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Deer Avenger 2 |
| Date: |
07/12/01 (46 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: none
Disadvantages: its over quickly
Deer Avenger 2: Deer In The City, is the abysmal sequel to one of the worst games I have ever played on the PC. Deer Avenger was an attrocious game which tried very hard to be funny in its parodying of the inexplicably popular Deer Hunter style hunting games but failed miserably at ever turn. If a farting deer makes you laugh, then you may have liked it...if a farting deer might make you laugh for the hundredth time you witness said deer farting then you might be tempted to shell out money for it because there was nothing else to the game. Deer Avenger 2 is better...but not much.
Well, this time there is a plot! Bambo was out on a date with another deer when a bumnch of rednecks out hunting turned her into roadkill. A little miffed, Bambo hits town packing heat with revenge in mind...
Interesting concept at least...not exactly high minded but mildly interesting nonetheless. The opening screens give you the option of playing the full version or a sanitised cut down version...which is a screensaver with pink elephants floaiting around it. Yes folks, that IS the level of humour we have in this game, and it just goes downhill from there on! The 'unsanitised' version of the game has your enraged murderous deer kicking butt across 3 short, unimaginative shooting gallery style levels. Of course I say kicking butt, but for some reason your murderous, revenge driven deer comes packing....an Uzi? A rocket launcher? A vicious arsenal of nasty, hunter splattering weapons??? Well no, he comes with smelly farts and a tranquiliser gun. This deer wants to gain revenge by making bad smells and sending hunters to sleep for a bit...
At least this time the graphics look a little better and the sound effects aren't quite as annoying or badly recorded but they aren't that good either. Forget all thsi though because it really doesn't matter because you'll probably finish the 'game' within one very short sitting so you won't ca
re one way or the other. What you will care about is the abysmal attempts at humour here which are generally crude and pathetic - farting etc. or at worst damn insulting. Insulting not only because of the blatant racial and sexual stereotyping but mainly because of the fact that someone somewhere thought that we might actually find it funny!
The best thing going for it is the simplicity of the control system, you can't do much else but aim and shoot. Of course, they shoot back as well, so you can duck...and within 30 minutes you'll have won the game and there is zero replay value. The fact that you'll never have to play it again is a MAJOR plus point because frankly, you'll never want to. In my top ten list of all time worst games, the Deer Avenger series comes pretty high...and there too is Bass Avenger, so maybe its advisable to avoid anything with the word Avenger in the title and Simon & Schuster on the box! Generally you get what you pay for with cheap, budget games like this...but at 50p this would still be pushing it!
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