Bang bang, for the buck, worth it but not the best

User Rating: 7.7 | Call of Juarez PC
I must say that this game is new in the FPS kingdom as a FPWPS (First Person Western Puzzler Shooter) So lets break down this new genre, FPS is the basis of this genre meaning that it is mainly like any other FPS ever made. Now, lets take the puzzler aspect (which is what Half Life 2 brought to the table) put it in the western environment and give Gordon Freeman a bible and a voice, and you have Call of Juarez.

Graphics are so-so and the setting are interesting as hell.

The game auto defaulted to LOW for my machine which meets recommended standards and it looked nice I must say. I decided to up the graphics up to medium and everything went to craps. HDR was out the window and texture was up! I decided to finally revert the settings since the lighting makes the appeal much better than having a full 3d bush. Sounds is above average but definitely not the best. Voice acting is so-so but the scoring is superb. VA can lag from the responses making them seem to be a little bit slow in the head.

Now about the gameplay and the story about the bible in the game. You play two main characters, Billy a boy who is enthralled in finding gold and slutty women. And then there is Reverand Ray... He's kinda screwed up in the head and thanks his way to serve a higher purpose is to kill everyone he perseves to be EVIL!

Ultimately the game adds new aspects like using a whip and having to swing across a canyon by putting the whip on a tree limb and swinging over. It also has a few goodies like CONCENTRATION mode where two cross hairs will appear in bullet time and you get to line up your targets to kill each of them within a second. It is above the recent crap that has attacked the PC and helps along but with more work this type of game could be your next Game of the Year in 2009...