IGN: Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures Review

IGN – Cabela seems to have picked up the pace.

A common complaint about several previous installments in the long-running Cabela’s series of hunting and fishing sims is that they got their simulations a little too right — they were frequently focused on offering as accurate a re-creation of the hunting experience as possible, and that translated into some really slow gameplay. After all, if you go out hunting for real, you have to spend hours preparing, then making your way out into the wild, then waiting and waiting and waiting for the chance to take, maybe, a single good shot.

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Rating Description

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7.5 Presentation

Nicely done. This latest Cabela’s outing takes inspiration from modern first-person shooters and picks up its pace of play, adding checkpoints and progressive goals to achieve.

6.0 Graphics

Outdoor Adventures has to contend with a lower display resolution and some blurriness in textures on the Wii and PS2, but the PS3 and Xbox 360 builds are sharp.

7.0 Sound

Music is kept mostly to menu screens in order to preserve the silence of the hunt and put emphasis on audio cues there — which are done pretty well.

7.0 Gameplay

A decent hunting sim that doesn’t stray too far into serious simulation, which saves the player a lot of time. The fishing portion is poor, but thankfully doesn’t seem to get much focus.

7.0 Lasting Appeal

A Trophy Creator mode that allows you to customize your own animals and then track them down extends the experience, after you’ve cleared the story mode.

7.0

Decent OVERALL

(out of 10 / not an average)