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(More customer reviews)This game came out in late 2003 or early 2004. I decided to try this fishing game to see if it was any good, so I got myself a copy of Rapala Pro Fishing.
This is what I found. When I installed my copy of Rapala Pro Fishing and started playing it, I quickly saw that this game truly does have state-of-the-art graphics, realism,
and game-play, just as was advertised when this game was for sale everywhere. I also saw that one of the drawbacks attributed to Rapala Pro Fishing is really not a drawback at all,
but a simple dofference in how a game like this is set up.
Rapala Pro Fishing follows traditions of Sega Bass Fishing, which allows the fisherman to only fish for a specified species of fish (in the case of Sega Bass Fishing, largemouth bass only), and nothing else. In Rapala Pro Fishing, the most species of fish that can be fished for at any individual lake or river is three. No other species except the species of fish specified for the particular lake or river chosen to be fished can be caught even if some show up on the computer screen.
Rapala Pro Fishing follows another tradition of Sega
Bass Fishing, and it restricts the actual area or sites where a player can fish on the lake or stream. A player can only go to sites on the lake or river he has chosen to fish that Rapala
Pro Fishing designates as sites that allow fishing. All other areas on these bodies of water are cordoned off or made inaccessiblein some way. It can get quite annoying to go to a certain area on a lake or stream in Rapala Pro Fishing, and see that there is much more water to go to and fish, but
it is cordoned off, usually by chains and buoys, logs, or aquatic plants, all of which deny access to other waters. Even so, Rapala Pro Fishing is in no way as bad as Sega Bass Fishing in this regard.
Rapala Pro Fishing has a HUGE number of commands necessary to be able to fully play the game. This requires the use of just about every key on the computer keyboard plus both mouse keys. It can cause a lot of accidental keystrokes that will cause
a change in the game or even an exit from the game. All these commands tend to be very confusing and difficult to master at first, but once they are mastered and utilized, they do add to the realism and fun of playing the game.
The guide who accompanies the fisherman on every fishing trip in Rapala Pro can be in some ways quite obnoxious, and that guide tends to treat the player as if he is an idiot. That guide could show a little more of a tendency to encourage the player. However, what the guide tells the player insofar as what lure to use for a specific type of fish is quite helpful, so the player needs to pay attention to the guide.
Rapala Pro Fishing goes to great lengths to be as realistic as possible, though, even to the player's lure getting snagged in the rocks or a hooked fish going into the rocks to get loose.
Rapala Pro Fishing has many other plusses about it. As one catches fish in the game, they are awarded additional lures and other fishing tackle to use, another tradition probably
taken from Sega Bass Fishing, which does the same thing.
The graphics of Rapala Pro Fishing are absolutely as close to an actual video recording or photograph of the real thing that one can get. Both the above water and underwater graphics are so real-looking that they are mesmerizing. The buoys and chains look just like the real thing, and the underwater graphics appear to be an actual video recording of the underwater areas. The boats are accurate in detail, even to the actual lettering of the name of the manufacturer of the boat motor. The fish are beautifully detailed, and up close even their scales can be seen. The Rapala lures are beautifully and
accurately detailed, as are the rod and the reel. The sheer greatness of the graphics of this game cannot accurately be described verbally or in writing. One has to see this for himself, but when he does, he will give this game a high rating on its superb graphics alone. It was swell to see a bass actually look in every way like a real bass.
If you get a copy of Rapal Pro Bass Fishing, and you don't like it at first, don't quit playing it and don't be quick to give it away or throw it away. When I first got this game, I thought that it was not very good despite its superlative graphics. But, once you get familiar with the many things Rapala Pro Fishing can do, it sort of "grows" on you. Like Sega Bass Fishing, Rapala Pro Fishing can be played in two modes, free fishing and tournament play. As I previously said, as you go along in either mode, Rapala Pro Fishing starts awarding additional lures and tackle when you catch fish. The further along you go, you even get better fishing poles, reels, and line, as well as better lures that more easily attract fish.
I would give Rapala Pro Fishing a 4.5 starts if this rating was allowable. I could not give the game a five because I feel that one or two computer fishing games I have played were better overall. But when it comes to the things Rapala Pro fishing does that other computer fishing games do, it is as good as any fishing game out there, and no other computer fishing game, except Pro Bass Fishing 2003 comes close in any way to matiching the superlative graphics that apala Pro Fishing has.
AS I said, this game sort of "grows" on you. I like it a lot, and I will be playing it a lot.
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