Playing strategy during levels also changes a lot because of two big changes: introduction of experience points and elimination of level score. My primary goal is to get all eight aquariums available and decorated as soon as possible, but it may take much time anyway. As a result, now I care much less about cups. Cups also don't give any direct bonus - only some experience points are awarded for winning a cup. The number of fish which can live in one tank increases after consecutive cups are won, but I think it looks better anyway with just a small group of fish - even though buying each fish also gives experience points and a few experience points are gained for feeding each one. It also means that now cups are awarded for beauty only - a certain amount of decorations with the right amount of beauty points. Now you can feed the fish and clean the tank manually (and get some points for it), but no more buying of equipment such as water pumps, feeder, filter. The cup system has been completely revamped. The tank now also becomes less crowded in terms of fish living there.

No more worrying that they will be hardly visible in the background - you can make them bigger if you want to. Another welcome feature is that pieces can be resized. Now there's much available space in some parts of the background too. In 'Fishdom 2' the background-only area began relatively close to the front of the screen and no decorations could be put there. It's because there is more space for them. In 'Fishdom 3' the ancient Greece-styled aquarium is getting a bit too crowded, but generally in most tanks it's possible to keep decorations reasonably apart. And yet such a lot of decorations is needed to win a golden cup. In 'Fishdom 2' - especially in the Egyptian tank - all these decorations started obscuring one another, it was hard to put them in a way that would at least leave all the most beautiful parts of each one visible. However, the game progresses very slowly.Īltogether, I like the game's graphics very much and what I like even more is that in 'Fishdom 3' it seems a bit less crowded and more customizable. So from this point of view 'Fishdom 3' is a lot of improvement. So I was a bit disappointed to discover that, after you get golden cups for three aquariums in 'Fishdom 2' and are able to buy a new tank - there is no new style, only a possibility to get another tank in one of the known styles.

I can't seem to get enough when it comes to beautiful graphics.

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