Philip (Hog Blog) responded to the article that was posted on Realtree’s Whitetailology site discussing the misleading messages that are promoted by video hunting games.

Philip made the great point that video games sell for the very reason that they do depict normal sports as suped-up fantasies of whichever sport is depicted.  Faster action, harder hitting, longer shooting, more intense.  Think about it, the real NFL can’t run plays every 8 seconds like a player can on Madden 2009.

In hunting games that equates to bigger bucks, more deer, faster action, otherwise they wouldn’t sell.

That being said, he also directed me to an online hunting game website simply called “The Hunter”.  Being the sucker that I am, I downloaded the free portion of the game (mule deer hunting with bare bones equipment) and played an hour or so today.

I must say that the 3-D environment is the most detailed I have seen on arcade hunting games.  The action is a bit slow, but hey…isn’t that a little closer to reality and more satisfying when success is had!

So, I’ll spare you a long review of what I liked and didn’t like about the game and instead direct you to the website to try it for yourself.

Have fun shooting mule deer before mule deer season!  Please don’t take that out of context!