiscent of classic zoo management games like Zoo Tycoon.
  • The user interface is cluttered and unintuitive, making it difficult to navigate and manage the zoo effectively.
  • The game suffers from performance issues, including lag and crashes, especially in larger parks.
  • Many players find the gameplay repetitive and lacking in depth, with limited animal variety and frustrating guest AI.
  • graphics43 mentions

    The graphics of the game have received mixed reviews, with many users noting that they appear dated and low-tech, especially for a title released in 2014. While some players appreciate the realistic animal designs and find the graphics visually appealing, others criticize the overall aesthetic and performance issues, including lag and glitches. Overall, the graphics are seen as a significant aspect that could benefit from improvement, particularly in terms of optimization and modernity.

    • “The graphics are stunning.”
    • “The graphics are absolutely amazing!”
    • “The graphics still hold up, and it is one of the most fun simulators I've seen in a while.”
    • “The graphics are dated and feel very low tech.”
    • “The overall aesthetic design of this game is atrocious.”
    • “The graphic design seen in the UI, main menu, even to the closing screen, are amateurish at best; I prefer the UI in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, and that game is over a decade old.”
  • story17 mentions

    The game's story is primarily conveyed through a series of missions that are interconnected, providing an overarching plot. However, players have noted that the narrative can become tedious and repetitive, especially as they progress, with some feeling that the story loses depth and coherence over time. While the missions are generally enjoyable and add to the gameplay experience, they can also lead to frustration due to their demands and the lack of engagement with the player's own park.

    • “I can tell you the entire story of my experience with WP3.”
    • “Missions - there's an overarching plot throughout that ties them all together.”
    • “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?”
    • “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.”
    • “(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.)”
  • gameplay17 mentions

    Gameplay in this title is characterized by a repetitive and often tedious focus on managing the happiness of animals, plants, and guests, which can feel overwhelming and frustrating. While some players appreciate the slower pace and depth, many find the mechanics shallow and the overall experience lacking, with issues such as freezing and unclear instructions further detracting from enjoyment. Overall, the game struggles with balance, offering limited scenarios and a need for more diverse content to keep players engaged.

    • “The gameplay is slower (much slower), which can be good or bad, depending on your level of patience and how in-depth you want to go in the game.”
    • “As for the gameplay, it is obviously a zoo tycoon type.”
    • “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.”
  • optimization9 mentions

    The optimization of the game has received significant criticism, with users reporting poor performance even on high-end systems, often experiencing frame rates as low as 5-30 fps during gameplay, particularly when expanding the zoo or during weather effects. Many players express frustration over the game's excessive demands for decorations, which they feel detracts from the core experience. Additionally, issues such as long load times and crashes further exacerbate the overall negative perception of the game's optimization.

    • “Even with a high-performance PC, the FPS drops significantly after you start expanding the zoo or during different weather effect animations.”
    • “The performance is around 30 FPS with a massively built-up park, and I have a very powerful computer (i7 7700K, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and a 1080 Ti Extreme Edition). I blame most of this on the guests' need for 50 plants per square foot.”
    • “Funny thing is, the developers decided to release a DLC while ignoring the performance issues that have been mentioned several times in community discussions.”
    • “The performance is around 30 fps with a massively built-up park, and I have a very powerful computer (i7 7700k, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, and a 1080 Ti Extreme Edition). I blame most of this on the guests' need for 50 plants per square foot.”
    • “It isn't optimized to run smoothly; opening menus causes crashes and long load times. You have to wait for the game to run through it.”
    • “Even with a high-performance PC, the fps drops significantly after you start expanding the zoo or during different weather effect animations.”
  • stability5 mentions

    The game's stability is generally acceptable, but players report numerous unresolved glitches and graphical issues that detract from the overall experience. While the simulation aspects are solid, the presence of rough edges and bugs suggests that the game could benefit from further polish.

    • “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.”
  • grinding3 mentions

    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 the limited variety of species, contribute to a sense of monotony and stress, making the gameplay feel like a chore rather than an enjoyable experience.

    • “Wildlife Park 3 unfortunately becomes something of a tedious chore as you play.”
    • “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.”
  • music3 mentions

    The music in the game is generally criticized for being annoying, repetitive, and monotonous, with some users finding the voice acting to be tacky as well. Despite these shortcomings, some players still enjoy the overall gameplay experience.

    • “The music in the game is incredibly catchy and enhances the overall experience.”
    • “I love how the soundtrack perfectly matches the game's atmosphere, making every moment feel epic.”
    • “The variety of music tracks keeps the gameplay fresh and engaging, making me want to play for hours.”
    • “The music is just annoying and repetitive.”
    • “The music is really repetitive.”
    • “The music is monotonous and the voice acting is incredibly tacky.”
  • emotional1 mentions

    Players find the game emotionally engaging, highlighting the enjoyable interactions with animals and the whimsical nature of the missions, which contribute to a lighthearted and fun experience.

  • humor1 mentions

    The humor in the game is often overshadowed by community frustrations, particularly regarding the developers' decision to release a DLC without addressing significant performance issues, leading to a mix of irony and disappointment among players.

  • replayability1 mentions

    Players appreciate the variety of maps available for creating parks, which enhances the game's replayability by offering new experiences and challenges with each playthrough.

    • “There are a variety of maps available to create more parks, which greatly enhances the replay value.”
    • “The game offers numerous maps that allow for the construction of different parks, significantly boosting its replayability.”
    • “With a wide selection of maps to build parks on, the replay value of the game is impressive.”
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