I ' ve been a hunter for 16 years , and a PC gamer for longer . Deer Hunter 2 and 3 for PC have big , big time nostalgia factor for me . I played them a LOT . For DH 2 , I even participated in and organized online tournaments , hosted a website with results and everything . Both of them were great , but I think they were severely limited by the technology of the time , especially with regards to terrain and cover density . I think any attempt at all to make it gamey or arcadey will make a hunting game instantly stale . I think I played a couple of the earlier cabela ' s big game hunter on console , but they were forgettable . I haven ' t played a hunting game of any kind in over a decade , basically anything past DH 3 . The problem is that the venn diagram of hunters and video game lovers is practically two circles . The market is so niche , that it ' s going to be a race to the bottom , and there will never be a budget for a good title . What would interest me is a hardcore , pure simulator . I want the MS Flight Simulator or XPLANE of deer hunting , on open world expansive worlds . There is one game that I played in addition to the Deer Hunter series , the name of which escapes me , that I really enjoyed as well . I remember that it had really lush , dense terrain , but it wasn ' t open world . It was sort of like a series of challenge missions where you get dropped in , and you have a goal . And each mission was sort of like a puzzle where you had to stalk or get set up , make the shot , etc . And sometimes you ' d screw it up or miss the timing and you ' d fail the mission . I can ' t remember the life of me remember the name of it now . But yea , I liked that because for the time it was really cool that you could sneak around and get close to the deer , where as with the DH series , you could kinda see them coming in a mile away . Edit It was Deer Hunt Challenge , 1999 EA . Unfortunately most of the screenshots online look wrong , and I think there ' s been other games called that . It was this one . Anyone play that ?