Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2005 Adventures

Hunting’s Ultimate Adventure

NA release: 9th December 2004
EU release: N/A
JP release: N/A
Developer: Magic Wand Productions
Publisher: Activision
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Mods Used: None

Hunting for sport is something I personally don’t understand. Perhaps it’s to do with being British, here hunting is just rich people getting dogs to viciously tear foxes apart, but it still seems odd to me. Video games make even less sense, as they just seem like first person shooters where you roam empty environments, find a defenceless creature and kill it.

And that’s exactly what this seems to be. Animals have a red arrow over their heads and you just slowly amble (you can swap between first and third person) and shoot in their general direction. I didn’t even have to try aiming that well against a polar bear, I just shot it and it ran away and died.

In the campaign, you need to enter lodges to get permission to kill certain animals, head out, kill them and sell them for money. You’ll sometimes have objectives to hunt animals wounded by other hunters to put them out of their misery, but making money seems to be the main thing. I don’t get it, the gameplay is just a dreadful shooter.

Poor

Adding the adventure aspects to a Cabela hunting game is a good idea that needs to be expanded upon. It would be nice to see a character’s skills increase with specific accomplishments like long range kills and clean shots. A more in depth tutorial would make the game more accessible and could easily tie in with the other hunters that populate some of the regions.
David Clayman, IGN

Remake or remaster?

Nothing for this.

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