It looks fantastic, it’s fun to play, and it has the benefit of only costing fifteen bucks. Though technically little more than a Team Fortress 2 clone, only with revolvers and Gatling guns instead of rocket launchers and sentry guns, Lead and Gold is a solid multiplayer title. You could shoot demons with a repeater rifle or revolver, or when the occasion called for it, use an array of vampiric powers earned by either being a saint or being a callous, evil jackass. There probably weren’t vampires roaming about the deserts in the mid-1800s (as far as we know), but historical inaccuracies aside, Darkwatch’s supernatural take on the Wild West made for a unique hybrid of Western-era gunplay and magical powers.
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Ridiculously violent and full of bloody shootouts, swearing and whores being stabbed in the back of the head with hatchets, Gun created a whole new sandbox world for gamers to explore and terrorize however they saw fit. Grand Theft Auto clones are a dime-a-dozen, but Gun managed to stand out amongst the impersonators with its Wild West theme and a taste for outlandish depravity that would make even Tommy Vercetti blush in shame. Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption (sequel to Red Dead Revolver) is redefining the public’s perception of Cowboys and Indians, and is arguably the very best in the genre, but make sure you catch up on the slew of excellent rootin’-tootin’ titles that came before it. Though developers still seem to favor bald space marines and laser guns over six-shooters and ten gallon hats, a number of Wild West-themed games have definitely made their mark over the years. That’s not to suggest that video games haven’t previously embraced the Western genre. After all, with its penchant for anarchy, unchecked violence, duels on the street, prostitutes, gambling, and rampant alcoholism the Western setting seems like a perfect home for an industry that’s produced the likes of Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row. Mark Fuji takes us on a trip through the old west with the top ten western games not called Red Dead Redemption.įor some inexplicable reason, the untamed frontier of the Wild West is a territory seldom explored by video games.
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