Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown is where the hunter becomes the hunted

If you’re afraid of the dark, Hunt: Showdown is going to scare you. Crytek’s new monster-hunting game is an intense, tension-filled experience where a pair of human bounty hunter players have to track down and kill a monster. Not only that, you have to do it before four other human duos get there first in a landscape that is almost pitch black. Then you have to collect the bounty and escape the map, even as all of the other human players close on you once you slay the monster.

It’s a combination of player-versus-environment and player-versus-player. In fact, it’s a great strategy to watch another team take down the monster and then shoot them to steal the bounty. The action takes place in the dark, where you can light a lantern but then expose yourself to other players. It’s a case where the hunter becomes the hunted.