This game is a travesty. An insult! It rips at the very essence of my soul.
All I want to do is engage in the fine Art of ''Canadian-Hunting''.
In where I take a large vehicle, accelerate it to well over 100 km and speed down a narrow road, while holding a rifle in one hand and a cup of horrible Tim Hortons coffee in the other.
Steering the vehicle with my knees, trying to shoot whatever Wild game I can find in the wilderness. Simultaneously attempting not to spill my coffee on my crotch.
But alas the game doesn't let me do this.
I suppose the technology just wasn't there for such an amazing form of athletic ''sport''.
But at the very least you could let me run the animal down of my car.
But oh no!!
That's against the rules! The game proclaims.
I say you have no appreciation for the grace Canadian hunting sport.
I might be less upset but half of the locations take place in Canada. One of which is Alberta, the most proud Canadian hunting ground in the world!!
Anyways 2002 Big Game Hunter is not that great. I don't particularly think it's awful. But it's janky, it's quite slow (which I understand is supposed to be emulating the real life hunting experience but it's just not that exhilarating).
You sit there trying to aim these badly put-together shooting mechanics that are made all the worse as you're trying to play it on a Gamepad from the early 2000s and you just end up bad.
Or at least I did.
I just got myself a shotgun. Drove up to a polar bear (sometimes crashing into the darn thing) getting out of my car and then hoping to God I can shoot it in the face before it has a chance to Maul my head.
Originally I was going to complain that the shoulder button having been used for shoot.
If you're playing this game on some form of emulatour, using an Xbox controller or even a modern PlayStation controller, you'll find it really bothersome to use the shoulder than the much nicer trigger button just sits there.
But if you pick up one of the old PS2 controllers you'll realize why the shoulder button was used for shooting.
It just feels a lot better to hold in your hand as that big flat shoulder button was super awkward and half the time it never worked out right.
So in a way I kind of agree with them using that button in this game.
They did the same thing in Killzone and today people complain about it. Forgetting just how bad those original controllers were.
If you can't tell I don't have a lot to say about this hunting game.
There's a better version of it that came out in 2005 so if you're going to go back and rekindle your Nostalgia, you might as well pick up that one instead.
Still this one's not the worst thing in the world.
It's simple and it's kind of amusing that you can just drive up to a polar bear and shoot it with a handgun. And I like the Phoenix level. There's something about open desert that I've always found so captivating.
Tho sweet God above hunting those Wildcats in the desert is a real pain. The polar bears are big stupid and slow. Whereas the Wildcats are incredibly quick and will rip you apart in seconds.
For the record in real life polar bears are equally as fast and I would not recommend running up to one with a shotgun.
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