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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.

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!!!! :(

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.

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.

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

Not a follow-on to Dangerous Hunts!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I loved the original Dangerous Hunts game. Not only is that a great game, but you can keep going back to it after you have "finished" it and choose from the many different hunts and still have fun.

The D.H.2 is really just a role playing game. You don't choose your next adventure, or your weapons, etc. - you are just given a weapon and mission (there is not a lot of realism either). The few "hunts" in there, are so lacking (compared to the original) that you would not want to go back and do them over. It's also a really short game.

(...). It is sort of fun. But for the length of the game, the lack of realism, etc. (...).

this game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: November 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If it were possible to choose zero stars, I would have rate it. This game is a complete fraud. First, it is not a trophy game. Everything that happens in the game is being chased by wild animals. The point of the game is to avoid getting killed, but it is hard to see what attacks you. This is not a hunting game, its a surviving game. All you get is a hand pistol, a machete, and a small knife. Can you imagine having to kill an elephant with a dart using a bamboo stick. That is ridiculous! I am very disapointed. You are never going to hunt for animals, so don't waste your tinme and money on this game.

Title is very misleading...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely nothing like the original, with the exception that you are in a wilderness with a weapon.

If you enjoyed the original, and liked tracking, spotting and taking the best game animal, there is none of that. This game plays more like a "Tomb Raider" game, you have to watch for things to pick up, like ammo, or find your way through puzzle/maze style environments. You have "missions" you need to accomplish, and only after these are completed can you choose to "hunt". After completing the first task, I choose to hunt in the area. I was allowed to choose between a machete, a handgun and a double-barrel shotgun to hunt for a whitetail deer. As soon as I found the deer and shot it with the handgun, I was attacked by a "mad grizzly", and had to "survive the mad grizzly attack". After I shot him, the game moved on, you don't even get to claim your trophy.

There is no store feature, you have to find items scattered throughout the environments. There also seems to be no shot specific hits when you shoot the animals as they attack you. For example, a certain animal may require to be shot 3 times, regardless of the fact that it is so close all shots are straight down through the top of the head. Along with having to keep an eye out for useful items, you also have to keep an eye out for hidden dangers in the environment, such as bear traps or bee hives, which cause injury, but are mostly just incredibly annoying.

This is a game I was really looking forward to after loving the first one, but I doubt I will even bother to finish it. I would certainly give it less stars if I could.

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.

NOT A HUNTING GAME AT ALL

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the first dangerous hunts, or any hunting games period, you will not like this game. there is 3 weapons you use through the whole game, a knife, a pistal, and a shotgun and some times a trank gun. You do not hunt at all. there is no free rome, only followed paths. this is a story game, not a hunting game. there is no options to choose any weapons through any of the game and no option to choose an animal or location to hunt. there really is no hunting in this game accept after about every 6 check points you get to hunt 1 deer and no other animals. I think this game is worth $5 tops, and definately not $30. I really do feel ripped off
Don't buy this game, you will regret it.

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