Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Hunt 36 big game animals through a story-driven virtual hunting adventure
• 80 new inter-connected maps: 6 regions, 63 hunting maps, and 17 lodge maps
• Immersive environments, realistic environmental audio, and photo-real weaponry
• Character skills and attributes improve over time based on player
• 3 levels of difficulty; 2 modes of gameplay: quick hunt and career hunt

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000A7XO9M
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 18, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,161 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #63 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Hunting & Fishing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

This fall brings all new adventure to the PC with Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006 Trophy Season! For the first time ever, hunt 36 big game animals through a story-driven hunting adventure. Visit the local hunting store and choose from 1000s of authentic gear options that can mean the difference between survival and demise. Explore 80 new inter-connected maps, trek through a wide variety of environments and terrains, meet helpful local wardens, and spend the night in a log cabin. Here's your opportunity to bag record breaking trophies beyond belief and experience the virtual hunting of a lifetime!

Features:

• First time ever on PC--rich, story-based linear gameplay
• Track and hunt 36 of the most revered big game animals including traditional hunting favorites like elk and moose and non-traditional challenges like bison
• 80 new inter-connected maps including 6 regions, 63 hunting maps, and 17 lodge maps
• Extremely realistic--experience deep, immersive environments, realistic environmental audio, and photo-real weaponry
• Three levels of difficulty for players of all abilities, from novice to expert hunter
• Build on your own experience--character skills and attributes improve over time based on player
• Features gameplay aids such as "bullet cam", trophy beacons, and trophy auto
• Two modes of gameplay:
  • Quick hunt: great way to track and hunt without having to worry about time, health, or wilderness survival elements of the game
  • Career hunt: take full advantage of the hunting adventure
• Also features clay and skeet target shooting to sharpen your skills

Product Description

Are you a huner or are you the hunted? Hunters can sharpen their skills with the latest addition to the Big Game Hunter series. Cabela's Big Game Hunter delivers a compelling hunting game with 24 different North American big game animals, advanced animal behavior, and detailed landscapes. Play Career Hunt or jump right into the action with Quick Hunt for immediate satisfaction. Special features include bullet-cam, x-ray scopes, custom log cabin with a trophy room, and an advanced scoring system. Are you ready to hunt? Authentic Firearms and Gear

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game, September 3, 2005

By 

Bill Reinhart "hiawatha" (Oolitic, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006 (CD-ROM)

This is a great game. Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2004 and 2005, Cabela's Deer Hunt 2005, and Cabela's Dangerous Hunts are also very good. This game is a good one to choose for average hunters. Dangerous Hunts is for beginning hunters. Deer Hunt is for experienced hunters.
The scenery is one of the best things about these games.
It took me three days to complete the career mode of this game.
Time passes more slowly than in some of the other games in this series. Day changes to night. There is rain, snow, and wind. There is no choosing a season in this game. Many of the animals are slight variations.
Animals included are Arctic Wolf, Barren-Ground Caribou, Bison, American Black Bear, Bobcat, Brown Bear, Columbian Black-Tailed Deer, Cougar, Coyote, Dall's Sheep, Desert Bighorn Sheep, Desert Mule Deer, Eastern Timber Wolf, Grey Wolf, Grizzly Bear, Javelina, Kodiak Brown Bear, Lynx, Mountain Caribou, Mountain Goat, Musk Ox, Northern Timber Wolf, Northwestern Moose, Polar Bear, Pronghorn Antelope, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Rocky Mountain Elk, Rocky Mountain Mule Deer, Roosevelt Elk, Shiras Moose, Stone Sheep, Tule Elk, White-Tailed Deer, Wolverine, Woodland Caribou, and Yukon Moose. In addition there are several non game animals such as rabbits, foxes, and black-footed ferrets.
The weapons are .243 Compact Bolt-Action Rifle, .270 Bolt-Action Rifle, .280 Bolt-Action Rifle, .30-30 Lever-Action Rifle, 7mm Magnum Semi-Automatic Rifle, .30-06 Bolt-Action Rifle, .30-06 Semi-Automatic Rifle, .300 Magnum Bolt-Action Rifle, .308 Bolt-Action Rifle, .308 Semi-Automatic Rifle, .416 Bolt-Action Rifle, .45-120 1874 Replica Rifle, 10 Gauge Pump Shotgun, 12 Gauge Semi-Automatic Shotgun, 12 Gauge Over and Under Shotgun, Semi-Auto Slug Gun, .44 Magnum, Revolver, Single-Shot .30-30 Long Hunting Pistol, .50 AE Semi-Auto Handgun, .500 Magnum Pistol, Recurve Bow, Cabela's PL1 Compound Bow, and Crossbow. Note that not all of these weapons are available immediately. They become available at stores in the lodges throughout career mode.
There are six regions, namely Forest, Marsh, Desert, Grassland, Mountains, and Tundra.
In addition there are calls, lures, tents, stands, and blinds.
Some of the weapons can be fitted with scopes. Binoculars, Spotting Scope, and Laser Range Finder are also available.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good choice, go ahead, buy it., January 16, 2006

