Amazon.com Carnivores 2 by Wizard Works invites you to "enter the realm of prehistoric reality and take on the quest for survival." Prepare, in other words, to meet the velociraptor.
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An overlooked gem... Carnivores 2 requires a little patience and appreciation for suspense, but it repays those qualities with solid gameplay and substantial replay value. Even after you've bagged every dinosaur in the game, you'll want to find bigger and better examples for your trophy room. A variety of weapons and terrains helps keep things fresh, and a serviceable game engine makes tromping through the past a pleasant experience. The graphics are decent, and the sounds are even better. Overall, playing Carnivores 2 is akin to watching a really enjoyable "B" monster movie. A few lingering bugs detract slightly from the experience, but they're rather minor. Highly recommended to dinosaur fans that don't object to the hunting/shooting aspect of the game and to hunting fans that don't mind becoming the hunted!
Amazon.com On a routine exploration mission in 2190 A.D., science vessel FMM UV discovered a planet with suitable climate for humankind. During the initial scouting expedition, this young planet, code-named FMM UV-32, was declared inhospitable for colony life, due toits unstable terrain and immense population of prehistoric reptiles. News of this amazing planet spread, and articles on the "Dinosaur Planet" lead an earth corporation to purchase the rights to the planet and create DinoHunt Corp. DinoHunt creates the opportunity for paying customers to become dinosaur hunters for the first time in 50 million years. You are the newest client of DinoHunt Corp. Each location is unique, with varying difficulties and terrain. The new hunter will be given three choices, with two more added for the advanced hunter, and a final area for the expert hunter, for a total of six locations. Keep in mind that regardless of which dinosaur you choose to hunt, there are others living on the islands that do not appear on your radar. You may be hunting a Stegosaurus and be surprised by a Velociraptor!
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Suprisingly good budget shooter I've only bought two budget games (thosecheesy ones that sell for less then twenty dollars) in my life. One was a mind-numbingly awful shark hunter game, and the other was Carnivores. To my suprise (Which is still intact today), Carnivores is a suprisingly good budget shooter, well worth its bargin bin price.
Carnivores takes place in the far future, where you are the newest client of a dino-hunting corporation that's set up on a planet in space. Yes, the story is non-existant, but at least they tried to give a solid reason why you're hunting dinosaurs with a shotgun.
For your dino hunting adventures, you get to hunt with three weapons. A shotgun thats powerful (but very noisy), a silent crossbow that features a complex aiming system, and the powerful but limited sniper rifle. Although you only get three weapons, thats more then enough for plenty of dinosaur hunting action. One feature I really liked is that you can choose to hunt with sedative rounds (tranquilizers), which puts your prey to sleep instead of killing it, thus earning you more points.
The dinosaurs you hunt are varied, each offering a uniuqe challenge. The Parasarlophosis for example, is harmless, but has an excellent sense of hearing and can detect you from a mile away, making it almost impossible to find one. The Triceratops is peaceful, but if you disturb it (or shoot it) from close range, its going to come after you and stomp you to death. And of course, the meat eating dinosaurs want to eat you, and all of them have excellent senses of smell, so be carefull!
To make your hunt easier, you can equip items and equipment such as camoflage, scent reducing chemicals, and a very handy radar. Bear in mind though, that using the equipment will lower your score (you get points by killing or sedating your target dinosaurs).
The world of Carnivores is quite amazing to walk through. Although the graphics are average at best, each world feels alive and vibrant. Lush tropical forests, desolate deserts, jungles, beaches, ancient temples, and even a pyramid or two are some of the places you'll encounter on your journey. Other dinosaurs such as Galamimuses walk around, looking for food and running from you when you fire or get too close. The audio portion of the game is excelent. Birds and insects squack and screetch in jungles, desolate and lonely wind blows across the deserts. A lake splashes under a late afternoon sky. A T-rex roars in the distance. All of it adds up to a rich and imersive atmosphere.
Suprisingly, Carnivores is a scary game. Unlike games where you hunt Bambi or turkeys, the dinosaurs in the game fight back! If a meat eater sees you, it will stop at nothing (literaly) to get to you. If you're hunting a stegosaur, theres a good chance you might run across a velociraptor (who will immediatly come after you). There were several moments during my playtime where I lunged out of the chair in fright! Such as the time I had an Allosaur lined up in my crosshairs, and I was suddenly ambushed and killed by a velociraptor from behind. Staying on your toes and remaining alert will save your life many times. And when you first hunt the T-rex? Be prepared to be scared out of your wits. The first time I sounded the T-rex roar, I jumped out of my seat! (When you hear a T-rex roar, RUN! Not that it will do you any good).
