Animal Resort Will Put Extinct Animals in Game Zoo

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Animal Resort Will Put Extinct Animals in Game Zoo

Dodos? Mammoths? Quaggas? Oh, my.

Marvelous Entertainment's upcoming zoo sim for the 3DS, Animal Resort, is reportedly pretty dang cute. It's got penguins and polar bears and pandas, but now it turns out that the game is going to features a number of extinct species, too.

The title is set to include roughly 100 species of animals, but Marvelous has revealed that some of these animals have been long dead. According to Andriasang, animals like dodo birds, wooly mammoths, and <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga>quaggas (an extinct subspecies of plains zebra) will make an appearance in the title.

If you haven't heard about the game before now, here's a quick summary. Players start off inheriting a defunct zoo from their grandfather and reopening it with only a single elephant to show off to the public. From there, they have to rebuild the zoo's animal population and keep them happy so visitors will enjoy watching them in their habitats.

Animal Resort is currently scheduled to be released in Japan on May 19th, with a North American and European release "soon after."

Source: Andriasang


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[mistwolf]

Dodos, the sad intersection of dumb, tasty, and geologically isolated.

 

[Virgilthepagan]

It's interesting they're using extinct species, I wonder if the Thycaline will be in it.

 

[Canid117]

Can we hunt them to extinction all over again?

 

[Catchy Slogan]

Zoo Tycoon, anyone?

Damn, Ninja'd

OT: Well even Zoo Tycoon had an expansion pack which let you have extinct animals. Dinosaurs no less.

But this is pretty cool.

 

[Yopaz]

This actually sounds a bit interesting, I might check it out if I ever get time.

 

[C117]

Wee! Dodos! The most awesome bird in the history of the universe (with the possible exception of those small, black penguins)!

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I might get this, it reminds me of the first game i ever played. i forgot its name but it had terrible graphics boring game-play and i loved it heaps.

 

[Bob the frantic]

Great, now I can play with imaginary extinct animals while I neglect everything else.
If I get this, I am definitely going to make a resort full of extinct animals. Like Jurassic Park, but without the mosquito DNA (It was the cause of all the problems, you know)

Captcha: henithic Rufticus - are these even words?

 

[jaoblia]

It's interesting they're using extinct species, I wonder if the Thycaline will be in it.

Dear god NO!! No thylacines man, NONE for the love of GOD no thylacines, those things are horrible.