Hunting games are everywhere, and people don't seem to have a problem with them - as long as they're figurative. You may be gunning for terrorists or space aliens (be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting extwa-tewwestwials) but you're still stalking and shooting. Or a good laugh, depending on your politics.īut more than anything, the confluence of Deer Hunter and Doom illustrates that most computer games are hunting games.
It's a starkly absurd comment on the National Rifle Association's party line. If you are really determined and an excellent shot, you can fire at squirrels. Instead of going after a single prey species, as in most hunting titles, TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter lets you pick off anything that crosses your path, from white-tailed deer and elk to wild turkeys, doves, rabbits and quail. It's obviously a formula that works.Įven hard-core console developers have ventured into the woods with titles like TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter (which harnesses the Unreal engine (the software that powered this year's breakthrough first-person shooter) to produce an experience that combines real-world wildlife with the modus operandi of Quake (i.e., shoot anything that moves). Hunker down, wait for the critters to appear, then shoot them. In addition to the standard shotgun, crossbow and sniper rifle, you get tranquilizer darts. (There are 2.5 million wild-turkey hunters in the United States, and their software needs will not be denied.)įor people who like shooting things on screen but don't necessarily consider themselves the ''hunting type,'' there is Carnivores for PC (which takes Deer Hunter back to the Jurassic age so players can trudge through steamy prehistoric jungles in search of tyrannosaurs, triceratops and velociraptors. But in the meantime, we can look forward to Alaskan Expedition, which adds grizzly bears and caribou to the menu, and Grand Slam Turkey Hunt, which is endorsed by the National Wild Turkey Federation. Partridge in a Pear Tree Hunter is presumably in the works for holiday '99. GT Interactive Software, which publishes Deer Hunter under its Wizardworks label, has made a cottage industry out of the genre, releasing a herd of follow-up titles into the retail wilderness: Deer Hunter Extended Season (the add-on pack), Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter, Bird Hunter, Bow Hunter, Deer Hunter II 3D and Browning Elk Hunter.
Walk into a computer store or a Wal-Mart, which commissioned Deer Hunter in the first place, and you'll see a wall of rifle-and-shotgun expeditions to every hunting ground on earth, to say nothing of the fishing titles. Since its debut last holiday season, more than a million copies of the lo-fi Bambi-hunting simulation have been shipped, and bandwagoneers have spawned countless imitations.
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