Comments on: It’s for you, Juarez: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

By: Bidermaier

Bidermaier — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:40:32 +0000

I got that game with an Ati graphic card and i finished in two days.
I loved that the final boss looked like Hitler.

By: Ado

Ado — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:01:44 +0000

I guess you’re right, I’m just a fanboy and want everthing possible to do with Firefly. I do like The ‘Verse that they have created too though, it’s a nice mix of sci-fi and western which just feels very good.

Also, I had heard of the MMO but I agree that it seems very unlikley to ever happen. Nice idea but I’d rather have another series or another couple of films…

By: Muzman

Muzman — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:48:46 +0000

Ah, I get ya. Cheers. (I’d love a game where you can do a proper John Woo 180 angle. A little difficult to impliment in first person though, for obvious reasons).
This game does look cool (the old one anyway). Makes me want to chuck on ’3:10 to Yuma’

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:36:41 +0000

@ Muzman: If you read the review Gillen links he sort of goes into that.

When you draw your pistols, you’ll get a slow-motion thing but your pistols comes out in an arc as you bring them around to dead centre. You CAN, however, still move that arc and see where your pistols are pointing. So it’s possible to draw your pistols in 4 or 5 guys and with swift, precise adjustment of where your right and left guns are aiming, take them out before the slow-mo bit ends.

…

I think I made it sound clunky.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1kaDnu5vwDM&feature=related

At the 1:40(ish) and 3:50(ish) marks there it shows what I mean. It’s good fun. :)

By: Muzman

Muzman — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:26:35 +0000

A-Scale says:
Everyone should play CoJ, if only for the AMAZINGLY well done dual pistol fights

Really? What’s so good about them? Can you do stuff like shoot in different directions perhaps? (I’ve often wished for that in a game)

By: Nuyan

Nuyan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:05:52 +0000

“Mexico is in Australia”

Hah, you bastards.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:50:59 +0000

Preaching with one hand and shotgunning the dazed listeners with the other was a nice touch.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:27:21 +0000

Call of Juarez was a very fun, very creative game and I am super excited to hear they are going the good route and putting out a second one! Everyone should play CoJ, if only for the AMAZINGLY well done dual pistol fights, and the hilarious accents. It felt genuinely like playing a book. A very fun, if slightly flawed, adventure book.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:23:04 +0000

All I can say is Yay! One of the few recent(ish) linear shooters that riveted me from start to finish.

By: N

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:05:56 +0000

Dead Man’s Hand wasn’t that bad either…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw26eoxqREE

By: unclelou

unclelou — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:55:40 +0000

it seemed pretty generic

CoJ was a bit hit and miss, but “generic” wouldn’t exactly be the first word I’d think of. :)

Criminally underused setting, and some quite refreshing mechanics.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:41:44 +0000

I quite liked the first one even though it wasn’t really all that good, partly just because Wild West themed games are so few and far between. It was quite a challenging game from what I remember and some of the Billy levels were rather arduos until you got tooled up with some guns. Still I’ll look forward to playing the sequal all the same.