Other little touches add nice depth. If you want to leave a hunt, you have to go through a brief waiting period ("Preparing for evacuation"), meaning that if you're being chased by a hungry dinosaur, you cant just leave the game instantly. You can change the amount of dinosaurs in a hunting area to suit your tastes (fancy hunting three T-rex's at once?). There's even a feature where you can view your trophies in a hunting room.
I do have a few complaints with the game though. Hunting the meat eaters (the velociraptor and Allosaurus) is more difficult then it should be, due to the fast walking speed of the creatures. They walk very fast, making it extremly difficult to line up a head shot (which you need to kill them), meaning that you'll die many times due to one missed shot. This may be realistic, but it does get annoying. There could also be some dino vs dino struggles that could take place. Its a bit strange to see a Stegosaurus calmly eating some grass while a gigantic T-rex thunders right past it (ignoring the stegosaurus as well). My other complaint is once you unlock all the weapons, stages, and dinosaurs, you really dont have anything else to do except just keep playing over and over again, meaning that the game can get repettitive.
But in the end, Carnivores is a suprisingly good budget game that I dont hesitate to recommend. If you find it for under ten dollars, I'd get it. Its a great bargin.
Amazon.com Carnivores 2 by Wizard Works invites you to "enter the realm of prehistoric reality and take on the quest for survival." Prepare, in other words, to meet the velociraptor.
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carinvores is the best the best game in the world is carinvores because the scare when a t-rex is runing at you!
Totally prehistoric! This game is really neat. While its in the same fashion and design of Carnivores 1 & 2, it does have some changes, for the better. For one, you aren't hunting dinosaurs. While I love the previous games, this is a really nice change of pace. you definitely have to be on your toes for this game, especially when you finally get to the mystery monster, and I ain't tell what it is. But you had better be a dead-on, one-shot kinda hunter because that's all you will be, just like with the T-Rex and this monster is a whole lot more fast.Enjoy!!
Amazon.com Carnivores: Ice Age is the third link in the Carnivores series, with all the same hunting excitement, 10 new, terrifying prehistoric creatures, and more spectacular landscapes. Take on such creatures as woolly mammoths to saber-toothed tigers and even the elusive and dangerous yeti. Prepare for a chilling expedition through five realistic 3-D maps, including massive ice cliffs and vast snowy expanses. Familiarize yourself with the animals' behavior in observation mode. Choose from a barrage of powerful firearms and accessories, including radar, camo, and cover scent. Customize the aggressiveness of creatures, density of the hunting area, fog, sensitivity, and viewing range.
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Cool Game I first played this game at a friends house and I loved it. I looked into findingn it and I finally found it at K Mart. I played non stop for about a month after that. The graphics aren't that great but when you are getting stomped to death by a brontitory all that doesn't really seem important. I like this game because you start out with a pistol and them you gradually move up to some cool weapons. This game has so many different ice age animals that it never really gets old.
An enormous starship crashes, releasing hoards of furious Jurassic beasts into the parks, sewers and streets. Eradicate the escaped carnivores or play the dinosaur and stomp, claw and bite your way to freedom. It's futuristic mayhem in prehistoric proportions.
As you take in the prehistoric landscape, a chill goes down your spine. You have traveled back in time 100 million years to hunt the granddaddy of them all - The Dinosaur. Steady your nerves and move carefully into this forbidden landscape to confront these ancient beasts. You've got one, and only one, chance to take down your mammoth prey.
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A Great Game This game is absolutely awesome! You go back in time through a time-teleporter, and hunt dinosaurs for people who want them. Some missions include getting a dead Tyrannosaurus rex for a guy who wants it's head, killing a Styracosaurus for a Chinese-food retaurant, getting live Utahraptors for a research center, and many, many, many (many many many) more. This game is really suspenseful, sometimes, when your hunting a dinosaur, you get stalked by a raptor, troodon, or an occasional T-rex. They growl when they get close by, so you know it's coming, but you dont exactly know when. It's a BIG surprise when you get attacked. I almost had a heart-attack when a utah raptor jumped me. The dino's in this game are Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops, Styracosaurus, Gastonia, Utahraptor, Troodon, Iguanadon, Lambeosaurus and T-rex. The only bad thing about this game is that after you play about 2 missions, it goes back to your computer desktop and you have to re-boot the game.
You traverse the vast new world filled with prehistoric creatures from a time long past. With enough weaponry to flatten a mountain range, you begin your search. You feel a surge of dominance over your potential next kill, but then come to an abrupt and haunting realization. You are outnumbered, outsmarted and the object of a deadly prehistoric creature's hunt.
