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Fancy yourself a hunter; the most visually stunning hunting game now in open beta

The Hunter, developed by Avalanche Studios (the creators of Just Cause), promises to be the most true-to-life simulation of buck hunting ever designed. With a mixture of different gaming features, from social networking to online play, The Hunter provides a sandbox island where patience and careful planning win out over run and gun play.

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syvergy - 285 days 5 hours ago

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Wow, looks cool :)

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TreborRversed - 284 days 14 hours ago

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Somethings not right here,

Actual gaming news on this site, I think i need a lie down lol

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Sarah Palin - 284 days 3 hours ago

1.2 - this does look great

but i have played a few of these hunt/fish games, and none of them make me feel like im hunting. i mean, sure there is a huge difference between this and the real thing, just like in GHero, but with GHero, I still have fun. Hopefully this game is more fun than the others i have tried.

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xp3ll3d - 285 days 5 hours ago

2 - Shiny

Oooh graphics look nice. Wonder how virutal hunting trips in groups would go, the mmo portion of it sounds interesting

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SynGamer - 285 days 2 hours ago

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I don't think there is an MMO to this game. You don't see other hunters while playing or anything...

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Bob Dole - 284 days 8 hours ago

2.2 - @above

If you happen to see another hunter it goes into deathmatch mode.

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Cloud-1409 - 285 days 3 hours ago

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Downloading it now :)

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thereapersson - 285 days 3 hours ago

4 - My favorite PC hunting game is still Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter: II. That game was very realistic for the time it was released.

I might have to check this out, if only to relive some of the memories of hunting virtual game. :)

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chrisjc - 285 days 3 hours ago

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Sweet graphics d00d!

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peeps - 285 days 2 hours ago

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can't say i've ever felt like checking out a hunting game b4 but i reckon it might actually be quite enjoyable. gonna give this a look, not least because of the stunning graphics

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poindat - 285 days 1 hour ago

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They can be quite enjoyable, and relaxing. Takes some patience, but routing an animal, strategically placing yourself, and finally going for the kill is all very satisfying.

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TheIneffableBob - 284 days 19 hours ago

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It's a PC game. You can add Wii remote support yourself.

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SynGamer - 285 days 2 hours ago

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Great game...though the rate of seeing deer (for me at least) is very low...takes A LOT of patience.

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enkeixpress - 285 days 2 hours ago

9 - god damn it...

"Server Capacity Full"

Looks like it's been raped by many already..

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dchalfont - 285 days 1 hour ago

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i think this shi+ is wrong, but if it stops people hunting real animals... , i really don't see what sick freak would get pleasure out of watching an animal die, actually shoot a living animal like a deer or a bear and watch it die, just because....

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syvergy - 285 days 1 hour ago

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I agree that the idea of shooting a defenseless animal is wrong, but I guess the good thing about this game is that it provides an avenue for people who would most likely go out and do it in real life.

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dchalfont - 285 days 1 hour ago

10.2 - @syvergy

i'm glad someone else understands

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SynGamer - 285 days ago

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How else do you think people survived before there was fast food? While i don't like that people hunt for fun, so long as they put the meat and skin to good use, it's their choice and they are allowed to do so. My girlfriend's father got 6 deer this past season; he split the meat with the butcher and friends/family who didn't get out to hunt. He also donated the deer skin and antlers to the Longhouse so that nothing was wasted.

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Eamon - 284 days 23 hours ago

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I'm guessing both dchalfont and syvergy are vegetarians.
In which case I'd understand your views

But if one of you/both do eat meat then what's your friggin point. Animals must be killed before humans eat them.
That's just nature.

Of course it's morally wrong to make the animal suffer. Thefore, once the animal has been shot, the hunter must make sure to give them a swift death to prevent more suffering of the animal.

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wirapuru - 284 days 19 hours ago

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I can accept the argument about people hunting for food but I know, you know, a lot of people knows there's many groups out there hunting for sport, and I think that's just sick (no I'm not a veg).

