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Fading Footsteps
Fading Footsteps is a little-known 'wolf simulator' along the lines of Sanctuary Wood's Wolf, but it is a far inferior game (and thus deserves its unknown status).
Billed as one of the entries in a short-lived series of computer games starring wolves (the others were simple puzzle-like games), Fading Footsteps was supposedly '. . . designed to both entertain and educate children about the life cycle of North American wolves'. Part of the proceeds from the game's sales went to Defenders of Wildlife's efforts to save Yellowstone's wolves from their most recent human assault. Unfortunately, despite its noble purpose, the game is far inferior to Wolf. The player controls a wolf trying to survive in the wild, throughout its life cycle. As in Wolf, you must use your 'wolf senses' and 'sense of smell' to survive as you search for food, water and safety. The game features a 3D perspective that allows you to see the action right behind your wolf, as well as many animals, such as grizzly bears, raccoons and squirrels. The game also includes an interactive encyclopedia full of interesting information about North American wolves. Despite the strong similarities, the gameplay of Fading Footsteps is nowhere near as fun as Wolf, mostly due to a confusing and cumbersome interface, dull graphics, and a general lack of interesting events. While the 3D engine should help the game be more immersive than Wolf, which uses 2D graphics, the result is the opposite: you often won't be able to tell trees from forests or meadows from mountains, as everything in the game looks very green, with little detail or variety. Wolf's 2D graphics are much prettier, and the animations of the various events much more realistic. Even the various features that are present in Fading Footsteps but absent in Wolf are either inscrutable or useless. You can, for example, tell your wolf to 'attack' or 'defend' using various formations, but what you choose will have little impact on the outcome of the hunt. It's a shame that Fading Footsteps didn't get what it should be: an improved version of Wolf. The more you play this game, the more you'll realize how much better Wolf and Lion are, and why they remain the best games of their kind. Another missed opportunity in an intriguing and underrepresented genre of 'life simulation'.
