Red Dead Revolver / YMMV

Awesome Music: The soundtrack is exceptionally good. Especially the main theme, the music from the 'Hell Pass' and 'Ugly Streetfight' levels, and the brassy theme from the end of 'Range War'.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Ladies and gentlemen, Red will now take a break from bounty hunting to massacre an army of short circus clowns with a Gatling gun...mix it up a little.
Complete Monster:
- Governor Griffon is the Small-Town Tyrant of Brimstone, a man who slimed into his current position by betraying his best friend Nate Harlow and his entire family to the murderous General Diego. Griffon bankrolls Diego's bloody slavery operation in the gold mines of Bear Mountain so he can profit in turn, and incites a war between the Black Elk tribe and the Red Wolf tribe that sees the latter driven off their sacred land and almost exterminated. Griffon rules the town of Brimstone with an iron fist, employing scalp-collecting psychos and sending them to terrorize and murder whomever he can't bribe into service, as well as setting up an annual Battle Royale that he always rigs in favor of his chosen gunslinger Mr. Kelley. Griffon even murdered a barber once for the slight of nicking him with his razor. Responsible for the ruination of countless lives, when Nate's son Red finally corners Griffon seeking revenge for the death of his parents, Griffon merely mocks him: "I always regretted what happened on your daddy's farm, Red. I should have been there...to make sure you joined them!"
- General Javier Diego is a rogue Mexican military officer who has taken to a life of crime. Introduced slaughtering a small army of U.S. troops for trying to halt his smuggling outfit, Diego is tempted by the conniving Griffon to throw in together on a plot to mine the gold out of Bear Mountain. Murdering Griffon's former business partner and his wife, Diego begins a brutal mining operation on Bear Mountain in which he routinely kills off caravans of innocent people, then enslaves the few survivors to work hard labor lest they be executed. Diego further works with Griffon in arming the vicious Black Elk tribe so that they will wage bloody war on the peaceful Red Wolf tribe, leaving no one to stand in Diego's way of defiling the sacred ground of Bear Mountain and stripping it of all its resources.
- "The Cemetery" mission: Mr. N. Black is the creepy undertaker of the town of Tarnation, a Ghost Town whose entire population mysteriously vanished or abruptly died, including Jebid(i)ah Cole's sister. The truth is that Mr. Black and his gang wiped out Tarnation's population, using the town as a trap to bury alive unfortunate victims, unearthing them only after they expire so he can rob them of their valuables. Mr. Black has filled a graveyard with dozens of unfortunate stiffs, and he may even mow down his own men during his boss battle.
Game-Breaker:
- Jack Swift's deadeye special combined with pistols akimbo becomes this in multiplayer mode.
- Cooper is this in duel mod. His barrel essentially functions as armour, forcing anyone up against him to go for a headshot.
- The Scorpion Revolver, unlocked after beating the game on normal difficulty or higher, is the single best weapon in the game. With maximum damage and accuracy, a fast reload speed, and a solid medium range.
- Bounty Mode mostly just unlocks Showdown Mode characters, but there are a few cheats in there for good measure. The most game breaking two are the rewards for defeating Mr Kelley and Governor Griffon in under a minute. The former nets you infinite Dead Eye, while the latter unlocks invincibility. Like the Scorpion Revolver, though, these are only of use in a New Game Plus.
Good Bad Bugs: Most of them in multiplayer, thanks to the single-player mechanics not accounting for all the possible eventualities.
- Lots of enemies have a special melee attack where they lift you above their head, hold you for a second and then throw you. If they get killed at any point during this, you stay floating in mid-air and are then thrown as if nothing had happened.
- Anyone who gets killed by a shotgun will get blasted back several metres. In multiplayer, you can randomly get hold of a burning shotgun - and if someone hit by it later burns to death, they'll get blasted away in a random direction too!
One-Scene Wonder:
- Besides Red, all of the different playable characters are only usable for one level.
- Some of the quirkier multiplayer characters, such as Cooper and Manny Quinn, don't even appear in single player.
Sequel Displacement: This game is much less known than its sequel. Calling the third game Red Dead Redemption 2 became a Fandom-Enraging Misconception, until its title was revealed to be just that.
That One Boss:
- Mr. Kelly, since he uses the crowd to prevent you from shooting him.
- Pig Josh is something of a Wake-Up Call Boss. You can only hurt him if you catch him by surprise. If he sees you, he charges right at you, deceptively quickly and blows you up at close range. Even taking high ground won't save you from the blast. Forget about using the Gatling gun, as mobility is the key here.
- Professor Perry can cause problems for some players due to his teleportation and the fact he can throw waves of little people at you. Jack's Dead Eye ability, considered a Game-Breaker in multiplayer, isn't even much use until late into the fight because he can dodge it stupidly quickly.
That One Level: The flashback mission where you play as General Diego has caused many a player to throw the controller across the room in frustration. You're bombarded with waves of enemy, artillery and the end of the mission as an Escort Mission where you need to keep a pair of sappers alive long enough to destroy the bridge. Oh, and the level has no checkpoints.
- The Bounty Hunter objective for "Siege" which wouldn't be too difficult (keep Jack's health above 50%) if not for the fact that Annie keeps getting in the way and dying whilst you're trying to cover Jack.
- The Bounty Hunter objective for "Bear Mountain" requires Shadow Wolf to reach the source of the river undetected. Unfortunately, the game's stealth mechanics are minimal and, while Shadow Wolf is armed with a bow, it won't guarantee a One-Hit Kill unless you have the Bite The Bullet cheat active and enemies can spot you quite quickly.
Underused Game Mechanic: The ability to mount horses is only available in three levels, one of which is entirely optional (and uses buffalo instead). This is likely due to technical limitations of such small levels. The sequels would remedy this by being Wide Open Sandboxes.

YMMV / Red Dead Revolver

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