A successful hunt involves following your prey’s tracks as they grow increasingly fresh, sneaking up on them and landing that perfect shot to the vital organs before bagging up the fresh corpse and heading back to your grand but soulless home. Stalking, killing and bagging prey-with the help of your faithful tracker dog-is a process that merely pays homage to the real act of hunting, certainly not to the extent that it earns a label like ‘Simulator’. It’s impossible to imagine the characters briefly established during the tutorial living here, and frankly, I don’t want to meet the person who does. If you told me this lodge was the holiday home of Patrick Bateman I wouldn’t be surprised classical music, pristine surfaces and not a sign of being lived in almost make the place eerie to walk around. Even the tutorial, which establishes a clear “get out with my pals, hunt some game and be back to work for Monday morning” tone, is harshly countered by how it’s followed up by an immediate visit to the suspiciously soulless (and presumably expensive) hunting lodge that acts as the protagonist’s home base. Some mechanics-like the player having a scent or animal tracks gradually fading over time-suggest developer Neopica wants to recreate a true hunting experience, while several arcadey concessions-including lack of bullet drop or wind direction-confuse the experience and leave it without a clear sense of purpose. Hunting Simulator 2 is an indecisive game both tonally and gameplay-wise it seems split between two opposing design philosophies. Unfortunately, despite the fleeting highs of hunting victory that punctuate sessions with Hunting Simulator 2, the game’s lack of depth combined with a muddled mix of simulation features and arcadey mechanics make the game more of a tiresome chore than an immersive, virtual hunting getaway. I was genuinely excited to explore lovingly-rendered nature reserves and immerse myself in a pastime all-but absent from my country’s culture. It’s why I was looking forward to booting up Hunting Simulator 2. Even as a Brit who’s never so much as held a gun, let alone had the urge to shoot animals with one, the appeal of hunting is not lost on me. Wide open spaces, zero distractions and one simple goal. Reviews // 21st Jul 2020 - 3 years ago // By Jamie Davies Hunting Simulator 2 Review
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