CABELA'S SURVIVAL: SHADOWS OF KATMAI (PLAYSTATION 3 PS3)

Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai departs from typical Cabela gaming fare in that it doesn't focus on hunting. Rather, Survival is designed more as an action-adventure game with Cabela-themed hunting elements.

The story revolves around Logan James, a private pilot flying a doctor (Doctor West) through Alaska to deliver a very important cargo to an important destination - where people's lives are at stake! Unfortunately, without a flight plan and entering a storm, the plane crashes near the Katmai mountain and forces the pilot to venture on an adventure to survive and escape the mountain alive and with their important cargo. intact. Wild animals such as bears, wolves, cougars and even birds threaten survival and require the pilot to deepen their hunting and survival skills.

The game is designed to be compatible with the Top Shot Elite gun peripheral, and as such there is an on-screen targeting slider which the player uses to hunt or even use certain equipment, with all aiming done manually with the Top Shot Elite. With a controller, the targeting cursor is controlled in a manner similar to a third person shooter. The player has the ability to perform "Focus Shots" which slow down time and allow visible placement of the internal organs of the animal being hunted or defending against.

The action-adventure aspects of the game come in the form of God of War-style cliff-climbing sequences, searching for collectibles (like map pieces), dog-sledding, and intense combat sequences against various North American predators.