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NICE GOING CABELS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is addicting!!! even if you are not a big hunter, it's just a lot of fun shooting the different weapons,there's like ten or eleven models provided,along with other gear.you also have eight or so hunting locations to choose,not to mention a variety of hunters and animals so to speak. One really nice advantage is you have access to a truck,an ATV, and a snowmobile to get you from place to place.I admit when you first start playing it's somewhat tricky,but you catch on after a while. I think it's a real challenge for even the most experienced hunters as well. to be perfectly honest if you are thinking about buying this game rent it first,because it might not be for everyone,not saying it's a bad game or anything,but it's better to spend a few bucks and be safe then to waste fourty or fifty bucks!!! anyhow heres my ratings graphics ***** game controls**** variety of weapons***** variety of hunting locations**** variety of animal decoys and lures****variety of animals***** game difficulty **** variety of vehicles**** and last but not least FUN***** I hope that my game description helps, if you like to shoot guns,you'll like this game!!! I think Cabelas did a pretty good job,THANKS CABELAS.

The Best Hunting Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 25
Date: March 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great hunting game. I got it for Christmas but am still playing it. There are so many animals to hunt, cougar, wild bore, all kinds of deer, moose, bear, bighorn sheep and a lot more. There are also a whole lot of guns and bows. They have got shotguns, rifles with great scopes, crossbow, bows and pistols. The bullet cam is a great feature. If you don't want it on you can just turn it off. THe same with the red dot that shows you where the animals are. There are all kinds of calls to get that great trophy. This isn't just a videogame cause its so realistic. There are also a lot of hunters to choose from. If you like hunting or even if you don't, I would suggest this game to all.

Made in Romania!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Do they even have hunting or know anything about it in Romania? They cleary don't know much about it which explains why your run out of breath after five seconds in the game and have to walk painfully slow 90% of the time. Also you can walk around while you shoot which my dad would kick my ass for doing. It turns out Cabela's Big Game Hunter, Cabela's Deer Hunt 2004, and Cabela's Dangerous Hunts for the Playstation 2, Xbox, and PC versions are all made in Romania. No wonder Sunstrom, the originator of the game went out of business here in Indiana. I was so pissed I returned this pile of garbage. Any self respecting American should do the same, or not buy any of these games in the first place. You think they could at least make a hunting game in the states. I'm going to wait for Deer Hunter on the Playstaion 2 which is made in the good ole U.S.A. plus the PC version is way better than Cabela's.

Great Hunting Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a really great hunting game. I got it to practice my skills for action shooters and fell in love with it. It takes some time to get used to the game controls but once you do it is a blast. If you use the .300 magnum in one of the canadian provinces you get X-ray vision. It is awsome. I could see the skeleton of the Grizzly before I bagged my trophy. Even the easy level is kind of difficult. The quick hunt is a great feature for testing out the gear. You really only need a good scoped rifle and some traking and you can bag any of the animals.

Bring on the next animal!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love reading all of the poor reviews by the nose up in the air activists and new century gamers who don't have a clue as to what a hunting game should be. First off this game succeeded where the other Big Game Hunter games failed. It brought adventure back into hunting without being to ridiculous like the over zealous Dangerous Hunts 2 which was almost impossible to finish due to it's extremely hard game play. It also avoided the whole (animals charging out of the wilderness aspect) such as the case was with Cabela's Alaskan Adventure. This game was first and foremost a beautiful game to look at. The graphics were more than acceptable and even an improvement over many of Cabela's previous titles. People sometimes forget that this is an older system and one that was a dramatic improvement over PS1. They may not be (PS3 Graphics) but they're not bad at all for PS2. The CAREER HUNT game play was really a whole lot of fun with doing such things as sneaking up on animals and taking that long distance shot, to fighting the (main character) animals which are waiting for you at the end of each region. You meet guides and various people along the way who actually have personalities and provide you with information and/or ask favors. There are also MINI-GAMES along the way in which you get a chance to shoot birds and small animals for prizes. You also get to interact with your environment a little such as using buttons to climb walls and cross logs while unlocking various weapons and items along the way. Some of the main animals are easy to kill while others are extremely hard to kill and although the amount of bullets some of these animals can take may be unrealistic, it certainly does make for a much more interesting and adventurous game. The instant hunts are a welcome change as far as I'm concerned do to the fact that they provide you with all the equipment you need right off the bat and the objectives actually vary from hunt to hunt. The coolest thing in the world is when you take that first shot and actually see the bullet penetrating the air around it nailing the target form various camera angles. The Hunter-Sense is a much better way to view the animals rather than the red dots from the previous installments of this game. Overall if you are actually in the mood for a fun game that isn't to hard or to easy and gives you a chance to hunt several different kinds of animals including Wild Boars, African Kudus, Cougars, Jackals, and even deadly cats such as Panthers and Lions as well as traveling to various locations around the globe, than this game should become part of your collection. I own every one of the Cabela's games and this is by far one of my favorites. P.S. to the Animal Activists.....it's a f__king computer program!! It's not real!! Save a tree, hug a seal, but please above all else: Shut the ____ up!

