- Oh, track animal call, here we go.
Deer.
It's somewhere over here.
(gun firing) (upbeat music)
Hey guys, my name is Kelsey Rose, and I am a hunter.
Today, I'm gonna be checking out a new video game
called Hunter Call of the Wild.
My favorite thing about hunting is
that it's an experience that I share with my family.
I got into hunting because my dad hunted.
He really wanted me to go with him,
and also get trained in gun safety.
He definitely wanted to let people know
that I eat everything I hunt,
so I'm not one of those wasteful hunters.
You're up at three or four in the morning.
You are at your hunt site before the animals are up.
A disclaimer, I am not a huge gamer.
It's gonna be interesting playing a hunting simulating game,
because there's so many different components
when you're hunting, that I don't know
if it's gonna translate into a game.
One being how much noise you make.
You make noise in real life, then animals are gonna flee.
They're not gonna wait around.
I'm excited to see what kind of components they've brought
into the game that are a little accurate,
or a little not accurate.
All right guys, so here we go.
I'm gonna get hunting.
I'm gonna go female, because I'm a female hunter,
and I'd like to rep the female hunters of the world.
Oh my God, it's so beautiful.
All right, I've been trying to find an animal track.
Okay, I have some type of repellent.
Um, it looks like a knife, okay.
Oh, that's a mating call, let's try it.
(bird calling)
(laughing)
Oh my God, what is that sound?
Ooh, binoculars.
Those are fancy.
All right, what else do we got?
Oh, there we go, all right.
Anything else?
Ooh, three guns.
Oh, I'm really hiking.
I really would just play this game
to take in the scenery.
All right, are there any animal trackings?
Oh, there's something at the bottom.
Oh (bleep).
An animal heard you, lower your stance.
The noise meter.
Oh, copy that.
Okay, examine track, footprint.
Use left control to crouch.
Control.
There we go.
This animal is probably so far away
from where I am right now.
Found deer (bleep).
Examine.
Please examine the (bleep).
Think about hunting, and I'm sure this game also touches on,
there's a lot of waiting involved.
Okay, if I go through this bush,
I'm gonna make all the nose in the world.
Oh, I'm tracking an animal.
So it's like, okay, I'm on it, I got it.
Walking a little faster now.
I guess I shall crawl up this hill,
which is so not realistic.
I like that there's a noise factor to this, though.
But I think that's probably the biggest part of the game.
It's pretty realistic in the sense
of if you're loud, obviously animals are gonna run.
You don't track animals this way.
There's never lights on the ground.
You could hike in the complete opposite direction
for an hour, and, well, that's your day.
(laughing)
I will say the graphics in this game,
like look at this rock.
They're very impressive.
Woo!
Upon examining a track, a visual cone
will indicate the direction of the next track.
Okay, copy that.
I'm gonna get this deer.
Is it going back down?
I bet it's in this valley.
(bleep) this roe deer.
We're gonna go for a jog.
I'm gonna go up to this crazy-looking thing up there.
But I think that's a big thing about hunting,
is there's not a lot of instant satisfaction.
Some hunters like using calls.
I don't really use them.
I think there's a lot of tips and tricks,
and it really is just a personal preference.
If this was me in this actual game,
I would not be running around
with a high-pitched mating call.
Unrealistic part, I would never carry three guns with me.
This hunter has a lot of stuff on her right now.
Oh, there's a question mark in front of me.
Let's see what this question mark is.
An animal has seen you.
Well (bleep) man, I'm running towards the I.
Don't put an I in front of me.
Inspect.
Oh my God, you're kidding me.
It's a poem.
Oh, here's a big field.
Let's see what's in here.
I don't really use binoculars.
The thing is, is when you hunt,
you have to carry everything you're gonna use,
so I like to travel light,
because then you're a little bit more nimble
and you're not feeling so weighed down.
'Cause also remember, when you go big game hunting,
once you get something, you have to carry that back.
And let me tell you, deer are not light.
Oh, what on earth is that?
(gasping)
(bleep) yeah.
Here we go.
All right, crouch, (bleep), crouch.
(bird calling)
Come back, come back!
Oh, it's coming closer.
But I think it's over this hill.
So I think I need to go through.
Look how realistic this grass is.
This is so crazy.
Okay, I'm getting closer and closer to this fox,
and it's about to merge with the question mark.
Maybe if I switch to my cool animal caller.
(animals calling)
Okay, come here, little fox.
Where are you, little foxy fox?
- [Instructor] There, use your binoculars
to get a closer look!
- Oh, oh, oh.
Oh my God, this scope is so bad.
(gun firing)
Still running.
- [Instructor] Be sure to aim for its vital organs.
(gun firing)
Heart and lung shots mean quicker kills.
- Single shot?
No hunter would just have one shot in.
I'm just chasing this fox.
(laughing)
This is so unrealistic for what I do.
Okay, I think I'm gonna let this fox live,
because it has made a valiant effort.
I think once you've run four miles after a fox,
the fox has earned its right to live. (chuckles)
I mean, there's some people who I'm sure get very obsessive.
Like, they've found a buck, they wanna hunt that buck.
All right, let's try and find another animal.
I feel like in order to find a deer,
I need to go to a clearing, though,
or, like, a feeding zone.
All right, here's a big, open valley.
But it's all dead,
so I don't think anything's gonna feed over here.
For big game hunting, it's a lot more patience
and a lot more time.
Like tracking and stuff like this, but hunting has
become a little bit more commercialized these days,
so there's a lot of ways to bypass hiking 70 miles.
Where is the body of water?
That's what I wanna find.
Oh, there's another one right there.
Okay, let's see if anything responds to my call.
(animal calling)
Oh, track animal call.
Here we go.
Deer.
It's somewhere over here.
I hear something moving.
I knew coming to the water would be good.
Examine tracks.
(bleep)
Of course I'm in the loudest part of this entire park.
(gun firing)
Here I come!
It's cool that it says trot or run,
'cause that's stuff you would not know.
(gun firing)
Oh my God, reload faster!
(gun firing)
Follow the blood trail.
Oh my God, finally.
Examining the blood.
Where is it?
Like, how, realistically, I will say,
if you shot a deer like that, it's very unrealistic.
Where the (bleep) did my deer go?
Oh, boom!
(gun firing)
Family of deer.
(gun firing)
Well I shot it first down here,
and then I got it up here.
I think I shot a deer, so let's truck it.
Examine, oh!
Oh-ho-ho!
Let's run up on this.
Look at that.
Confirm trophy.
Oh, it shows you where you got him, too.
I got her in the butt.
Sorry, lady.
Wow, that's so crazy.
I got one.
It feels good.
It's like that really proud moment that you have.
I took a lot of running, and a lot of walking,
and a lot of tracking.
And so the same reason a lot of people like to hunt,
is it's a really awesome feeling
when you finally get an animal,
and you know that you're not just running and doing nothing.
But, like, I got one, I'm good.
Because realistically, I would assume I needed
to carry that deer back to my car now, and still dress it.
So I think it's actually a pretty good representation
of hunting.
I'm very impressed.