Posted on: June 9, 2020
polysquirrel
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A cliche spaghetti western
Whether it's good or bad depends on your taste. While gritty, dark and violent, it's less 'The Wild Bunch' and more the original 'Django' with Franco Nero. For a shooter, the story is certainly at least servicable and should be possible to enjoy without the cringing when in the right mood. Graphically, for a game over a decade old, it still holds. It certainly isn't pretty, but that's the reason: it's the desolate world and simple mexican architecture which is a bleak setting, and it suits the story. The character models certainly are much better than anything from that time period and don't have a 'retro' feel. What however makes o break a shooter is always the mechanics. The game offers here many new, sometimes cool, features, such as quick shooting by fanning the analog stick (hey, the game was developed for consoles!), bows, lasso and of course duels. Last but not least, it has a very good and very natural cover system, which makes you realistically crouch behind anything you can find and stick only your weapon out, barely seeing what you are shooting. Having slow to reload weapons with small bullet capacities offers a change of pace, as you'll spend every second you can spare and many you can't frantically reloading. I deeply enjoyed the first half of the game, as it constantly varied the environment and ticked many 'classic western experience' boxes, but it eventually overstayed its welcome, and that's even before the ridiculous final boss fight. The problem for me was that it is the epitome of a 'shooting gallery'; a slave to the story-driven approach, most of the time I was running behind the second brother completely lost in the chaos. There are some (mostly optional) segments where you have more freedom of movement and at least a sliver of choice of the approach (the last plot location is good for one), but overall it very vividly reminded me of live action shooters from the nineties such as 'Mad Dog McCree' and 'Bounty Hunter'.
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