Gun

"What a wild ride."

What an awesome game. The story line is solid, the graphics amazing, and the guns historically realistic.

When you think of the old west, you might think of cowboys herding cows and sitting round a fire singing Kumbayah. But let me tell you that you are in for a surprise in this wild west shootout.

You start off as just a common hunter, but with practice and skill upgrades you can increase your efficiency in no time.

The ability to increase your stats come up as side-missions. You can choose the side-mission from being a bounty-hunter to keeping the peace in the city to winning the cards tournament. From these missions you can earn money to buy additional upgrades to your guns.

Also as you progress through the main missions you will gain additional guns from the bosses. You can have a pistol, a shotgun, a rifle, a bow, a sniper and some TNT.

In some of the missions you have to keep up with a certain enemy, or make sure to protect your comrade's health. Your friends and allies often have a HP counter in the left side of the screen. Be sure to take a second to check your friends health. Other wise you'll have to do the mission over again.

The bosses can be a bit challenging so you want to be sure that you accomplish all side-missions possible to keep your stats up.

In the game you get the full experience of being a wild cowboy who doesn't need to follow the rules. If you want to kill somebody, go ahead, just make sure you have enough bullets to take care of them.

The reason this game is rated M is because it contains many curse words ranging in vulgerness and in the game there are many direct references to prostitutes and sex.

This game is incredible. I would give it a perfect ten but since I play games in a family environment I cannot have such words and references in my presence.
All around a good game. Be sure to check with your parents before you purchase. And if you play this game in a public area be sure to have the volume down.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 01/23/06