Deer Hunter Tournament is looking to fill the competitive sportsman niche with a hunting simulation that features extensive tournament options and worldwide stat tracking. Gamespot recently took a look at this upcoming sim to see what interested hunters can expect out of it.
Before jumping into the tournament market, Deer Hunter has been one of the most popular hunting sims throughout the years, and the actual gameplay will feel familiar to those who have spent time with prior games. The key here is patience, as well as using the right techniques and equipment. You'll need to make several decisions in the field, like whether to bait, track, pursue on foot, or build a stand in the trees. You also need to consider the environment. If an animal is downwind from you, for example, you're out of luck because odds are it can smell you and doesn't appreciate your presence. If it's a particularly nasty animal, such as a grizzly bear, and you're not careful, you might meet your untimely demise in the form of a vicious mauling. To help you learn all the techniques, the game will feature nine different tutorials.
While the hunting itself maintains the same attention to detail as in the previous games, the big new addition is in the aforementioned tournament options.SouthLogic was looking to maintain a close hunting community with frequent, sponsored tournaments and online club options. So you'll be able to take part in the big, official tournaments or simply assemble your own with automatically tracked statistics and winners.
The game may occupy an especially niche market, but these community enhancements should appeal to those dedicated fans of the series, which realistic sim games have been known to garner. If you consider yourself one, you can expect Deer Hunter Tournament to arrive in the fall for the PC and Xbox 360.
The Top 10 Hunting Games - Images & HD Videos. Some are free hunting games online, some are for the pc, and some are for console games such as the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
If you are an avid hunter or a gamer looking for a realistic hunting experience then the below list is just what you are looking for.
When you're finally able to find an animal to shoot, the kills are rewarding thanks to realistic body physics, but those moments are so few and far between that it's hard to justify the effort spent searching for them. Even if the multiplayer is tempting, odds are the overall lack of polish will be too off-putting for most gamers.
Even for $20, there is such an abundance of annoying sound, graphical, and gameplay glitches that hunting fans would be better served picking up an older game in the series or buying a better shooter and pretending their enemies are prey. Sure, the humans in Far Cry 2 might not be deer, but the environments are much more realistic, and there's no game like the most dangerous game.
If it wasn't clear from the title, this game isn't for everybody. With that said you can tell developer Southlogic Studios loves the sport. The single player gives you a good sense of the desolate wild and at times you will feel like you're really out in the wilderness. However, this game requires a lot of patience. You can play for an hour and not find an animal worth killing; the game will probably bore non-hunting fans. To be frank, IGN would like to give this game a higher score, but the number of bugs and tweaks that need to be fixed really does hamper the package as a whole. With that said, this game isn't a bad value for the hardcore hunter at $20.
Presentation - 6.5
Graphics - 6.5
Sound - 7.5
Gameplay - 6.5
Lasting Appeal - 5.5
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