Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2

Take on the World’s Most Dangerous Animals

NA release: 15th November 2005
EU release: N/A
JP release: N/A
Developer: Magic Wand Productions
Publisher: Activision
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Mods Used: None

While I’ve compared previous Cabela’s hunting games to clunky first person shooters, they’ve still had proper hunting mechanics and having to “track” animals, even if they were pretty much terrible at it. Dangerous Hunts 2 takes a different approach, being a much more standard linear first person shooter.

It’s still a pretty bad example of a first person shooter, even ignoring the fact that all the enemies are animals. There’s just nothing interesting about it and most levels give you a completely incompetent person following you, turning the whole game into an escort mission.

The animals in the game just lunge at you (or your ally if it’s a designated “protect” second) without much thought, often just jumping out of bushes you can’t see though at an attempt at a jump scare. I will say that the shooting mechanics are more sophisticated than the regular Cabela games, but this also ditches everything that made them different. It does have some quite nice looking grass for the time, if I did have to stretch for a compliment.

Poor

This isn’t a hunting game. There’s a lot of shooting, but you won’t be tracking down any animals with any sort of strategy. The hunting area levels give you some freedom to move around and take down a foe, but it’s still find animal, shoot and kill. As a first person shooter, this game has some neat features like a block and slow motion, but it’s not enough the save the game.
Charles Onyett, IGN

Remake or remaster?

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