Zoo Tycoon: New Shores Review - Hiss!! Stop Hissing In My Ear

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Build your dream zoo with more choices than ever with Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game - New Shores!
Dive into aquatic worlds featuring manatees, sea turtles, zebra sharks, and more. Feel the cold breeze from the new type of enclosures featuring polar species such as the majestic polar bear, penguins, and muskox. Additionally, the world of Australian wildlife takes center stage: crocodiles, kangaroos, and koalas guarantee you lots of excited visitors.
Discover three different biomes with 24 new main species (represented by over 230 beautiful animal meeples) and 10 co-Species. In addition, a large vivarium is now also an integral part of your zoo. Choose from 48 animal species - fishes, reptiles, amphibians, and more - to fill the vivarium according to your wishes. It's up to you again to decide which direction you want to take. Do you design your vivarium with a focus on conservation, education, or popularity?
Get the full zoo experience with this first and final expansion of Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game - New Shores. Watch the zoo of your dreams come true, right in front of you!
Gameplay
New Shores complements the gameplay of Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game without making it more complicated. Since a completely new Animal Exchange with 3 new biomes and over 80 new species is available, there is an enormous amount to discover and familiar strategies to rethink. In addition, reptiles, aquatic/semiaquatic animals, and the vivarium bring exciting changes to the game mechanics. Especially the vivarium provides new strategic options that you should take advantage of. So, the game experience remains familiar but still refreshingly different.
With the modular Animal Exchange that comes with New Shores, you can mix and match old and new species for endless combinations of zoo fun. Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game has never been so diverse!
BGG Link - boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4...
TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Introduction & Notes
0:00:50 - Zoo Tycoon Overview
0:01:25 - What the Expansion Adds
0:09:10 - Thoughts on the New Content
0:14:20 - Final Thoughts
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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[@lonniestewart8428]

I believe I read that they are trying to streamline some things in the rulebook to make it more clear and less fiddly.
I’m not certain what those changes are exactly, but I thought I’d share.

[@beornthebear9023]

I was really hoping for a new rulebook and better player aids hopefully they will add those. I liked my play of zoo tycoon but has only gotten played once due to the teaching difficulty

[@Jonaelize]

there is a 2nd edition reworked rulebook you can add in the pledge manager

[@buddyberglund]

You didn't answer the big burning question, though, and having not looked at the Kickstarter, I actually don't know the answer... Does the expansion add Giraffes? 😄

[@BoardGameCo]

Lol no it doesn't.

[@lmedved5000]

There’s giraffes in the base game.

[@OnlyHeStandsThere-Healer]

You silly serpent!

[@BoardGameCo]

Lol

[@EfrainRiveraJunior]

Based on this review, I'll make my final choice.

[@BoardGameCo]

Good luck!

[@wiblick]

I have never played my original Zoo Tycoon and so should probably give this a miss….