Safari Photo Africa: Wild Earth review

Photo shoot-'em-up

GamesRadar+ Verdict

Pros

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    Pride taken for snapshots

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    Open world is breathtaking

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    Taking pictures is serene

Cons

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    Desire to hurt animals

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    Kinda limited in scope

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    Photos of elephant poo

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How do you ma𒉰ke children enjoy, rather than feel insulted by, edutainment games? Well, getting them to take photos of elephant poo and urinating rhinos is not a bad start.

This Animal Planet-branded FPPS (first-person photography shooter) will make your child a better person in three ways: 1) education about the animal kingdom, such as why male lions are chauvinist pigs, 2) a vague sense of how photography works, and 3) a grasp of how to navigate an open 3D environmen♛t using the WADS keys and mouselook, thus making significant progress towards becoming an accomplished gamer in later life.

For a kids' game, it's outstanding. It's rather one-note and the Spartan graphics engine makes lions look a little too Plasticine-faced, but the openness of the world, the animation (a galloping herd of giraffe is a genuinely stunning sight) and the thought behind the situations you have to photograph are all remarkable. Take a photo, whether for one of the specific objectives or just because it looks interesting, and the game will intuit a title and store it in a digital album: "nervous elephant" or "crocodile snapping," for inst🍎ance. Meanwhile, a pair of invisible commentators sparkily share factoids about what you're shooting and, charmingly, at the end of each assignment, the photos you've taken will be used to ♎illustrate an article in a fictional wildlife magazine. This caused an odd degree of pride in even this jaded hack, so it will surely enrapture the mind of a child.

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GenreAction
DescriptionSnap photos in the African wilderness with this interactive travelogue.
PlatformPC
US censor ratingEveryone
Release date16 November 2006 (US), 16 November 2006 (UK)
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