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FUN!! But too short!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is definately different from DH1! But this is a FUN game. The challenges aren't enough. The game doesn't last long enough. But it's a fun game to play.

OMG, This game is HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

gave up on it... :(

Perhaps I'm too old for PS2 games and junk, but my daughter bought it for me. I have written to Activision and searched the internet for help, to no avail.

THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO GET THROUGH!

The animals come at YOU. YOU are not the hunter.... You are the HUNTED!

The opening scene is okay and you get attacked a few times by a mountain lion, a grizzly bear, and a pack of wolves. If you survive that, you make it to a bridge. The guide crosses the bridge but then it breaks, so then you have to jump in and swim in the river (try not to die getting bashed on the rocks!) If you survive that, you have to go to the right and get out of the water to a path and follow the path up (look out for another mountain lion!). From there you walk up the path to a cliff on your left. Somehow, carefully, you have hop down a series of rocks down the cliff. Now Activision says you are supposed to see a cave/tunnel and go through it which leads you back to the guide. BUT.... The whole screen is so black and you literally can't see anything! Next thing you know, "Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!" you fall off the cliff and die. Over and over and over and over....

I can't get through this section, so I just gave up and said the heck with it. Activision needs to make hunting games a little more realistic and not so hard that you give up on them!

Anyway, the graphics and the detail of the game are really great. The playability and/or ease of play is where they get you. This game is a serious pain in the *** that will frustrate you and possibly even anger you to the point where you just want to break the darn CD!!!! :(

Okay, but definitely NOT a hunting game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is okay. If you're looking for a hunting game don't buy it, you don't really hunt, you walk around and get attacked by animals and you have to kill them. It is pretty fun the first time you play it but it is not a very long game. I gave it 3 stars because it is pretty fun but I was expecting an actual hunting game.

Buy Dangetous Hunts 1 or Bigame Hunter 2004-6

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was really dissapointed when I rented this game(I beat it in 45 minutes!). Its not really hunting at all!, its more of an adventure game. Its like Lego star wars (have fun beating it then get bored of it) so just buy the first one. PS. Im so glad I didnt buy it!!

time to safe money here...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well, if you're looking for a hunting game, trust me,- you shouldn't buy this one. If you're looking for an "EGO-Shooter", you can but shouldn't either. There's no 3rd person perspective which makes defending of charging predators much harder (just like the first part of D.H.), no arms, equipment or tags to choose. I would recommend one of the 'Big Game Hunter' series or the new (at least here in Europe/Germany) 'Cabela's Outdoor Adventures', where you can go fishing as well. The 'One' star's just for the graphic.

Dangerous Hunts Series

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I bought the original Dangerous Hunts, I loved the game to death. It was so realistic; animals would only attack you if you got to close to blew your cover. In this game, however, the entire point is to defend yourself and others from dangerous (perhaps, RABID) animals. It's not really even a hunting game, the only "hunts" you go on are in between "missions", where after you pick your weapon, stalk and kill the designated animal, a predator attacks you and you're given a new task to defend yourself from its attacks. These "missions" and "hunts" are somewhat random; the game doesn't have a very good storyline. The storyline is that one of your friends from a rescue operation got lost, and you are sent to find him. By the end, you still haven't accomplished this goal.

There is no "quick hunt" mode. Only the story mode and there are bonus levels similar to the "action zone" feature of Dangerous Hunts 1. You can unlock these by shooting special stumps in story mode.

I do think this can be considered a good game if you look at Dangerous Hunts 1 and 2 as a SERIES, rather than two seperate games. BUT BUY DANGEROUS HUNTS 1 FIRST.

Here are the cheats for this game (go to the main menu and select CODES):
FAST HEALTH REGENERATION: SKULL, EYE, FOOT, BOLT, HAND
DOUBLE THE DAMAGE INFLICTED BY THE HUNTER: HAND, FOOT, SKULL, EYE, BOLT
INCREASE MAX HEALTH: EYE, BOLT, SKULL, HAND, FOOT
UNLIMITED AMMO: BOLT, HAND, EYE, FOOT, SKULL

What a terrible follow up to part 1

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this thinking it was in the same arena as the 1st dangerous hunts. My little boy plays it all the time and can pick whatever animal and weapons he wants.

This thing is just a "walk through" where you cannot customize anything, and you hunt what they give you...just terrible.

Like most other games, you start off in "training" then move your way up...just terrible and boring.

Somewhat fun... if you weren't looking for a hunting game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've played many of Cabela's hunting games, including the first Dangerous Hunts, and enjoyed all of them. When I bought this game, I assumed it would be in the same vien as the previous one. I was highly disappointed. The first, biggest problem with this game is that it is NOT a hunting game. Instead, it's more like an adventure/first person shooter game with a highly unrealistic storyline. Instead of being attacked by aliens or zombies, you are attacked left and right by wild animals. Do pumas and tigers hunt in packs in the wild? No, but you'll be attacked by two or three at a time during this game. There is no sense of actually hunting anything - instead, you follow paths (sometimes with a guide), while animals rush at you everytime you reach a checkpoint. About once every half an hour of game time, you get the option to break from the story to do an actual "hunt." There are only three of these hunts in total, each of them a variety of deer, and each one lasts about five minutes or less. You only get to choose one piece of equipment (your weapon) during these hunts, and for the storyline of the game, you don't get to choose what you have at all. There are tree stumps you can destroy to open bonus levels, but in order to get more than the first bonus level, you have to wander off the path and search the entire map. The problem with this? There are traps, snakes and bees everywhere if you wander from the path, and if you are with a guide they will constantly bother you to come back to them, and sometimes even get attacked while you are away (you loose if they die).

There is nothing in the description of the game warns you that this is what you'll be in for. I looked at it after playing the game all the way through, and there were still no hints that it would be anything other than a hunting game with more features than the last. While I have to admit that I found this game to be enjoyable for an afternoon diversion, it was not at all what I was looking for when I purchased it, nor do I find what little enjoyment I got from it to be worth the price of this game, even used. I finished it in only about four hours, and I'm far from being a video game master shot. I hoped that once finishing the storyline, you might be able to hunt in these terrains freely, but instead you can only do the missions and the three deer hunts over again. Don't waste your money on this. If the idea of taking some easy blasts at rabid animals appeals to you, borrow this game from a friend, but I wouldn't make any stronger effort to play it.

sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first dangerous hunts was awesome.This is the exact opposite.This game is like jurassic park mix with real animals.
Dont get it.

Should have been called Super Mario Hunting

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As the other reviewers pointed out, this game is a complete fraud and resembles little of anything from previous games in the Cabela's series. There is a strict storyline that the player must follow and there is no store for you to upgrade equipment. You run around the forest trying to avoid stepping in traps every five seconds and being attacked by crazy wild animals about every seven. There is absolutely no realism to this hunting game at all. A complete waste of $30.00, I took the game out of my system within the first half hour of playing it and it is being sold to EB Games for whatever I can get for it. Activision is such a hit or miss game developer. Every now and then they will come out with a great game, but more often than not, Activision serves to disappoint. Once again, Activision, you have produced complete garbage.

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