History VideoGame / CallOfJuarezGunslinger

** Without Forgiveness is a thinly-veiled reference to Film/{{Unforgiven}}

* ShoutOut: Plenty to classic western stories, but a handful of the chapter titles in particular reference some famous western movies:
** Once Upon A Time In Stinking Springs references Film/{{OnceUponATimeInTheWest}}

** The chapters "They Call Me Bounty Hunter" and "Bounty Hunter is STILL My Name" directly reference the Film/{{Trinity}} movies.

** "Dances with Renegades" references "DancesWithWolves".

* MadeOfIron: Curly Bill, Emmett Dalton, and Sundance Kid are fought as traditional FPS bosses, requiring more than 3 dozen pistol shots to kill as they run around and shoot at you. This is Gameplay and Story Integration in the case of Emmett Dalton, who really did survive being shot 23 times.

** [[spoiler: The ghosts in the ghost town. Were they actual ghosts, hallucinations (guilt-triggered?) that really happened to Silas, or just something he totally made-up?]]

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Silas suddenly stops his over the top, almost fantastical story of hunting Gray Wolf and goes on a determined, almost frightening reciting of an old poem on death. [[spoiler:This is because he realizes at that exact moment (in retrospect to what Gray Wolf had said to him) that Ben/Bob is the person that Gray Wolf said will cause him to lose his soul if Silas kills him.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: In the Revenge ending, Silas gets his revenge on Bob at long last, but admits that he has willingly sold his soul for the chance and considers himself hell bound, recognizing that he failed to heed Gray Wolf's warnings and advice to not succumb to the poison of his rage and is beyond redemption, having become no better then the men he sought to kill through his long life of death begetting more and more death.]]

* [[spoiler:VengeanceFeelsEmpty: What Silas realizes in the Revenge ending.]]

* {{Expy}}: Silas Greaves is based on [[Film/DollarsTrilogy The Man with No Name]].

* MasterOfNone: The Sixshooter. Intended to be the middle ground between the killing power of the Ranger and the rapid-fire Quickshooter, in practice using means getting neither the Ranger's near-guaranteed {{One Hit Kill}}s and the Quickshooter's combo-extending speed-reloads.

* WorfHadTheFlu: It's repeatedly mentioned that John Wesley Hardin was widely considered the fastest gunslinger who had ever lived, alongside Wild Bill Hickok. Silas admits he was only able to defeat Hardin because he was drunk off his ass at the time. Indeed, in the duel itself you're not really expected to outdraw Hardin, but are instead given the ability to lean left and right to dodge his bullets.

** Not a title reference, but Jessie James bears a strong resemblance to BradPitt, who played him in ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord''.

** Not a title reference, but Jessie James bears a strong resemblance to BradPitt, who played him in TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord.

* FramingDevice: The story takes the form of Silas Greaves recounting some old stories during his bounty hunter days to some bar patrons.

* NarrativeBackpedaling: All over the place.

** The final chapter, The Good, The Bad, And The Dead would be familiar to almost everyone even remotely familiar with the western genre, TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly being one of the single most famous western movies of all time.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: By the end of the game Silas realizes that he isn’t much better than the men he’s hunting and probably has killed even more people.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The entire Grey Wolf mission. There's several supernatural events that happen throughout it, and dreams that detail events that happen decades later into Silas' life. It's left ambiguous if Grey Wolf was really supernatural, and was warning Silas of what he might become, or if he was a part of Silas' imagination.

* NewGamePlus: Unlocked when you beat the game one time. The New Game + makes you play the story again but you retain your skills, the unique weapons unlocked, and the Nuggets of Truth already discovered. All three default difficulty modes are available. The New Game + doesn't add any artificial difficulty compaired to the regular game in the chosen difficulty level, but if you start in the lowest difficulty level, the game will strongly advices you (at the beginning and at the end of the first level) to play in a higher difficulty mode.

* GhostTown: One of the levels takes place in one, complete with [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane ghost enemies!]]

* HeavilyArmoredMook: Jesse James' gang includes one or two shotgunners wearing makeshift iron armor (seemingly based on the suits worn by Ned Kelly's gang). It takes several bodyshots to kill them, but a good headshot or two will still take care of them.
* HeroWorshipper: Dwight

** During the comic book-style cutscene introducing the Dalton Brothers, there is a line saying that they shouldn't be confused [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke with their cousins]]. During the same chapter, the Nugget of True about the Dalton Brothers makes another similar reference to ''Lucky Luke''.

* BeenThereShapedHistory[=/=]HeroKiller: Over the course of the game, Silas claims to have fought against (and soundly beaten) pretty much every major gunslinger from the Old West, including John Wesley Hardin, the Cowboys, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. [[spoiler: The impressionable teenager he's telling the story to also turns out to be Creator/DwightDEisenhower.]]

* HeavilyArmoredMook: Jesse Jame's gang includes one or two shotgunners wearing makeshift iron armor (seemingly based on the suits worn by Ned Kelly's gang). It takes several bodyshots to kill them, but a good headshot or two will still take care of them.

* BountyHunter: [[CaptainObvious Silas Greaves]]

** There's even a Nugget of Truth about Ray [=McCall=], one of the protagonists of the first game.

The fourth game in the ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' series, announced in September 2012 and released on May 22, 2013. The setting is the Old West again, but the gameplay is less plot-driven and veer away from free exploration towards [[ShootEmUp arcade-like shooting sequences]]. The story stars bounty hunter Silas Greaves as he recounts some of his old adventures to bar patrons.

* {{Expy}}: Silas Greaves is based on [[TheDollarsTrilogy The Man With No Name]].

* ElaborateEqualsEffective: The legendary weapons are all very, ''very'' ornate.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Silas apparently thinks highly about Bob Ollinger's double barrel, as it's the only weapon to get its own introductory cutscene. In-game, they suffer from [[ShortRangeShotgun lack of range]] and poor magazine capacity.