Outlaws + A Handful of Missions (Classic, 1997)

Don't be a fool marshall! haha I play this game when i was a child and i have a loot of good memories playing outlaws on my first computer, a pentium 200mhz lol good old times. Thanks gog for this version of this epic game, awesome, JUST BUY IT! :)

I didn't know how good a game this early could be. I've played some janky classics which were fine but difficult to love. But someone put a LOT of work into this, especially for the time, and this is about as polished as a 90s FPS gets without having the name Doom. The graphics are charmingly retro, but there is a surprising amount of content here. Lots of weapons, tools, things to see. The animated cutscenes have top notch voice acting. The music is Spaghetti Western bliss! It boils down to a key hunt but there's boss battles too and loads of enemies that are fun to chase and shoot and dodge. There's some niceties you won't get (no FOV, no graphics adjustment, no mouse wheel weapons swap) but there's other things I wish more games had. You can by default reload as fast as you can click with the right button! Feel very authentically Western to me. You can jump, you can crouch, you can climb. It's all a satisfying if primitive 3D with a painterly/comic book style. Great fun, great classic story, great action! Happy customer.

The only thing I wished like to say is 'thank you GOG for distributing the Game' in it's very knewn and aliked addons included. So, playing on Win8.1 64bit is a fun as it should. I resheduled this game to be as heavy to be as Blood is but in the level of difficulty 'Good' it is awesome easy playable for a nice fun. Without preamble thank you GOG for the extra levels included :-)

I don't often post recommending products (or post much these days anyway :s ) but I saw this (tweaked for Windows 7/8 x64) game on a recent sale at GOG and could not press the "Add to Cart" button fast enough. Made by LucasArts back when Windows 98 was the new thing and people were fearful 1ghz CPUs would rip a hole in the universe, it was a game that chewed through plenty of mine and my best friend's time. Unlike other 3D shooters where you were tasked with shooting everything that moved in order to save the entire human race by yourself - Outlaws was a story about an retired ex-marshal in the late 1800s losing his family and out for revenge against impossible odds. Yes, if you were a fan of cowboy western movies like "Unforgiven" (and who isn't?) you would love the story, told throughout each mission and the beautiful hand drawn cut-scenes in-between. Or you could ignore the heartfelt story and just do the Historic Missions, collecting bounties on famous outlaws. The level design was well thought out, and although my friend played more strategic and I was more gun-ho relying on luck, both of us would have to use stealth (and the "crouch" key for the first time ever) to get through. In a change from other popular shooters at the time - a single man running into town, guns blazing, against a hundred paid armed mercenaries would actually be out of ammo and dead in seconds. Instead what you would be doing to survive would be: hiding behind barrels, diving behind tables/chairs/saloon bars, jumping out of smashed windows, catching enemies in crossfire, throwing cigar lit dynamite through doorways, using boiler plates as armour, digging holes to sneak into buildings, and always, always, listening for footsteps and taunts ("You're a fool, Marshal!") to work out where your hunting enemies are (accidentally strolling into room full of them tends to reduce your survival rate to zero). Oh, and you had to reload one bullet/cartridge at at time. That's right, as a change of pace, and as automatics weren't used back then, in the midst of impossible odds with certain death getting closer and closer, you'd be fumbling trying to put bullets into your six-shooter before one of the enemies turns around the corner. After almost 20 years since release, the graphics, although awesome at the time, are obviously nowhere near any modern game, but the fresh cowboy western theme combined with the amazing music score gave me no issues getting immersed and having fun (and also shedding some tears: "Why did he have to leave to go to the store that day? Why, why? <sniff, sniff> I shall avenge you!"). 10/10 I heartily recommend this event or product.

"Outlaws" is one of the greatest Western games of all time. Before you think this is just another DOOM clone (which most of those are good anyways), you should not judge a book by it's cover. The story is simple, and I won't give anything away. You play as James Anderson (a very simple name) who was a former Marshal, who must gun down the outlaws that took his daughter, and did another awful thing to your family. On your way, you will find a variety of rifles, shotguns, and tools to help you get to and save your daughter. The game is hard on the second difficulty, so I recommend playing it on "Good" for the first time, or if you're just looking for some fun shooting at outlaws in the Old West. The main story is made into about nine levels, only eight having a boss, or outlaw, that you must beat in order to proceed to the next level. And after each level, there is an aminated cutscene that shows the story, and makes you feel like you're watching some old Disney movie. You will be a variety of environments that are well-made, and the graphics are really that bad for a game made in 1997. The layout of the levels may confuse modern gamers, but there are walkthroughs to help guide your way if you really are stumped by the level design. There are some simple puzzles that don't require too much thought, so don't worry about that. With "A Handful of Missions" you get a few more extra levels to continue after you beat the main game, which will take a few more hours of your time. I give this game a five star rating for simple reasons. The story is actually good and everything about the game makes you feel like you're a viligante bringing justice to the Old West. I found myself playing this games for hours, and probably will still go back to it every now and then. If you're looking for a good shooting game with a good story, and fun gameplay and can handle the old graphics, then "Outlaws + A Handful of Missions" is a heaven for you to play every now and then like me.