Review of Deer Hunter 2004

After hunting white tail deer for well over half a century, some health problems have limited that activity. About then my daughter thought I should have one of these new-fangled computers - and you guessed it - I stocked up on a couple fistfulls of hunting games (and flight simulators). The graphics in some of these programs are unbelievable. I don't pretend to be an expert on the hunting games but I have become thoroughly addicted to Atari / South Logic Deer Hunter 2004. Yeah, I wish there were a few more guns, and yeah, my hunter looks like the tin man, but the scenery and wildlife graphics are extremely realistic. More important however, is the story of how I got into this game. A couple of barely teen agers complained that they walked forever and only saw a couple of deer fleeing. I borrowed the CD and figured I'd find the settings that they had somewhere overlooked. Well after two days and many hours later I thought "this game really is too hard". In fact it's boring. For some reason I persisted and lo and behold there are deer (and other critters) all over the place. The game opened up for me when, true to the real world, I discovered that certain locales held more deer than others. I suppose the eventual accrueing of points helped also, but how much I don't really know. Now the kicker in this game is the"movie" feature. When I discovered that the camera could be trained on any animal reasonably near the hunter (gun shot range?) I thought, why not noisily walk accross the whole of one of the hunting areas with the camera on and replay the movie with the camera on the animals. I was flabbergasted. The thing becomes a wildlife documentary that is fascinating. In fact, I spend as much time now walking and watching the animals that I never knew were there as I do hunting them. If you doubt that there are animals out there, try this "hunt" with F5 on during the game and "animal" pressed on the re-run. I think you'll revise your opinion of the game and maybe try a little harder and slower. Hats off to South Logic Studios fora very unique hunting game. my only suggestion is that a few more interesting none-game species could have been added: fox, beaver, bobcat etc.





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