Experience the brutality, greed and lust that was the west.
- NA release: 8th November 2005
- EU release: 25th November 2005
- JP release: N/A
- Developer: Neversoft
- Publisher: Activision
- NGC Magazine Score: 62%
- Mods Used: None
In 2004, Red Dead Revolver was released on PlayStation 2 and Xbox, but skipped the GameCube. It was a linear action game with a western theme. It was decent, and became the main game to compare Gun to. In many ways, Gun feels more like a prequel to Red Dead Redemption than Red Dead Revolver does, as it features an open world.
The world consists of two towns, with plenty of landscape in the middle. It’s quite a nice world that isn’t overly large, and also manages to work in a way where parts of the level are suited to each mission, instead of missions that take place within a static open world.
Your character is thrust into a revenge plot when a steamboat is attacked and his adoptee father is killed. It’s a nice story with some good twists and characters, although it does sometimes feel like parts have been cut. There’s one point where someone betrays you and someone mocks you for being strung along and tricked, but you only just met him two minutes earlier and this is your first mission for him.
The gameplay itself is a fun third person shooter. You earn new weapons throughout the game but always have access to your pistols – pressing the B button will activate a first person slow motion “deadshot” mode where you can lock on to enemies to take them lot swiftly.
While it’s fun for the most part, a few bosses are utterly brutal, taking an immense amount of damage (luckily your pistols have infinite ammo). There’s one fight which can take 20 minutes or constantly shooing at them to kill, and if they run away, they’ll heal themselves. It’s also a fairly short game and there aren’t a lot of side missions, but at least there’s plenty of variety in the missions.
Fun
Neversoft should get back to what they do best: geriatric blokes sliding down railings on a surfboard with wheels. Gun is the kind of idea that probably sounded great on paper but that ends up making frontier America seem like a dull place to be indeed.
Mark Green, NGC Magazine #114
Remake or remaster?
A remaster would be good.
Official Ways to get the game
The PC version of Gun is available on Steam.
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