Gun (2005) (VG)

Writer:

Randall Jahnson (writer)

Release Date:

8 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Western

Tagline:

Experience The Brutality Greed And Lust That Was The West.

Plot:

Gun takes gamers to the untamed West of the late-1800s where greed, lust and murder are rampant.

Plot Keywords:

Shot In The Head | Bandit | Cigar Smoking | Sin | Tomahawk

Cast

Thomas Jane	...	Colton White (voice)
Kris Kristofferson	...	Ned White (voice)
Lance Henriksen	...	Thomas MacGruder (voice)
Brad Dourif	...	Reverend Josiah Reed (voice)
Ron Perlman	...	Mayor Hoodoo Brown (voice)
Tom Skerritt	...	Clay Allison (voice)
Eric Schweig	...	Many Wounds, Fights-At-Dawn (voice)
Jay Tavare	...	Stone Hand, Native American 2 (voice)
Myrton Running Wolf	...	Native American 1 (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Jenny (voice)
Dave Wittenberg	...	Soapy Jennings (voice)
Jim Connor	...	Campbell (voice)
Marc Graue	...	Hollister, Additional Voices (voice)
Bryce Johnson	...	Port, Additional Voices (voice)
Frank Collison	...	Honest Tom, Additional Voices (voice)

Country:

USA

Language:

French | German | Italian | Spanish | English

Color:

Color

Certification:

New Zealand:R16 | UK:18 | USA:M

Company:

Neversoft Entertainment

Trivia:

The game features a number of characters whose names are taken from real-life Old West figures, including Clay Allison, Jose Chavez y Chavez, "Hoodoo" Brown, Dave Rudabaugh, John Joshua (J.J.) Webb, and Luke Short as well as Major Thomas Magruder who may have been based off of John Bankhead Magruder.

Goofs:

Factual errors: One of the guns in the game is a 1887 Winchester lever action shotgun. The game takes place in 1880. The gun wasn't invented yet.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Colton White: [voice-over] Montana, 1880. My name is Colton White. My father and I hunt game for the riverboats coming up the Missouri. It's not a bad living, if you can stand getting kicked awake every dawn.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Sopranos: Luxury Lounge (#6.7)" (2006)

competently made and reasonably fun while it lasts, but too short

Anyone who has seen their fair share of Westerns will know everything that's going to happen in the game plot-wise and even when it's gong to happen. However the game's still fun to play (while it lasts, as it's on the short side. It's also the smallest 'sandbox' type game I've played. 'sandbox' being a go almost anywhere right from the start type of game akin to GTA, True Crime, Saint's Row, Etc...etc.. While the longevity and small nature of the game might be detrimental to this game, the great musical score and brilliant voice acting make it worth playing. The 360 version, of which i rented, is much more of a direct port and certainly didn't take hold of the massive potential that the system is clearly capable of. And the achievements which require you to play through the entire game no less then 4 times (??!!?) can grow quite tiresome indeed. But since I did get 1000/1000 it's still pretty doable.

Positives: Voice acting, story, musical score

Negatives: short, small area to explore

My Grade: C

My current 360 Gamerscore: 32822 out of a possible 49760