Is this comparable with Deer Hunter 2005?

[JESUSLOVE]

Up till this day, I still play Deer Hunter 2005. I still enjoy it, and on everything hight and resolution high it still looks actually very good. I love the gameplay, the number of maps and the custom maps also. Was a big community back then. Now I consider this, I see there are several dlc's. Are these maps, or will the basic game come with different maps? As in DH2k5 i could choose all kind of regions in the US with differen landscape and weather conditions. I hope this is also here possible, do you also get a horse, or is everything by foot. Thanks already.

[Ogami]

Never played Deer Hunter 2005 so i cant compare them.
But this is a pretty realistic hunting simulation, meaning its not unusual to walk around or track a animal for 25-30 minutes before you get to shoot. At the beginning you can create a hunter, male or female and then choose one of 2 big reservations that are in the game, Layton Lake which is in the USA and Hirschfelden a German hunting reserve.
Both are MASSIVE in scale and it takes around 30 hours or so to completely explore one region.


There are outposts you can unlock by discovering them which are used as bases where you buy equipment, can sleep and act as fast travel station to get around the map.
For harvested animals you earn two kind of exp, one for your hunter to raise levels over time which unlocks skill and perk points you can invest into different skill and weapon trees.
Also weapon points that unlock more weapons of the same category and gadgets like scopes.
Currently there are 4 categories of weapons in the game, rifles, handguns, bows and shotguns.

You also earn money from harvesting animals or doing missions which is used to buy more equipment, different weapons, callers, binoculars and so on.
Game has a dynamic day/night cycle and a weather system.
I played for around 85 by now and barely finished exploring the maps and
basically just used one weapon category so far.
There is a LOT of content in this game.


There is also some paid DLC you can buy, one tent DLC that lets you place tents anywhere on the map that act as mini outposts and have the same functionality, a DLC that gives you a ATV to drive around on, useful to exploring the map but too loud and scares of animals.

There is also a new big hunting map set in the Siberian Taiga which came out recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArD7Te25UGU

Very beautiful, especially if you like snow landscapes.

[Eekhoorn]

It has been years since I played Deer Hunter 2005, but I have very fond memories of it. The whole reason why I bought COTW was based on those memories. All other hunting games are arcade style, but I was looking for realism. It was a long wait, but finally COTW came along and it looked like this was my dream comming true; a modern "realistic" hunting game.

At first glance the game delivers the same realistic feel of Deer Hunter 2005, but as much as I like COTW I need to be honest: COTW is fun, but extremely buggy and lacking in basic features that were present in DH2005.

The biggest differences are:

No trophy gallery
Less maps (2 in the box, 1 as DLC)
Less weapons and no customization
No map editor
No tripods, tree stands or food lures
No cameras to setup
No automatic deer callers
No recording your hunt
No multiple profiles
All antlers are the same
No tag system
No seasons but it has dynamic weather

Other than that, there are a few bugs that totally destroy the gameplay. The worst being the teleporting wildlife and the risk of loosing ALL your progress.

While some of this may be adressed in the future, it is worth mentioning that people have been complaining about these bugs for quite some time now.

Overall I say COTW is a mixed bag, but it is the only modern game that comes close to DH2005 except for TheHunter but that one is pay to play.

It IS worth to play COTW, but it feels buggy and unfinished and does not really live up to the many features that are present in DH2005.

I hope these features will be implemented over time and that the bugs will be squashed. But then again... I've been hoping that for almost a year now.

In the end, it's your call.

[RamMack]

Check You Tube, there are some pretty good videos. Plus Steam has a 2 hr refund policy.
Check system specs before purchase.

To clarify, not all derr antlers are the same (# of points). There are 3 point,6 point 8 point, etc., but each set is the same.