
There’s a few distinct phases – first you’ll walk around the woods listening intently and keeping an eye out for tracks. Animals, as long as they’re not the bastard dobermans in Tomb Raider 2’s Venice level, get a pass in my book.īut regardless of your feelings about hunting, there’s no denying that theHunter presents a pretty accurate depiction of it.

This sounds weird, because I have put several thousand hours into shooters at this point and have probably killed hundreds of thousands of AI and player-controlled opponents, but it feels more fair when they also have guns.

Since it’s release in 2017, theHunter: Call of the Wild has been trying to do one thing: create the most accurate depiction of hunting in a video game. This week, Jake Tucker convenes with nature. Hit Reload is a weekly column on everything first-person shooter.
