It only takes one foray into Hunt: Showdown's bayou to realise that, as the kiddies (who definitely don't play this game) say, it 'just hits different.' Unless you have the cruel misfortune of making your Hunt debut on a night map, the scene that greets you is pretty, idyllic even, in that distinctly rural American kind of way. The sun is bouncing off the tin roof of a distant farmstead, before which stands a rickety little windmill, lazily rotating in the breeze. It's a fair distance away, but a golden cornfield should help keep you covered as you approach.
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