Deer Drive Wii - Gen. Discussion and Info - Jan '09

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Saw this up on GAF earlier.
Greetings fellow sportsmen,

Grab your rifle and stock up on ammo and jerky because huntin' season is almost here. Mastiff, a worldwide publisher of videogames is bringing the award-winning PC title, Deer Drive over to the Nintendo Wii on January 20, 2009.

Aside from its fast paced shooting action and easy to play, hard to master style of gameplay, Deer Drive also features over 33 stages and over a dozen animals, not to mention it is the first hunting game on Wii to feature simultaneous multiplayer hunting action. So grab a buddy and see who can rack up the largest number of trophy-winning bucks. Have more people in your party? Well that's no problem because with Deer Drive up to 4 players can compete against one another in the fast-paced Party mode.

Features:
  • A completely remastered and expanded version of the original PC version that won over 15 industry awards
  • Pick-up-and-play action hunting: lock, load and take down some bucks!
  • 1-4 Players (2 Player - Simultaneously play and 4 Player Party play)
  • Players can use the Wii Remote or the Wii Zapper for added realism
  • Defend yourself from wolves, mountain lions, charging moose and bison, rampaging grizzles and more!
  • Varying difficulty levels provide challenges for all groups of players
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Day one purchase for me. I love these kind of games.
 
The title is misleading. I clicked on here hoping to find a game that allows me to operate deer through bustling city streets, avoiding traffic and the occasional dog. Instead, I find this? A true letdown.
 
Is this sponsored by the NRA? Usually, I think all these types of deer hunting games are.

Title is misleading. I thought you're controlling a deer and you have to pass out near head lights. The "Drive" aspect in the title probably means that you have to kill yourself by getting run over. You get a different cut scene based on the type of car/truck/4X4 runs you over. And the game should include stats like how fast the vehicle was before it ran you over. You should also be able to send the gory videos to you friends.
 
[quote name='Strell']So I'm curious if it's possible to report an entire thread as trolling.[/quote]Damn, it must suck to be as paranoid as you. :rofl:

Anyways, if trolling is letting you know whats up with an up and coming game, I guess it should be reported.
 
Hmm.

Must be some weird deer-bear hybrid. We'll call it the dear.

...or perhaps the beer. You could be on to something.
 
I don't like guns, hunting or violence.

But I will absolutely get this. I thought Ghost Squad was conceptually offensive but still completely fun and this appears to go beyond that. The only thing I want more is the arcade shooter where you have to kill dinosaurs. I want to make extinct things extincter.
 
[quote name='wii skiier']I don't like guns, hunting or violence.

But I will absolutely get this. I thought Ghost Squad was conceptually offensive but still completely fun and this appears to go beyond that. The only thing I want more is the arcade shooter where you have to kill dinosaurs. I want to make extinct things extincter.[/QUOTE]

:rofl: Sadly I agree.
Zapper games are just USUALLY fun.

Hopefully we can eventually get this for like $10. I can't see paying anything more than $15 for this...
 
Grab your rifle and stock up on ammo and jerky because huntin' season is almost here. Mastiff, a worldwide publisher of videogames is bringing the award-winning PC title, Deer Drive over to the Nintendo Wii on January 20, 2009.
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I guess this will give the rednecks who voted for McCain something to do during the inauguration.
 
[quote name='nuttyturnip']I guess this will give the rednecks who voted for McCain something to do during the inauguration.[/QUOTE]

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I played the first four levels of this last night. It's so offensive in so many ways, and also pretty fun to play.

One of the things that impressed me most about this game is that load times are almost nonexistent. You move between levels of shooting harmless forest creatures very quickly. The game is also nicely designed for 16:9 televisions and the menus are clean. The controls are exactly what you would need - no lag on the reticle tracking and reasonable steadiness to the point that I was able to get quite a few successful shots off at animals far in the distance.

The graphics are fine, pretty dull colors though and "realistic" art design. I kind of wish the game was brighter overall, and maybe a little more sylized, but that might take away from part of the fun of putting a bullet in a fuzzy squirrel, just like the one frolicking outside my window.

The basic gameplay consists of you standing in a fixed position and moving your reticle around like an arcade shooter. By moving to the edge of the screen, you can shift your view for about 180 degrees total range. Once the round starts, deer move around in the scenery and because their little deer lives are so cold and without hope, eventually come running right at your gun. You are tasked with shooting only the bucks and penalized for shooting does. As you down the bucks, you get points based on how big the animal is, how far away it is, as well as where on the body you shoot it.

