{"id":17162,"date":"2017-12-04T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17162"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:31:09","slug":"deer-hunter-reloaded-ps4-xbox-one-pc-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/deer-hunter-reloaded-ps4-xbox-one-pc-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer Hunter: Reloaded (PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the biggest successes in gaming that you don\u2019t hear about much anymore is Deer Hunter.\u00a0 Back in the late 90\u2019s, this game was huge and I reviewed a ton of its sequels and imitators back at The Dallas Morning News.\u00a0 In fact, there were so many hunting games back then that I had to tell my editor to stop sending them to me, because I was getting tired of reviewing them!\u00a0 And you know I hate turning down a game to review!\u00a0 Heck, even my grandmother on my dad\u2019s side played the Deer Hunter games back then.\u00a0 And she was really good at them, too, and got the highest scores in our family!\u00a0 And now Deer Hunter is back with Reloaded, available on the PS4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile devices (reviewed on PS4 here).<\/p>\n

There are three locations where you can hunt.\u00a0 Texas (yay), Colorado, and Alaska.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have objectives to shoot a certain number of game, and when you complete enough and gain levels, you\u2019ll unlock new locations to hunt in.\u00a0 When you shoot something, you\u2019ll be able to view it in your trophy room along with the weapons you bought.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also earn money you can use to buy new weapons and upgrade them, as well as other tools like binoculars and thermal vision.\u00a0 Just make sure you only shoot bucks, not does, or anything that doesn\u2019t have antlers or horns in the deer or sheep categories or it won\u2019t count for anything.\u00a0 You\u2019ll hunt all types of deer, wild sheep, birds, big game, and even predators!<\/p>\n

Normally I don\u2019t gripe about graphics, but in a game like this where visuals are important, I\u2019m afraid I have to.\u00a0 There are minor glitches that don\u2019t affect the gameplay, like shadows of trees appearing and disappearing all over the place, but overall the graphics on the PS4 aren\u2019t that good and it\u2019s hard to tell which deer have antlers and which don\u2019t.\u00a0 Plus when the deer run away, they can get stuck behind rocks and just run in place for a few seconds while they try to figure out how to get around them.\u00a0 Speaking of which, the game is in 3-D, but you\u2019re limited to where you can walk and sometimes you can get stuck in rocks, too!\u00a0 And the only noise that seems to startle animals are gunshots, otherwise you can make all the noise you want even if the game has options like crouching and such.\u00a0 And the PS4 controller has motion capabilities, you think they could\u2019ve used them here to aim better.\u00a0 It\u2019s a crapshoot sometimes to hit something, even if you know you aimed correctly.\u00a0 But I guess that\u2019s how it is in real life hunting, too.\u00a0 I may not hunt in real life (I have nothing against it, I just don\u2019t think I\u2019d do very well with my vision impairment), but like I said, I have played plenty of hunting games in the past and I know what makes a good and bad one.\u00a0 And unfortunately, this is not a good hunting game.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deer Hunter: Reloaded is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Violence.\u00a0 While you do shoot animals, I didn\u2019t really notice a lot of blood, although predators can attack you later on in the game.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with taking your kids out hunting in real life, they\u2019ll be OK with the game, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may get bored and frustrated with the game, as these types take a bit of patience to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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