Cabela's Dangerous Hunts
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Developed_By:
Sand Grain Studios
Published_By:
Activision
Released On:
11 Nov 2003
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The story follows a hunter who must track down 27 dangerous animals across 12 regions in search of survival. The regions span across various environments, including forests and savannas, where the hunter will face off against fierce predators.
Gameplay involves using primary weapons such as rifles or bows to take down prey from a distance, while also using close combat tools like knives or pistols to defend yourself against aggressive animals. Players must navigate through 12 regions, each with its unique challenges and opponents.
The game features three main modes: Quick Hunt, Action Zone, and Career Hunt. In Quick Hunt, players face off against a single animal in a specific region. The Action Zone mode allows for fast-paced action as the hunter is pursued by various animals across different locations. Career Hunt provides a more structured experience with missions that can be completed to unlock new hunts and characters.
EAN-13:
5030917024030 (Australia)
EAN-13:
5060034552192 (United Kingdom)
Sony PN:
SLES-52106 (United Kingdom)
Sony PN:
SLES-52106-ANZ (Australia)
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Media Type:
DVD-ROM
Number of Offline Players:
1 Player
Save Game Methods:
External Storage
Input Device Features Supported:
Vibration
Controller Types Supported:
Analog Controller
Miscellaneous Attributes:
Pressure/Touch Sensitive
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
This text describes a hunting simulation game where players track and hunt various animal species across diverse real-world locations. The game emphasizes realistic environments and animal behaviors, requiring players to adapt their strategies to different terrains and wildlife.
Story
Hunting Locations in Dangerous Hunts
Alaska
Alaska is a very mountainous state, with 17 of the 20 highest peaks in the country. You will also find many lakes and rivers. This is a beautiful state, and although it can get quite cold, the weather is generally not as brutal as most people think.
Alberta
Alberta is home to very diverse terrain. You will find meadows, marshes, and prairies here. Even though it is known as one of Canada's three Prairie Provinces, only about 25 percent of the region is treeless.
British Columbia
British Columbia is Canada's westernmost province, bordering on the Pacific Ocean. It is also one of the more mountainous areas of Canada. About three-quarters of the land is covered with forest.
Colorado
Colorado is the highest state in the USA, and its landscape varies between mountains, plateaus, canyons and plains. The climate is cool and invigorating, with the thin atmosphere in the mountains allowing for pleasant daytime conditions even during the winter.
Idaho
Idaho is a land of unspoiled beauty, with rugged slopes and great mountain peaks, vast forest, spectacular wild rivers and tons of scenic views. The weather ranges from snowy winters in the high mountains to hot summers in the south.
New Mexico
New Mexico ranges over 10,000 feet in elevation across the land, making for a great diversity of terrain features and game animals.
Northwest Territories
Most of the Northwest Territories is below the treeline, where there are soft forests. The land that is above the treeline is mostly considered tundra.
Northern California
The climate of California is characterized by cool to mild winters and, except in the high mountains, warm to hot summers. When hunting in the mountainous areas, one is advised to bring adequate shelter and clothing.
Quebec
Quebec is the second largest province in Canada. The richly forested land is filled with rounded hills, carved out long ago by glaciers.
Tanzania
Tanzania is considered the finest safari destination in Africa, offering great hunting locations such as the Selous game reserve. The country's wilderness lacks fences completely, thus allowing the game to move wherever the conditions seem most attractive.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin terrain ranges from the gently rolling hills of the Eastern Ridges and Lowlands to the broken Bad River canyon.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is part of the great plateau which traverses Africa and lies wholly within the tropics. The climate is temperate, but the winter months can be cold and those hunting during these months should make sure they have warm clothing.
Wildlife in Dangerous Hunts
Bighorn Sheep
You had better have sure feet and a reliable pair of boots if you're after bighorn sheep. These sure-footed mountain dwellers have a range that stretches through the Rocky Mountains from Mexico to British Columbia.
In order to avoid predators, including humans, bighorn spend much of their time in the safety of herds that migrate up and down rocky slopes, ridges, cliffs and deep canyons.
Black Bear
With a range that stretches throughout much of the lower 48 states, Canada and on into Alaska, black bear encounters with people are not uncommon. While not as ill-tempered as their much larger cousin the grizzly, black bears have been known to attack when they believe a person is a threat to their cubs or when in search of food.