Encouraging words pop up like "Lung shot!" and "Kidney shot!". A cheerful but manly announcer will bellow "Look at that rack!" when you kill a deer with really big antlers or whatever it is that deer grow from their heads. Little creatures like squirrels and birds can be shot, and I think they give you more points. Occassionally a bear will come charging at you, possibly thinking you are somehow more delicious and less dangerous than the hundreds of deer surrounding it. You get to shoot the bears too, of course.

There are also power-up items. In the first few levels I've earned "breath control" (which slows down the animals and gives you 2x magic zoom eyes) and polarized sunglasses (apparently polarized in the shape of deer running at you so the deer stand out clearly and everything else fades away).

What it boils down to is a basic arcade shooting game - shoot this, don't shoot that. It's definitely not a hunting game because rather than having to look for the animals they are going past or towards you in waves. You compete for point totals in single player mode. I haven't tried any multiplayer games yet, but I assume they are point-based as well.
 
[quote name='lilboo']:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: So wait, what's the offensive part? You have me intrigued. I love a good stupid laugh with games like this.[/quote]
Just the basic concept of slaughtering defenseless animals on a large scale. I grew up in the only family that didn't hunt in a 50-mile radius, so maybe I see the world through animal-blood-colored glasses.

At least single player, I was laughing a lot and the gameplay was solid enough that I can see myself having a lot of fun with this the same way I do with Wild West Guns or Ghost Squad. I'll try to convince someone to play multiplayer with me so I can post some impressions of that.
 
[quote name='wii skiier']"Lung shot!"
"Kidney shot!"
"Look at that rack!"[/QUOTE]

How much is this game? For $7, I'd buy it just to hear those phrases yelled constantly.
 
It's MSRP $29.99, but give it a month to be a $19.99 budget lane game and probably two months to start being really cheap used. No one is going to buy this game - it doesn't have the Cabela name tied to it for the hunters and it looks like the worst hunting game that fans of arcade shooting games usually steer clear of.
 
[quote name='lilboo']It does have zapper controls on this, right?

:rofl: This looks so awful. I can't get over this game.[/quote]
Yes, it is Zapper-happy. I still can't decide if I like it better with the Zapper or the Perfect Shot. I hope I get to a level with bunnies. I'd like to shoot bunnies. I'd prefer cats, but something tells me they won't have thought to include that.
 
[quote name='Strell']So I'm curious if it's possible to report an entire thread as trolling.[/QUOTE]


Wow! Strell thanks for making my entire day, seriously. As if it could get any better man.

I am still laughing at this comment.
 
[quote name='lilboo']How much is this? I can't pay more then like $12 for this :lol:[/QUOTE]


I up you .99, $12.99 and its sold.


[quote name='wii skiier']Yes, it is Zapper-happy. I still can't decide if I like it better with the Zapper or the Perfect Shot. I hope I get to a level with bunnies. I'd like to shoot bunnies. I'd prefer cats, but something tells me they won't have thought to include that.[/QUOTE]

Can you imagine.. Seriously if they get creative with the wordplay and had a few inner city levels...even if they switched to paintball guns to keep the animal lovers off their ass. I can see the making of a great game here....
 
[quote name='Snake2715']
Can you imagine.. Seriously if they get creative with the wordplay and had a few inner city levels...even if they switched to paintball guns to keep the animal lovers off their ass. I can see the making of a great game here....[/quote]
I know; it would be so wonderful. My wife was joking that the only thing that would be better is a similar game with women and children. This, of course, was following the announcer yelling "Look at that rack!".

I played through level 10 last night and tried multiplayer.

Multiplayer is just what I thought - there is a mode if you have multiple remotes where everyone shoots at once and competes for the most points over three rounds. Some of the animals carry power-ups, I guess the guns of hunters they have eaten or something. The other mode is basically one-player and you pass the remote around.

Single player definitely gets harder and requires a steadier hand as some of the animals are much farther away or run behind trees a lot. In a way, this makes the game more rewarding than Ghost Squad for me. It's slower paced to give you that extra 1/2 second to aim, but not too slow. I determined that you do get points for shooting squirrels and ducks, and I also have a new "enemy" that hangs out with the angry bears - the terrifying moose. Actually, I stumbled on a moose on a hike once and it was pretty damn scary.
 
Wow, those screens are quite funny.

Animals carry power ups, hunting at stone henge, quality scripting.... if it is as enjoyable as ghost squad... I'd feel slightly guilty for enjoying it, but still play it anyway.
 
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