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There's brown, white, green, and light brown. Basically you'll see four different colors throughout your Cabela escapades. As if that wasn't enough going against the visual presentation the texture work is very lackluster and the environments were clearly laid out using the most basic of map editors. The tree life also features fewer ambient movements on account of wind and other environmental factors which ratchets down the realism a bit. The forests are less populated on PS2 than on other systems, but even still there are a few framerate hitches. The bullet cam that the developers included for when you land that one fatal shot is cool enough, though we have seen it before, but the surrounding ambient life and scenery is banality at its finest. Visually the game is more negative than positive. Following the one available path to the clearly specified spot on a map isn't exactly what the experience of hunting should be like. Big Game Hunter holds your hand entirely too much with its painfully linear level designs and mission map that literally places a bull's-eye on the piece of land where you can find your next target. Another "exciting" part of hunting is exploration, just being able to chart out your own hunting ground and finding where the animals are hiding. Maybe if I started failing hunts because I was using inferior hardware, maybe then I would have felt compelled to switch it up, sadly that never happened. I continuously unlocked an arsenal of weapons, but they remained totally unused. I played through the game using only my standard rifle, switching to the crossbow and using my duck call only when commanded by the game. The ability to switch between several different firearms without having to worry about lugging around a big bag of equipment as you would in reality is what could really separate hunting games from the real thing, yet Big Game Hunter provides no incentive to explore the firearms at the player's disposal. One of the few true joys of hunting, more accurately one of the joys that stems from playing a hunting videogame, is completely diminished in Big Game Hunter. Regardless, none of it is all that fulfilling when there are so many other quality titles out there. Sometimes, and this is a rare occasion, you'll have to climb up a rock face by feverishly tapping square and circle at the appropriate times, or keep balance on a log bridge by doing the same. There are small deviations along the way. Mission accomplished, reset and restart in a different hunting location. The gameplay in Big Game Hunter hinges on players venturing to different lands, meeting the hunting ranger in those different lands, playing a mini-game of shooting little varmints, going off and shooting a certain number of bigger varmints, then going after the trophy varmint.
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