Cabela's Alaskan Adventures

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Single Player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GAOOP6
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 5.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 7, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,153 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #6 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Sports > Hunting & Fishing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Players will use a combination of skill and strategy to complete 38 hunting and fishing adventures across 12 vast Alaskan regions from the North Slope to Ketchikan.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Infuriating, November 19, 2007

By 

Trevor S. Taylor "Firewood" (Washington) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cabelas Alaskan Adventure (Video Game)

I will offer a personal guarantee on this one: criminal. Ever tried to shoot a fox or rabbit with a shotgun from 45 yards? How about while it's running? How about while being attacked by a bobcat? How much fun does it sound if all the animals gather behind the lodge and you can't fire within 50 meters of the building? What if you need a scope or water & food for longer endurance and you have no money left to buy them from the "store?" This game is slow, incompetent and an insult to the great graphic on the cover. That's the game that Cabela's is playing: lure us in with overly-dramatic cover art and then just as we spend an hour lining up an impossible shot at a barely-visable target...attack us with a mad-animal engine. It's sooooooo fulfilling. Adding further injury, the game is filled with dozens of banners that encourage the gamer to buy Cabela's products. Hmmmm.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's just ok., July 14, 2008

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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cabelas Alaskan Adventure (Video Game)

We couldn't wait to get home with this game and pop it into the PS2. None of us were too impressed (there was me, 33 yo female, a 15 yo female, 9 yo male, and 4 yo male). We all played it for about 15 minutes each then decided to go swimming instead...it was a lot less frustrating. The graphics are ok but it's tricky to figure out how to move your guy around. It's like watching paint dry to hunt out your animals then once they are in sight, they come at you with a vengeance. Any shot at all that hits the animal is highly praised, which is good for the kiddos. When you're first gearing up, you pick a player and have about a thousand options as to how to customize him/her...a completely useless waste of time...all you ever see is the hand and the gun anyway, so who the heck cares what they look like, what color the eyes are...etc??? Also, when my 15 yo niece was playing, she was doing the Cordova range, and she came upon a camp with a guy writhing around in pain...there was no mention at all in the manual as to what was supposed to be done (she actually tried to shoot the poor guy to put him out of his misery, but the game wouldn't allow it). It was so frustrating she had to start completely over. All in all, I probably wouldn't buy this game again, certainly not for this price.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Game, January 3, 2007

By 

Ben (Alabama) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cabelas Alaskan Adventure (Video Game)

The game itself is interesting, and it's well done. The controls are intuitive, and the overall effect is nice, and I think it drums up interest in hunting, and the outdoors - which, I hope is what Cabelas was trying to do all along, and I am absolutely in favor of that. I'm a lifetime NRA member, and an avid outdoorsman and hunting, and am planning a real Alaskan Peninsula brown bear hunt, so I picked this up just to have a look at it and let my son play it.

The realism leaves something to be desired e.g. I shot a polar bear with a .30-30 in the FOOT from 120 yards away, and it was a 1 shot kill. I haven't had time to really play all the way through it yet, but I do think the game does convey some of the basic thought processes and things to look for or use in hunting - to at least get people somewhat familiar with the concepts. fixed 6x scope, scent-lok clothing, scent eliminator spray, binoculars, being quiet through the woods, stalking things, that sort of thing.

But the actual implementation seems to be somewhat lacking - but it's a sim., so what do you expect trying to reproduce an outdoor hunt from the comfort of your air-conditioned recliner in front of the television. I think the game does good for what it is - and maybe help in some small way, to share that spark of the outdoors with others.

In this age of eye-candy graphics and super-framerates where folks just want to be oooh'd and aaaah'd in front of their TVs. I think this game does an adequate job of representing the animals recognizeably enough and maybe helping to inspire smaller hunters about the fun of stalking and taking game.

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