Customer Reviews

Big Buck Hunter Electronic Game 2 Player Pro Exclusive

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I bought this from Sam's Club. My family and I are very pleased. We watched someone playing an arcade game at Cabelas similar to this. This game only involves deer(unlike the one at Cabela's, which included rams and moose). Bonus rounds include shooting jugs, ducks, frogs, and even spaceships which are trying to steal cattle. You get extra points for accuracy and small critters on the screen. I have only owned it for a few days,but we've had no problems.
My 5 and 7 -year olds like it, too. My wife really enjoys it.
Be careful when you calibrate. The box says to stay 3-4 ft. away. 6-8 feet has worked great for us. Our TV was bought in 2001 (ours is NOT a flat screen), but it works fine. The box says it works with newer screens, too. After you calibrate a gun, whoever uses that gun should stay in roughly the same place for the best results. Also, you can go to the menu and recalibrate.
It's arcade fun for sure!
By the way, we set the sensor on top of our TV instead of below the screen, and that has worked real well for us.

I've read reviews on both the single and 2 player versions of this game,and while I assume the single player came first and has been stated to have a slight delay when you shoot targets, the 2 player game doesn't appear to have much of a delay. I cant be sure( I haven't used the single player game, only the 2 player version) but the one I have seems ok.Accuracy is very good considering.The arcade version is about as accurate( the plug-in-tv version has cross hairs that move around, whereas the arcade version does not. ) The shotguns both feel about the same as the arcade version as well.The battery life of the game is good, but not the sensor that goes by the television.If I were you, I would keep ALOT of spare AAA batteries in the house.( lucky I know how to rig an adapter to it)For me,the only CON with the product hass the sensor that goes by the TV which detects your aim runs by batteries. Hopefully the next version comes out with an AC adapter you can use .Despite this, its a really fun game.

I bought this two gun version of this game at Sam's Club for $45.

Make sure you take your time when you calibrate each gun. I like to calibrate the gun to shoot slightly high, which means aim slightly lower during calibration, so I can see the cross-hairs on the screen a little better. The reason for this is because there is about 1/4 second lag from where the gun is pointing to the cross-hairs on the screen so when your swinging the gun to line up the shot, it takes about 1/4 second before the cross-hairs line up. I haven't played the arcade version but the lag in this home version should translate into improving your skills in the arcade version, in other words this would make this home version of the game slightly harder since you only get one chance to shoot each deer before they leave the screen for good.

The two players head-to-head makes this game great to compete against other players and you can play up to 4 players but in the 3 or 4 player mode you have to take turns using just one gun. The bonus rounds are very comical with different twists on each one making each one unique in its own way. I like to play the two player head-to head mode even when I play by myself because you get twice the cannon fodder which also means twice the score. Once I got 6 bucks in 6 shots for a score of 2199 playing the two player mode by myself. Playing the two player bonus rounds by yourself is grueling but fun to see if you can hit all the targets. You get bonuses for better accuracy which encourages you to make one shot kills and not waste your shots but it is fun just to pump out shots if you have the energy but watch-out for does when you do this.

The only real complaint is the battery life of the receiver unit that mounts on the top of the TV. It only lasted about 3-4 hours and after replacing them with more new batteries of a different brand, the same thing happened. The fix for this is to get a 4.5 volt wall plug-in transformer since the unit uses 3 AAA batteries connected in series (1.5 volt X 3 = 4.5 volts), I used one that had a 300mA rating and it worked fine. If your not technically savvy, you might want to get someone to do this for you. Make sure to get the positive wire connected to the positive terminal and negative wire connected to the negative terminal, my transformer had these marked. I also plan to rig up a 6 volt transformer for the gun units (it takes 4 AA in the green gun) so I don't have to keep buying batteries for the gun either. I think they are hooked up in series but I will double check before I pick which voltage of this transformer to use, if they are in series, that means 1.5 volts times 4 = you need a 6 volt transformer.

I have three girls from 8-12 and we all fight over who gets to play, you won't be disappointed.

We were very excited about this product, but knew from other reviews that we might have trouble with it. We were able to set the calibration easily and thought the graphics and the screen play were very similar to the arcade game. We were discouraged to find out that the "pump to reload" feature was not working on the main (orange) gun. We were able to play using the secondary gun, but we were disappointed that we could not have two player action. We returned the defective product and bought a different hunting game. We had to pay for the return shipping, which is always discouraging. I recommend that those who want to try to find a working game, work with a local store or someone who is willing to pay for return shipping when their product is defective.

Great fun. Had some issues at the start with having difficulty calibrating the guns but once that was fixed, tons of fun. The two player version is great and you still have the option of the 1 player game too.

Very good product, would highly recommend to anyone addicted to the bar version.

the game is rather entertaining and worth the price. installation is simple, remember the batteries. the receiver is small and just put at the base of your tv. the two guns are solid enough but i do with the guns were not attached by a single cable. i would have rather had two independent guns. occasionally the second gun took a while to calibrate compared to the first gun. the visual screen displays are rather cool. the games themselves take a while to get the hang of which is actually neat. there is a penalty for shooting does and wrong targets which i appreciated, as opposed to some spray bullet games i have seen on wii. final grade? an impressed A.

Have returned 2 of these and waiting for the third one. First two would not work at all. Not worth the money and trying to contact company is a bigger hassle. I was lucky enough to have brought from a decent seller who has been very helpful in trying to get us one that does work properly.

Rough at first getting it to work and then realized that the tv needs to be on Aux, the directions are not that great as far as what channel to put it on so we hope this helps. It is a lot of fun, the whole family loves playing it!!

I purchased this for my three gransons' Christmas. They live away from us but my wife was there this past week and they play it all the time, she said. And they are 13,15 and 18 years of age
I believe, I will buy one for myself.

Big Buck Hunter was very easy to set-up and the guys in the house enjoyed playing it. Very fun purchase