Carnivores

Be vewwy quiet. We?we hunting velociwaptors. Elmer Fudd would get chewed up but good in Carnivores, a new WizardWorks title that?s half hunting game, half action game.

Elmer Fudd would get chewed up but good in Carnivores, a new WizardWorks title that?s half hunting game, half action game. As an action game?well, don?t ditch Half-Life yet.

As a hunting game, though, Carnivores is a mildly pleasant surprise; I actually preferred it to either Deer Hunter. Environment textures are quite decent in software, and there?s 3Dfx support. Also, the dinosaur motion design and AI are passable.

You?ll be able to take docile, vegetarian dinos such as the triceratops and pachycephalosaurus pretty easily, and they?re plentiful, which is rare for prey in classic hunting games. However, bad-ass dinos like the allosaurus and velociraptor will be on you fast. If you don?t get them with your first shot, you probably won?t get a second. The tyrannousaurus rex, which you only see at expert level, is even tougher?it takes an eye shot to level the king of the dinosaurs.

Carnivores staggers its difficulty level according to the points you earn by bagging different dino species.You can boost your abilities with such things as cover scent or radar, but only at a percentage drop in your points. (You can boost that percentage to over 100 by choosing tranquilizing over killing.)

Carnivores does show its budget status in some ways: weapon choices are minimal, there are only six levels (three open to novices, the others to advanced or expert), and the environments can get pretty similar after a while. But the action elements take it a notch above most hunting titles, and one can imagine that triceratops is tastier than venison, especially at the price.

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Starcraft_Fanatic95

i own this game and i love it! one problem though: unless you use debug mode youll never get past the raptors

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