Is Call of Juarez Gunslinger Best Western Game ever made?

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

Hello,

So my friend. peoples are really talking about western games today due to RDR2 delay and announcement but something goes in my mind that lets talk about which is the best wild west game?

In my opinion its no other than Call of Juarez Gunslinger

The game feel like old school arcade shooter but in western setting. it has excellent gameplay and shooting mechanics. the storytelling is awesome and very max payne style.

It took mediocre series and turn into something great. previous games were trash and this game is great.

imo its better than red dead redemption. when red dead redemption focus more on open world, travelling, horse riding from point A to point B, boring cow hearding missions. this game focus on a great gameplay where you shoot the crap out of bandits.

so my dear friends? is it best wild west game ever?

Discuss.

 

[Cette]

Honestly I kind of agree with this one. The shooting was fantastic, the presentation of the story was incredibly well handled and the atmosphere was so thick you could chew it.

Probably the best use of an unreliable narrator I've seen in a game as well. That rendition of Oh Death he meanders into at one point is hauntingly sung.

Some of the duels were a ***** and a half though.

 

[WolfThomas]

It was a good game yeah. But personally I think GUN was the best western game ever made.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Red Dead Redemption and GUN are better. But Gunslinger is right up there in the top three. I must have played through it 10 times by now. The thing about westerns is that it's not just about guns and shooting. It's about the setting as a whole. And that's where open world games like RDR and GUN have a big advantage. Too bad that GUN was rushed back in the day. It was supposed to be a lot bigger and a lot better. But Activision wanted it to be an Xbox 360 launch title.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

In terms of gunslinging, then yeah, Gunslinger handily beats any competition I've played. Didn't play GUN, so can't judge.

Red Dead Redemption has it beat in overall 'spaghetti western' feel tho, despite only having gunplay that is just serviceable.

I also have a soft spot in my heart for Outlaws. It's dated as all hell, but it did pioneer the fps into the frontier that is the Wild West. Also, the soundtrack is still outstanding.

 

[Dalisclock]

In terms of gunslinging, then yeah, Gunslinger handily beats any competition I've played. Didn't play GUN, so can't judge.

Red Dead Redemption has it beat in overall 'spaghetti western' feel tho, despite only having gunplay that is just serviceable.

I also have a soft spot in my heart for Outlaws. It's dated as all hell, but it did pioneer the fps into the frontier that is the Wild West. Also, the soundtrack is still outstanding.

Someone else who remembers outlaws. Now I want to play it again.

I do remember enjoying Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. Well, except for the stupid forced duels which got obnoxiously difficult and made no sense from a story standpoint half the time.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I'm surprised to see others praising GUN in this thread. I remember having a ton of fun with it back when it came out but also that it wasn't particularly well received critically. I was a lot younger at the time and maybe my rose colored glasses are on but I remember it being pretty solid and fun.

Interestingly RDR never did it for me. I probably went into it expecting the wrong thing honestly. Rockstar games don't really resonate with me and RDR is definitely a Rockstar game in the same vein as GTA. I'd like to give it another shot but alas, it never came to PC and I'm not about to go and buy a new 360 version.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

I still like GUN and omg I just saw it's available on Steam and GOG. Hot damn I know what I'm buying tonight.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

Red Dead Redemption and GUN are better. But Gunslinger is right up there in the top three. I must have played through it 10 times by now. The thing about westerns is that it's not just about guns and shooting. It's about the setting as a whole. And that's where open world games like RDR and GUN have a big advantage. Too bad that GUN was rushed back in the day. It was supposed to be a lot bigger and a lot better. But Activision wanted it to be an Xbox 360 launch title.

Ugh. I played it on the og Xbox and loved it. It's stupid that they couldn't just release it later if they really needed it on 360. It's not like anyone had one at that point anyways and this game wouldn't have likely been a system seller either.

I wanted to buy it off GOG to reminisce but have a tough time justifying $20 price tag for a digital copy of a game that old, no matter how good I remember it being.

I might just have to check out CoJ: Gunslinger.

 

[wings012]

Played this fairly recently.

I found Gunslinger fun I suppose, but rather repetitive. Also not fond of the duels. I am judging it just as a first person shooter as opposed to specifically a western game.

Can't really do much about the repetition I suppose, considering the guns you have to work with. But semi auto head shotting things with revolver or rifle gets old after a while. I did go dual wielding quickshooters after I got bored of that. But it's kinda a linear shooting gallery after another and it gets super old real fast.

It's also pretty short.

I did enjoy the world unfolding and warping based on the narration. Playing through the same scenario twice based on the different narrators was fairly novel.

I had my fun but give me a month or two and I'm going to forget I ever played this.

 

[DaCosta]

No. It is a great game, but what do you know, turns out there is more to westerns than just shooting people, and that's why RDR has to be acknowledged as a better western.

Also, the storytelling is nothing like Max Payne, unless your definition for that is just "It's a game and the main character narrates it".

 

[Kyrian007]

I also have a soft spot in my heart for Outlaws. It's dated as all hell, but it did pioneer the fps into the frontier that is the Wild West. Also, the soundtrack is still outstanding.

Yeah, nothing western is better than Outlaws to me. And that soundtrack was available on the Outlaws disc in CD format... an excellent feature. I use it as mood music in my tabletop Deadlands games.

And speaking of Deadlands, another Western I enjoyed is Hard West. It is the most Deadlands like video game I've ever found. Its an iso, with an interesting story and some pretty cool weapons. Like the Gatling, Gatling pistol which is a gatling pistol made of rotating gatling pistols.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Like the Gatling, Gatling pistol which is a gatling pistol made of rotating gatling pistols.

That sounds awesomely impractical ... or maybe impractically awesome. You wouldn't happen to have an image of that lying around, would you?

 

[Leg End]

Best? Probably not. One of the best? Yes. Fun as fuck? Also yes. How many games do you know actually call out and make a joke out of you killing five men with four shots from two double barrel shotguns? Sadly I can't find the WebM I have of the scene itself and YouTube doesn't have it by itself.

Like the Gatling, Gatling pistol which is a gatling pistol made of rotating gatling pistols.

I second Chimpzy and request an image in the name of the kube.

 

[maninahat]

I do enjoy Gunslinger. My only gripe is that it needed more kinds of guns. Just three kinds of pistols? Really? Not even the volcanic guns?

 

[Danbo Jambo]

I do remember enjoying Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. Well, except for the stupid forced duels which got obnoxiously difficult and made no sense from a story standpoint half the time.

Yeah, Bound in Blood was brilliant IMO. It had a really great feel to it, and is vastly underated. Ray McCall is such a great character.

 

[TrulyBritish]

Is it the best? Err, from a technical stand point probably not as it's super repetitive and fairly basic as shooters go.
it is however the one I've enjoyed the most, I'll more happily replay Gunslinger again (just did, actually, few days ago) than, say, RDR.