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Bad enough to score a 1
posted by dfloss721 (GRAYSLAKE, IL) Nov 14, 2011
Member since Jun 2007
29 out of 32 gamers (91%) found this review helpful
I've written lots of reviews, but very few are terrible enough to earn the feeble rating of a 1. Cabela's Survival game takes home the trophy for the worst "hunting" game on the 360. It's hard to believe a company like Activision jumped on board with this pile of hot garbage.
I also find it hard to believe that this game would be any better using Cabela's giant plastic toy gun for the gameplay. That thing is as useless as the SNES Superscope or the Powerglove. So most of you will be using a controller like I did, and you'll find the sensitivity to be at the rate of a WoW gamer's mouse.
Right off the bat I could tell the controls were going to be a problem. You cannot adjust the ridiculously high sensitivity, which to me makes no sense for a game where 1/2 the play is gallery shooting. It was almost unplayable, but you can kind of get used to it, but it's not fun regardless. Also, like half the buttons aren't even used, and the ones that do are awkward. When A button does nothing, why would you make LB jump? And LT switches guns instead of aims or zooms, so you'll be pushing wrong buttons for sure.
Survival also looks like it was developed for the Playstation 1. The graphics and sound are horrendous. The story mode is a bad survival tale, and looks like it was a mimic of Man vs. Wild's recent game, but even worse than that, and you don't have to drink your own urine.
There's only 57 other Cabela related games out there, so try one of those instead. I would not recommend renting Survival, because even doing it to just get the achievements was a horrible waste of time. You will only be disappointed by a horribly bad looking and unresponsive game.
I also find it hard to believe that this game would be any better using Cabela's giant plastic toy gun for the gameplay. That thing is as useless as the SNES Superscope or the Powerglove. So most of you will be using a controller like I did, and you'll find the sensitivity to be at the rate of a WoW gamer's mouse.
Right off the bat I could tell the controls were going to be a problem. You cannot adjust the ridiculously high sensitivity, which to me makes no sense for a game where 1/2 the play is gallery shooting. It was almost unplayable, but you can kind of get used to it, but it's not fun regardless. Also, like half the buttons aren't even used, and the ones that do are awkward. When A button does nothing, why would you make LB jump? And LT switches guns instead of aims or zooms, so you'll be pushing wrong buttons for sure.
Survival also looks like it was developed for the Playstation 1. The graphics and sound are horrendous. The story mode is a bad survival tale, and looks like it was a mimic of Man vs. Wild's recent game, but even worse than that, and you don't have to drink your own urine.
There's only 57 other Cabela related games out there, so try one of those instead. I would not recommend renting Survival, because even doing it to just get the achievements was a horrible waste of time. You will only be disappointed by a horribly bad looking and unresponsive game.
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