GUN (Xbox)

The lowdown:
Swap the cars for horses, San Andreas for the big country and a Uzi for a good old six shooter and suddenly GTA becomes GUN. It's not quite that exact a copy though: the story missions are much more important here, with the side quests proving to be fairly short lived, and there's relatively little reward available for exploring the game world. The actual business of gun fighting and horse riding looks and feels great, with accurate, intuitive controls and surprisingly violent showdowns. Grand Theft Auto is a better game and Red Dead Revolver is a better Western, but this is still a decent effort at navigating a path between the two.Most exciting moment:
Failing to take care of business in a horseback gunfight, then using your dead mount for cover!

Since you ask:
Developers Neversoft are the same studio behind the Tony Hawk's games - as you might have guessed from the familiar looking combo messages.

The bottom line:
Doesn't quite reach its full potential but a fun cowboy simulator all the same.
Harrison Dent

First things first, yes the old cliche, it is GTA in the days of cowboys and indians.

Presentation - Gun is very well presented. From the opening scenes you can tell that the game is going to run on a good story. Loading screens take a abit of time from the main menu but once the game is actually loaded they are non existant

Graphics - Xbox pulls this off well. The landscapes are vast and distant. The viewing distance is pretty far so you can see rocks and valleys from a good distance without noticable clipping. The player models are well detailed, with some nice cigar smoke effects from some of the customers. I do have a slight gripe that i wish there was some more detail in the game. Where the landscapes are big, they could use a little more detail along with the town buildings as well.

Sound - Excellent soundtrack, sounds like its being ripped straight from a major hollywood movie. The game has a good supporting cast with the likes of Lance Henrikson (aliens,the quick and the dead), Ron Pearlman (alien resurrection, hellboy) and tom skerritt (alien) hmmmm am i sensing a cast theme here?
The general sound effects sound great also.

Gameplay - Gun plays fairly well, the controls are not too difficult to handle and the horse riding is very simplistic. Actually using your rifle while riding could of proven to be very difficult, but the controls in the game make it pretty straight forward with a good decent difficulty curve to master. The missions in the game a pretty varied however they do pretty much involve shooting folk.

Last Appeal - Gun isnt that difficult a game to complete. With the side missions on offer such as ransoms, helping towns folk, marhsal duty, card games and extras like finding gold mines to dig, it should keep you going for a while. I cant help feel though that the developers could of added more stuff in this game. Perhaps a little more variety in missions and a more missions itself would be good. I dont think the game would take most folk more than a week or 2 to complete and once done there isnt really much more to go back for.

Overall View
The game does good, it has enough for those that are looking something abit more different that driving around streets completing missions (which there seems to be alot around). gun is good, and just about that.


Brilliant- if you like great graphics, story, shooting   January 6, 2006
 4 out of 5 found this review helpful

The best ever cowboy console game. An epic story with every spaghetti western cliche and brilliant voice acting. Your helping the indians take over a fort one minute with fire arrows, doing jobs for the pony express and then playing poker. Gun has breathtaking landscapes and highly enjoyable boss battles. And with the side missions, the gold mining and the different difficulty missions to do Gun has excellent replay value. The horse riding flows when you master it and is something beautiful when you master shooting on your horse. The unlockables are great too with two amazing guns and a wicked horse. If you do not like extreme violence this is not for you. But if you like explosions blowing people to pieces, firing arrows into people's faces , burning bandits, dismembering badguys with shotguns, popping people's heads with snipers oh yeah and all the violence to animals. horses get blown apart as well as humans. So to summarise an excellent game with story mind blowing visuals and dismembered horses.


Good, but too short!!!!!!!!!!   November 27, 2005
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Just quick review for all you would be buyers of Gun. -Bad news, It's far to short -Good news It's a great game, very atmoshperic and good story with great graphics and great gameplay. Great sattisfaction in dismembering bad cowboys heads and limbs(how sick)and is a great shooter game. It would still be in my collection but was completed far too early, if the story was double the size Gun would of been a great classic in my collection. Oh well i can now get suck into Warriors which seems pretty cool and will no dought have hours of story to play knowing rockstars reputation! Buy Gun for your collection when it goes for under a tenner or you might be dissapointed by it's value for money.....