Wildlife Park

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Wildlife Park
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Developer(s) B-Alive GmbH
Publisher(s) Deep Silver
JoWood Productions
Encore Software Inc.
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
ReleaseDecember 8, 2003
Genre(s) Construction and management sim
Mode(s) Single-player

Wildlife Park is a construction and management simulation game released in 2003. Like Zoo Tycoon and Zoo Empire , the game involves players in building a wildlife park or zoo. The game spawned two sequels.[ citation needed ]

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Reception

The game received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review score aggregator Metacritic. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Wildlife Park Critic Reviews for PC". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved April 24, 2015.