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Live from my house: The Cabela's Adventure Starts Here tour
Activision always asks me, "Justin, what do we have to do to get you to cover games in our popular Cabela's hunting series?" I never imagined, when I demanded the company drive a trailer with a fake bighorn sheep to the hospital parking lot directly behind my house, that I'd be taken so literally. So, against all odds, here's a video tour of the Adventure Starts Here trailer, coming to a parking lot somewhere near you. Oh, and you'll also get a look at the new Kinect controller for Cabela's Hunting Party and some gameplay footage from Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai. Wanna see the trailer for yourself? We've got a full list of stops after the break.
Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai opens up its manly heart
If we didn't know any better (and we generally don't), we'd think Cabela's has gone soft on us. A new trailer for Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai has all the nasty beasties and ferocious growling that any hunting game should, but it also has a heart -- in the trailer, it appears our hunting hero saves a helpless woman from the dark and cold, um, shadows of Katmai, which is not a fantastical land east of Rivendell. The woman, however, is still pretty helpless, because this is a hunting game for real men, and it takes a certain amount of distressed-damsel-saving to maintain such an illustrious title.
Cabela's Hunting Party revealed, Kinect friendly
It's rare that we feel the need to warn our readers about their safety when writing up product announcements, but in the case of Activision's announcement this afternoon of a Kinect-enabled Cabela's game, we thought it might be necessary. Cabela's Hunting Party will launch this coming quarter (sometime before the end of September) alongside less potentially life-threatening titles like X-Men Destiny and the just announced Call of Duty: Black Ops "Rezurrection" DLC. As the game was only briefly mentioned in an investor release, we can't be sure just how it uses Kinect in conjunction with the simulation hunting aspect of usual Cabela's titles, but we're cautiously interested in finding out. Regardless, we encourage people to remove any firearms from their home before allowing Cabela's Hunting Party in.
Cabela's Hunt: Shadows of Katmai is still a hunting game, even if it sounds like an RPG
Survival: Shadows of Katmai. Just give that title, discovered in web registrations back in June, a second to conjure up an image. Let it open your mind to the possibility. Take a trip through your imagination and settle your thoughts. Now, add "Cabela's" to the front of the game's title. Snapped that image like a finger with frostbite! Yes, the game with the very RPG-like name is just the latest Cabela's hunting game. Set in the area around Alaska's Mount Katmai, players take the role of Logan James (because "Jager Gunnerson McWhitey" was already trademarked) who survives a plane crash and now must survive rampaging caribou and varmints of unusual sizes. The game will be available November 1, 2011, for all the major consoles. Also, why is Logan being hunted by the Gmork? See, there we go again, imagining a game out of nothing.
New Cabela hunting title to help players Kinect with nature
Activision has a announced that the next entry in the Cabela's hunting game series will feature Kinect support. The news comes from ActivisionHunts, the voice of Activision's hunting games on Twitter, which says the game will be out this year. No further details were revealed, leaving us all to speculate on just how Kinect will be integrated into the franchise. Our favorite theory: virtually grabbing a buck by the horns.
Mega64: Halo spoils another Cabela's game launch
We're not sure how Cabela's could be so consistently unaware of the games landscape, but we'd be remiss if we said we weren't glad. Otherwise, we wouldn't get hilarious videos from Mega64, like the one we've embedded past the break. We don't want to ruin the ending for you, but let's just say the Cabela's guys are ready to finish the fight. [Thanks, Tyler]
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 is about more than just shooting animals
Shake off that sense of deja vu. We're talking about a different Cabela's game here: Activision has just announced Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011, the next installment in its iterative series of hunt-em-down-and-shoot-em-ups. It's set to stalk retail shelves "late fall" and will be available on the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DS systems. Every version sans the DS installment will come packed with the Top Shot Elite controller, a wireless gun peripheral created by the same people at Activision who brought you the Guitar Hero controllers. Activision is apparently putting a lot of production value into this latest Cabela's title, tapping Brad Santos, screenwriter and creative director, to pen the tale of Cole Rainsford, who has joined his estranged father in the African safari to hunt dangerous animals terrorizing local villages there. See, kids? Hunting is a noble pursuit. Feel free to track some screens from the upcoming game (and the controller) in our gallery below. If you prefer your game a bit more lively, then head past the break for a teaser trailer. %Gallery-98550%
Activision unleashes Cabela's North American Adventures this September
When we're closest to death, that's when we feel most alive. We're pretty sure somebody said that once. What better way to truly feel alive than to fight ferocious animals to the death? Too bad all of those guns and vests and airfare really add up. We've got a relatively safer and cheaper solution: Cabela's North American Adventures. It's the newest entry in the Cabela line of titles, Activision announced today -- set to grace the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP and Wii systems this September. The Wii version will ship with the Top Shot gun peripheral that debuted with Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010. Cabela's North American Adventures will ship with a custom gun utility that allows players to create their own weapons from a variety of different receivers, stocks, barrels and scopes, and also provides players with their own in-game cameraman. He should come in handy should you run out of ammo and need something to distract the bears while you make your escape. The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game will allow up to four players to connect via the internet and engage in group hunts. Performances will then be added to an online leaderboard to find out who's best at killing Bambi's mom. %Gallery-98097%
Demo for Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 stalks Xbox Live
Xbox Live Gold subscribers in the US (sorry, Canadian hunters), load up your rifle and grab your favorite camouflage cap, because Major Nelson informs us a demo for Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 is now available for download. Weighing in at 391mb, the demo provides a taste of the retail disc's trophy game hunting across five continents.And, just as the game's title would suggest, you won't be hunting quails or underpants gnomes, as this is big game we're talking about. Big game, mind you, and not the deadliest game of all. If you want to hunt Ice-T, you're going to have to get yourself some Netflix. Add the Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 demo to your download queue
Cabela's Outdoor Adventures shoots into fall
It seems like every game except for Modern Warfare 2 is being pushed into 2010. One game, however, is not afraid of Modern Warfare 2 -- Cabela's Outdoor Adventures on 360, PS2, PS3, Wii, and PC. Having bravely faced down Halo 3 at retail, the Cabela's series is ready to triumph over adversity once again, thanks to the power of a "simulation-style, seamlessly integrated experience that includes big game hunting, fishing and bird shooting."The new game features over 50 different hunting and fishing challenges, animal call and stealth gameplay elements, and a new VITALS system. Yes, that is an acronym ("Visually Integrated Targeting and Lock-on System) but it really is just about shooting stuff in the vitals.Outdoor Adventures comes out this fall. Now that we just read about the VITALS system, we're thinking that if we were Activision, and Cabela's told us it wanted this game out in the fall, we would make sure that happened.
Video: Wrestle moose in Dangerous Hunts
Here's a new debut trailer for you, an Activision supplied Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009 trailer complete with intense sequences of animal on human action. Stupid bears, lions, moose, rhinos, alligators and elephants getting so uptight when all you want to do is harvest their flesh for sport. Sheesh!
Mega64's not happy about Halo 3
You know, it's easy to get excited about Halo 3. Whether you're getting shot by your friends, you're shooting your friends or you're shooting/being shot by the computer that is your only friend, there's no argument that Sept. 25 is a good day. But have you even taken a moment to consider the others? Have you thought, for example, how this will affect the creators of Cabela's Trophy Bucks, also released today? No, of course you haven't.To be fair, we hadn't either, until Mega64 recreated the sad night that the designers of the deer hunting sim shared on Monday. We were so moved that we swore of Halo 3 entirely. ... Well, not quite. But every time we push a button we die just a little.
