Cabela's Big Game Hunter - Xbox 360 (Game Only)

After playing the demo on xbox360 my 10 yr old son bought this game with his first allowance. He doesn't get to play it as much as he would like to but he says "its fun you can do wild life stuff like shooting bears and lions, you can shoot bunnys, ducks, and birds also. The game is awesome and you can do lots of other stuff. If you don't know where a deer is you can push the back button on your controller and it will tell you where it is. Your free to run on the game and its just awesome so I hope everybody likes this real cool game... good hunting :)"

I am thirteen and hate the fakeness of old duck hunt games and was super surprised when I played this. All the fun of animal attacks but also a good hunting game. cabelas always makes great products, I know because I wear there hunting gear when im hunting for real. I love good shooters on xbox and this was one of them. I want to buy it on wii but need more money after buying the 09 Spyder Victor Paintball Gun Marker MEGA Set - Black(also a great buy) from amazon. Have fun and remember to kill the animals before they kill you.

The game was quite fun, but it was way to easy to go through it. There were set missions that you had to follow to actually hunt. I would find it more challenging to use skill to track deer and various animals.It was an exciting game, but very limited to where you could go with it.

The game kept you on a trail, right to the animals, that would have tracks and such you needed to find but no free range mode. The game did however have plenty of mini games which were shoooting as much as you could of fox, rabbit, duck, etc.

There are many Cabela games, and it is fair to say some are real stinkers, while others are exceptionally fun. Big Game Hunter 2010 is one of the better games released by Cabela, but it has some flaws. The visuals are superb, and often stunning, so you will feel like you are the middle of a forest, river, desert, or mountain terrain. Animals look great and move realistically, weapons have a lot of detail, and the sound will also make it feel like you are in the middle of a real hunt. The bulk of the game is focused on being stealthy, quiet, and cautious in effort to move in on the animal and obtain the perfect distance for the perfect one-shot kill. There are some arcade aspects of the main game such as points for distance, organs hit, and so on, but the overall pace and action is slow, like real life, and not fast shooting, like in an arcade shooter. There are mini-quests to satiate those who do seek an arcade experience where you shoot birds, critters, etc., to rack up points in between stalking your main kill, which consist of many types of deer, wild cats, bears, and so on. Overall, it is fun to unlock new weapons and go back to completed missions to try and gain a higher medal ranking. There are about a dozen locations ranging from forests to deserts in various locales such as Argentina, Africa, Finland, Russia, and so on. There are also higher-powered rifles, shotguns, even a crossbow, to unlock and use on missions you have already completed. Overall, I do enjoy loading up the game and going on a mission to get a better score than before by using patience, slow stealth, and quiet movements while enjoying the calmness and reality of nature the game presents. People who live in climates with long winters, such as myself, will enjoy escaping to such beautiful locations during the long winter months. Negatives of the game include an overall feel the game was rushed to be completed. I will note what is here is good, but it feels like if they had more time the game would feel like a complete experience. The overall theme that you are a hunter traveling the world in hopes of gaining membership in an exclusive hunting club is rather minor, if existent at all. Some missions, or stages/levels, only have as few as 4 objectives, including optional arcade mini-games. That is rather jarring when you consider other missions that have more 6, 7, or more, objectives to complete. The last two missions take you to Africa and these missions, while beautiful in visuals, feel the most rushed as there is very little new here to make you feel like you are in Africa. I am stunned there were no crocodiles, giraffes, elephants, zebras, and so on, here. The only new animal was the water buffalo, but these are also introduced in the Argentina levels. Africa yet again has you mainly tracking deer, then ends with a triple wild cat fight. I was expecting, at the very least, a lion fight, or even an elephant fight, rhino, or hippo but all you get is more leopards. This is exactly what I noted earlier that if they had more time the game would easily be 5 stars. There is also a shooting gallery mode where you can choose to only play the mini-games; you get two minutes to complete these games and can obtain combo points for shooting multiple birds in one shot, or multiple birds without reloading. Problem is this shooting gallery mode does not offer much more than a chance to beat your high score... and that is it. Better than nothing but as bare bones as the story is. All that said, the price of the game does factor into my score. If this game were $60 I would be more upset by the above flaws for the price, but I paid under $20 for a new copy of the game and for that price I am satisfied with the content of the game. It could have been more, the game is bare-bones in some aspects, but the main focus was making a game that lets you stalk your prey with great realism and rewards you for taking the extended amount of time needed to move into the perfect position and aim just right for the perfect shot. That does not get old and will be fun even years from now. And when you do get a craving for faster action there is the shooting gallery mode and mini-games in the missions. This game will not appeal to anyone who thinks this is a standard fist-person shooter. You will not be killing 100 deer with a machine gun here. If that is what you are expecting this game is gonna be a 1 star for you. If you want a calmer experience where you enjoy the visuals and sounds of nature while stalking one prey, this game is up your alley. It is not perfect, but still a thumbs up from me. People have to be careful about these types of games because you never know what game is a total dud and which is totally fun. This definitely is in the fun category, at least for a certain type of gamer.

This is sport hunting, extremely boring and not actual hunting. I know I'm almost 9 years late posting this in late 2019 but this game was trash when I put it in my 360, the next cabela's game(2013) is the best game they have done.

My daughter has played this game a whole lot. We have xbox kinect and love love love it. Yes xbox with kinect is expensive but when I could afford it I got it. No one in the house is huge gamers but my husband and my daughter very much appreciate the xbox and the kinect. Save your money and buy the real great game box and the kinect is awesome.

after the achievements,it's still a great game....just as cool,is how fast the seller,shipped it to me.