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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.

This Is NOT A Hunting Game!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The most important thing for a potential buyer to know about this game is that THIS IS NOT a hunting game. It's more of an arcade shooter; the vast majority of the game consists of missions in which you are given a weapon (no choice of weapon, you get no other items), and animals are essentially paraded past you for potshots. We're talking very low difficulty here, folks. The missions are strung together via a feeble attempt at a "story mode", which includes some horribly executed puzzle/rescue aspects. The missions are poorly executed; while the "hunting" portions are unbelievably easy, the puzzle/rescue portions can be extremely frustrating. In addition, the depictions of the supporting characters in the story line could be described as racist. The game also features an even worse attempt at actual "hunting": once an area is freed up by completing a set of missions, you can "free hunt" in that area.
HOWEVER - hunting in Dangerous Hunts 2 is very unlike previous Cabela's hunting games. You no longer have options regarding equipment other than a very limited choice of weapons. Picking between a wide variety of rifles, shotguns, pistols, or bows? Nope. Choice of ammunition for firearms? Negative. Choosing calls, lures, decoys, stands, or other equipment? Gone. Picking out optimum camouflage? Not anymore. Sighting in your weapon? No way. For some unfathomable reason, Cabela's decided that these features should no longer be present in this sequel. Stealth, important in real-life hunts, and in good hunting simulators, is a non-issue here. Overall, this game fails miserably. Dangerous Hunts 2 has only 2 redeeming values - compared to previous Cabela's titles, the graphics are much better, and the game itself isn't glitchy (glitchiness heretofore being a hallmark of Cabela's games). However, great graphics and non-glitchy behavior cannot compensate for the atrocious game play. Trust me on this - if you must try this game, rent before you buy.

By the way: If you're looking for a decent hunting game for the PS2, try the first Dangerous Hunts, or one of the Big Game Hunter or Outdoor Adventure titles. I personally recommend the first Dangerous Hunts. All of the features I described above as being missing from Dangerous Hunts 2 are present in its predecessor. It was a hunting simulator - you needed to combine stealth with the right combination of equipment to get your kill.

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

A Terrible Letdown, a Waste of Money and Time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I cannot even begin to describe how disappointed I was with this game. The first Dangerous Hunts game was a blast to play. It was just like real hunting, with the added thrill of having to deal with wild animals that attack.

But this game is horrendous. It is an adventure style game where you follow around an amazingly annoying one eyed man who tells you what to do and doesnt bother to help you at all. Moreover, his vocabulary is limited to two or three dumb remarks.

You cannot hunt in the traditional sense. You cannot do anything except the stupid little tasks that the one eyed guide wants you to do.

This is NOT a true hunting game. Stay away and don't waste your money on this piece of crap. Get the original Dangerous Hunts game, instead.

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!!!! :(

Unbalanced Likes & Dislikes

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have to say I skipped over DH 1 and went for 2, but it now looks like I may have missed out on something. First, what I like about this game is that it is a major improvement over Big Game Hunter, at least graphically. The graphics are just amazing to me. It's the first game that's ever actually scared me a little. The story is pretty cool, too. It's more of an adventure game than a hunting game, and I think that throws people for a loop. The problem with this game lies therein. First, the adventure/missions are great and go all over the world, encountering animals I would never want to see that close in real life. But, the adventure is way too short! Here I am having fun wondering what's going to be next after I kill this beast in the snowy terrain of Russia, then the game ends! What a disappointment. Also, the hunting interface, even though it does exist, is extrememly limited. You don't have very many options at all, and you can only hunt what the game tells you to hunt. Plus, there's only three or four hunting opportunities verses the ten or so adventure missions. I did say the graphics were good, but it looks like they didn't put much thought into the guns. The guns do look like real guns, but there's no major detail as to what type of gun they may be. Even as bad as the graphics were on Big Game Hunter, at least they made the guns worthwhile. Not in this game, though. Sounds like I'll have to backtrack to DH 1 and see what I missed out on because it's supposedly much better than this horrid sequel.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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