Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 (2024)

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 is a 2010 hunting video game released for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii.

Characters[]

Cole Rainsford
Adrian Rainsford
Samson Rainsford
Mbeki
Poacher 1
Poacher 2

Plot[]

In 1982, Samson Rainsford, Mbeki, and his friend are hunting a creature referred to as the "Kaftar" in a cave in Uganda, believed to be a demon that could only be destroyed by fire. After hearing hyena-like laughter, Samson turns off the lights and turns them back on, and both he and Mbeki's friend are attacked by the Kaftar. Mbeki shoots it, but the bullet takes no effect. Mbeki's friend sees the creature attacking Samson and makes a run for the exit but the Kaftar strikes him.

In 2001, Cole Rainsford is a beginner hunter in Alaska under the instruction of his scarred and weathered father. After Cole takes down a bull Roosevelt elk, Samson is attacked by a scavenging cougar, and Cole shoots it, saving him and it runs off. After tracking down and killing the cougar, Samson see smoke from a campfire in the distance, believing it to the camp of poachers. The Rainsfords split up and eventually find the campsite of three hikers that looks as if it had been ransacked, and it's soon clear that a rogue grizzly bear was there. As the family tracks the bear, an avalanche separates Cole from Samson and Adrian, who is Cole's brother and a more skilled hunter; thus as a result he is Samson's favored son. He survives the avalanche, crawls out from the debris and continues to track down the bear into the night. Then, Cole fights the grizzly bear and kills it. Adrian shows up and compliments him when he and Cole suddenly hear a strange whistling sound. A pack of black wolves with glowing red eyes burst out of nowhere and attack Cole and Adrian. Adrian is mauled to death and dragged away by the wolves as Cole watches helplessly.

After 10 years of not speaking to his father, who had become embittered towards losing Adrian due to his actions, Cole, now a professional big game hunter, decides to join Samson and Mbeki back in Uganda in search of the Kaftar, not knowing what it is. A hippo knocks over the boat they are in, separating Cole from Mbeki and Samson. Cole finds Mbeki, who shows him brush fires being set by the villagers in an attempt to drive off what's causing the animals to go rabid; which they believe is the returned Kaftar. Mbeki warns Cole that the Kaftar is thought to be able to control people or shapeshift into a person as a werehyena. Shoving Cole out of the way, Mbeki is then attacked by a leopard that Cole kills. Mbeki tells Cole to find medical help. As he walks along, Cole eventually finds two trucks owned by poachers. He steals one of them and drives away while poachers give chase. Cole picks up Mbeki, but a mad white rhinoceros starts chasing after him. After killing it, Mbeki thanks Cole, but pushes him down and leaves him for dead, saying it is for his own good and that he shouldn't have come.

That night, Cole searches for Mbeki during a wildfire, finding him in an abandoned research facility known as the "Nightfall Program" that studied animal behavior. The program managed to capture the Kaftar and was trying to replicate its ability to control other animals, but it caused a breakout and escaped. The next morning, Cole finds baboons raiding the facility and fights them off. Later, Cole sees other baboons attacking Mbeki in the distance. He snipes them and races towards Mbeki as he slowly passes away. After giving Cole the key to the gates that lead to the Uganda caverns, Mbeki dies. Cole heads for the caves where Samson was attacked 29 years before. After he finds him, Samson tells his son to follow him to the exit not wanting Cole to die like Adrian, but he steps on a land mine on the way. Before he dies, he tells Cole that the Kaftar is real and is coming after him. Cole looks for an exit, but a pack of spotted hyenas attack, at the behest of the Kaftar. Eventually, Cole finds an underground ladder leading to his father's cabin only to find it on fire. He walks in and the Kaftar, revealed to be a large, striped hyena-like monster, intrusively jumps inside from a window to attack him. Cole downs the beast and traps it under a chandelier as the house burns. As he jumps onto the window ledge attempting to make his escape from the burning property, he sees a picture of himself, Adrian, and their father with the elk Cole took down ten years earlier under the debris of the wreckage.

Animals[]

Elk
Canada goose
Grizzly bear
Cougar
Crow (debut)
Gray wolf
Caribou
Hippo
Nile Crocodile
African Leopard
African Lion
Hippo
Egyptian goose
Vulture
Puff adder (debut)
Cape buffalo
Spotted Hyena
Baboon
Bat
White rhino
Wildebeest
Striped Hyena (Kaftar)
Water buffalo (arcade mode)
Blackbuck (arcade mode)
Red Deer (arcade mode)
Mouflon (arcade mode)
Axis deer (arcade mode)
Capercallie (arcade mode)
Impala (arcade mode)
Greater Kudu (arcade mode)
Black Panther (debut) (arcade mode)
Werewolf (mentioned)
Moose (seen as trophy during Kaftar hunt)
Giraffe (seen as trophy during Kaftar hunt)
Wolverine (DS version only)

Levels[]

Prologue (Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011)
Rite of Passage
Full Moon
Grizzly Hunt
River Delta
Grasslands (Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011)
Off-Road Escape
Rhino Hunt (Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011)
Wildfire
Outpost (Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011)
Caverns (Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011)
Kaftar Hunt

Locations[]

Alaska
Uganda
Finland (arcade mode)
Siberia (arcade mode)
Argentina (arcade mode)
Tanzania (arcade mode)

Arcade Galleries[]

Classic:

Big Horn Ridge
Cougar Canyon
Trophy Bucks
Cape Savannah
Deer Dawn
Red River
Silver Lake
Plains Runner
Bear Mountain
Puma Peril
Safari Drive
Desert Danger
Kudu Canyon
Hill Stalks

Survival:

Night Fangs

Rhino Rampage

Grizzly Falls

Camp Defense

Lion Siege

Trek:

Trivia[]

This is the first Dangerous Hunts game by Cauldron.
Some of the levels from Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 are in arcade mode.
This is the first Cabela's game where baboons are hostile, and the only one where vultures are hostile.
Bats (in Caverns level) may attack when you hear them coming for you.
This game was originally gonna be rated M until it was toned to a T rating.
This is the only Cabela's game to be released on the Nintendo DS.
This is farby the darkest Cabela's game in the Dangerous Hunts series: 3 onscreen deaths: Adrien Rainsford, Mbeki, and Samson Rainsford, animals attacking in cutscenes, and scratch marks when a dangerous animal attacks.

Errors[]

In the Night Fangs gallery, the Caribou are misidentified as elk.
In the Cougar Canyon gallery, there is a Caribou at towards the end of the level. Cougar Canyon is in Argentina, so Caribou do not live in Argentina. They live in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland (known as Reindeer in Europe and Asia), and even parts of Montana.