Current version:Wii U
Cabela's Big Game Hunter - Pro Hunts

Cabela's Big Game Hunter - Pro Hunts

Cabela's Big Game Hunter - Pro Hunts is a Wii U shooter game released in 2014 developed by Cauldron. It centers on aiming and shooting, positioning and evasion, and weapon and firepower management, with controls, information, and pacing arranged around the GamePad touch screen, gyroscope, dual sticks, television display, and Pro Controller where supported.

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6.6 / 10
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Cabela's Big Game Hunter - Pro Hunts is a Wii U shooter game centered on aiming and shooting, positioning and evasion, and weapon and firepower management. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make its immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while HD television output and the GamePad screen need to divide maps, status, touch input, and primary focus clearly. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and multiplayer service conditions can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include GamePad battery life and range, shifts between two screens, loading, performance, and retired online and Miiverse services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features from other editions.

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6.6 / 10Wii U

Tracks, stealth and gear make preparation before the shot matter.

Pro Hunts on Wii U emphasizes a slower hunt: reading footprints and blood trails, watching animal responses, adjusting equipment and preparing a shot. Its broad American locations allow different approaches to a target, and free hunting gives those systems more room than the guided campaign. The major interruption is the celebrity expert framing. A Wii U review says story missions repeatedly make players wait for lengthy advice before control returns, while the hunting tasks become repetitive after several hours. Those experts feel more promotional than mechanically useful. Landscapes and the more detailed, cinematic killcam strengthen the setting, although some animal assets are reused. The technical and usability judgment is limited to the documented Wii U campaign interruption; no unsupported claim is made about GamePad features, frame rate or another platform. This is a measured hunting game rather than the series' more frantic shooting-gallery approach.

Strengths

  • Tracking, equipment and free approach support deliberate play
  • Appealing hunting landscapes and shot feedback

Weaknesses

  • Expert commentary repeatedly interrupts missions
  • Hunting objectives grow repetitive over time

Who it is for: Wii U players who prefer patient tracking and solo hunts.

Play notes: No specific technical fault is inferred from video metadata; GamePad extras are unverified.

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Free hunts flow better than expert-led missions, which later repeat.

Reviewed5.9 / 10Not provided
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Tracks, stealth and gear make preparation before the shot matter.

Reviewed6.7 / 10Not provided
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Attractive landscapes and killcams impress despite reused animals.

Reviewed7.1 / 10Not provided
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Waiting through expert speeches interrupts Wii U campaign control.

Reviewed6.5 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Developer
Cauldron
Publisher
Activision
Release date
2014
Platforms
Wii U
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
Third PersonShootingPlayer versus EnvironmentReplayableMain Story Under 10 Hours3D GraphicsFast-pacedDodgeLinear LevelsSolo-friendly
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
Single player
Perspectives
First person

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