Every year its the same thing. What do I get Janell for her Birthday? This year was more worse than usual since I was going to be on the road for it -- was in Orlando last week for a set of meetings for DevelopMentor. More Jewelry? While there's one big piece of that left I should buy, economically, this wasn't the year to do that. Spa certificates? No, she's not in the girly-girl stuff either. Cabela's Outdoor Adventures? You wouldn't think so, but...
A couple of years back when we got the XBOX1, we had a few of the typical games: hockey, football, baseball, boxing. She'd whump me good at all of them. We had Trivial Pursuit, but that never good played much. Then one day on a whim, one of us picked up Cabela's Deer Hunt 2005. We both played the heck of it. And, sad to say, she was way better at it than me from day one.
Anyway, we both like Outdoor Adventures as it's a reasonably good hunting game, but there's a few things that detract from it. The first thing has to be the annoying guy at the simulated Cabela's store. Complete sycophant. If the real folks at a real Cabela's were anything remotely like the ninny in this game, they'd never would have made it out of Western Nebraska. Second, the fishing mode in this game seems more like an inside joke than a serious effort at introducing new game play. On the upside, the overall graphics are much improved and the game play is much faster. The variety of game and missions is nice (especially if you come to this game through "Dangerous Adventures".)
So if you're looking for a new Hunting game for the XBOX1, we'd both say this is worth taking for a spin (so to speak).