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To me the one thing this video game generation has really missed out on is light gun games. I missed those things and really wanted to play some. But the only ones they really have on Xbox are the Cabela's games. I detest hunting but after watching some reviews of the games, they still looked pretty fun, so I finally broke down and bought it.
After I put the game in, the first thing I want to do is calibrate the gun so I can shoot straight. It turns out that this is entirely impossible. It has a target at the top left you're supposed to shoot to start calibration. But when I aim at the target, the game no longer recognizes my gun. It only recognizes the gun if I aim at the bottom middle and to the right. I try all kinds of stuff over the next hour. Moving the TV farther back, moving the sensor bar from the bottom of the TV to the top. Sitting on the couch, standing on the couch, sitting on the floor, standing behind the couch, pointing the TV left, pointing the TV right, taking pieces off the gun, putting pieces on the gun, changing batteries, changing games, curtains open, curtains closed, lights on, lights off, fully dressed, in my underwear, fully nude. Nothing works.
I turn to the internet. Lo and behold it turns out that these guns don't really seem to work for anybody. All of the documentation tells you that you need to have around 6 feet between you and the TV. What it does NOT tell you is that this ONLY applies to TVs under 32 inches. For anything bigger you need to be around 15 feet away from your TV. If you had trouble using Kinect, well good luck with this LIGHT GUN. Basically you need to put your TV at the end of a hallway to be able to use the thing and then you have to be a sniper to make any shots. Seeing how this is America 2012, I didn't even know they still sold 32 inch TVs.
The question is, how was this SOOOOOOO easy with Duck Hunt a 100 years ago, but with all this amazing technology of 2012, you have to have a empty warehouse for a living room in order to be able to do the same thing that was so simple then?
The other question is, how do these people get away with selling these guns when they absolutely are 100% unusable to most people?
The game itself is fun. I played it with a standard controller and it was pretty good but the whole time I felt like it would've been way better with the gun. It's not a game worth 60 bucks, but it's a few hours of fun.
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going in with the cabelas name, and coming with a dedicated controller, I had high hopes for this game. The troubles started with setting up the gun controller. GOOD LUCK getting it calibrated. once I got it close to being "accurate" i tried the game. VERY simple and liniar. I admit it's fun using the gun to hunt and shoot, but using the controller for the action and climbing parts is awkward. If you make it through the game once, you will never pick it up again. even the party games arent fun.
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