Magpie Gamer

Review based on patch 1.06. After burning out on master rank Monster Hunter World, I decided to try a different kind of hunting game. One in a genre I have never actually tried before. Most hunting games seem to be "arcady" like Duck Hunt, or whatever Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 is suppose to be. But Hunting Simulator 2 actually tries to simulate real-world hunting and hunting ethics. The graphics could look better, but are fine for what they are; about what I expected from a niche hunting game. There is a good amount of visual variation and elevation between the various environments. Occasionally it will rain when you visit a map, but otherwise there is no dynamic day/night or weather cycle. The same handful of animals also appear in nearly every location because North America and Europe share a Holarctic realm, so there is a lot of overlap in the types of animals present. It would have been nice to have South American, Australian, African, or Asian regions wi...