Wild west: a detailed evaluation of the gunman's game

Game name: Wild West: Gunner

English name: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Game type: first-person shooter (FPS) game

Game production: Techland

Game release: Ubisoft

Game platform: multi-platform

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Summary: Before we talk about the Wild West, let's review a kind of game with a long history, which will be familiar to many gamers over a certain age. This kind of game is the light gun shooting game.

From Duck Shooting, Police Shooting, Wild Gunner and Mr. Crocodile on FC to Resident Evil: Ghosts Under Guns series, Crisis Resolution series, House of the Dead series on PS mainframe, and all kinds of large-scale light gun games in arcade halls (mostly called "video game shops").

As a branch of FPS, the light gun shooting game has not been accepted by the mainstream platform game market, so at present, there is only one series of "Flames of War" left on the console and PC game platform.

So what's the similarity between Wild West: The Gunner and the light gun shooting game? In fact, this game is a tribute to light gun shooting to a certain extent. Although the skin of the game is still the first-person shooting, we can see the shadow of light gun shooting in many aspects.

The biggest difference between FPS and light gun shooting game is not the different shooting methods (FPS can see the gun in the player's hand, while light gun shooting can only see one sight), but in FPS, players can voluntary movement, and in the face of enemy players, they can adopt different fighting strategies or even avoid fighting directly to advance the process of the game.

In the light gun shooting game, it is different. The light gun shooting adopts the concept of "clear version". In the battle, both the enemy and the enemy are confined to a fixed scene. In this scene, the freedom of the player's activities is not high, and all enemies in front of him need to be eliminated before going to the next level.

What's the matter? Do you feel the similarities between Wild West: Gunmen and light gun shooting?

In this game, what the player has to do is "advance-encounter the enemy-hide-kill the enemy-advance", and the enemy is also like that in the standard light gun shooting game, with fierce firepower and accurate marksmanship but intelligence (like to hide behind the oil drum and shoot at you), often shooting two shots and then hiding and constantly switching bunkers ...

1. Introduction to the game-8.5 points

The latest work of the series "Call of Juarez: Gunslinger" developed by Techland and released by Ubisoft has been confirmed to be released on XBLA, PSN and PC platforms on May 22nd, 213, with the game price of $14.99/1,2 Microsoft points.

From the dust in the gold mine to the teasing in the bar, Call of Juarez Gunslinger is a game that truly pays tribute to the wild western stories and times.

When justice is used to buy and sell, it's about who draws a gun faster, and how freedom and justice will exist.

in the game, the player plays the legendary bounty hunter Silas Greaves, which is different from the previous series "Wild West: Drug Lord" to the contemporary time background, and "Wild West: Gunner" returns to the series time setting, and the game has a lot of RPG upgrade elements based on points.

The game is full of unforgettable adventures with the most notorious figures in the west, such as Pat Garret, Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, which blurs the line between reality and fantasy.

Wild West: Gunmen takes players to experience the legendary life in the ancient west. It's time to solve all this!

Summary: The story of "Wild West: Gunmen" is told in flashback. The legendary bounty hunter played by the player came to the bar and boasted to the audience that he was brave and invincible in those days, and how to overthrow the whole town with one shot.

Therefore, there are two effects at the end of each level in the game. The first one is that the hero boasted in the bar that he shot the enemies in the head handsomely during the bullet time, but in fact he was knocked down by the enemy and then entered the next level.

All kinds of situations make the whole game look like American humor. The flashback game is not novel, but it also has a unique flavor.

2. Game screen-8 points

This game also uses cartoon rendering style screen (the game engine is still based on Chrome engine), and the FPS rendered by cartoon always gives people the feeling of cartoon, which can also cover up the sawtooth and detail defects on the overall screen of the game.

Although it is a cartoon rendering, the style of European and American cartoons is beyond words. Extensive use of particle special effects, including particles, objects, smoke volume, sparks, blood and environmental effects.

From the smoke curling after the ceasefire of firearms to the smoke cloud effect after the explosion of smoke bombs, as well as the performance of smoke and fog on some geodetic maps, it is vividly reflected by cartoon rendering.

