Any good zookeeper knows you have to keep the same types of animals together. In Zoo Lasso, you work your way up through eleven levels of loop-drawing fun to group and remove the same species from the screen before it gets too crowded.

Review
Zoo Lasso is the first release from Launching Pad Games, and they’ve done a nice job for their first effort.

Game play is very simple: animals appear, and you draw a circle around the same species to clear them from the screen. Draw figure-eight shapes with one species in each loop for more points. The more loops, the higher the multiplier you earn. The screen gradually becomes more and more crowded, so you have to move quickly to keep it from becoming too full and thus ending your game. A turtle crosses the screen occasionally; circle him and earn of few seconds of frozen time. This gives you the chance to clear as many animals as possible before any new ones appear.

With each level achieved a message flashes on the screen, notifying you of your new rank, and a fresh background appears, which keeps things interesting.

The graphics are cute and charming and very polished. The music is just your average, peppy background tune, but you can listen to your music from your library by going to your iPod and starting your playlist and then opening the game and tapping “No” when asked if you want sounds enabled.

There’s not a lot too this game, but it’s still quite addictive to keep re-playing to better your score. I think it’s a good example of less-is-more, and it gives the developer room to easily update with new levels and animals. It’s also great when you just want to play a little five-minute game.

Zoo Lasso is OpenFeint enabled, so you can share high-scores with your friends, although I never had any luck connecting, just a Score Processing message for several minutes.

Recommendation

I recommend this game for younger kids, I think they’ll really enjoy the cute animals and quick action. Zoo Lasso is just 99 cents in the app store.

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Note: A promotional code was provided by the creator for use in this article.

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