Dino Hunter is a rather pleasant game where one hunts prehistoric beasts with increasingly more blistering blunderbusses. Jolly good! Actually it’s modern rifles and weapons but I think I can forgive that so long as I get to unlock a flamethrower or rocket launcher at some point.
I’m all for shooting velociraptors in the dome, I’ve had nightmares about the bloody things since I saw Jurassic park at age 6. The evil things are fear incarnate. They aren’t slow like zombies or absurdly fictional like vampires or student loans. They can think and move insanely fast. They can leap over buildings and even open doors. Oh and if that wasn’t enough, they hunt in packs, so if one doesn’t get you its friend will.
Check to your left damnit, CHECK TO YOUR LEFT.
The levels consist of brief challenges where you have to bump off various dinosaurs using modern military instruments of death. You get to upgrade your weapons in a number of ways and the goal is to aim for the soft spots or the scalp before they flee or separate you from your digestive tract.
It’s simple and effective, if you get eaten you’re treated to a minor bollocking and you use up one of your turns. There’s only a limited amount of turns or “energy” each day which is not unusual for free games and could be considered quite bloody annoying if you were in any way irritable but it’s preferable to adverts I beleaguredly suppose.
My one point of concern is that some of the herbivorous dinosaurs would rather run away than attack you which puts you in an awkward situation where your only option is to shoot the poor creature in the rectum. This awkwardness is in turn compounded by a Sniper Elite style bullet cam which follows the bullet as in enters the animal’s small intestine.
I didn’t sign up for this.
I don’t mind killing the carnivorous ones because they’re dangerous and terrify me. And don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to see other dinosaurs that I recognise (shout out to you Mildred) but killing the smaller, tamer dinosaurs that run away and squeal in terror feels unnecessarily monstrous and barbaric, much like stomping on snails in your back garden while laughing maniacally.
Just to hammer the point home, I enjoyed this game a great deal was thrilled to finally play a game that made good use of my phone’s good specs so I’m possibly biased but daaaamn, this game looks good.
Dino Hunter is a delicious steak sandwich. It’s tasty and lovely and I’d serve it to my friends anytime. Bravo good sirs!
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