A large number of explosion scenes in the game are not only the diffusion of male hormones, but also the flooding. The maximum firepower output is matched with the minimum brain capacity.

Different character types, powerful guns and ammunition, endless bullets pouring, incessant shooting, explosion and explosion, which makes people excited. It seems that everything can be exploded.

In the mindless but still gluttonous feast, the shadow of the golden age of action movies can be vaguely seen in the flying artillery and ammunition.

The map scene in the game is not large, but the terrain changes quite frequently (which is also a few characteristics of the light gun shooting game). From a crowded town full of the flavor of the times to a dark prison to the terrain of forests and lakes, I went to the house for a while, climbed the mountain for a while, and held my ground in a wooden house for a while. The scene description pays great attention to details and vividly renders the flavor of that era.

The lighting effect is also good. The bullet feast in the sun, strong blood and dazzling sunshine, red and yellow, make the overall color of the game so bright.

The disadvantage is that the detailed mapping and texture are not very fine, and the surface vegetation texture pattern, clothes wrinkles, people's cortex, facial expressions, real gun texture and other multi-texture fusion are not as good as those 3A masterpieces, but considering that it is a small download game (XBLA and PSN), the overall performance is still excellent.

3. Game music/sound effects-8 points

When it comes to American westerns, people will think of such a scene: those western rangers who look like "modern knights" ride horses to a bar, habitually have a glass of whisky with ice first, and then they go outside the bar together and fight with guns according to their "rules".

In the end, a cowboy fell down, and another cowboy with a good marksmanship became the winner and rode away. American western culture is greatly influenced by European culture, but its unique humanistic environment also endows it with a wild and unique lonely style.

Listen carefully to the music in this work. It is this style that has strong regional characteristics of the western United States and vividly shows the boldness of cowboys. Free and easy, gentle and affectionate riding heroic posture, or bright rhythm makes people excited, or slow rhythm makes people thoughtful, or humorous makes people smile.

The sound effect is quite satisfactory, and there is not much bright spot. The sound of guns, shouts and footsteps in the exchange of fire between Jinshi and Jinshi are similar to those in most shooting games.

conclusion: in my spare time, it is very warm to appreciate these gentle and lonely music, which floats like silk.

iv. Game operation-8 points

standard FPS operation mode, running, jumping and squatting, and a lot of QTE, as well as the setting of bullet time (the bullet time slot is in the upper left corner of the screen, which increases with the player's killing and being hit, so it is unnecessary to count the bullet time after starting) and fast dodge.

It's a good blow. With the blood of a large group and the different force feedback from the enemy, players can enjoy it directly. As mentioned above, there are explosives such as oil drums everywhere in the urban environment. Find these items first, and then shoot them directly when the enemy comes, while enjoying the flying corpses and waiting for extra points.

Summary: Because this game is different from the traditional FPS, it is more difficult to get started. There are a lot of enemies and fierce firepower. Going forward blindly is to kill yourself. Being good at finding bunkers and detours is the king, or you can play this game as a TPS of the first-person shooting template ...

V. Game style and system-7.5 points

There are three modes of the game. They are: story mode, arcade mode and duel challenge. In the game, you will get different experiences according to different ways of killing the enemy. Ordinary killing is +5, distant/headshot killing is +1, and distant headshot killing is +15. At the same time, there are special killing and serial killing rewards.

Experience is used to upgrade skills points, skills points are used to upgrade skills to unlock weapons skills, and so on, which can make players shoot more enjoyable. Of course, there are a lot of collectible items to gain extra experience.

Dueling system has different opinions. Personally, I think it is somewhat novel (handle operation). It is also the dueling system that makes this game stand out from many FPS, but it is mandatory and difficult, which easily makes players feel bored and frustrated.

there is no COOP in story mode, but there is no cooperation between two people in arcade mode, which greatly reduces the playability of the game!

conclusion: basically, everyone is familiar with the upgrade of unlocking skills, and the duel mode is benevolent and wise, which is hard to be used as a bonus point.

attachment: list of all light gun shooting games on FC

Simulator can be played, and light gun can be replaced by mouse pointer.

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