GUN™

This was on of the first Games on the XBOX 360. In fact, it is a small version of Red Dead Redemption. Nice little open world game, graphics are ok and aged well. It is definitely worth your time. BUT: what about that price? 20$????? Thats way to much. This is actually a really short game. You can play trough it in one day and then it will sit on the shelf for a long while. I would grab it for 5$ ASAP but not for 20.

This game is really great, but charging £13.89 for it is absolutely insane. Lower the price guys, you'll make more money in the long run trust me :)

I have a soft spot in my heart for this game so this review is probably a tad biased. Having played and loved Outlaws way back in the day, I'd been waiting years for another good western video game and along came GUN. I bought it and gave it a shot despite reading the (mostly) negative reviews. It's not fantastic. It's not amazing. It's not even overly large for an open world game. In fact, most of the in-game missions have you walk across the street to complete them, and the one long journey mission towards the beginning of the game where you 'open up the rest of the map' has you leaving one town and running this long circuitous gauntlet of enemies, finally making it to the far town. After you complete that, you learn that the two towns are almost next door to each other and there's literally a straight shot path between the two that takes about 30 seconds to cross. What GUN is, is... fun. I enjoyed the slow-mo quick draw mechanic. I enjoyed the gambling for money to buy upgrades and weapons. I enjoyed the upgrades and the weapons because they definitely made a difference to the gameplay. The story was somewhat derivative but serviceable. The characters were somewhat archetypical but passable. I just mostly enjoyed the western setting. The graphics at the time did it justice and it was nice to ride around on horses through canyons, fields, and streams. Given the nature of the story I entered it feeling like the music should be Man with No Name Ennio Morricone but instead found it was Dances With Wolves John Barry, but even that I eventually came to accept as fitting for the game's atmosphere. In all, given the extreme dearth of the Western Genre in video games, there was enough going on in GUN to provide a fun, engaging experience. I've since gone back and played it twice more, and have started it up and just ridden around on numerous occasions. For some reason I could never get into Red Dead Redemption. Just not a console person I guess. If they ever came out with a GUN2 I would buy it in a heartbeat, but clearly this will not happen. Here's hoping RDR2 is more engaging for me than the first one. Till then, I'm going to buy this, download it, and ride around the west some more.

Gun is a lot of fun, but you're probably going to blow through it in one or two sittings. It has an entertaining story, the gameplay, especially the gunplay, is very solid. The map is small but has a few towns with enough people to keep them entertaining while you work through the story. I enjoyed Gun, I had it for the PS2 and I have it now through Steam, but I can't recommend an 11 year old game for $20.