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Not so Great Bird Hunt
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Nov 24, 2009
Member since Jan 2008
7 out of 8 gamers (88%) found this review helpful
One of the first games that involve shooting birds is called Duck Hunt, where you spend round after round shooting down ducks - sometimes one at a time, sometimes two at a time.
Now comes a game that looks like the next generation Duck Hunt, Remington North American Bird Hunt. There's a single player mode and two multiplayer modes.
The single player mode has you shooting through 12 tournament, with five rounds in each tournament for a total of sixty levels. It starts off very easy, but gets much harder as you progress.
You score points by shooting the right bird, hitting a bunch of birds with one shot and making a chain of hits - each consecutive hit gets more points than the last.
You have to meet or beat a required number of points for bronze, silver or gold medals. Getting a medal also gets you to the next round in the tournament or the next tournament.
What sort of levels are shown here? Some of the levels have you shooting flocks of ducks or geese and others have you shoot male turkeys without hitting the female ones.
Some of the levels have a miss limit. Shoot a bird you're not supposed to or miss a bird you are supposed to hit and you get a "miss". After getting a certain number of misses (depends on which tournament you are in), the round is over.
As for the multiplayer games, they're what you expect; in one, up to four players can shoot at birds in three rounds of play. Highest score wins.
The other multiplayer has players taking turns over three levels. It's like the first multiplayer game, but there's an option to sabotauge the other players with armored birds, or reverse controls.
Truth is, the single player mode can get bland and boring after a few rounds; you are just doing the same thing over and over again.
The multiplayer can get fun - but there's nothing new or original on display here.
So, if you like shooting birds, then I say rent it, but most of us can give Remington North American Bird Hunt a pass. SKIP IT
Now comes a game that looks like the next generation Duck Hunt, Remington North American Bird Hunt. There's a single player mode and two multiplayer modes.
The single player mode has you shooting through 12 tournament, with five rounds in each tournament for a total of sixty levels. It starts off very easy, but gets much harder as you progress.
You score points by shooting the right bird, hitting a bunch of birds with one shot and making a chain of hits - each consecutive hit gets more points than the last.
You have to meet or beat a required number of points for bronze, silver or gold medals. Getting a medal also gets you to the next round in the tournament or the next tournament.
What sort of levels are shown here? Some of the levels have you shooting flocks of ducks or geese and others have you shoot male turkeys without hitting the female ones.
Some of the levels have a miss limit. Shoot a bird you're not supposed to or miss a bird you are supposed to hit and you get a "miss". After getting a certain number of misses (depends on which tournament you are in), the round is over.
As for the multiplayer games, they're what you expect; in one, up to four players can shoot at birds in three rounds of play. Highest score wins.
The other multiplayer has players taking turns over three levels. It's like the first multiplayer game, but there's an option to sabotauge the other players with armored birds, or reverse controls.
Truth is, the single player mode can get bland and boring after a few rounds; you are just doing the same thing over and over again.
The multiplayer can get fun - but there's nothing new or original on display here.
So, if you like shooting birds, then I say rent it, but most of us can give Remington North American Bird Hunt a pass. SKIP IT
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