It'S like with a decent flight sim - you get as much simming and realism out of it as you are willing to put into it. Fly realistic flight plans, procedures, obey real world rules, and your flight sim is most challenging and rewarding. Fly like a moose in love, and you have an arcade game. Same with The Hunter. Approach this like you would approach real world hunting, and you get the most out of it.
I totally love it! And it is hands down the best-looking world-simulation I have ever seen. It is
relaxing to just look at this.
Today I was sneaking on a blacktail, but the boss of the herd remained invisible. Spend one hour avoiding those females to become aware of me and fleeing, having the whole herd going to alert mode and stampede away. Like a sub avoiding the escort to get close to the real bummer. It is totally satisfactory gameplay even when not firing a single shot in hours.
Not perfect though. Sound could be done better, it is already great, but calls by animals are always the same sound level, and distance and direction is not properly matched by what you hear in the earphones. Grasshoppers still chirp like crazy even in severe raining. Steps by animals are too loud, imo. Lures work to easily, I think.
But that are luxury issues.
