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An Interesting game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! Single player, i don't know i have never played it single player, but i would be the judge if i was going to... I played this game with 2 friends and wow we played hours and hours and hours. Maybe it was just not being alone part for video games. There is only one person i dont like being on this game and its the girl with daggers, i totally used her 2 guns and just popped off peices and made it easier for my friends to kill to much moving and shooting with her. But i was only her once and then i was like F it and made a rule where i wasnt her again. This game is great the story is good, a lil hard to figure out. You go through weapon ammo quickly with special weapons. But i love this game and forever will.

Definitely more fun with friends

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a pretty big fan of Role Playing Games, I tend to try and experience all the varieties that are offered, just to at least experience something new and different. Hunter: The Reckoning is a little different by RPG video game standards, but it's hardly a revolutionary game. I think this is the first time I've come across a table top RPG converted to video game that did not allow the users to upgrade the characters on their own. Now, I haven't played the table top game, so I'm not entirely sure how that system worked, but I'm willing to try it out.

On top of this the story line involved demons, and I tend to like things of that ilk, so I thought this might appeal to me. I must say the story line wasn't as well done as I thought. It certainly can't compete on the same level as something like Diablo, which is really the premeire game for killing demons in my book! The background story felt kind of random and thrown together, but the game play and challenge factor kind of saved the game.

The background story basically consists of this: There was apparently an incident at a prison many years ago and your characters were there watching a murderer be executed (no idea why) when all of a sudden people around them turned into monsters. They faught their way out and boarded up the prison, today they have returned because the ghosts/demons or whatever have returned to feast on the souls and bodies of people throwing a rave in the prison. Seriously... who throws a rave in a prison? A fairly loose premise of a video game, but in the end your characters have to lock the spirits back up and save the world!

As a single player game Hunter: The Reckoning sucks and has virtually no value to me, but play it with a few friends and it actually becomes pretty fun. The game is challenging in some areas and you have to sit down and strategize with your friends. I don't think this game has endless hours of fun, because after beating it, you're kind of done with it. The game took only two evenings for my friends and I to conquer, and the shortness is the only reason why a replay is viable. I would say, in terms of replay value, you can only go through it twice before it gets really boring at the most. The camera control really does kind of suck, I saw some reviewers touch upon that. I do realize that as a game designer camera control problems are tantamount in a multi-player overhead RPG. I really think the programmers could have handled it a lot better and really should've gone in a different direction.

Overall I thought this game was pretty fun, but only when I played it with a few friends. I gave it a three overall because of some design flaws, the weak storyline, and not being able to level up your character on your own. Maybe I'm just picky, but I've come to expect a lot more from RPG's thanks to very epic games like Diablo, Knights of the Old Republic, etc. Pick this up you're looking for a multiplayer game to get together with a few friends and delve into a different world.

Good game for lovers of monster-killing and quests

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm new to Xbox games,but I got this one because I like dungeon-crawls/shooters,ala "Diablo 1,and 2." I found this game to be even more addictive than Diablo,something I thought I could never say.
The graphics are pretty cool.The sounds,music and voices are suitably creepy.I have only been able to play single mode,but have had a lot of fun killing all the available enemies.If I could only find another 56 year old who would like to play!!
The quests are well thought out.The placement of "items to find" isn't too difficult to master.The quests are not very easy by yourself,which is fine with me.
I just love the game,and will replay it often.

Single player fun....but with friends EVEN BETTER!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played this game in single player mode and to me it seemed like a mix of Gauntlet Dark Legacy, with the edges that resemble magic, and Resident Evil with the whole zombie slaughtering shoot em up game playing. You get some awesome weapons like high powered rifles, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, crossbows, pistols and shotguns. You also get magic to either blow away the enemies or healing yourself. Single player really is pretty difficult and fun, but with friends it is totally kick @$$. If you're into these types of RPGs then you will beat it with a friend with average difficulty. I gave it a four out of four because the camera angles can be annoying at times when approaching the enemy and it is lacking in graphics. BUT, it is an older game so whaddya expect. Have fun...