Kodiak Brown Bear
Found exclusively on Kodiak and other nearby islands off the coast of Alaska, the Kodiak brown bear is actually a subspecies of the mainland-dwelling grizzly. Like the grizzly, it is easily recognized by its immense size and distinctive shoulder hump.
Its favorite sources of food include everything from roots and berries to fish and deer. And because a full-grown adult can weigh more than 1,000 lbs., it takes a lot of food to fuel this eating machine.
Cape Buffalo
The cape buffalo's short temper combined with its massive size have earned it the nickname "Black Death." Its massive horns are an indication of both age and gender, because females and young males lack the hard shielding that protects the base of the skull in large adult males.
Cape buffalo are extremely social and live in large, mixed herds that graze on tall coarse grasses, and play a vital role in the ecology of the African grasslands.
Caribou
North American caribou, which are now considered to be the same species as the domesticated European reindeer, are highly migratory. Herds often travel hundreds of miles between summer and winter ranges.
And if you're planning to hunt them you had better dress warm, because they are frequently found roaming the tundra of far Northern Canada and Alaska.
Coyote
While the distinctive howl of the coyote is often associated with the West, this much smaller cousin to the wolf has extended its range to include almost every state in the lower 48, as well as most provinces in Canada and even as far north as Alaska. Unlike wolves, coyotes typically hunt alone and are rarely seen traveling in groups.
Dall Sheep
Exclusively found in Alaska and Northern Canada, the dall sheep is extremely wary of hunters and flees at the slightest hint of danger. Because grazing patches in the rough country they inhabit are few and far between, herds of dall sheep will travel up to 40 miles along routes used for thousands of years just to find food.
Duiker
The duiker (pronounced "die-ker") is the most widely distributed African antelope. This vast distribution has resulted in several subspecies with distinct differences.
However all typically stand about 20 inches at the shoulder, have short straight horns that never grow
Controls
L2 button
Horn
L1 button
Ready Gun/Knife Ready Firearms Bow
directional buttons
Choose
R2 button
Accelerate
R1 button
Brake
left analog stick
Move
L3 button
Crouch
SELECT button
Inventory
START button
Pause
right analog stick
Turn left/right Look up/down Steering
R3 button
Search Tracks
A button
Reload
O button
Cancel
X button
Fire
square button
Zoom/Aim
How to Play
Menu Navigation
Main Menu
From the main menu, you can start a complete hunt in career hunt mode, go for a quick hunt, test your skills in action zone, view high scores, view the hunting guide, select game options or watch the credits.
Quick Hunt
The Quick Hunt option lets you hunt for one game animal in any region. You may choose to select your gear, or use the auto-equip option to have gear quickly chosen for you.
The clock is turned off for this hunt, so the hunt will last until you successfully bag a trophy. The Quick Hunt is a good way to get in a little extra tracking and shooting practice without having to worry about the time, health, or wilderness survival elements of the game.
All items are free in Quick Hunt.
Action Zone
Action Zone is comprised of 12 levels designed to challenge you with a series of dangerous encounters that you must survive. The first three levels begin unlocked and will continue to unlock in threes as you complete what you have unlocked so far.
Each level has a predefined number of "stages" or dangerous encounters. Each level begins with your hunter at the first stage; if you successfully down all of the animals in the immediate area, then a portal is activated.
If you then enter the portal, your hunter is warped to the next stage. If you do not enter the portal within the given time limit, then the portal closes and you must again down all animals before the portal reopens.
Try and get through all 12 levels.
Career Hunt
In career hunt, you create a new hunter profile and embark on a series of challenge and charter hunts. At the start of your career, only a couple of challenges and charters are available, and completing them will unlock more.
All equipment purchased will cost you money, and scoring trophies will award you more money. All trophies bagged in career hunt are eligible to make the High Scores list.
The Career Hunt option gives you a full hunting experience, including progression from a novice with little equipment to an amateur hunter, then to a hunter with a large collection of equipment and trophies.
The goal is to complete all challenge hunts without running out of money, supplies, or health, and without breaking the law. Disregard for the hunting regulations will result in penalties.
A new Career Hunt game begins with 2 challenges and 1 charter hunt available. Challenge and charter hunts are unlocked when a hunt is successfully completed that meets the criteria for the locked hunt. Highlight any locked hunt to read the unlocking criteria.
Also, when a hunt is completed, the hunt selection screen is displayed and you are automatically advanced to the next season.
High Scores
Here you can view the highest scoring trophies taken. Only trophies taken in Career Hunt appear on the high score lists. There are 2 types of viewable high scores: overall and by player profile.
