[b][center][size=25]GAME DESCRIPTION
It used to be that hunting videogames were right up there with waiting
in line at the DMV in terms of thrills and excitement. But all that has
changed... at least in my town, when the DMV implemented a ticket
system so that people could wander about and munch on some hot dogs and
enjoy themselves without having to stand in line. As for videogame
hunting, Cabela's Outdoor Adventures stands firm in the stance that
hunting is for the amazing patient and nobody else. So for those who
are excited about a decent simulation that nails the experience of
watching a decoy for an hour or few to get a good shot, this is pretty
much the one for you.
Cabela's Outdoor Adventures sticks to the genre in that it provides a
bunch of different locations, each with multiple seasons, which can be
explored for hunting trips. There's a wide selection of rifles,
shotguns, bows, handguns, and fishing rods to be used to nab some
animals. There are also plenty of accessories such as scents, decoys,
and stands that can be used to help out. The beginner mode supplies an
animal radar system and provides an auto-aim feature, but the meat of
the game is in the simulation aspects. This means lots of long, long,
long waits where you forget what you were doing, go grab a sandwich,
and then come rushing back to the controller because you just
remembered you were supposed to wait for some deer to show up. And then
you fall asleep.
A good friend of mine once described hunting as a combination of
meditation and primal killing instinct. The killing instinct makes
sense, as does the meditation bit, but when placed into a game there's
that whole fun factor that is sorely lacking unless you have a desire
to keep your hunting and waiting skills honed to a razor-fine edge. If
you thought that the Splinter Cell games needed levels that were five
hours long, then this is for you.
Fortunately, Cabela's Outdoor Adventures has gone a little ways to
improve the look of the game. The models are better detailed and the
textures have improved a bit. It's nothing to get excited about, but
it's less of an abomination than before and has moved on into the realm
of decent to slightly above decent. The land has plenty of terrain to
explore and there's a good variety of the different locations in the
game.
And yet there are still plenty of technical problems that get in the
way of some of the realism. The game is all about stealth and sneaking,
but for some reason the developers made it so that walking slowly is
damn tough. Push the left analog stick a teensy tiny bit and you're
sneaking. You feel like you're almost upon a buck, but then your left
thumb slips ever so insignificantly forward and you're off on a full
run, scaring your prey to the other side of the map. Crouching is much
easier for slow movement, but there's no need for a tiptoe to be such a
delicate maneuver.
The forest is beautiful here, but the trees can be such a beast. Items
in the game are given a large boundary box that make the character stop
dead a few feet away from a tree or a fence. The problem is that two
trees that are a good eight feet apart will form an invisible wall.
Many a good hunt was ruined while slowly tracking a buck by having to
completely reroute and waste time.
And yet none of these problems come close to the absolute terror that
can be instilled by the fishing system. There's no need to fish here,
really. And there certainly isn't a need to have a fishing mini-game
that plays out the exact same way every time and requires a strategy of
waiting for the game to tell you what buttons to push. It's beyond
awful. And having a "challenge" where you need to catch 10 fish is pure
punishment.
Closing Comments
The presentation of hunting has been improved, but the "action" of
hunting is still a mystery for those who are fans of something called a
"game." With so many glaring errors and a fishing system that was
developed in a couple days there's little to like. As a simulator of a
long and slow sport, Cabela's Outdoor Adventures succeeds, but can't it
be a little more fun next time? Please?
الثلاثاء ديسمبر 22, 2009 5:22 am من طرف 
موضوع: افضل لعبه صيد مجمعه فى العالم Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 2010 
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XP (with Service Pack 3) and DirectX
7800 GT 256 MB and better chipsets
