Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2
North American PlayStation 2 cover art
Developer(s)	Sand Grain Studios (PS2), Magic Wand Productions (PC and GC), Fun Labs (Xbox)
Publisher(s)	Activision, Zoo Digital Publishing
Platforms	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)	Windows
Genre(s)	Action, sports, simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 is a 2005 hunting video game published by Sand Grain Studios and Cabela's. It is a sequel to the 2003 game Cabela's Dangerous Hunts.

Gameplay

As opposed to previous games, Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 is more focused on survival rather than hunting. The player takes the role of a famous hunter traveling through many different types of terrain, trying to find out who or what killed his best friend. As with the first game, the hunter has a limited amount of energy and can be injured, which results in failure. There are many weapons, including handguns, rifles, shotguns, knives and machetes. The game also includes many different animals including a boss, the Yeti. Unlike the first game, this one has only the story mode.

Plot

The game begins in Alaska, where the hunter (the player) meets a man named Hugh Andrews. Hugh is a native with a glass eye and a wooden leg. He has important information about your old friend, 'Bullseye'. You practice and then hunt whitetail deer, progressing to fight a cougar and a grizzly bear to complete the first level. The next level takes place elsewhere in Alaska, where the hunter fights his way through wolves and another mountain lion to rescue Hugh's niece and nephew. In the next, the hunter fights wolves, a grizzly bear and another mountain lion to reach a ridge and rescue Hugh Andrews, the hunter's guide, dodging bear traps to reach him. At the beginning of the next level, the hunter fights his way back to the bear cave and then meets Hugh's niece and nephew. He must bait the grizzly with boar meat and kill it.

The hunter then progresses to Africa seeking the legendary big game hunter 'Bullseye' Bill Lewis, where the hunter crash lands with your pilot, Abby Pendleton, in the bush and must find shelter fighting hyenas. The hunter and guide run into a leopard pair, kill them, and then head to a nearby shelter. Then you must hike to a radio tower to send an SOS fighting leopards, cobras and crocodiles and crossing quicksand. After the SOS has been sent, lions attack Abby.. The hunter kills the alpha male and two more lions to complete the level. In the next, the hunter discovers that the man he came to Africa to see has left to find his wife, who is lost somewhere in the bush. Because it is Holy Land, and because gunfire already makes the animals mad, you can only use a bow and arrow. You fight lions from the back of a truck until the Tribe leader can drive no further. You proceed by yourself on foot and kill a hippopotamus and more lions to reach the wife of Hamisi, who agrees to take you to a poachers nearby camp, and states that he was with 'Bullseye" when the incident happened but cannot remember much about it. In a cutscene a poacher frightens some elephants by firing a shotgun. The hunter has to tranquilize them from the back of a truck before they get to Hamisi's village. Once you reach the village, the level comes to an end.

The next stage takes place in India and involves tranquilizing tigers, dodging cages, and an Asian black bear with Reginald Dowling, who serves as your guide for the remainder of the game. After a cutscene, Reginald is told to get back to the Wilderness Rescue campsite, where another bear is on the rampage and must be tranquilized before it kills someone else. Progressing to the next level, the hunter must rescue a child, fighting tigers, avoiding cobras, bees, and cages. After finding the child, the hunter encounters an Indian rhinoceros and must tranquilize it.

The action now moves to Australia, where the hunter meets Wirake, a native aboriginal. He can only speak in beeps, pops, clicks and whistles; but tells you and Reginald that some of his tribesmen are lost in the bush. You face two scrub bulls at a river. You also face crocodiles and must either kill one and leave the other or get eaten alive by both of them. He then rescues the tribesmen, and the remainder of the level consists of dodging crocodile attacks and stampeding buffalo. Next you move to another part of Australia. You and Reginald are lost after falling into a cave. You begin the level without a weapon, but after a short cutscene you have a knife. This mission consists of fighting off dingoes while escaping the cave. With the new guide, Wirake, he fights fight puma and wild boar to escape Argentinian ruins. After some time, Wirake notes that Reginald has disappeared. He had been chased off by a puma, and you must rescue him. After finding him trying to fend off the puma with a stick, you kill the puma and the level ends. Progressing to Siberia, he snipe boars from a helicopter and then on foot, after Reginald realizes he brought the wrong ammo. You then fight your way to a nearby depot. on the way you run into and kill Hogzilla, a giant wild boar. The hunter next joins Wirake and Reginald to fight wolves, polar bears, and a final tribe of boars. After that, he joins Benedek and his poachers. In further cutscenes, he fights Big Grimm, a giant male polar bear, and then a Yeti. The game ends after a cutscene showing Reginald and Wirake congratulating you on bring down the beast that killed Bullseye. Just when Reginald thinks they can finally have a vacation, he gets a call from Wilderness Rescue about an anaconda attack.

Reception

Reception
Review scores Publication Score GC PC PS2 Xbox GameZone N/A N/A N/A 6.2/10 IGN 6.3/10 N/A 6.1/10 6.4/10 Nintendo Power 2.5/10 N/A N/A N/A TeamXbox N/A N/A N/A 5.1/10 Aggregate score Metacritic 51/100 66/100 64/100 63/100

The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

External links

• Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 at MobyGames