This Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 ad is worth 30 seconds of your attention

by Dan on September 23, 2011

Watch. And wait for the punchline.

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Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 comes out this Tuesday, September 27. The URL they flashed in the ad is facebook.com/activisionhunts.

  • Anonymous

    Alright, that was pretty funny.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6J4OSACNCPNDA6JAZ3RLHPMYIY lemming

    thats sweet

  • Buck_McHunter

    Best Cabela’s ad yet

  • Anonymous

    The game no one wants to play. An on-rail shooter is not the kind of hunting game you would call worthwhile.

  • http://oneofswords.com/ Dan (OneOfSwords)

    That’s an odd statement, and it does not match the facts I’ve found. It’s clearly not a game that interests you, and I respect that — I certainly will never try to dictate your opinion — but there’s more gamers out there than just you, and they seem to disagree strongly with your suggestion that it’s not worthwhile. 

    In fact, according to VGChartz, the last entry of the Big Game Hunter (2010) sold 1.6 million units just on Wii. Xbox 360 and PS3 of that same title accounted for another 500,000 combined. So…that’s in excess of 2 million sold.
     
    That’s my research, anyway; what are you basing your statement on?

  • Anonymous

    I am a hunter in real life. There is nothing that the Cabela’s brand of “hunting” games offers that will attract people who are interested in actual simulation rather than an arcade game with invisible walls preventing the player to actually look for their game and not get guided directly to the game animals. The Big Game Hunter series used to be promising until Activision’s CoD style gameplay philsophy got carried over into the BGH franchise. 1.6 million sales means nothing when the core audiance are little children and casual gamers. Activison is the only big name publisher that makes a complete mockery of the sport. You wouldn’t see this happening if EA got into the market again. FIFA 12, NFL Madden 12 wouldn’t be good with invisibile walls guiden you to the goal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1661275990 Mick DiMaria

    Where my does at?! 

  • http://oneofswords.com/ Dan (OneOfSwords)

    Last time I checked, the Cabela’s games were not advertised as or trying to be a simulation. I think you are approaching it with the wrong expectations. 

    This is like all those people who said “Why are you playing Guitar Hero instead of playing a real guitar?” For the same reason that I play COD but don’t enlist in the armed forces: The fantasy is what people are looking for.

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