Topic: Finally ; A video game where Urinating helps me.

[Sirgod]

http://www.wolfquest.org/game_info.php

Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Play alone or with friends in on-line multiplayer missions, explore the wilderness, hunt elk, and encounter stranger wolves in your quest to find a mate. Ultimately, your success will depend on forming a family pack, raising pups, and ensuring the survival of your pack.

The WolfQuest experience goes beyond the game with an active online community where you can discuss the game with other players, chat with wolf biologists, and share artwork and stories about wolves.

Both the single-player and multiplayer game will offer about a couple of hours of gameplay (or more, if you want to replay the same missions). Key features:

    * Create your wolf avatar, selecting male or female, choosing from a range of realistic wolf coats (and customizing the coat with color tints), and configuring its abilities (strength, speed, and stamina).
    * Explore four square kilometers of alpine wilderness on the slopes of Amethyst Mountain in Yellowstone National Park, running across open meadows, through dense fir forests, and along sheer cliffs.
    * Hunt elk. Follow scent trails to locate elk herds, then sneak up on the herd, find the weakest one, and begin your attack. Pursue your prey and sap its strength while dodging its counterattacks, to make the kill.
    * Harrass coyotes who try to eat elk carcasses, or just for the fun of it.
    * Chase and eat snowshoe hares.
    * Earn Experience Points for bragging rights with other players.
Future Episodes
Future episodes of WolfQuest will be released periodically in 2008. Key features:

    * Explore new areas of Yellowstone National Park, including the Lamar Valley in wintertime and denning grounds during springtime.
    * Earn enough experience points and, with your mate, try to take down a bull elk without suffering a killing blow from its hooves.
    * Establish a territory for your family pack through raised-leg urination marking, then defend it from other wolf packs through social challenges.
    * Fight grizzly bears for control of elk carcasses.
    * Find a safe den site and produce a litter of pups.
    * Keep your pups healthy and well-fed until they can hunt for themselves.
    * Venture away from your territory on risky missions to kill sheep on nearby ranchland.
    * Once your pups are old enough, hunt as a pack!

Stephen

[Nemesis]

Just remember it is virtual urination.  If you go around the house marking your territory I think you will find that there are negative repercussions (or perhaps concussions) to doing that.

[Lepton]

Well, someone has finally done what I said should have been done for years now, created a video game, wherein you play an actual animal, that might help to instruct about ecology and such.  It's about time.  I just hope it's a decent game.  My hope is that we will be seeing more things like this in the future.

[knightstorm]

I guess you never played primal rage.  The game became controversial after a mother got the sega genesis version for her son, and witnessed him performing the "golden shower" fatality.  The subsequent SNES version of the game had the word censored appear on the screen whenever that particular finishing move was used.

Seriously though, I went to yellowstone a few years ago, wanted to see a wolf there from a distance of course.  Never got the chance.  I guess this is the next best thing.

well, I downloaded it.  I'm just curious if anyone wants to hunt with me.

[Sirgod]

I'll download it tonight Knightstorm. We will see how it is. I hope this leads the way in educational games.

Stephen

[Lepton]

The game seems pretty awful to me.  When the carcass of a snowshoe hare acts as a block to your moving forward, that's a clear indicator of some very amateurish work.

[Commander La'ra]

Many years ago, there was a game very much like this one.  I never played it.  It was simply called 'Wolf' and I remember PC Gamer giving it very good reviews. 

It can be found online if you're into that sort of thing.