ZoolorettoZooloretto is a new release from the Chillingo Ltd collection of games.  As with their other titles, the graphics and sound are top quality.  If you are familiar with the Zooloretto board game, you know what this is.  If not, and you are expecting something like Zoo Tycoon, this isn’t it.  Zooloretto is a turn-based and card-based zoo building game.  The goal is to fill your zoo and gain more visitors than your opponants.  A game has between three and five players.  At least one, yourself, has to be human.  The others can be either human or computer.  Game play allows for the picking of a card containing an animal, vending machines, or money to be spent.  Animals are loaded on trucks and, if you choose to select one of the trucks instead of a card, you can unload it’s content of up to three items in your zoo.  The more animals you have in an enclosure, the more visitors you draw.

While there is a bit of strategy to be employed here, it is a simple enough game that kids should be able to master it to play against each other and/or a parent.  I am not sure that it will hold the attention of an adult for a long period of time though as a solo entertainment option.  As such, it is something I’d recommend for the iPhone user with children, but not as something to challenge your IQ.  Hopefully they can release a lite version to try it and see before spending $4.99 on it though.