An excellent game -- would like a new version to come out

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: September 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Big Game Hunter for PS2 is very well made, a super-fun hunting game that has three modes: easy, medium, and hard. The "hard" level is pretty close to real hunting. You must be stealthy and patient to succeed on hard mode. Allows you to sight-in and practice with your weapon at a shooting range. Provides a ton of extra equipment you might want, including map, GPS, range finder, binoculars, spotting scope, scents, large decoys, blinds, various calls, food, water, first aid, proper clothing and tents, ATV, pickup, snowmobile. Saves and mounts your best trophies of each animal in your cabin. Teaches you rules of hunting by fining you when shooting too close to inhabited building or shooting animal for which you do not have a tag.

I've found best strategy is to choose a hunter character with the highest accuracy and stealth. These are more helpful than strength, tracking, resilience. So far I've found the .280 to be the most accurate; it's pretty might right on at 80-100 yards, and shooting just a little high up through 150 yards and beyond will still hit the animal. Seems to drop about two feet at 200 yards. Longest shot I've ever hit in the game is about 167 yards.

For real excitement, trying hunting grizzly with the recurve bow (plain-old bow and arrow, not compound) or the .357 Magnum! You have to get very close, like 25-30 yards, and hit him once or twice and then run for your life, because he chases you, then turn and shoot, run for your life some more. Sometimes takes six shots with either of those weapons to bring down a grizz.

Most difficult animal to bag seems to be the coyote, because it's very small, runs fast, and is wary. You have to kill four to beat the game.

There are many animals you can hunt, including grizzly, brown bear, black bear, polar bear, moose, various caribou, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, various deer, javelina, cougar, wolf, coyote, stone sheep, pronghorn antelope, and others.

It gives a choice of mamany weapons, which behave pretty close to reality, including .308, .300, .280, .270, .30-06, 7mm and other rifles, as well as .357, .44, .227, and other handguns, compound bow, recurve bow, crossbow, 12-, 10-gauge shotguns.

Suggested improvements:

Require the shooter to have to lead the animal based on speed of the animal, distance, and velocity of the bullet. Currently the game only requires you to shoot above the animal based on distance, but if you lead it while running, you'll miss -- you have to be "right on," not left or right, or you miss.
Allow the hunter to carry at least two weapons. Currently only one weapon is permitted to be carried.
Fix east-west readings on the compass. The compass is correct with north-south, but it has east-west backwards, and in the game the sun rises in the true west and sets in the true east.
Allow the wind to vary in speed and direction. Currently the wind is always blowing, and it's always a west wind. (I haven't noticed the wind affecting my shots, however. The game says the wind makes a difference.)
If you get close to many of the animals, they may attack you, and if they succeed in touching you during their attack, you are "knocked unconscious" and the warden finds you later and you are forced to exit your hunt. But please stop making coyotes attack! They'd be too small to seriously hurt anyone.
Either require food and water to survive, or don't include it in the game. In the game sleeping in the tent is all that's required to renew strength, so I never take food or water since it's not required.
X-ray mode in scope not useful, as far as I can see; doesn't seem to help anything.
The tracks tend to disappear too fast, in less than a minute "real time"; it would be nice to leave them longer, maybe 2-3 min. before they disappear.

Despite the above drawbacks, it's STILL a great and fun game, and I can't wait for the above improvements to come out in a new version!

Awesome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: March 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Big Game Hunter is a great game on the PS2. It's like real hunting with a lot more action. You won't just be sitting in one spot waiting for a animal to cross your path. Once you start your game you will see animals & you have to stalk them down and kill them. You can hunt 24 different animals. There are 2 game modes Career Hunt or Quick Hunt. There are 4 vehicals Truck,Boat,Atv and Snowmobile. You can hunt in Alaska and Texas and many more places. The Graphics are awesome. and You can play in 3rd person or 1st person. There are rifles,pistols,bows,and shotguns. The only problems I have with this game is when you walk it's so loud and there is no way to be quiet & that there is no trophy room for quick hunt just in career mode so you when you shoot a animal it doesn't go in a trophy room. Also there is a bullet cam so when you shoot you travel with the bullet until it hits the destanation.

TOTALLY AWESOME GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My 10 year old son received this game for Christmas. He has not stopped playing it! It is very realistic with great graphics and fun vehicles to drive--snowmobile, 4-wheeler, and a truck. It is challenging, but lots of fun! I would highly recommend it to anyone!

Great + realistic Hunters' game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Cabelas' "Big Game Hunter" is a great hunting game even for only moderately fans of tha genre (Hunting, of course). It is a great hunting game and if tha controls were better than it would've gotten 5 *'s.

AAAAAWwwwwwwwSsssommmmmmmmmEEEEEEEEee

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking at this game to buy I would read my review because i found it very helpful to look at other peoples reviews:I REAlLy Love this game so get it!!!!!!!!!

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