19. Gun (2005) – GC
This Western game has got a stellar cast of voice actors including Thomas Jane, Lance Henrikson (who clearly has way too much fun as the bad guy), Kris Kristofferson, Brad Dourif, Ron Perlman, and Tom Skerritt. It’s a real pleasure just to have all this talent together in one project.
The story of Gun is simple. Colton White is kicking ass and taking names on the trail of the men who killed his father. Along the way he meets Thomas Magruder, a railway baron who is convinced that a native legend about a city of gold is true. This antagonist will stop at nothing to find the map that will lead him there, and, inevitably, Colton becomes involved.
The game world is truly epic. You start out in the woods learning to hunt, but you eventually make your way to one of the landscape’s two large urban centers. In these towns there are saloons, laundromats, Sherriff Offices, general stores, and everything else you can imagine. You can play poker, pick fights, take on jobs such as deputy or errand boy, and you will have an opportunity to become intimately involved in the towns’ political affairs and struggles. You will help finish the construct of a bridge spanning a great canyon, you will protect the voyage of a stagecoach, and run cattle. If some of these plots sound familiar, then you, like me, have seen the movies that inspired these sequences: Red River (1948), Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), My Darling Clementine (1946), etc. Gun is a terrific homage to these great Westerns, and there is no limit to the fun that can be had reliving some of these iconic moments.
There are a lot more regions to explore in the canyons, forests, rivers, mountains, and caverns that populate the area between the two main cities. My only complaint is that, eventually, you run out of things to do. I would have liked to stick around a little longer.
This Western game has got a stellar cast of voice actors including Thomas Jane, Lance Henrikson (who clearly has way too much fun as the bad guy), Kris Kristofferson, Brad Dourif, Ron Perlman, and Tom Skerritt. It’s a real pleasure just to have all this talent together in one project.
The story of Gun is simple. Colton White is kicking ass and taking names on the trail of the men who killed his father. Along the way he meets Thomas Magruder, a railway baron who is convinced that a native legend about a city of gold is true. This antagonist will stop at nothing to find the map that will lead him there, and, inevitably, Colton becomes involved.
The game world is truly epic. You start out in the woods learning to hunt, but you eventually make your way to one of the landscape’s two large urban centers. In these towns there are saloons, laundromats, Sherriff Offices, general stores, and everything else you can imagine. You can play poker, pick fights, take on jobs such as deputy or errand boy, and you will have an opportunity to become intimately involved in the towns’ political affairs and struggles. You will help finish the construct of a bridge spanning a great canyon, you will protect the voyage of a stagecoach, and run cattle. If some of these plots sound familiar, then you, like me, have seen the movies that inspired these sequences: Red River (1948), Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), My Darling Clementine (1946), etc. Gun is a terrific homage to these great Westerns, and there is no limit to the fun that can be had reliving some of these iconic moments.
There are a lot more regions to explore in the canyons, forests, rivers, mountains, and caverns that populate the area between the two main cities. My only complaint is that, eventually, you run out of things to do. I would have liked to stick around a little longer.
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