You have to collect donations and make money through other means so you can expand your zoo. You have to build snack bars and souvenir shops and draw in guests and keep them happy, too. You have to build exhibits for animals and keep them happy. It's the sequel to Wildlife Park (released in 2003) - the game is actually known as Wildlife Park 2 everywhere except in the United States - and it's a lot like that earlier game, not to mention all the other zoo tycoon games that have ever come out. They've been pretty, they've allowed you to build zoos, but that's about it.Įnter Wildlife Zoo. Every zoo tycoon game that has since come out (including Zoo Tycoon 2 in 2004) has been aimed at families and casual gamers, and they've all left me bored. It wasn't a great game, but it was challenging, its expansion packs were well made, and it's one of the few tycoon games that I've played that I wouldn't mind going back and playing again someday. I liked the original Zoo Tycoon (released in 2001). Terraforming options allow zoo keepers to create dry savannahs, mountain peaks, looming waterfalls, or swampy wetlands, and with over 100 available buildings, items, enclosures, and decorative extras, virtual park designers are equipped to provide paying guests a comfortable wildlife experience that will keep them coming back for more. Blasting News should never be in the position of having to verify these factors after a story has been broadcasted or published.Wildlife Zoo involves the fun and responsibilities that come with running a successful zoo, including animal care, landscaping, staffing, and keeping visitors happy. This requires deciding whether it is editorially justifiable to let the source speak anonymously, and having confidence that the source is in fact the same one mentioned in the content and is justified as reliable to speak on the information in question. To use an anonymous source, the Blaster must have the written consent of a Blasting News editorial team member.Ī Blasting News editorial team member will grant consensus if the source is considered to be credible and reliable, and if there is substantial journalistic justification for using the source’s information without attribution. The decision to use an anonymous source is not a decision made solely by the Blaster. We use information from anonymous sources to tell important stories that would otherwise go unreported. Keep promises.īlasters can not take information from anonymous sources without the approval of a Blasting News central employee. Clarify conditions attached to any promise made in exchange for information. If the only way to publish a story is to use anonymous sources, the writer owes it to the readers to identify the source as clearly as possible without exposing the identity of the individual who has been granted anonymity.Īlways question sources’ motives before promising anonymity. To protect their credibility and the credibility of their stories, Blasters must use every possible avenue to confirm and attribute information before relying on unnamed sources. If news consumers don’t have faith that the stories they are reading or watching are accurate and fair, or if they suspect information attributed to an anonymous source has been fabricated, then the journalists effectively lose all of their credibility.
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