Must have Xbox Classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has been out for a while. Part II is even out, but this one is great. It's a 1st gen Xbox game that you should own. I went through the entire game with a friend and we had a blast. You can have up to 4 people at a time play and the mayhem just keeps on comming.

fun and not impossible to defeat. ALSO HELP FOR U!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

look this game is good due to wat others say. the graphics are ok and the battles are intense. thers lots of weapons and all sort of enemies. this game is also can be played with 4 players!!every caracter is great with there own abilities which r cool. like some restore health protect give strenght. and stuff. its not impossible to beat ive beat the game. it is tough but you can make it through. if your playin only for one player dont bother to buy it. cause its imposble to beat yourself. its meant for 2-4 players. thers tons of gore. its lots of fun and very challenging. and for those of you that say its imposible to beat with even 4 friends. will guess wat ive beat it only with me and my friend. 2 people only. it was hard but we did it, so can u. and the guy that wrote that said hes stuck on the mansion boss heres how to beat it. you need atleast 2 people. meaning u and 1 more person. or more. u go directly behind the boss. ur other friends run around and shoot at the boss. the boss can hurt ur friends but it cannot hurt you from behind with the reaching claws and stuff. then take out your chainsaw and hack away at the boss from behind it will lose power fast and you can win. be sure to jump though when the boss jumps and makes that floor thing.

Needs work

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The controls are my main problem and the fact that you get overpowered in some parts making it difficult if not impossible to play this game. I love White Wolf. I Love RPG games...and this game has potential just not really the RIGHT stuff.

not bad, but impossible to beat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My friends and i have been playing this game for months. MONTHS. and we keep getting stuck on the mansion level.The boss is impossible. we have figured this out. And on that note, i don't think it's possible to beat this game on single player, so don't even try. Don't get me wrong, gameplay is pretty good, graphics are above average, the fight music is pretty d*mn cool, and the story is quite interesting. pity i have yet to see how it ends. The bosses are far too difficult in this game. Even with 4 players they put up one hell of a fight. but, that could just be that my friends and i ar very bad at this game. but i don't think that's it. Also, it needs better cheats (simply because i need to get past that mansion boss and can't do it the honest way). All in all, a decent game, but definitely meant for multiplayer. have fun.

Impossible in single-player mode

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay, while I like the premise of Hunter the Reckoning: Zombies and monsters and werewolves oh my! I began to quickly become jaded. I dislike games where all there is to do is hit the trigger button. Can we say repetitive stress injury? I like a little bit of a plot with my carnage.

I encountered a couple of glitches in the game, which bugged me as well. At one level I got stuck in a wall, and could not move, I just had to wait until the zombies mauled me to death, in another level, the camera got stuck in 'far away' mode, and even though I attempted to adjust the perspective, I couldn't. I was forced to watch from a distance, as my character got hit by monsters I couldn't see. This was the most frustrating glitch.

Also, I was disappointed in my inability to save, until nearly the end of each level, which meant I had to go back to the beginning and start over, everytime I was killed. This game is almost impossible to complete in single-player mode without cheating. It was so frustrating to try to go through levels with dozens of monsters spawning all around you only to watch your life bar dwindle to nothingness. I understand from other reviews that this game is really intended for multi-player audience. I whole-heartedly agree. It was fun playing with a friend, impossible in single player mode.

Overall, I give it 3 stars for an interesting concept and good graphics. But I'll have to pass, unless the next one has more plot and is a little less dark. I prefer my horror to be subtle. Not graveyards filled with hundreds of endlessly spawning monsters. That's just boring.

70,000 man hours for....this?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Before I purchased Hunter, the game was elevated to almost mythical status by my friends as we desperately sought a multiplayer fix for the Xbox. We read about this game but couldn't find a copy anywhere for days. When we finally got it, all this game had to do was NOT be total garbage for us to love it.

It was total garbage.

Gothic levels full of zombies are supposed to be spooky. That doesn't mean the levels have to be bland, 4 color affairs (Brown, Gray, Dark and Darker)where the lighting is often to dim to see your similarly bland character running around.

Strategy is non-existent in Hunter. You fight wave after wave of zombies that spawn in front of you without even trying to hide the fact that they are dropped in by the game. Bosses rely less on A.I. than on a million HPs that take forever to take out with the characters' woefully underpowered weapons.

The 4 player co-op is "hair-pullingly" bad, as the players are stuck sharing one screen. Power-ups are freqently just within reach, but you are unable to reach them as you are stuck in place until your buddies move up to your area. "Ah I'm stuck, move you idiot!" is a common refrain during a Hunter game session, and its not always said in good fun. The shared, limited Continues for dead players exacerbates the frustration of group play.

20 dollars is a good deal for a game, but Hunter is a last resort for players starved for a new game. It's mediocore, uninspired game design at it's best. A new add-on game is coming out soon, but my question to the game's developers is "why bother?"

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