Ultimate Duck Hunting is a terrible game that Diehard GameFAN wouldn't even use for a coaster. In fact, the only way you'll get your money's worth out of this disc is if you use both the disc and the case for target practice. They will grant that the idea of training a hunting dog and using it to recover your kills is a neat idea, but it goes exactly nowhere. Whether you're a hunter in real life or wondering what it would be like to hunt animals, stay away from this game.
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Well, we are up to day 3 here. The format is pretty well established by now. We are taking a look at forty of the most ridiculous covers ever to 'grace' the cover of a video game box. This marks our halfway point in our list. Tune in tomorrow and we will have our last ten.
Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys
Out of the two notorious Disney rip-off games to appear on the PS2 - the other being Animal Soccer World - this game is the more Satanic of the two evils. I mean wow, look at the extremely bad character models. Wait, can you EVEN call them "models"? Escaped souls from the River Styx possessing mannequins sounds about right. This is making my head hurt.
These characters were the reason that some games were hard or caused many a controller to be smashed to pieces. They either impeded our progress through their stupidity or laughed at our misfortune. We couldn’t ice them and we were bound by their lack of respect for out gaming experience. While these games wouldn’t have been the same without these memorable characters, they were the cause of incredible irritation and aggravation - most notably in the form of the dreaded escort quests.
Rico
Slippy
Pikachu - oh how I want to strangle that little thing
Mario - shove him down the toilet with a plunger I will
Peach - shove her in a closet for being used so many times I will
Kratos - oh wait you can't kill the god of war
Diddy kong - for feeling like a tacked on sidekick
I'll come up with more later
Otis from dead rising
Massacring through a mall of zombies is hard enough but when some idiot keeps calling you every few seconds you want to start Massacring him instead
or doesn't know that you can blast the dog from Duck Hunt halfway to Hades if you play the arcade version. I have no idea why Nintendo took out the Bonus Rounds of the arcade versions when they put them out on the NES. It was the same hardware. The results screen from Excitebike was made worse for the home version too. (I loved the bonus round on Excitebike too.)
Toss in some graphics straight outta 1995, touchy Wiimote controls, and a lack of online multiplayer options, and it's hard to keep Ultimate Duck Hunting in your sights for long. Any fun you may have teaching Rover to pluck wounded waterfowl out of the water and onto the grill will end fast once you've mastered duck calls, shooting, and retrieving. And that won't take long at all.