Gun (2005) (VG)

Writer:

Randall Jahnson (writer)

Release Date:

8 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Western

Tagline:

Experience The Brutality Greed And Lust That Was The West.

Plot:

Gun takes gamers to the untamed West of the late-1800s where greed, lust and murder are rampant.

Plot Keywords:

Lust | Steamboat | West | Murder | Greed

Cast

Thomas Jane	...	Colton White (voice)
Kris Kristofferson	...	Ned White (voice)
Lance Henriksen	...	Thomas MacGruder (voice)
Brad Dourif	...	Reverend Josiah Reed (voice)
Ron Perlman	...	Mayor Hoodoo Brown (voice)
Tom Skerritt	...	Clay Allison (voice)
Eric Schweig	...	Many Wounds / Fights-At-Dawn (voice)
Jay Tavare	...	Stone Hand / Native American 2 (voice)
Myrton Running Wolf	...	Native American 1 (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Jenny (voice)
Dave Wittenberg	...	Soapy Jennings (voice)
Jim Connor	...	Campbell (voice)
Marc Graue	...	Hollister / Additional Voices (voice)
Bryce Johnson	...	Port / Additional Voices (voice)
Frank Collison	...	Honest Tom / Additional Voices (voice)

Country:

USA

Language:

French | German | Italian | Spanish | English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

USA:M | UK:18 | New Zealand:R16

Company:

Neversoft Entertainment

Trivia:

The game features a number of characters whose names are taken from real-life Old West figures, including Clay Allison, Jose Chavez y Chavez, "Hoodoo" Brown, Dave Rudabaugh, John Joshua (J.J.) Webb, and Luke Short as well as Major Thomas Magruder who may have been based off of John Bankhead Magruder.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Clay and Colton are on the train going to the mining fort, they begin to shovel coal into the furnace to make the train go faster. They dig their shovels into were the coal is, the sound of coal getting scooped is heard, yet when they move the shovel from the coal holder to the furnace, there is not one bit of coal on the shovels.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Colton White: [voice-over] Montana, 1880. My name is Colton White. My father and I hunt game for the riverboats coming up the Missouri. It's not a bad living, if you can stand getting kicked awake every dawn.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Sopranos: Luxury Lounge (#6.7)" (2006)

The West Is Fun!

In this game, you play as Colton White, who's getting revenge for all the times he got screwed over. You can do the story missions. This is really fun. This game has one of the best story lines I've saw in a game. This has a better storyline than some movies. The story has many unexpected events, and the cut scenes are great. The story is short, but you don't have to do the missions if you don't want to. Eventually, you'll have to do the story mode missions if you want to advance to another area or unlock more side missions. Side missions are awesome! You can play poker, do bounty hunter missions, go hunting, and more! But you'll eventually run out of side missions that are cool, and be stuck delivering mail for a measly 10 dollars on the Pony Express. Not as exciting as traveling through the west on a random horse looking for a wanted group of men who have prices on their heads worth 30 dollars, is it? With the side missions, weapons, and great storyline, Gun is definitely one to buy. The only downside is that veteran gamers may think it's too easy and short. I'm not a veteran gamer, and I can't beat the final boss, so who cares? I liked this game. Rental for veterans, buy for medium gamers.