Big Buck Hunter Pro pulled over Windows Phone 8 incompatibility

Big Buck Hunter Pro pulled

The Windows Phone seven version of Big Buck Hunter Pro has a few rough edges, simply I nevertheless enjoyed it overall. Light gun-manner games, i.e. shooting galleries, are but plain fun. And heck, the combination of shooting defenseless animals while an announcer grossly mispronounces everything he says, how can you non dear that? Unfortunately, though, the game has just been pulled from the Windows Phone Store.

Online woes

At first glance, i might recall Big Buck Hunter Pro had been pulled due to its Money-Up online mode. Money-Up is supposed to permit players to create a network account that gets shared between this game and the arcade version, or admission their existing arcade account. Sadly, the feature is one-hundred percentage broken, equally the game can never connect to the online server needed to make it piece of work.

Withal, Coin-Upwards mode is a relatively minor feature and unlikely to result in excessive customer dissatisfaction. Besides, the trouble seems to stem from cutting-charge per unit WP7 Xbox Alive backend servers. These servers afflict a number of Xbox Windows Phone games from multiple developers, including Carcassonne, Battleship, Gun Bros, Contract Killer, and Crackdown two: Project Sunburst. Until Microsoft rectifies those server problems, online features just won't work right in Windows Telephone games.

Update: I successfully continued to Coin-Up mode after posting this article. It seems that if the 'username' (a 10-digit numerical value) you cull for yourself has already been taken, you'll receive a vague fault. Try a different username and see if that works.

No hunting for Lumia 920 and HTC 8X owners

The existent boom in Big Buck Hunter Pro's coffin stems from its incompatibility with Windows Telephone viii. The game plays fine on Windows Phone 7 devices, other than some devices experiencing frame rate issues. Booting information technology up on a Windows Telephone 8 handset and yous'd think information technology worked fine at that place too, until you tried to actually start a level. At that point, information technology hangs on a loading screen, never to recover.

Considering that Windows Phone eight has just launched, the last thing Microsoft wants is for players to selection upward a game listed in the new releases and find information technology broken. Thus, it seems they pulled information technology until the problem can be stock-still.

We should note that a handful of other Xbox Windows Telephone 7 titles don't play nicely with WP8 either. Dodonpachi Maximum doesn't work at all, Shoot 1UP crashes intermittently, and Bullet Aviary runs at twice the intended speed. It will be interesting to run across whether these games go pulled besides. Since they're not equally new as Big Buck Hunter Pro, they may merely go quietly patched without a fuss.

The game itself

Big Buck Hunter Pro is a faithful port of the popular arcade gun game. Gameplay modes include Single Trek, three Trek Adventure, and Bonus But. Each trek contains five curt levels taking place at a real-life American hunting location. The object inside a level is to shoot its three male animals while avoiding whatever females. Bonus Only mode contains six (often humorous) minigames which would usually be plant at the end of each trek. For more than details, bank check out our total review.

Hunting flavor to reopen soon

We've reached out to Microsoft and developer Merge Interactive for comment on when the game will return to the Windows Phone Store. Don't worry, virtual hunters; it should be back before you know information technology.

Thanks to Mark Tepper for the tip!

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