When life robs Colton White of all that matters, the only thing he can trust is his GUN.
A Wide Open SandboxWesternThird Person Shooter.Colton "Cole" White lives a life of a Mountain Man with his father Ned. However, after a routine hunting mission, he encounters man named Reed at a river steamboat where he and Ned sell their game. Reed leads an attack on the ship with help of the local Renegades and just before Colton falls overboard, Ned tells him a startling truth: He isn't Colton's father, and there's a small treasure waiting for him.After recovering, Colton sets out to find Reed for some good ol' revenge. He ends up crossing paths with Magruder, Reed's boss, who has closer ties to Colton's past than he knows.GUN was a Multi Platform release for Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PC. It also got an Updated Rerelease on PSP as Gun: Showdown.
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100% Completion: Easier to get than a lot of games of this type.
Awesome, but Impractical: The Nock Gun and the Cannon Nock Gun. Sure, they're ridiculously powerful weapons, but the only way to get them is to beat the main missions (for the Nock Gun) and all the side missions (for the Cannon Nock Gun), at which point, the only use for them is to wipe out towns or take out random bandit attacks which occur from time to time.
There is an easter egg that lets you replay earlier levels with your advanced weapons and skills once you've finished the game. Playing the first few levels with the Nock Gun, the Ferguson and full quick-draw skills is fun, but no challenge at all.
Awesome yet Practical: The Ferguson Rifle. Sure, it only has a one round capacity, but by the time you get it, you can reload quickly enough for that not to matter. Plus, it has plenty of stopping power. Enough to take arms and legs off.
Even Evil Has Standards: Despite looking like Rob Zombie's great grandfather returned from the dead, and being a little Axe Crazy, Sergeant Hollister is a pretty accommodating host when he captures Colton and Soapy. Offering them drinks and even some captured Indian women. Granted he's doing this while he tries to figure out whether or not to KILL them and gut their corpses. But still, can't say he's not a gracious host.
Fake Out Opening: First thing you see when you start the game are Conquistadores wandering in a desert.
Fingore: Magruder shoots two of Soapy's fingers off when he is interrogating him.
Flaying Alive: After buying a certain item you'll be able to scalp your downed opponents if they are still alive. It doesn't net you anything, it's just cool.
Pistol Whipping: Ned is shown whacking Renegades with his rifle when he runs out of bullets at the end of the steamboat battle.
Plot Hole: Clay's information about when he believed Ned to have been killed, combined with Colt being an infant that Ned found during this incident means that Colt cannot possibly be older than 12 years old.
Made even worse by the fact that Colt mentions via a flashback that around a dozen years prior to the game, he was attacked and almost killed by a cougar.
Taking You with Me: When defeated, Colonel Hollister puts a few dynamite sticks into his wounds and attempts to blow you up.
Token Romance: Subverted. Though Colt sleeps with Jenny early on and there seems to be chemistry between them, Reed slits her throat less than halfway into the game.
Two Shots From Behind The Bar: After Jenny is taken hostage at the Alhambra Saloon, the bartender unlocks a cabinet behind the bar and pulls out what appears to be a rifle. However, after the cutscene ends he actually uses a pistol instead.
Video Game Cruelty Potential: The Dynamite Arrows have this in spades. Hit a civilian with one and they'll run away (the standard reaction to being attacked); a few seconds later, *BOOM*. Except for prostitutes, who will run towards you in an attempt to knife you, so only attack them from a safe distance.
Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Go around murdering civilians, and a "Town Patience" meter will pop up. If that meter drops to zero, then the town's militia will start coming after you.
When All You Have Is a Hammer: Literally every single challenge and obstacle in this game is overcome by shooting it.
Writers Cannot Do Math: According to Clay, Ned was nearly killed in an incident during the Civil War, during which Ned found Colt, as a baby, ten years prior to the start of the game. No more than a few seconds of thinking about this should make it clear what is wrong with that statement.
Though, it does explain why everyone refers to Colt as "kid".
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