theHunter: Call of the Wild™

If realism is what you're after this isn't it. The game both feels and looks cartoony. The animals are dumb and once you have the need zones figured out it's too easy to hunt them. The base game covers very little while the developers throw insane amounts of DLC at you that holds the actual content. On top of that the game has a plethora of bugs (some of which are game breaking) that they are notoriously slow to address. The Hunter Classic was a better game in nearly every way but Expansive Worlds has decided to kill it entirely (meaning anyone who paid into it for the last 15 or so years loses everything). I would not trust these guys as far as I could throw them.

OH NO! you have to buy this dlc to sleep

In order to have all the content in this game not only do you have to buy it, but you also need to spend 170 euros on dlc WITH ALL OF THEM BEING 55% OFF, so if theyre not on sale that probably translates to AROUND 320 EUROS. Companies that do this kind of garbage deserve and need to be wiped off the face of the earth.

This is a great game and I'm really enjoying it with the graphics, different animals, and plots, but I feel like the creators are really money hungry with how much DLC there are that should definitely be base game. PROS: -Very gorgeous game -Never gets boring -Good storyline and graphics -Very very fun CONS: -Lots of DLC that shouldn't be DLC -practically unplayable without DLC -lots of grinding (good or bad)

expansive world recently said they will be closing the hunter classic this was a slap in the face they let the game die and screwed the fan base. cotw is such a money grab they shove all these dlc's down your throat meanwhile the game is boring all u need is the e caller just spam it and u magically just pull animals in what a joke at least classic had camo value and actual good animal movements and patterns but this game is just a arcade run and gun

This game is garbage compared to The Hunter: Classic. Just an arcade style DLC hell. Graphics aren't everything in a hunting game. I spent thousands of hours and years of my life on Classic. COTW simply does not compare.

Do you want a vehicle? Buy DLC. Want better weapons? Buy DLC. The base game offers nothing, forcing you to buy a variety of DLCs. 115GB to play for 2 hours and to see some fun at least, you need to buy some DLCs... I didn't like how this company manages the game. I also didn't like the fact that the hunter is always drunk when holding his breath before shooting, causing you to miss the shot or in the best-case scenario, you miss the vital point and spend many, many minutes chasing him. Perhaps there's a way to fix this over time, or from what I see in general, you have to buy DLC to get a bigger or better lung capacity, or to buy better weapons. Anyway. The game promised to be good, but with just these points, I wouldn't even play it for free.

I will not recommend anything from Avalance Studios and EW, this game wil be shut down the same as they will shot down theHunter Classic this game is arkadish game not realistic like theHunter Classic or Way of the Hunter 1 and 2

EN You have no right to force players to play the game you want! I do not recommend this game as a protest against the unquestioned shutdown of theHunter Classic. My account didn't have much anyway, but there were so many players who put years of effort into that game. I felt truly sorry just for them, and that's why I decided to leave a negative review. Let's wait and see if you will reconsider your decision or just let this beautiful legend die... TR Oyunculara zorla istediğiniz oyunu oynatmaya hakkınız yok! theHunter Classic'in sorgusuz sualsiz kapatılmasına tepki olarak bu oyunu tavsiye etmiyorum. Hadi benim hesabım neyse, pek bir şey yoktu; ama o oyuna yıllarca emek veren pek çok oyuncu vardı. Sadece onlar için bile bu duruma üzüldüm ve olumsuz inceleme yapma kararı aldım. Bekleyip göreceğiz; bakalım başka bir karar mı alacaksınız, yoksa bu güzelim efsaneyi öldürecek misiniz?