I'm not criticizing the game, on the contrary, I guess it's perfect to be able to leave animals living and do it on your pc, online, with friends, whatever. We know it'll never be like real life, holding a gun and shooting defenseless creatures, but that's how civilization advances, it takes the right practices and try to avoid the bad ones, which is never easy, since the very majority always wants to keep them, but that's how has been done over the centuries and I hope one day this will be seen as it should. (lol sorry the speech, I get overexcited about this)

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likedamaster - 284 days 19 hours ago

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Sensitive to animal killing but not human killing...in games?

Be for real dude.

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wirapuru - 284 days 19 hours ago

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I really don't bother people being killed when they choose beeing in battle.

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Marquis_de_Sade - 284 days 16 hours ago

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Don't get me started. People like you infuriate me, you happily run round spouting such rubbish without taking a moment to think how we all exist this day. I can agree with your mindset regarding those who hunt purely for fun, but as someone who hunts myself, I would sooner eat meat coming from animals who have lived a free and natural life than a chicken crammed into a space where it's unable to open up it's full wingspan and force fed so much it can barely walk.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 284 days 10 hours ago

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Let's be real for a second here.

Deer population control - We need it.

Deer meat - Huge market...great for the economy.

Hicks - Keeps 'em away from Walmart.

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ChampIDC - 285 days 1 hour ago

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Gotta love a free game. I'll give it a go after work. I've always liked the idea of a hunting game, but I never seem to find the good ones.

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Eamon - 284 days 23 hours ago

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MGS3 has hunting =3

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arsenal55 - 284 days 22 hours ago

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for the people who are downloading and signed in.. please sign off the website because others cant log in

"server capacity full"

lol grrr

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billybob2468 - 284 days 12 hours ago

13 - Just a heads up...

When this game says realistic, it means it. I've wandered around for about an hour and the only clue if gotten is "hearing" a deer (a red light came up and told me that, I'm really good at hearing stuff, hehe). I haven't even stepped in any poop yet, which I'm usually really good at. The graphics are incredible, but the only thing that bugs me is there's no control settings, at all; you have to deal with what they give you, which means no inversion :(. I definitely recommend checking it out, as I completely blow at it, so I bet every single other person to try it out will be better than me. Happy Hunting!

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peeps - 284 days 6 hours ago

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yeh it's quite a relaxing game, pretty cool when the only sounds are the sounds of the forest etc. gotta have patients tho. i jumped straight in, not really knowing what i was doing and just ran around haha if i did get near to any deer they would have heard me a mile off haha gonna try again tonight now i know what i'm doing (lookin for signs etc)

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billybob2468 - 281 days 23 hours ago

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haha yeah I'm used to Fallout where it's the naked mole rats trying to attack me, not the other way around

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trgz - 284 days 5 hours ago

14 - Hang-ups

I'm interested from the perspective of game design (environment, AI etc) but have always had this this odd feeling about hunting games. I play so many FPS that I wonder why I should have such hang-ups about hunting games when taking a virtual human life, armed or not, is essentially more questionable than killing a virtual animal that you would in reality be consuming. I doubt if this sort of game is going to lead to virtual wildlife bloodbath - but perhaps players could be advised that they can only tie so many deer to the front of their virtual Jeeps!
Here's a thought, how many chickens have we launched into the air, and ultimately to their doom, in Crysis without giving it a second thought?

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devilhunterx - 284 days 5 hours ago

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Wonder if we can get D!ck Cheney skin..

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drdistracto707 - 285 days 5 hours ago

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looks pretty cool, but unfortunately im not one for hunting games...

oh well

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bujasem_89 - 284 days 18 hours ago

2 - awesome

yeah i have the game since like 1 months im tellin u its almost impossible to catch a dear seriously ive been playing for like a months and i just caught 3 and injured 1 but didnt get u can track alot of dears u might even see them alot but they are mostly way too far to shoot so when u get a little closer they sense u and just start running i would say as a simulation it is perfect down right straight to reality

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TreborRversed - 284 days 14 hours ago

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How long before the animal rights brigade show up on this one

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Shane Kim - 284 days 5 hours ago

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As long as there are alot of xbaboons to shoot I'm in for it.

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