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Gun may refer to:

* [[GunsAndGunplayTropes The firearm]].

* 2010 action film ''Film/{{Gun}}'', starring FiftyCent.

* Short story by PhilipKDick "The Gun".

* 2010 action film ''Gun'', starring FiftyCent.

* Anthology television series ''Gun''.

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->''When life robs Colton White of all that matters, the only thing he can trust is his '''GUN'''.''

A WideOpenSandbox {{Western}} ThirdPersonShooter.

Colton "Cole" White lives a life of a MountainMan 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 MultiPlatform release for {{Playstation 2}}, {{Gamecube}}, {{Xbox}}, {{Xbox 360}} and {{PC}}. It also got an UpdatedRerelease on {{PSP}} as ''Gun: Showdown''.

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!!Has the examples of:

* HundredPercentCompletion: Easier to get than a lot of games of this type.
* ActionGirl: Jenny.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Your clothes change as you progress through the game. You get your final set by completing all the hunting missions.
* TheArcher: You get to use bows.
** Plus [[ArrowsOnFire flaming arrows]] and [[StuffBlowingUp dynamite arrows]].
* TheAtoner: Ned.
* AwesomeButImpractical: 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.
* AwesomeYetPractical: 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 [[AnArmAndALeg arms and legs off]].
* AnAxeToGrind: An axe is your second melee weapon.
** Well, one of them anyway. You also get a Bowie Knife, and a Cavalry Saber.
* BaldOfEvil: Dutchie.
* BarBrawl: One breaks out when you visit Alhambra saloon for the first time.
* BeardOfEvil: Magruder.
* BigNo
* BlingBlingBang: Hoodoo Brown's engraved Colt Peacemaker revolvers. You get them once you defeat him.
* BoardingParty: You get your first taste of gunfight action when the Renegades attack the Steamboat you're on.
* BondOneLiner
* BraggingRightsReward: After finishing the game 100%, you get the most powerful shotgun and an armored steed.
* BulletTime: The Quickdraw mechanic.
* CattleDrive: One of the side missions.
* ChineseLaborer
* ColdBloodedTorture: Done to Clay when Hoodoo's men capture him.
** Soapy Jennings also got his share of torture.
* CoolHorse: "Reverend" Josiah Reed has one badass-looking horse. Which you can get by the way.
* CoverDrop: The picture on the cover is actually Magruder's logo of some sort.
* DestinationDefenestration
* DidNotDoTheResearch: The game is stated by Colt to take place in 1880, but, according to Clay, takes place ten years after the AmericanCivilWar ended, which is not an accurate date. Also, see WritersCannotDoMath
* DirtyCop: Hoodoo's deputies who in fact are the rather famous outlaws J.J. Webbs and Dave Rudabaugh.
* DisposableSexWorker: [[spoiler: Jenny.]]
* TheDragon: Josiah Reed appears to be Magruder's Dragon in the beginning but the title belongs to Dutchie.
* EarAche: Magruder orders his [[TheDragon Dragon]] to cut Reed's ear off as a punishment when he fails to bring [[spoiler: the missing piece from the cross of Coronado]] to him.
* EscortMission: All the time...
* EvenEvilHasStandards: 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.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The tutorial ends with a fight against a bear.
* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: Wolves are common enemies in the side missions.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: There are guns and you get to shoot with them too!
* ExplodingBarrels
* EyepatchOfPower: Magruder.
* FacialMarkings: Both Indians and Renegades use them.
* FakeOutOpening: 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.
* FlayingAlive: 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, [[RuleOfCool it's just cool]].
* FrontierDoctor: Cambpell.
* GatlingGood: There are plenty gatling guns.
* {{Greed}}: Magruder's motivation.
* GrievousBottleyHarm
* GroinAttack: One of the wanted outlaws is a chick who castrated someone.
* GunsAkimbo
* TheGunslinger: Colton.
* HalfBreed: Colton.
* HarderThanHard: The Insane -difficulty.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Clay Allison, Chavey Y Chavez, Dave Rudabaugh, J.J. Webb and Hoodoo Brown all existed in reality.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Jenny and Sadie.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Drinking Whiskey fixes all injuries.
* ILikeSwords: Cavalry sword is one of the melee weapons you can get.
** The best one, in fact.
* InjunCountry
* IronicNickname: "Honest" Tom.
* KnifeNut: Knife is your starter melee weapon.
* MeatShield: You are able to do this to disoriented foes.
* MoeGreeneSpecial: How Magruder lost his eye.
* MolotovCocktail: Here they are known as Whiskey Bombs.
* MoneyForNothing
* MountainMan: Ned.
* NewGamePlus: Available as a cheat when you have finished the game.
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: Ned's reaction [[spoiler: when he witnessed the Apache village massacre by Major Magruder]].
* OneWordTitle
* PistolWhipping: Ned is shown whacking Renegades with his rifle when runs out of bullets at the end of the steamboat battle.
* PlotHole: Clay's information about when he believed Ned to have been killed, combined with [[spoiler: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.
* PonyExpressRider: One of your side jobs.
* PrisonEpisode: This game has two of them.
* PyroManiac: Toby "The Torch", the former mayor of Dodge City.
* QuickNip: You carry a flask of whiskey which can recover some of your health whenever you drink from it.
* RailroadBaron: Magruder.
* {{Rancher}}: One of your side jobs.
* RareGuns: The Ferguson Rifle and the Nock Gun.
* LaResistance
* TheRemnant : Colonel Hollister and his army can be considered this.
* TheRustler: One of the enemy types you get to fight.
* TheSheriff: Both Dodge City and Empire City have one, and both give you deputy missions where you have to clean the town yourself.
* ShootTheRope: You must rescue Soapy this way.
* SinisterMinister: Josiah Reed, one mean bastard who fancies himself a man of god... while ruthlessly murdering innocent people.
* SlashedThroat
* SNKBoss: Magruder.
* SpaceCompression
* SuperDrowningSkills
* TakeMyHand
* TakingYouWithMe: When defeated, Colonel Hollister puts a few dynamite sticks into his wounds and attempts to blow you up.
* TokenRomance: Subverted. Though Colt sleeps with Jenny early on and there seems to be chemistry between them, [[spoiler: Reed slits her throat less than halfway into the game.]]
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: 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.
* WantedPoster: You can start {{bounty hunter}} missions by examining these.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Literally every single challenge and obstacle in this game is overcome by shooting it.
* WritersCannotDoMath: 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. [[FridgeLogic No more than a few seconds of thinking about this]] should make it clear what is wrong with that statement.
* TheWildWest

* HundredPercentCompletion