Selling animals is where you net most of your income, and quick, efficient hunters can make a fortune in a short amount of time. Everything in Hunting Simulator 2 is available from the start-if you have the money for it.Įverything in Hunting Simulator 2 is dependent on money. On the up side, it also looks like they removed tedious requirements of the original-like needing to make a certain number of kills with weapons to progress. Sadly, there’s no co-op in Hunting Simulator 2, nor have I found any indication that they will be adding it. I never played the first Hunting Simulator game, but it looks like they removed multiplayer in the sequel. But in my experience, most of the masks and wind guides feel unnecessary in this not-really-a-sim world. There are also a good number of other items to help you with success-calls, sprays, scent masks, its. They’re not really different guns, just different bullet sizes. Though most of the 160 different weapons count the multiple different calibers that is available for each rifle. There are loads of rifles, shotguns, and bows to choose from. While Hunting Simulator 2 may be lacking in the realism department, it does have a good number of toys to play with. It’s possible to make enough mistakes to run out of money and be dependent on your ‘free’ licens, an infinite license that you choose with no knowledge of its true nature until after you choose it. It teaches you the extreme basics, introduces your animal companion, and lets you play in its world at your own pace and peril. I appreciate that foreknowledge, because Hunting Simulator 2’s tutorial is lacking in a lot of information. I’ve never hunted in real life, and anything I know about hunting is from playing video games on the subject, or just listening to people who did hunt. And you are penalized for not bagging every animal you shot-even the ones that clip through the ground upon death, which happened often when I was shooting ducks and geese near rocks. Though, realistically, I feel like shooting an animal and leaving it wounded when you can finish it off would be less ethical. If you take too many shots, for example, you are fined for unethical treatment of animals. Hunting Simulator 2 does a lot to penalize you financially for a mistake. Once I learned the game’s systems, I found I was faster at tracking than my animal companion. Despite their initial usefulness, I found myself eschewing the tracking functions of the dog, and used a lab as a game retriever only. If you tell your dog they are doing a good job, they will start to bond with you and become better at their job. Each of the three dog breeds has a use, whether it’s sniffing out prey or retrieving small game. You can choose between a scent hound, retriever, and pointer-Beagle, Labrador, and German Shorthaired Pointer. Having a hunting dog companion is a big selling point for Hunting Simulator 2. Even the ballistic system-shooting the guns and scoring hits-feels simple, and when my twitch first person shooter instincts took over to kill a few consecutive rams, I realized that this doesn’t quite match up with reality. But when it comes to actual realism, Hunting Simulator 2 feels like a loose approximation. Your dog helps you out some with the tracking. Animals run if they hear you, and you can track them using their droppings, tracks, or various other signs of their recent (or not-so-recent) activity. It feels like there was an attempt made at realism. There are different licenses for different regions, but other than that, it’s your choice what to hunt, where, and when.ĭespite its name, Hunting Simulator 2 is more of an arcade hunting experience.

There are different licenses for the thirty three different animals you can hunt over the three regions. At your super fancy hunting lodge you can test out guns at the shooting range, and buy new equipment like guns, dogs, and. There is no story, and no real objectives-just you, your gun, your dog, and the hunt. And you can bring along a canine companion to help in your hunt, as there are three breeds of dog, each with their own abilities. You can do this with various rifles, shotguns, and bows across six areas, two each in Colorado, Texas, and Europe. Hunting Simulator 2 is a first person game that is all about tracking and hunting various animals-from waterfowl to grizzly bears. It turns out that hunting games are pretty good for that slow burn style gameplay. Now that I’m older, I enjoy a slow burn and the ability to approach gameplay the way I prefer. There’s something about their pacing that I couldn’t appreciate. When I was younger, I played a good amount of hunting games, but I never really got into them.

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