Field and Stream is by FAR the worst game I have ever played, if not the worst game of all time.
An overexaggeration, you may ask? Could any game actually be so bad as to make you feel like a part of you is missing? That you aren't quite the person you once were? Well, the answer to that is yes. So much yes. Because along comes Field and Stream, a game that seems created solely to take everything you know and love about good games and crush them under its heel.
No, these errors are not something that might be more difficult to pull off for a video game. The errors this game makes are so incredibly obvious that I found myself staring at the screen with my jaw dropped, wondering how any human being could miss such glaring issues. The four things I'm going to discuss here are the GRAPHICS, the SOUND, the BASIC GAMEPLAY, and the MENU. NOTHING MORE, just thinking about this game gives me chills.
First off, the graphics. The absolute best thing I can say about it is that, if you aim the target more towards the sky and DO NOT MOVE, the animation, from a distance, could look appealing to someone not wearing their glasses. But in motion, the game can look so bad as to have your blind friends cover their eyes in agony. The textures in this game are SO untaxing of the 360, SO detail free... and yet... it can manage to make this game run like a slideshow. I kid you not, and this doesn't just occur when there are multiple animals on-screen (it completely dies there). No, this game lags, chugs, and plods along from trying to process that your character is MOVING. That's it. Not just moving and shooting, not just while aiming over the sight and moving. Nope, the mere act of walking causes this game to die. I was less offended by Big Rigs.
Think about this: The game is in a first person perspective, and firing you gun has no animation of any kind. Nothing.
Second comes the sound. Or more like, the complete lack of it. There is next to no music in the menus, and nothing in the game at all. The animals don't make any noise, and you can barely hear your character walk. But most offensive of all is the dialogue. The only speaking part is given to a horrendous narrator that made me begin to yawn merely seconds after hearing his voice. And upon killing a single deer, I was met with a yell (or as close as the narrator can get to doing that, its more like speaking mildly louder than what you'd hear from guests at a funeral) of "Headshot." In a hunting game. This caused me to collapse on the ground laughing, almost to the point of being in tears. Playing and beating Brutal Legend wasn't anywhere near as funny as this.
Third up is the gameplay. Simply put, this game is almost impossible to play. It tells you frequently to cover your scent, try different guns, etc., but the game never, ever, EVER tells you how to do any of it. It just assumes that you'll figure it out yourself. I didn't, so I was forced to camp next to a tree for almost half an hour before a deer came out. When I tried to shoot this deer, I found that the framerate was SO atrocious, SO laggy, that it was nearly impossible to pop off a shot on the deer in the first place. After chasing the deer across the map for another 15 minutes, I was finally able to take it down, when the game decided to break it to me that I had to kill 9 more. I shut the game off, and haven't turned it back on since.
I should also note that the mere act of turning in this game is broken. The first moments of turning make your character appear to have the reaction time of a hibernating bear, yet moments later your target will leap across the screen at nearly triple the speed it was moments ago. I couldn't make this up if I tried. It literally drove me to tears, and not tears of laughter like previously mentioned.
And on a truely special note is the menu. It's very hard to control or find anything you're looking for, but worst of all, It takes close to 5 seconds to register some button presses, and you can't exit the pause menu with the B button. I'll leave it at that.
If you're still somehow compelled to get this piece of crap because you might find it funny, or because you hate life and want to find motivation for suicide, just watch this. The laughable dialogue appears at 5:19, and its the only redeeming factor to this game. I just saved you $60.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYb-tKpdyn4
The Good:
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+..... I guess the announcer is kinda funny the first time?
The Bad:
-Imagine your worst possible nightmare. It's in this game in one form or another.