A free roaming shoot 'em up, based in the New Mexico in the late 1800s. It's a tale of brutality, betrayal and greed, it's not a game for the faint hearted, as a lot of the things you can do are very gory. You can journey on horseback throughout the game as you attempt to avenge Ned's death and eliminate your enemies.
I love this game, it's got amazing graphics and a great storyline, although it was incredibly short. Because of the storyline being so short, you can't really establish a great admiration towards the game. Plus I don't like the idea how the natives are seen as savages & blood-thirsty (well that's how I thought they were portrayed on the game). Plus I am disappointed to see there were no multi-player games or chance to replay the side missions once you've completed them and you can heal your health by just drinking what i thought was quite weird (i wish i knew what it was he was drinking). Plus the controls are more or less the same as any other 3rd person shooter.
~Story~ Written by Randall Jahnson, who also wrote 'The Mask of Zoro', with a lot of twists, turns & betrayal as you journey through the lawless Wild West with Colton White, who encounters an evil preacher, a law breaking mayor, a brutal renegade, brave resistance force, fierce outlaws and forceful natives.
You play as Colton White, who is on a steamboat with his father, Ned (who brought him up in the wilderness hunting animals) you see a preacher kill his fathers lady friend, because she wouldn't tell him about an object he is looking for and then he orders an ambush. Colton fought a number of them off alongside his father, but he is told that he wasn't his father and that he has to see Jenny in Dodge City, then Ned pushed Colton off the steamboat to save him.
Colton awoke 3 days later when a man called honest Tom tells him no one survived who was on the steamboat. He teaches him how to ride horses and offers to give him a one if he beats him in a race. But, when he does he and his friends attempt to kill him, but Colton fights them off and journeys to Dodge.
Once in Dodge Colton saves Jenny from a gang, in the Alabama saloon, who attempt to torch it after he kills the leader's brother. The sheriff sees him fight off the gang and offers him a job; he has to fight off the natives so the Chinese builders can finish building the bridge out of Dodge.
On from then on you can journey throughout the game, meeting new and interesting characters and learn that he was related to an Apache, join a resistance force against the Sheriff of Empire, break out of jail, escape from a renegade fort alongside natives, raid a city, find out that the cross leads them to gold and much more.
~Main Characters~ Colton White This is your character, he has been growing up in the wilderness with his father Ned, he taught him how to hunt and stalk wild animals. He and his father are on a steamboat when he sees the vicar kill his fathers lady friend, and then it is raided by 'white savages,' Colton jumps off the steamboat after Ned told him he wasn't his father, while Ned fought to his death. He then journeys into the City in order to avenge his father's death and find out what the vicar was searching for.
Thomas Magruder He is a former civil general in the Confederate army during the civil war, who owns trains, railroads, land and mine sites all across New Mexico. A brutal, powerful man who is determined to complete his mission during the civil war, to recover a Christian cross, which you later find out, tells him where to find vast amount of gold.
Hoodoo Brown He uses his power as mayor of Empire city to eliminate anybody he dislikes. He makes you constable but you find out he's a murderer you eliminate his right hand men, he throws you in jail and you and the other members of the resistance attempt to overthrow Empire City and kill him in the process.
Hollister A man who disappeared in the civil war, reappeared along with his followers in a fort in the North. He is a man feared by many, with a bear skin over his back, and with his followers carrying out his orders, the people who get in his way are brutally seen to, as you will see in his fort.
~Features & Graphics~ *Weapons With 10 guns in all, (4 pistols, 2 rifles, 2 Shotguns & 2 sharpshooters) plus you can even get bows with either normal, lit or exploding arrows and a number of swords and axes to carry out close combat attacks, and dynamite and whisky bombs.
*Side Missions Along with doing the main quest, you can complete a selection of side missions. -Bounty Hunter, you have to capture or kill a selection of wanted men -Poker, you play other westerners at poker at 6 different levels -Hunt, you have to trap down and kill different animals including, wolves and buffalo with a bow and arrow -Ranger, you help the ranger round up his cattle on horse back -Pony Express, you have to deliver messages on horse back before the time runs out. -Mining, small mines sites are located throughout the game, which you can mine with a pickaxe -Federal Marshall-Help the Federal Marshall of Empire and Pat Denton to catch or kill a gang of troublemakers
*Graphics The graphics are truly amazing (although sometimes very brutal and bloody). It features a number of well designed animals such as, wolves, buffalo, horses, bears, quail, mountain lion, wild dogs and many others. Also with detailed scenery, it offers an awesome background as you travel through the game through mountains, plains, cities and rivers. At times though I think the graphics are to detailed, e.g. you can shoot people limbs off, slit their throats and scalp them, what I thought was a bit to much when you hear them scream and their blood fly out of them.
*Sound It doesn't offer anything truly remarkable; there are great lengths in the game in which you can only hear your horse galloping. The voices I believe aren't either anything amazing and I do dislike it when the natives are just screaming as they run at you and you can hear blood curdling shrieks if you scalp anyone.~Other info~
GUN (PS2)
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