Cabela’s Trophy Bucks: Passes the Buck
December 30, 2007 | Filed Under Game Reviews | No Comments
Cabela’s Trophy Bucks is exactly the kind of game that gives parents the willies. Not only are real looking firearms involved but also you are shooting at objects that are not soulless aliens or heartless mechs or thoughtless cartoon creations. No, you are firing high-powered rifles at Bambi or Thumper or Peter Cottontail.
Perhaps if the game had some challenge, you might be able to look past the screaming that PETA enthusiasts have generated. Alas, Cabela’s Trophy Bucks doesn’t conjure up any gaming magic to dispel the reservations most feeling people would have when sighting down a magnificent buck.
Adding power-up to the existing Cabela game does nothing to augment an already slow game. You have no incentives to gather more kills except for some flimsy medals awarded for a particularly noteworthy kill. Slow time is also available if you want to really zero in on a prey.
The most heinous addition is the Hunter’s Sense that allows you to sight in on a quarry even when the poor thing is out of your view. You can actually kill without even seeing the target. As George Carlin once famously said about hunting, “Six of us are going to go out and kill a duck!”
There is no attempt at a story and the environments are claustrophobically small. You encounter lag time when switching weapons and find tough slogging through the forests as you are transported without warning or reason into a new place to hunt down helpless deer, geese, and rabbits.
Give this one a miss as Cabela’s marketing department has tripped and fallen on its face with this miscalculation. Only the choir will enjoy shooting in a barrel.
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