Singleplayer. Offline. I am very wary of any game with a library of DLCs as a potential money grabbing scheme. I got this one for just over $1 on sale added a hunting dog DLC, a quad bike DLC, a tent DLC, modern rifles DLC and the Silver Ridge Peaks DLC for a total cost of around $6. The salami slicing of the DLC money grabbing strategy is very obvious even on sale and the $1 for the base game is an obvious “hook”. The base rifles in the core game are weak and even with a 90% hit rate only yielded about 20% vital organs hits required for a kill. The quad bike is so noisy its mostly useless. The hunting dog DLC has a single dog in it, and you must purchase another if you want another dog. The dog biscuits cost in game, $4000 per 25 pack at a cost of IG$160 per biscuit, while a silver rated kill will yield IG$ of $800 to $1000 on average which means the dog will never get biscuits, simply to expensive. You need the IG money for ammo (IG$700-IG$1000 for 10 rounds of mid-range ammo). Only 10 spaces for trophy animals saves so buy another DLC for trophies or delete the lower rated potential trophies (I delete all but the best silver or higher). You seldom have money for taxidermy in any case. Your noise level on walking is extremely high, jogging is almost the same noise level as a quad bike, stalking is still noisy and only leopard crawling is silent. Binoculars are weaker than reading glasses. I can see animals with my naked eye and when looking through the binoculars, looking the animal in the eye, still cannot “spot” the animal to mark it for a shot. Marking an animal lasts only about 2 seconds. Animals flee at the slightest noise, or sight, or smell and tracking them is useless as they will run or trot while you will spook them using anything other than leopard crawling. Crawling is slower than leopard crawling. So, the best way to get kills is to jog until you get the odd stalking opportunity or just hit them in the run in a “gun and run” strategy which is absurd for a hunting game. Males are mostly hidden behind females, so you spook the females before you get a shot at a male for trophy animals. Else you just collect low score female kills. Stalking an animal could easily waste up to an hour in real time so it’s only worth doing for real good-looking trophy or “medal” animals. Ambushing is an even bigger waste of time you could sit in ambush for hours without any animal showing up at a designated and timed spot and, more often than not, only females will pitch. You also need expensive bait and lures to make this work and another few DLCs to expand that feature. There is no bait in the base game so you must buy a bait/feeder DLC for that kind of ambush. Water holes are better once you have the drinking spots marked. Want better odds, buy more DLCs You only get around 8 animals to hunt per reserve and hunting level one animals are often a negative cost game. Shoot them with arrows sometimes work. I leopard crawled into a rafter of turkeys at night with the basic bow and slaughtered them but then a bear and a moose spawned in the same space forcing me to use the handgun and chasing off the turkeys, a cheap strategy. Often, missions are absurd asking for animal hunts in areas where the animal is extremely scarce or sanitised for the mission. They like asking for coyote kills and then disappear all the coyotes wasting hours of your time searching for an opportunity, hiding them away just out of reach or just behind the next map contour, rock or tree. The coyote missions are absolutely designed to waste endless time. Then there is also the 2 meters teleport of a targeted animal as you line up a shot. With only 8 animals to hunt, missions are very similar and repetitive or silly like taking photos or searching for lost stuff in a hunting game. The missions soon become absurd given the limitations of the core game. Leopard crawl under the belly of a bull moose and shoot out the left testicle with an ash bow and traditional arrows. I exaggerate but not by much, kill two coyotes, at night with a legal kill around Lake Leviathan is a sample. Missions would also be much easier if you would just buy a few more DLCs for better equipment, or feeders, or bait, or better lures. Then there are the animal specialities. See an animal through the binoculars, “spot” them and they start running immediately. Mission animals suddenly become immortal especially moose cows. Animals almost always hiding behind trees, rocks or in the dip. Moose or bears spawning where you aim to hunt mission animals to attack you in designated “need” spaces for the mission animals. Changes in one reserve to the next reserve are mostly skin changes with the base formula remaining mostly the same thus the experience does not change materially from one reserve to another. Bison = Moose, Black Bear = Wild boar, Turkey = Pheasant, etc. The Hunter, Call of the Wild has a few moments and is fun sometimes, but the overall experience is very disappointing. The time wasting and the annoying elements eat away at the gaming value but in the end the extreme limitations in the core game and game thesis (hunting for the sake of trophies) is a failure. It is soon boring, a grind to get better hunter stats, upgrade equipment locked behind massive tedious progression requirements, purposeless missions and a hunting experience at a snail’s pace. There is none of the excitement of real life hunting, only tedious canned hunting at its worst. I really tried to get with the game. I've got 156 harvests, 12 gold, 53 silver, 42 bronze and 384m as longest shot. I will not finish the game, there simply is no advanture left, and not much to start off with. I will certainly not be buying any other DLCs.