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Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game and its terrible. Its extremely repetitive, you just go around punching the same button in front of different enemies. Graphics are pretty good but the replay value is nill, multi player only forces you and your friends to suffer, and there's no strategy or skill involved. There's my .02.

Not what I was expecting!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

For those of you familiar with the pen & paper Hunters, and are looking for an electronic version - this is NOT it. If you played "Vampire the Masquerade Redemption" on the PC, again this is NOTHING like it. If you want a hack & slash game with tuns on glitches and next to no story line, this is the game for you. Unlike what one may expect of a game based on a role-player game, you cannot distribute experience point to customize your character, nor can you upgrade weapons & armor. You can only aquire the weapons you find (which are severly limited), the only time you can save is at the end of each level, and the controls are overly complicated. This is a linear game with non stop hack & slash. The only good point to the game is the graphics.

no fun at all

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

we all play halo for hours on end at work and i was looking for another 4 player game and this seemed like the a great choice based on all the reviews i read. so the four of sit down and try playing for about 15 minutes, decide the game is simple, boring and you just pull the triggers alot and kill numerous zombies, it takes no skill. we turned it off and started playing halo again.

Horrible multi-player experience

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought that this game would be a great coorperation play game with a twist like Resident Evil. However, I found that this game was horrible in the multiplay arena. The game was easier (and slightly more fun) to play one player. There were way too many times when one player would get killed because another player was accidently trapping them.
When will companies come to the conclusion that sharing the same screen just doesn't work on multi-player? Split it up and allow each user to move freely!

Just plain bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Bad movement, bad story, bad voices, bad characters. Just a bad game all around. If you want to have a bad time, this is the game for you.

Hunter The Reckoning [Stinks]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: June 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

We only gave this one star because that is as low as we could go. If we could go any lower we would give it a -5 stars. Do not waste your money or time on this game. It [stinks].

WHY? WHY?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Why did Hunter The Reckoning dissapoint? My friends and I couldn't wait for this game to hit stores, and 15 minutes into the game we couldn't wait to switch back to HALO. Many zombies, great graphics, but unfortunately thats pretty much it. The game gets repetitive and you are special if you can tell one zombie from the other. If you are looking for a 1-4 player or co-op mode in a game I recommend Halo 1st, then Gauntlet before Hunter the Reckoning.

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?"

If repetitive games are your bag...buy Hunter!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'll start off with a disclaimer: I am not what would be called a 'hard-core gamer.' I enjoy video games when they are mentally challenging, require serious dexterity, or are historically engaging. Hunter does not satisfy any of these criteria.

I've played Hunter for about an hour. From my take, the graphics were decent, although they in no way take complete advantage of what the Xbox can put out.

The game play...is a dog. As stated in other reviews, you can't control the camera angle, and there were times when I cursed a lamp post that obscured my line of view. What is worse, though...is that you can hardly control your own aim. The targeting system tries to guess where you are shooting, and misses probably 1/4 of the time. It is a really good thing that you can get infinite ammo -- you'll need it.

That infinite ammo comes in handy when about a trillion nameless, faceless, indistiguishable 'monsters' come on screen and amble toward you. Have you ever had the desire to shoot at a bunch of monsters, kill them all, feel the warm glow of accomplishment, and expect to be able to move on...just to find out that there are still more to kill, ad nauseam? That pretty well describes Hunter.

I honestly spent about 15 minutes running in a circle shooting at one boss. You may find that to be a real load of laughs, but I considered it to be a waste of my time. What few bullets didn't hit the wall were hardly enough to keep my attention.

I have read from other reviews that the story improves with time. I can't attest to that. I actually happened to know some of the White Wolf folks who were involved in the development of the original Vampire game. Like those games, this one is fraught with angst against...er...somebody. It's not completely clear. Perhaps we (the Hunters) are bad for being alive. Perhaps they (the 'monsters') are bad for being dead. Perhaps they are only bad because they were criminals... Honestly, who knows?

The bottom line: I was going to buy this game today. I decided to rent it instead. I am exceptionally happy that I made that choice. Hunter is repetitive, unengaging, and boring. To wrap things up from the opening of this review...I am not a hard-core gamer. If I were, I would find this game laughable -- about as challenging and interesting as Nightcaster. As a mid-level kind of gamer, I found it challenging in only one way: it truly challenged my sense of good taste in game development.

Boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was bored of this game within a few minutes. It seemed like it would be a better Gauntlet and looked like it was going to deliver. The opening screens are amazing and graphics during the game are great. However, gameplay just isn't interesting. You pick your character and then run around and kill hordes of creatures with a variety of weapons. That's it. To make it more annoying, the camera doesn't move well with you at all, making it difficult to see what you need (want) to see.

Although Gauntlet falls far short of Hunter in the graphics department, it is much better overall game. I'll stick with that.

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