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Other machines might have to dumb things down a bit, and for that we are sorry given the rugged look of BGH 2008: TB on our rig. The game runs fairly smooth, but we were using our powerhouse Alienware computer with settings put to the max.

Every other texture is either muddled, bland, or just plain bad.

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Other mishaps within Big Game Hunter 2008: Trophy Buck include a graphics engine that brings respectable looking trees but forgets how to render just about everything else in the game.

You don't get any fancy new guns or attachments, just a shiny gold medal to call your own.

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When you do complete a stage (not a full state, just a stage) you'll be given a gold, silver, or bronze medal depending on what kind of a score you achieved, but there's really no incentive to getting a gold medal on a stage. There's no how close you are to completing a state, no graphic that pops up telling you that you've completed a state, and now that there's no achievement pop-ups (as there were on Xbox 360) there's really no way to tell when you've completed a full section of the game. You are randomly warped to different hunting spots within a state until you clear it. Now back on the topic of games modes: Career Hunt has absolutely no continuity to it. Despite the combination of names, Big Game Hunter 2008: Trophy Buck is nothing more than a port of the console version of Trophy Bucks and features no elements from the newly released Big Game Hunter. That's right, no arcade mode or multiplayer of any kind to be found. Then there's the design of the single mode of play, Career Hunt. Luckily fleeing animals will occasionally get stuck on these barriers too, making it all the easier to plant lead in their side. Sadly you're constantly maneuvering around invisible barriers that not only make the playable area claustrophobically small, but they also make it annoying to do the simplest of tasks. After all, you're just walking for crying out loud. Try maneuvering through the environment, something that you'd think would be easy. The biggest problem with Trophy Buck actually isn't the power ups or Hunter's Sense, in fact the act of hunting the range of animals - you'll stalk deer, geese, ducks, bunnies, and even squirrels - is pretty fun, but it's the overall technical shortcomings and inadequacies that ruin this game. At most this ability should have been governed for thirty seconds of use per hunt, rather than at the player's whimsy. There were several times when I never even saw my actual target, I just used Hunter's Sense and started firing. That means that fleeing deer are never safe, they could be running through a thick forest in hopes of finding safety, only to have you use Hunter's Sense and pick 'em off from the distance.

Whether they're behind a tree, a mountain, under dirt, wherever they are, you'll be able to see them and, more importantly, shoot at them. By pressing T (by default) players are given targets over all of their future prey. It's not a power up so you can use it as often as you like, and because of that it nearly breaks the game entirely.

To make matters even less realistic there's the Hunter's Sense ability. It's sort of like playing a first-person shooter with truly mindless enemies. While Cabela certainly lets you do this, the act of killing a five-star (the best in the game) buck doesn't quite feel as satisfactory when you realize that you're running over a small hill as you pull the trigger. But what is every Cabela game really about? Killing the most helpless, majestic animal you possibly can.