The overall scores show the top 5 scores for each game animal out of all of the saved Career Hunt profiles on the memory card (8MB) (for PlayStation 2). The player profile scores show the top 5 scores for each species scored by the selected player.
High score codes can be used to post your high score on the internet at: www.cabelasgames.com.
NOTE: The spaces in the code are there to make the code easier to read; do not enter them when entering your code.
Hunting Guide
View region and animal information, as well as hunting regulations and gameplay tips.
This is your resource for information about all hunting locations and animals, as well as hunting advice and regulations.
Options
Set visual, audio, gameplay, controls, and other options.
Credits
View the Dangerous Hunts credits.
Playing the Game
Select Profile Screen
Once you choose the career hunt mode, you are asked to choose from restoring a previously saved game or creating a new hunter character and starting a completely new career.
Character Selection
If you select create, you will be presented with the Create Profile screen. The first thing you will want to do here is select a character.
Selecting Character on the Create Profile screen will display the Choose Character screen. Character selection in Dangerous Hunts is more than just cosmetic: each character has special skills and weaknesses.
There are a series of attributes that you should observe for each hunter, such as their aiming accuracy, resilience, strength, tracking experience and stealth. You can then customize your character's starting attributes by selecting Edit Attributes on the create profile screen.
You can further customize your character by naming your hunter and adjusting your appearance. Each hunter has 5 different appearances to choose from.
Difficulty Level
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Choose EASY if you're a new, inexperienced hunter. On this difficulty level, animals are more responsive to calls, have less acute senses and you can benefit from aids like the Trophy Beacon (which marks the position of your target game animal on the map by a red dot) or the Bullet Camera (see through the bullet as it traverses the space between you and your target) and the game is more forgiving of your aiming.
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Choose MEDIUM if you are an amateur hunter. Luring an animal is more difficult and requires more patience. Aids such as the Bullet Cam are disabled and bad aiming is more severely penalized.
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Choosing HARD really puts your hunting knowledge and skills to the test. Lures, calls and decoys are much less effective and taking down an animal requires a combination of stealth, skill with your firearms and a depth of knowledge about the wild. This is the difficulty level that expert hunters play on.
Save Game
Select Save Game to save your progress in Career Hunt.
Hunt Selection
In career hunt mode, there are two types of
Tips & Maps
Pronghorn
Often called an antelope or a goat, the pronghorn is actually neither. It is the remnant of an ancient family of North American plains animals.
Rhino
Rhinos have keen senses of smell and hearing, but their vision is severely limited due to their eyes being on either side of their head. This often leads them to charge first and investigate later, sometimes mistaking trees and rocks as threats.
Whitetail
The fleet-footed whitetail deer can hit speeds of up to 36 mph and has an amazing ability to elude predators by swimming, thanks to their buoyant winter coat.
Wild Boar
Originally from Germany and Russia, wild boars are voracious eaters, feeding on roots, acorns, fruits, berries, and various small animals, leading to adults weighing up to 440 lbs.
Wolf
Once found in almost all lower 48 states, wolf populations were pushed to remote regions but reintroduction projects in the Rocky Mountains have been successful.
Zebra
Zebras can recognize members of their own family by their stripes and have a wide field of vision, with their only blind spot directly behind them.
Medical Kit
Always carry a medical kit; you never know when you might need it.
Easy Difficulty Aids
In Easy difficulty, make use of the trophy beacons (the red dots) and bullet camera; they're great hunting aids!
Action Zone Strategy
If you're having trouble with Action Zone, check your firearm's reload time and use the portal timer to use medical kits, reload, and prepare for the next encounter.
Animal Scores and Seasons
Many animals have different weights depending on the time of year, so if you're having trouble finding animals with high scores, try changing seasons.
Deer Hunting
Deer are highly sensitive to movement, sound, and scent; make sure you use the right equipment, or they're likely to spook before you get close.
Stamina Management
If you're running out of stamina, make sure you're wearing appropriate clothing and not carrying more equipment than your hunter can handle.
Career Hunt Challenges
In Career Hunt, if you don't see any open challenges or charters, try changing the season.
Finishing Career Hunt
To finish Career Hunt, you need to unlock all twelve charters and successfully complete every challenge. If you think you have finished Career Hunt but you did not see the win sequence, look through all seasons of the charters to see if one is still locked.
Saving Progress
As with any game, save your progress often!
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