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Release Date: November 22^nd, 2013
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Publishers: Apple Inc.
Platforms: iOS, Android
Genre: Hunting, Simulation, Shooter
Players: 1
Rating: 9/10

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Synopsis

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Return to the wilderness in the most visually stunning hunting simulator on mobile!

Travel from North Americas Pacific Northwest to the Savannah of Central Africa in an epic journey to hunt the worlds most exotic animals!

EXPLORE A LIVING WORLD
Immerse yourself in diverse environments filled with over 100 animal species! Watch out for attacking predators including bears, wolves, and cheetahs!

MAXIMUM FIREPOWER
Enjoy endless customization as you perfect your weapons. Upgrade magazines, scopes, stocks, barrels and more!

COLLECT TROPHIES
Compete for bragging rights as you bag the biggest animals with Game Center achievements and leaderboards!

Its Open Season, join the hunt today!

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Gameplay

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In this game you are a hunter who has to complete missions and hunting seasons to earn money to upgrade and buy new weapons to progress in the game. In the game you play through different regions, from the Pacific Northwest to the Glacial Bay, completing the different mission you can play; they vary from killing a single animal, to killing a number of different animals (some of which will attack you if they are aware of your presence) by shooting them in a certain part of the body whether it be the head, lung or heart. Apart from upgrading your weapons, you also have a number of different tools and boosts to help you meet the criteria needed to complete the task. At your disposal you have an IR (Infra-Red) scope (on some weapons) that will allow you to partially see through the animals so you can accurately hit them in the organs if needed, a limited supply of Energy Drinks which will slow down time if necessary, this is very useful if you miss a show and you need to act quickly if the animal is coming towards you, and Hollow Point rounds that will deal extra damage to the animals which is very useful if you need to take multiple animals out in quick succession. This game has an energy system, when you play a certain mission it takes energy from you, when you run out of energy you will be unable to do any hunts or missions until your energy is replenished. Every 10 minutes you will gain one more energy, so this game is best played using all of your energy at once, and playing the game at intervals where your energy will have refilled. In terms of currency in this game, you have regular money which you use the most to upgrade weapons, buy new weapons etc, and you have gold which is the more scarce currency that you will never have lots of unless you spend real money on it via in app purchases. Gold can also be used to upgrade and buy new weapons.

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Graphics

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The graphics in this game are very good for a game only on Handheld devices and tablets, you do not see many 3D game at all on these platforms. Everything in the game from the guns, to the animals and more importantly the environment are very well modeled and designed. The colors in this game are very vibrant and make everything in the missions very appealing. I say how detailed the game is, so you must assume that there would be a drop in frame rate or a factor that is very low in detail to compensate, but there isn't. I have played the game a lot and I have never noticed anything that makes the game look any worse than it is.

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Audio

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The audio and sound effects in this game are equally as detailed, for every different circumstance in the missions there is a different sound to go with it. When you start a level, if it is one where the animals are unaware of your presence, then it is very quiet, you can hear the birds tweeting. If it is one where the animals are in a stampede running from one side of the screen to the other, there is a fast paced drum in the background to let you know that this is what the level is like. When you take a shot at the animals, as soon as they know of it, the beat turns to an intense drumming sound as the animals start running towards to attack you. This sudden change in sound makes the whole game turn from peaceful and the feeling that you have all the time in the world, to fast paced and very intimidating.

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Controls

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Many First Person Shooter games on handheld devices aren't that well made in terms of controls, and some 2D, smaller games don't even utilize controls as well as this game does. Like many games of this sort, there are a lot of things you see when you first load it up, lots of symbols and icons you don't know anything about. This game is laid out and controlled in a way that this is not the case, I think that the different sections in this game are separated out to make is more user friendly, this is done well and extremely helps the person playing the game. As for the controls in the game, you press arrows on either side of the screen to move left or right in the environment to get better angles to attack your prey, you move your finger on the screen to look around, and you have two buttons to shoot, and aim down the sighs of your weapon. The consumables and IR toggle are smaller buttons that don't get in your way, which I really like about this game.

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Facts

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• This game is one of many in the Deer Hunter series, a list of which can be found [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
  
• The first Deer Hunter game was released almost 20 years ago for Windows, Macintosh and Game Boy Color
  

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Rating

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Gameplay - 9/10
Graphics - 9.5/10
Audio - 9/10
Controls - 9/10
Overall - 9/10