Genre(s) Sports | Initial release date 27 September 2005 Developer Magic Wand Productions | |
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Release date(s) NA: September 27, 2005PAL: March 3, 2006 Similar Cabela's Big Game Hunter games, Activision Publishing Minneapolis - Inc games, Sports games | ||
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006 Trophy Season is the ninth sequel to the original Cabela's Big Game Hunter. It was developed by Magic Wand Productions and released on October 25, 2005. The game was published by Activision in conjunction with hunting supply company Cabela's.
Gameplay
This game is similar to its forerunners Cabela's Big Game Hunter: 2004 Season and Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2005 Adventures. However, this game featured more missions, competitions with NPCs, multiple restrictions and hindrances in the game, and even a small story line. The basic story is that the son of a famous hunter, who is old and frail, must trek through multiple regions (forest, plains, swamp, desert, plateaus, tundra, and taiga) and hunt multiple species of animals and win his father the trophy. There are no references to the father, or the son's obligations throughout the game. Only is this disclosed in the beginning, and a cutscene at the very end shows the player (you) giving the trophy to your father.
Unlike the previous two games, the player has no freedom of their advancement in the game. There is a set chain of locations that the player must complete in order to push the game along. In each major region, there are small locations and landscapes the player must trek through and hunt. There are only a few different passages in each major region. At the beginning of each region, the player can equip weapons, supplies, buy tags, rent the ATV, truck, or snowmobile, rest, and sight their weapons at the lodge. Failing to not sight the weapon will result in poor accuracy and a misplaced crosshair. As the player progress through each map, a different species is prevalent in one area. By the end of the region, all of the player's tags should be fulfilled.
Throughout the regions, there are NPCs that ask the player to do small missions for them for cash bonuses. Missions include, killing prairie dogs on a man's property, saving a woman in a gorge, and even killing a sickly musk ox. There are also hunting competitions against NPCs, for the first person to kill a species of certain sex and of a minimal point value.
The game is also more adventurous. Points in the game like when the player crosses over a gorge on a thin rope bridge, entering a cave and entering another region via waterfall, trekking through underground mining tunnels to enter the next area, and even abandoning the vehicle to climb up mountains and steppes. This received some poor feedback from players, who said that it was pointless for them to navigate through an old abandoned mineshaft when their objective was to hunt wolves.
