Cabela’s Alaskan Adventures
Cabela's Alaskan Adventures is the ultimate hunting and fishing adventure to North America's last frontier. Experience all that Alaska has to offer, as you go on 38 hunting and fishing adventures across vast tundra
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This game was a major dissappointment, but the first few hunts were kinda fun (but challenging) so I gave it 2 stars for that. It was almost impossible for me to shoot the first thing in the game because of the difficulty. I figured this would be a spectacular game because I love Alaska and everything about it, including the wildlife there. I was very wrong! Every time you have the right animal in sight, a wolf or a bobcat attacks you and you die and need to start over. Not to mention, male moose can be fesity too and ram you and eventually kill you. However if you don’t have the tags for them, you’ll get a warning and if you get enough of those then you go back to the lodge. Don’t even get me started about how hard it is to shoot a snowshoe hare going 30 times faster than you are.
I don’t reccomend this AT ALL.
While there have never been very many truly good hunting games, I had high hopes for this title. Then I played it. Apparently, Cabela’s has decided to recreate the stereotypical view most people have of hunting.
I say this because during my first hunt (for musk ox) I noticed a wolf. I noticed it as it attacked me. I’d estimate 99% of predators you see in the game, from wolves to foxes and wolverines, attack you. This is horrible as well as inaccurate. Not only does the game not reward you for utilizing any actual hunting skills (I was able to run up on most things and shoot them as they charged) it actually penalizes you, because if you focus too much on the stalk and not enough on the area around you, odds are you’ll be mauled to death.
While attacks are a risk during hunting, they certainly do not occur to 90% of hunters. And there are precautions you can take to avoid being attacked, but in this game, you are essentially chum. While this “adventure” aspect has been utilized by some cartoonish titles in the past, I expected much, much better from a title licensed by one of the biggest names in hunting and fishing. I haven’t played a Cabela’s title since one of the old, Windows 98 versions with the FMV, but this is just awful. On one “challenge” I had to hunt 5 bison. So I slowly stalked my way in range and finished the challenge, after killing 8 foxes and 3 wolves that attacked me. Then I tried it again and sprinted up the river, killing the needed 5 bison with only 2 foxes.
If you’re looking for a title that lets you kill things, this is Halo with animals in place of aliens. If you’re looking for something with any semblance of a hunting simulation . . . keep looking. The graphics are choppy at best, the motion is barely passable for an old PC and the physics engine is a little off kilter. There are plenty of better first person shooters available for the 360 which is all this game turned out to be in the end.
Granted, some of this game was pretty challenging but I think that is a good thing. Many other Cabela’s games were short and easy. This one has 50 levels with a variety of fishing, hunting, and fowl shooting. Overall, I think this is one of the better Cabela’s games I have played. There are a lot of animals as opposed to many other Cabela’s games where you had to spend all day finding the animal you needed to hunt. Additionally, there are some missions where you have to find a lost ranger/hunter and when you find him he will give you a better weapon. That is another plus for the game. There are a variety of weapons including bow and arrows, shotguns, rifles, pistols, and, my favorite, the magnum. The graphics in the game are pretty decent and each board is huge. Not all the boards are snow boards either. A couple actually are set on top of a mountain where you have to hunt elks and deer. Of course, the biggest complaint is the stamina system. You can barely run five feet before you get tired. However, you can level up and make yourself stronger. The fishing is rather simple and the bird hunting as well but all in all it is a versitile game that should keep your interest. I wonder how good it would be if they put boss battles in it….I would give this game a chance and worse come to worse it will be a rare game one day and will be worth some money….most Cabela’s games are.