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Reviewed by Jonathan Dreyer, MGA Editor-In-Chief
When Deer Hunter was announced for the Mac by MacSoft it caused a bit of a stir in the Mac gaming community, some people even thought it was a joke. I know I thought "a Hunting simulation?!, they've got to be kidding!", but after playing it I understood why it was a best-seller on the "other" side before coming to the Mac. Deer Hunter is a fun, enjoyable, and not to mention addicting game.
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Gameplay:
Deer Hunter is a surprisingly
simple game to learn yet very difficult to master. When you
go hunting you have a choice between three weapons, a Rifle
with scope, a 4-Shot Shotgun, and a Compound Bow. After you
choose your preferred weapon you should go to the shooting
range to practice before heading out on the hunt. Before you
can go out hunting you have to decide on three options,
whether you want to use a tree stand and hunt from in a
tree, whether or not you wish to use an attracting scent,
and whether or not you would like to use a cover scent to
mask your bodily odors. When just starting out I recommended
that you use all 3 options to lower the difficulty of
bagging a deer, once you get more experienced the real fun
comes from hunting without those aforementioned hunting
peripherals. Once you have geared up for the hunt you can
choose between 3 different areas to hunt from, an Indiana
winter land, Colorado Alpine forests, and Arkansas autumn
woodlands. Each area has it's own advantages and
disadvantages, my personal favorite being the Indiana winter
land as it seems to have the large bucks. While hunting you
have a deer call, an antler rattle, and binoculars to aid
you. As soon as a buck comes into view you have to aim
quickly and hope your first shot is good because you most
likely won't get another one.
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Graphics and Sound:
The graphics in Deer Hunter are
life like, although not as detailed as I would have hoped.
The backgrounds reuse the same five or six trees and bushes
over and over again. The grounds itself looks like a jpeg
graphic that was tiled over the entire hunting area. The
Deer, while graphically the most realistic part of the game,
seemed to move very jerky and unnaturally. Overall the
graphics are decent although somewhat mediocre in parts, you
get what you pay for in this bargain priced twenty-dollar
title.
The sound of the forests in Deer Hunter are very life-like and realistic, you could almost close your eyes and imagine actually outside in a forest hunting deer. I quickly became annoyed with the hunter's comments though, he only has a few different parts to say but he never seems to stop saying them, he says them over and over and over.
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Difficulty:
Deer Hunter has no difficulty
level per-say, but by utilizing the options of tree stand,
attracting scent, and cover scent, you can greatly change
the difficulty of the hunt. The problem with that is that
the hunt then become either easy or hard, there is no medium
difficulty. There are cheat codes for Deer Hunter but I
won't post them here because this is game I don't believe
anyone should cheat in as it completely takes the fun
away.
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Conclusion:
In Conclusion, Deer Hunter,
although an unusual game these days, is unbelievably fun and
amazingly addicting. Once you start playing Deer Hunter you
want to keep on playing, always in search of the seemingly
impossible to find 15 point size buck.
I recommend this cheap bargain title to just about everybody except animal rights supporters. You should defiantly check this game out.
