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Updated review 11/02/22. They still have not fixed one of the most major mistakes in the game, Spook Distance. Not just how the animals react, lack of calls and body behavior, but the distance at which they spook and how easily they do. In real life, you couldn't get the reaction this game has at 100 yards. Heck I remember as a young man, getting to my hunting area late, on more than one occasion, so I ran there. Only to drop my head, cause without realizing it, I ran right into the middle of the group. All the deer looking at me like, who crashed the party. Even then, if I remained still they did nothing. Yet while prone, in the brush, down wind animals will spook at over 200 yards. That is not even close to realistic, or even super realistic as some would have you believe. This is an animal preserve, so they don't even know how to react to a hunter. It's just so laughable. How would our ancestor ever eaten anything? Wife, need more arrows/stones, darn animals have super power, sight, smell and hearing. We may need a new tribe, we can call it Vegan. Lets hope Devs, no touch berries, fruits and vegetables or we starve.
Update 10/5/22 Only two updates even with all the players who've paid to beta test this game. Now a Bear release, wait for it, with a tag of dev. version. Look I'm not trying to save people who already paid for this game money. I'm just telling the truth of the game as it is. If you know nothing of hunting and your expectations of a simulation game isn't high, buy this game. I seriously doubt you will be disappointed, well unless you want to do multi-player. Be somewhat warned though, if you watch the latest, dev. #7 game review, pay attention they state they have an intended play style approach for players. So you will feel a sense of not fully in control when playing. Possibly the reason why so many players have a problem with the game, classified as a simulation.
Update 09/18/22 Well it seems, so far, blood trails are working as they should. Wind and sound noise has also been adjusted to prevent the feeling you are, in Hurricane Jane or Big Foot walking around. I still have hope that support for this game will continue. I'll wait to see what is fixed next before changing to a thumbs up. Patches should be popping fairly quick with all the people they now have, actually beta testing.
WoW!!! There are some really crazy people. Buy, Buy Buy it's awesome. ROFL My original review still stands. But I'm updating it with this. 08/23/2022
People are comparing this game to Call of the Wild, hunting game. A game that is 5 years old. Which I also own. They are saying CotW is arcade style and WotH is a real life hunting simulation. Really?!!!! Since when do hunters use Red Bull bullets? You remember the Red Bull commercials. It gives you wings. Cause when you shoot a large animal, you give them wings. They bleed, but no longer leave tracks.
One week since release. No Dev. message admitting their mess nor their plan to fix it. Stay Away until you know for sure the up coming state of the game. It's your money and you deserve it.
Below is my original review...........
Boy I really want to give this game a thumbs up. But currently I cannot. While you have those that want to bash others for a negative review, they sadly aren't interested in an opinion of a different gamer.
Why do I give this a negative review, this game is not ready for release. At best this is a beta release and players are paying to beta test it. It's very clear this was not done prior to release. You can tell by how many objects are elevated off the ground. Walking a trail and there is more poo piles, that are fresh btw, than all the animals in a normal zoo. But when you track down that beast of a herd, there are only six animals. Scripted events occur as you draw near and not by line of sight. So you character may comment about an animal, without having seen it, cause it's on the other side of a hill. Raise your rifle and zoom in with your scope, what happens. The scope doesn't zoom in, your entire FOV zooms in. Just to name a few things. There are more......
So when you read the review of a thumbs up bashing a negative review, realize they paid for this game already. Just like I have and have played it well past the refund option. So they want other people to buy this game. Cause if other people don't put money into, the less likely the producers and devs will. I've read many of the negative reviews and I have yet seen one of them say anything about the game that is not true.
Don't listen to the lemon sellers. You know those reviews that say it's OK to buy a game that's not ready, it's normal so we should accept it. Those individuals have no concept of what normal is. Normal is, getting what you paid for and not a reflection of what you were buying.
With that being said, I hope the game does get the patches it needs. It is a beautiful game and some clever thought went into it. THQ has normally been a gaming company with a good reputation. I've got future release games of theirs on my wishlist. I hope I don't have to remove them.
Wait to see if the developers are committed to game via patches. If they are and you like hunting games, buy it. If not walk away and don't worry about the tears falling from the thumbs uppers. Cause this is normal.. and they'll accept it as such. LOL