This game feels more like an arcade blast-away-all-the-annoying-animals game than an actual hunt. As one who played the original Cabela's Dangerous Hunts, I was disappointed in the lack of any free style hunt, purchaseable weaponry/clothing/tools, and the lack of variety in how the animals act toward you. The predators become relatively predictable, and your character can become nearly immortal just by dodging every single lion that jumps at you like it's no big deal. Not very realistic. Not very pretty. Not all that fun. Not a game one should buy.

If your looking for an open world/open map hunting this is not for you. This is like COD with animals. Scripted.

Welcome to Cabela's Dangerous hunts 2013,
First there is no real co-op online as stated. Only local split screen.
During your short stay in Africa you will kill thousands and thousands of lions and wild cats because of their infinite spawns. You will regulary get scratched by wild life with little to no effect.
You will have to slide long slopes because every cliff edge will crumple under your feets. The local wild life will use cheap scare tactics like jumping in and out of your view every 5 minutes or so.

There are mandatory "flash back" every 2 or 3 levels to change the theme from Africa to northern America for snow effects and to change to wolfes. Animals seems to come in waves of 4-5 and are not scared of your gun even if you just murdered to whole pack before their eyes. You will also have to save your brother life by sniping several dozens or so of animals trying to eat him whenever you are apart.

You will also get numerous "bullet time" with X-Ray vision to snipe the heart or brain of the predators and the only way to avoid attacks usually consist to roll left or right when they leap. Whenever the sneak up behind you, you enter a slow-mo shoot their heart quick mode.

Numerous bugs will also be encountered like animal going through wall or jumping off cliffs.

Several uninterresting other modes are included.
Save your money for another hunting game.

Its as if they tried to mix call of duty with a hunting game but excluded almost everything that makes a hunting game other than animals. Rolling to avoid damage, rail shooter segments, horde mode, bad AI, and actually using a deagle for "hunting". Paid 30 dollars for a game that felt really ham fisted and I hope you avoid the same fate.

~2 hours long and still manages to get repetitive.

Not sure what the trailer is about with the Prowler AI stuff, all I noticed was various animals all making a beeline for their target and leaping at them, stopping and doing it again until they die.

wow, this is trashy.
im sorry that i cant get myself to play more than 35 minutes or waste my time for a long review, but please stay away from this!


I played "Cabela's Big Game Hunter Pro Hunts" for a long Time and was curious about the other Cabela Games...
Sadly it seems like the only Thing they both have in common is the name Cabela.


At Big Game Hunter Pro Hunts you got large open World Maps, good Animations and Graphics and fun while playing...

Here at Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 you have low budget railshooting mixed with quicktime Events, ugly Graphics and Justin Bieber.

After the short Intro you just literally trigger happy shoot yourself through the World, killing everything, while badly animated and totally ridiculous amounts of maniac Animals attack you.


I tend to laugh about bad games, but this one here is even too bad to laugh about it, honestly.

If you want a good casual hunting game on Steam, buy Cabela's Big Game Hunter Pro Hunts instead.

11/10

TACTICOOL DUNKS ON ENDANGERED ANIMALS
KILL EVERYTHING IN AFRICA LARGER THAN A WRIST WATCH
IRON SIGHTS
DANK SLOW MO
LEOPARDS IN THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TREES
KILLING HYENA SCRUBS
DEFEAT THE HIPPO

ELEVEN OUT OF TEN

Got this on steam sale. Would return if I could...

Horrible rendition of hunting experience: bizarre unethical kill all attitude towards unrealisticly behaving animals that seem to attack you for no reason in huge packs wave after wave. Style is arcade animal killing instead of hunting experience. Cant pick hunting gear and some of the weapons are unbelievable for a serious hunter.

Cant recommend if you are looking for a game about hunting.

This game is seriously awefull. Do not buy it. I very much regret my decision to purchase this "game"

-totally liner (not open world) which for a hunting game is stuipd.
-graphics are not up to standard at all for 2013
-no hunting realizm at all.

I purchased this game because when I was young I played the Dangerous Hunts series on PS2. Those games were pretty terrible, and my friends and I would laugh and joke the entire time while running over deer in our ATVs and watching mooses fight grizzly bears. Expecting a nostalgiac bad game I couldnt wait to play this. What I discovered upon playing it was not that it was terrible, but somehow several times worse than the previous installments.

The game opens with a story background about how your brother and your dad hunt together and some zombie bear kills your dad. For what its worth the voice acting is exceptional given the rest of the game. Truly the people hired for this deserve some credit. Anyway the first thing I noticed was that your default weapon is a deagle and there were health pickups laying around. The scopes are unusable, the AI is horrible, all the enemies are reskins of eachother. When a 'boss' hyena spawned it was scaled up with noticable pixelation and a red filter over its textures like something youd see on an octorock from the original zelda game. To top it all off animals despawn instantly when killed, you fight droves at once and for the first two level of the game the mouse sensativity on the X and Y axis were different causing loads of control problems, but this along with the graphics fixed themselves after the beginning levels. I dont know anything about game design but id like to know exactly how that happened.

Well the game is horrible sure, but why am I recommending it? Well the game is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ abyssmal that it transcends why you would play a game. Its like watching Troll 2 or Birdemic. You dont want to give money away for those but they are just so horrible that you must witness it yourself. You need to find out how something like this could come to exist in the first place, why people were payed to create it. I personally believe that this particular game was commisioned by Cabela's and Cabela's was going to pay a low sum to the company. The company accepted the low bid, or Cabela's backed out and changed what they'd pay after the company began work. What resulted in this game was a joke by the developers in response to the low payout.

What you get is a game where packs of hyenas attack you at the same time as water buffalo, hippopotamus boss battles and health packs. You find fire bullets to load into your twelve shot desert eagle. The mission i left off on was - I kid you not - A flashback story mission where I had to save my brother's life from a pack of wolves that got stuck outside of their spawn location thus breaking the 'boss battle' and forcing me to restart the level. Anyway I just couldnt find the energy to replay the level so I've yet to progress further..

Now to summarize my reccommendation, this game isnt good. However that is percisely why its great. Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 is such an abject disaster that I personally think it should be given to sick and dying people of all ages. Those young and without hope will be able to laugh and rejoice at even with their limited knowledge the game is nothing like real life. The eldery who may have many regrets about accomplishments will be able to play the game and rejoice, knowing that regardles of what they've done in their time on this Earth they have not created this game.

9/10 score overall, I found myself smiling throughout the entire playthrough. A wonderful satire of video games and I suppose hunting as well.