They want make a game without too much indications, but they don't know how to indicate without a marker, typically a quest :

Find this flower

But we have 0 information about this flower.

Or an another quest :

Find this man, he love women

where we find him ? hiding in a damn random bush.

Major disapointment.

If your looking for a good dino game, this is not it. Everything is bad. Optimisation, game too dark (nothing like in the trailers, blurry in 1440p, gameplay too rigid feels like we are on PS2, flshlight is just a bright circle in front of you blinding you werever you point it, crafting system is cheap...

Not worth it, even at -50% discount.

3/5

I always had a thing for hunting games ever since I was a child simply because of how relaxing they can be. Hunter: Call of the Wild is no exception. It's a good hunting game, but there are things I don't like about it.

Playing Hunter: CotW, as a base game, feels like playing a barebone demo of the Hunter. I absolutely dislike how so many essential features that should have been there need to be bought as DLCs. Good thing is that the game is often discounted. But, even then, I feel like dogs, quads and equipment like tents should simply be there in the base game. For me, the game got really fun only when I bought myself those things and a DLC with new, more powerful rifles. I appreciate how only one person has to own the map DLC in order for people to play it in multiplayer.

Maps, both base and paid ones, are good and I really like the sceneries, as well as the variety of biomes. You can easily immerse yourself in the nature, and just walking around and observing the animal life by itself feels great. Sound effects are also pretty good. Hunting feels realistic, by the way animals make shelter or go out drinking at specific timeframes, but one thing I think could be better are the animal animations. Animations on animals are really weird once they hear gunfire or once they get shot. I understand that they're supposed to be agitated but the animations are really unnatural. Draw distance is also something I find really annoying, and that goes both for objects and animals. You often spot an animal and after zooming in on it you lose sight because a random rock spawns in-between. Animals also disappear beyond a certain distance and it kind of breaks the immersion, as observing is one of the main factors in this game.
Dogs as companions are pretty bugged and often get stuck in random terrain with no option to respawn them.

What I must mention, this game being just over 100GB is insane. I understand that by now there have been a ton of reservoirs released, but make it so players can check which one they want to have downloaded on their devices in order to save space.

Overall, it's a fun and relaxing experience. Once you get your first diamond trophies you really get addicted to hunting for more. And you have an option to play with friends which can really be fun.

I used to play this game on my old Xbox and I thought about replaying it and it was the best decision I ever made, only cons is Bethesda ruining support by giving small patch updates that somehow destroy f4se code and have to wait for a month for the code to get patched just for Bethesda to release another update.

Overall very solid 9-10