Achievement Grab: Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 2010

I make no apologies about being a Gamerscore whore. As such, my Gamefly queue is dominated by games that 1) I will never buy and 2) have quick and plentiful achievements.

For some reason, it seems that the lower a game's Metacritic average is, the easier its achievements are. I don't know why crappy games tend to be Gamerscore gold mines, but they are, and that means I end up playing some pretty bad games.

Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 2010 is one of those bad games. One of my biggest pet peeves is when a developer tries to create the appearance of an open world without actually creating it. Nothing is more frustrating than getting slightly off course, then running into invisible wall after invisible wall as you stumble back to the one route the developer deemed correct to travel.

The thing that is really hindering my enjoyment of the game, though, has nothing to do with the mechanics or graphics. As an animal lover, I actually cringe a little every time I blow away a defenseless deer or bird. I have murdered countless people, aliens, monster, you name it I've killed it, but there's something sad about killing a defenseless animal for sport, even in virtual form.

In reality, I'm probably just a sissy. More importantly, I've already earned 70G after just an hour or so of playing, so I'm well on my way to that perfect 1000G.