Carnivores 2

by Atari

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001X5C1
• Item Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,477 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #66 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Hunting games for the PC have let us stalk wild turkeys, shoot at countless deer, and even bag a few bears. Carnivores 2 takes things up a notch by letting players go on a dinosaur safari. That premise sounded terrible until we started playing the game, and we were immediately sucked in by Carnivore 2's atmosphere and play mechanics.

You start out with the ability to buy a few items, like a simple pistol and perhaps some camouflage. The dinosaurs you choose to hunt vary in their ability to detect you. Some can smell you coming but have a hard time seeing you, while others can't smell anything but have hearing acute enough to detect a leaf hitting the ground 100 yards away. You must adapt your hunting methods and equipment to counter the abilities of your quarry or you won't see a dinosaur, let alone get to shoot at one.

After bagging a few herbivores that have less biting power than Bambi, you work your way up the food chain to bigger, smarter, and much more dangerous game that look at you as prey instead of the other way around. In fact, the sound of a pistol is like a dinner bell to the Tyrannosaurus rex, who knows the only creature capable of causing that noise makes for a tasty snack. The fact that we had to consider ourselves both the hunter and the hunted added a tension to the game that other hunting simulations completely lack.

Graphics are good, and the artists obviously paid special attention to the movement of the creatures that inhabit the various islands you'll visit. The sounds were also done well, and many times we found ourselves tracking prey using our ears instead of our eyes. The only things they left out are the smells, and for that we are grateful. We were surprised at how much fun we had with Carnivores 2, which is a unique take on hunting simulations, one that nearly anyone should enjoy. --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• Dinosaurs move smoothly
• You occasionally feel like that doomed hunter guy in Jurassic Park
• Nice ambient sound effects

Cons:

• Can get a bit repetitive once you perfect your hunting skills

Product Description

A 3D Action Hunting Game with Twice the Bite!

Product Information

Another world.  Another time.  Another test of the fittest.  Is it a streakof movement, or your life flashing before you?  You traverse the vast new world filled with prehistoric creatures from a time long past. With enough weaponry to flatten a mountain range, you begin your search. You feel a surge of dominance overyour potential next kill, but then come to an abrupt and haunting realization. You are outnumbered, outsmarted and the object of a deadly prehistoric creature's hunt. Running cannot help you this time, the hunter has become the hunted. Nothing couldever prepare you for this, the ultimate hunting experience! 


Product Features

• Enter a world filled with 9 mammoth prehistoric dinosaurs.
• Trudge through the 5 eerily realistic 3D maps, including adense jungle, vast swamps, open deserts and more.
• Equip yourself with a pistol, shotgun, sniper rifle, or 3 other weapons.
• Quench your thirst for a victorious kill with the help of the state-of-the-art hunting equipment
• Alter your plan of attack as the dinosaurs follow and learn your movements.
• Experience the elements of a truly realistic world including fog, a hot beating sun and the dangers of the night.
• Immerse yourself in an exquisitelydetailed world filled with 3D graphics, real-time lighting and translucent water effects.
• Ingenious survival skills may take you to engaging hidden areas for more dinosaur stalking action.
• Feel a chill run down your spine as youhear the eerie shrill of a distant, but ever-present dinosaur.
• Danger is always a second away, so prepare to crouch and take cover to avoid the charging velociraptor.
• Enter the realm of prehistoric reality and take on the quest forsurvival.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much Better Than The Original..., November 16, 1999

By 

John O'Brien (Woburn, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carnivores 2 (CD-ROM)

I know, I know...how can I give a hunting game 5 stars? Usually I wouldn't...I've never liked hunting games. But if you have to choose only one, choose this one. Carnivores 2 is far superior to any other hunting game out there, and is much better than the original. Let's face it...no deer or duck is ever going to charge you and eat you for dinner like the raptor does. It's fun hunting and being the hunted...the AI is actually very repectable. So what's better about part 2? First of all, there is support for EAX and A3D,as well as Direct 3D and 3DFX Glide. It makes all the difference! Secondly, you have more choices in terms of weapons...now there is a handgun, double-barrel shotgun, and the others from the original. The new hunting environments are excellent, and are littered with random dinosaurs going about there business. I'm a fan of games like Half-Life, so a hunting sim would never appeal to me. But Carnivores 2 is worth the hard drive space...and let's face it...the price is right!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real hunting challenge, June 21, 2000

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Cronus "pondoro" (Gurnee, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carnivores 2 (CD-ROM)

I bought Carnivores and followed it up by buying Carnivores 2, and am waiting for Carnivores 3. What makes this hunting sim better than most is that unlike other hunting sims, in this one you're not gauranteed coming out alive. You have to be attentive. Play the wind the wrong way and your the hunted. Become careless on your approach, and the carnivore is on you before you can get of a shot. Walk in the woods without being alert, you're lunch. Challenge yourself in this game and you can feel the tension. It is easy to become bored if you're impatient. As a hunter I know full well that game just doesn't appear in front of you ready to be shot. You have to hunt. My average game can take fifteen minutes to one hour, depending on what I want to do. Play the game as it should be played by going for the biggest trophy herbivores or hunting the carnivores, and you'll enjoy the game alot more.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spot. Aim. Fire. Pray., February 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Carnivores 2 (CD-ROM)

That's right pray if you will survive a hunt in this game. I have purchased several hunting games but i soon became board with stalking creatures that i knew i would eventually hunt down and kill. or throw the box across the room because i couldn't find it again. But this game has an edge. You never know if ur being stalked though the dense mist or if the creature your following dosent spring out from the next tree and end your days as a hunter. There is no hunting game in the world that could compare to the wonderfull environments, chilling sounds, and dino grahpics. Like I said before this game is scary. I have found myself many times stalking a stegasourus or something only to be jumped by a raptor. sometimes i get a shot of but its over. im dino lunch. But nothing to me is more scary then looking at a dino in my sights and then from behind be here slow but ever lounding thunps that shake the ground. You can guess what happens next. Also the game allows you some type of career where you earn points. In the first game u just unlocked weapons and maps. In this one they are all open but require to manage you points wisely for each hunt.NOTE POINTS DO NOT GET USED UP ONLY DISTRIBUTED IN EACH HUNT TO AREAS U WANT THEY COME BACK AT THE END. Again the environments are great! Look out for giant walls, radar stations, abondend villages, stonehenge, and o yeah the jaws of a T-Rex! Enjoy