I took aim on a spot just ahead of its forelimbs, leading my target as best I could, fired. It died instantly.Īnother raptor, silvery blue with hardly any feathers at all on its arms, came into my field of view from the left. I had struck it in the gut, from behind, and driven my arrow through nearly all of its vital organs, stern to stem, and finally into his heart. The animal dropped to the ground in a heap, the fletching on the arrow completely lost in its body. I drew my bow, took aim at his belly, and loosed a single arrow. Then a green lizard with red-tipped feathers on his arms and tail gingerly walked past the structure I was hiding behind. Suddenly the raptors stopped their calls. All I had was an improvised bow and ten primitive arrows. It looked brand new, but without any ammunition it was less than useless. The high-tech crate next to me contained a. There were at least two of them, but I'd seen them travel in groups of up to four in the past. I could hear them squawking, sending trills and weird calls back and forth.

The raptors had been stalking me for over a kilometer already, but by keeping the small curves in the land behind me I had so far been able to avoid silhouetting myself.īut they could still smell me. My back was pressed against a ruined concrete wall, all that was left of a decades-old outpost here on a low bluff.

It had taken me two days to hike this far and I wasn't about to give up my position without a fight. Your only companions there are the friends you bring with you into private multiplayer, and thousands of pounds of carnivorous dinosaurs. Players take on the role of a prisoner, stranded on an island on an Earth-like planet far from home. What's a white tailed deer going to do to me anyway?Īll that changes in The Hunter: Primal, a spin-off just released on Steam's Early Access program last month.

Often I'll wander for multiple in-game days without seeing any animals, and when I do they'll scamper off before I can draw a bead on them.įact of the matter is that there's no real danger in the game. The wooded hills, the expansive valleys and the beautiful day/night cycles always delight. To me though, the allure of The Hunter has always been the terrain. The free-to-play simulation relies on a licensing system, where players spend real-world money to open up new areas of the map, earn weapons and gear and collect more animals to hunt. If you've ever dreamed going hunting in Jurassic Park, have I got an early access game for you. Play This Now is an ongoing feature in which we highlight free or cheap games that you should play.

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