Not the end all of gaming glory,but fun nontheless

User Rating: 6.9 | Gun X360
By DarthChristian | Review Date:
Gun is a refreshing game by the shear fact that you get to play a real western game, not as a Samurai in the west or any other silly gimmick. Just think back to when you were eight years old, and you and your friends are in the backyard playing Cowboys and Indians. Essentially thats what this game is. I enjoyed galloping though the old western towns like Dodge City and Empire, I really got that feel as if I was in a very authentic world. You realy can't help but feel like a cowboy as you're riding through the very dusty and crooked streets in these towns and walk into a Saloon with your six shooter on your side, very cool.
The graphics aren't going to wow anyone, and this is the 360 version so I can't even imagine what the PS2 version looks like. The character models are sorta generic, there's a little more definition in the clothes and faces than you will see in a lot of other games out there, but your realy not going to notice or care for the most part after about a minute into the game. The backgrounds are pretty solid, nothing in the world is rendered so there's no pop up when ever you're traveling around on horseback so thats pretty cool.
The sound is decent, the gunfire is reminescant of just about every Wild West movie you've ever heard. The horses ring through accuratly. The hoves sound changes as you move onto diffrent surfaces, that adds athentication to the environment. But were the sound realy stands out at is the voice acting. Neversoft sparred no expense to bring in some very good Hollywood talent for this game. The standout performences are Thomas Jane (the Punisher) who plays your lead protagonist Colton White, and Kris Kristofferson (Whistler-Blade 3 and a ton of other movies) who plays Colton's father, and a slew of other veterain actors who realy set the story off and brings you into the game better.
Gameplay is fairly simple. My favorate feature is the quick draw mode that you have with your regular pistol. This mode slows the game down while in fisrt person mode in order togive you a more acurate shot. Basically it's like bullet time-just without the sumersaults. One thing that realy hindered gameplay for me is it took two button pressess to switch between various weapons. In intensce fire fights that got so fustrating. Riding the horses, well...if you've played just about any other Neversoft game more specifically any Tony Hawk game it will become like second nature to you very early on. The only exception being there's no ollies or kickflips but you get the drift.
I realy didn't have that much expectation for this game, but once I realy started to play this I got cought up in how fun this is, especially if you like westerns. For anyone looking for a descent rental should pick this up. But if you strap on your spurs and six shooter to get your herd some grub and bittles at the General Store, before riding out over yonder, this one is for you.

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