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Carnivores 2
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Atari
EAN: 0722242516513
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Atari
Manufacturer: Atari
Model: 04-18816
MPN: 04-18816
Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Publisher: Atari
Studio: Atari
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Editorial Review:
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.
Hunting games for the PC have let us stalk wild turkeys, shoot at countless deer, and even bag a few bears. Carnivores 2 takes things up a notch by letting players go on a dinosaur safari. That premise sounded terrible until we started playing the game, and we were immediately sucked in by Carnivore 2's atmosphere and play mechanics.
You start out with the ability to buy a few items, like a simple pistol and perhaps some camouflage. The dinosaurs you choose to hunt vary in their ability to detect you. Some can smell you coming but have a hard time seeing you, while others can't smell anything but have hearing acute enough to detect a leaf hitting the ground 100 yards away. You must adapt your hunting methods and equipment to counter the abilities of your quarry or you won't see a dinosaur, let alone get to shoot at one.
After bagging a few herbivores that have less biting power than Bambi, you work your way up the food chain to bigger, smarter, and much more dangerous game that look at you as prey instead of the other way around. In fact, the sound of a pistol is like a dinner bell to the Tyrannosaurus rex, who knows the only creature capable of causing that noise makes for a tasty snack. The fact that we had to consider ourselves both the hunter and the hunted added a tension to the game that other hunting simulations completely lack.
Graphics are good, and the artists obviously paid special attention to the movement of the creatures that inhabit the various islands you'll visit. The sounds were also done well, and many times we found ourselves tracking prey using our ears instead of our eyes. The only things they left out are the smells, and for that we are grateful. We were surprised at how much fun we had with Carnivores 2, which is a unique take on hunting simulations, one that nearly anyone should enjoy. --T. Byrl Baker
Pros: - Dinosaurs move smoothly
- You occasionally feel like that doomed hunter guy in Jurassic Park
- Nice ambient sound effects
Cons: - Can get a bit repetitive once you perfect your hunting skills
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Carnivores 2
Carnivores was great. The sense of adventure, tension and general fun made it possibly my favourite PC game. But Carnivores 2? I always hoped they'd make a sequel, but, even though looking back at it it is a very enjoyable experience, I can't help saying that it was missing something that the first game had.
Maybe it's the sense of fiction in the first game. Sometimes, a fictional, imaginary looking setting is quite bad for a shooter games, but in Carnivores 1, it really did work, with the ... Read More
Rating:  - This game is awsome!
This is a fantastic game, it lets you face up to the prehistorys greatest hunters. This game makes you use your brain, for example, when you gun fires it alerts all kinds of creatures some run whil some come for you as the hunter becomes the hunted. It has very realistic death scenes and every creature you kill is added to your trouphy room. To see a preview of this game go to [...] This is a grand game and I advize anybody thats likes to hunt to buy this game.
Rating:  - Could be much better
I've played this game for hours on end, and it is always a mixed bag. What is REALLY, REALLY annoying is how, when you're in a safe position on a hill or something, and you sound the dinosaur call, the critters all run away, no matter how aggressive you have them set to be. The graphics are primitive in a lot of ways too, like when you can see a dinosaur right through a rock, or one is swimming and it looks like it's in the clouds. It's a decent game, but could have been much better with a little ... Read More
Rating: - Carnivores 2
It is excellent game for my kids.
I have to buy it.
Please, send me more information.
What do you do?
FORTUNATO
Rating: - carinvores is the best
the best game in the world is carinvores because the scare when a t-rex is runing at you!
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