By 

Shadrak (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006 (CD-ROM)

This is hands down the best hunting game I've ever played. I'm comparing it to Deer Hunter 2, Deer Hunter 2005 and Hunting Unlimited 2. I've also played the first Big Game Hunter, but that's so ridiculously archaic that it doesn't even count as a comparison.
Here are some of the game's strengths:
- You actually earn money for each legal kill, with which you can buy weapons and equipment.
- Great character customization and skill development system: you can spend some points on the skills when you create your character, and then the skills increase automatically as you use them.
- The largest variety of weapons, equipment and game animals I've ever seen.
- Unlike other games like Deer Hunter, you don't spend hours and hours searching for game, only to find the most disappointing animals in the end. And the game also doesn't place you right next to the animals like in Hunting Unlimited 2, which practically eliminates the searching aspect completely and makes for a very repetitive and unrealistic game. The way they do it is by simply creating smaller maps. You'll have to search, but you won't get frustrated. Also, in the easy mode you can turn on the trophy beacon option, which places a marker over game animals, making them very easy to spot. Unfortunately, this option is not available in the medium or expert modes, which is a drawback. I want a lot of flexibility in customizing my gameplay.
- There is a huge number of video and audio options to tweak to improve performance.

Here are some weaknesses:
- Unfortunately you can't save trophies yourself to compare them with other kills. Only the best of each species is saved automatically.
- You don't get extra points for using exotic weapons, like bows or antique firearms. You do get a bonus for a clean kill, though.
- Animal behavior is still not quite as good as in Deer Hunter 2005, but much better than in Hunting Unlimited 2, where as often as not animals start running toward you when they see you - and I'm talking about defenseless little deer, not just aggressive animals like bears and bison. Still, in Big Game Hunter 2006, there's something not quite right with the way the animals act. The creators of all these games should take an AI workshop with the guys who made Deer Hunter 2005.
- This is a big one: there are no hot keys. This makes using items a major pain in the neck.
- The manual is very concise and leaves many important details unexplained.
- You can only crouch, you can't lay down on the ground.
- Weapons specifications are a bit shallow, and nowhere are they explained in more detail.
- The animal info option (which gives you some details about the animal when you're looking at it through a scope or binoculars) is helpful, but they should include the animal's approximate weight and age, especially in the case of antlerless game.
- The tracking system is a bit frustrating. You can barely see the tracks on the ground, no matter how high your tracking skill is. This is the way it works: you press "x" to search for tracks, and if you find tracks within a certain radius (which is determined by your tracking skill) the camera will zoom into it and give you the species, direction it was going and approximately how long ago the animal left it. It's easy to use, but I would like to search for the tracks myself sometimes, that would give more realism to the game. This system also creates a very frustrating problem: if you're tracking one animal and another idiotic creature happens to cross that path, you can ONLY see the new track, even if the old one is still quite fresh. In addition, the absence of other signals (like droppings or scrapings) and the fact that wounded animals don't leave blood in their tracks are somewhat disappointing.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Big Gamer Hunter 2006, August 16, 2006

By 

J. Haskell - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006 (CD-ROM)

If you have Big Game Hunter 2005 season do not get Big Game Hunter 2006 because it exactly the same. The first one was fun, but I just spent my money getting a duplicate of the 2005.