Zoo Keeper (NDS)

Advantages: fun adictive simple gameing
Disadvantages: none as yet

...all happening down at the zoo and its still happening a year later. This game as simple and repetitive as it first appears is actually one of the most addictive puzzlers I have ever played. Any how about the game. The story is that you are an arrogant zookeeper with a history of mistreating animals. As the years pass you carry on with your old ways but why do the animals look at you with that sinister and scheming glare, and what are those scraping ...
...are that these animals aren't as dumb as they look and over the years they have been studying among other things the fine art of escapology. You wake up and clock on for another shift of your daily routine job only too find that today all your worst nightmares have come true. The animals have escaped. And they've hidden themselves on an 8 by 8 square grid. As you can guess your boss is not happy and you find your job on the line unless you buck your ... Read review

Advantages: Addictive | Easy to pick up and play | Good presentation
Disadvantages: Price may be too steep

Imagine being a real Zoo Keeper. Seemingly a pretty demanding job and not to mention a smelly one. Well in Zoo Keeper you can be one without the smell and without the chance of being bitten by one of them. It seems, though, that as cute as these ones look they aren’t too happy. Disgruntled at the behaviour of the ever-so mean, big cigar smoking chief Zoo Keeper they go on a rampage. It’s up to you, a Zoo Keeper yourself, to round them up but don’t ...
...will be instantly familiar with Zoo Keeper. In the game you need to arrange three or more animals of the same kind in a row to clear them. The more you clear the higher the score. There is also a ‘lucky’ animal each round giving you bigger points as well as the fact you can really up your score with links you can make via getting rid of the animals. You can only move animals that are next to each other and to successfully move them one of them must ... Read review

Advantages: Simple, wide appeal
Disadvantages: Limited life - gets boring

Zoo Keeper DS is a simple yet addictive puzzle game. At first, I was confused as I assumed the game was similar to Zoo Tycoon, in the respect that you build and run a zoo (I felt a bit silly when I realised my mistake!) but this game is good fun. In simple terms, you have to match three of a kind to earn points and extra time. The "blocks" are animals, and the art style and music remind me of old 8-bit games. The "How to play" in the game menu is ...
...up animals, how to "level up", the special panel (one that will remove all blocks of one animal from the board) and the binoculars (this points out where possible matches are if you're stuck.) The "Zoo Keeper" mode is the basic mode, in which you must collect a certain number of animals to "level up". For example, in Level 1, you must match up three of each animal (there are 7 different animals). Each time you level up, you must collect one more ... Read review

Advantages: Very addictive, very easy to pick up, great use of touch screen
Disadvantages: Once you have placed 1st on all game modes, 'not much left to do

...play a standard game of Zoo Keeper, where at the begining of the level you are given a selected number of animals to clear, and when you have cleared them you move up a level. The key to this is speed. You kind of have to look ahead for the next move to keep on track as the timer is counting down all the time, especially on higher levels where the timer counts down faster. This is made fun by using the sylus, as you drag the animals left, right or ...
...also a lucky animal displayed on the top screen, which gives bonus points and pulls and funny face when you capture it! Mode 2: Tokoton This game is almost the same as above, but you need to capture 100 of each animal to progress. Therefore, it takes longer to get past the first level, but once you have you'll find yourself flying ahead. The further you get through the game, the more determined you get to get to the next level. You can see how you ... Read review

A fun and addictave game, I always manage to get though quite early on. With different options this has something to appeal to all level of users.