Even beating back the beast isn't enough, as you're usually at your most vulnerable here and other players are always eager to swoop in like vultures and pick at your bones if given the chance. All that goes out the window, though, once you zero in on a boss. This encourages players to use a more tactical and sneaky method to slip past foes unnoticed. Ammo is also in limited supply, and enemies, both of the undead and the living varieties, can also zero in on the sounds of shooting or explosions. These aren't modern day assault rifles you're dealing with. The guns feel sufficiently powerful, but also show their age. Hunt: Showdown gives players a lot of tools to help out with in their hunts. But knowing at any moment you might wind up in the crosshairs of fellow Hunter makes the tension so thick you might need a machete to cut through it. Silently skulking through swamps to avoid gaining the attention of everything from bloated undead corpses, pack of rabid dogs, and giant man-eating spiders is challenging enough. But Hunt: Showdown manages to take both of these genres and blend them together seamlessly into an original experience where you're always both the hunter and the prey. There's no shortage of first-person shooters out there, and there's no shortage of survival horror games to keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for something to leap from the shadows. But be aware that other hunters have also accepted the same contract as you, and they're just as likely to skip the hard work and simply pry the bounty from your cold, dead hands. You'll also eliminate your prey and banish it from this world forever, then collect your trophy or the proof of your kill, and make your escape. You'll seek out the sources of this disturbance, trudging through the depths of the swamps, avoiding and eliminating the walking corpses that stand between your and your prey. Alone or with a fellow Hunter, you set out to the Louisiana swamps to investigate a swell of supernatural activity.

Hunters each have their own motivations for what they do, be it power, fortune, or sense of duty, but for each of them, the risk is worth the reward. The only thing standing between this encroaching evil and the annihilation of all mankind are the Hunters, members of a secret society charged with tracking down and killing these horrors … for a price. It's the closing twilight of the 19th Century, a time when dark forces have crawled from the shadows and threaten to overwhelm the world as we know it. HUNT: SHOWDOWN is an online first-person shooter/survival horror game that pits players against each other as well as hordes of inhuman creatures that have risen to take over.

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