Review from Completelyfreesoftware

Quack Shoot is a 3D hunting game set in 1815 where you must supplement your larder with wild duck.

It features sensational 3D graphics, challenging gameplay, good sound effects, and more.

The author says:

Quack Shoot is part of the Real Time Strategy and Adventure game "Territory: The Mountain Men". It is an arcade sub level, a game within a game, that gives the player an opportunity to augment the food supply.

This is a great shooter with a major challenge for players – there are no crosshairs or target-sights when you are shooting at the ducks flying around you so you must lead the ducks with the bullets to hit them. This takes some practice. Even if you do hit a duck you may not kill it, or it may fall into the water and be lost (the idea is shooting for food, not for sport).

You are aided by having a semi-automatic, fast-loading flintlock pistol (as the author says, a rare weapon in 1815!) but, as all shots are counted, just blasting away means your poor shooting is noted.

The game is enhanced with excellent 3D graphics, and an opening scene where you are the duck, flying over the countryside and diving into the ponds to catch fish. While you can't interact with the game during this intro, it is worth letting it play just to enjoy the graphics. The game is played until it gets dark and you must go back to the camp to, we hope, enjoy your meal of roast duck.

We had a couple of issues with Quack Shoot. First, if you have a widescreen monitor there is no (apparent) way of playing the game in a 4:3 window to ensure that imagery is not distorted. The second is that there are no high scores saved so your excellent scores cannot be shared with others. An overall score for a game would be good because there are a number of factors – the total number of shots fired, the number of ducks hit, the number of ducks killed, the number of ducks which fell into water (and could be saved for food), and the number of ducks which fell on land and could be used for food.

Quack Shoot is a challenging game but its major attraction is the superb 3D graphics. Because of these graphics it requires a reasonably high-end computer with at least a 2.5GHz Pentium 4 processor.

We loved!

Note: we have been advised that this program is not suitable for Windows 95, 98 or ME.