Red Dead Revolver (Ps2/Xbox)
avelanchefan
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Oh yeah been playing this game for the last three days continuous.
The reviews of this game were mediocre at best. If you have read any of them than just ignore them. Most gaming reviewers were giving it sevens. Reviewer complaints were about the graphics. Trust me this game was made to be grainy. No way would Rockstar allow it to be any other way. It looks and feels like a mid 60's Sergio Leone western. RDR plays homage to to old west like no other game.
Game play/control is a little on the tricky side. It took me a little while to get a hang of the controls. I call this the Rainbow Six 3 effect. I just play that game too damn much and I want all other games to have the same type of controls damnit. RDR developed special moves for each player you play with. So lets say when you play with Red, you have a special move called "dead eye". When you reach a certain amount on a meter you can press on the right control stick to engage the dead eye, then all time slows down to a standstill really, and you are able to target up to six shots on the fellas you are battling in about a five second span of time, then time returns to normal, and Red will pound those six shots out in about one second. Flippin cool as heck. Another guy you play with called Bill Swift (think English Bob in Unforgivin) carries two six shooters at a time. So when you dead eye with him the effects are even sweeter....and deadlier. Another player who is an Indian shoots flaming arrows as his special move.
Sound....10...enough said. A lot of songs by Ennio Morricone here (Good the bad and the Ugly composer). Really makes you feel like your in a old western. Fantastic ambience, sounds sweet in DD 5.1.
Graphics....8. Grainy as I said above, but it is obviously intended. The cut scenes makes you feel like your in a 60's movie house. Grainy picture, "pops/crackle" in the sound, little lines running through the picture/scenes. Cool a shiat if you ask me. Some noticeble aliasing, but nothing that detracts from the game experience.
Overall. So far an 8.7, nothing to complain about this game. Any fan of the old Western movies, who is also a gamer should seriously consider picking this game up. Only drawback.....no XBOX Live shootem' ups:( . But it has four player multiplayer arenas for hours of cowboy quick draws and "dead eye's"! Rockstar has done it again. I would venture to say that this game will be considered a classic for years to come. And hopefully a franchise will be started.:)
The reviews of this game were mediocre at best. If you have read any of them than just ignore them. Most gaming reviewers were giving it sevens. Reviewer complaints were about the graphics. Trust me this game was made to be grainy. No way would Rockstar allow it to be any other way. It looks and feels like a mid 60's Sergio Leone western. RDR plays homage to to old west like no other game.
Game play/control is a little on the tricky side. It took me a little while to get a hang of the controls. I call this the Rainbow Six 3 effect. I just play that game too damn much and I want all other games to have the same type of controls damnit. RDR developed special moves for each player you play with. So lets say when you play with Red, you have a special move called "dead eye". When you reach a certain amount on a meter you can press on the right control stick to engage the dead eye, then all time slows down to a standstill really, and you are able to target up to six shots on the fellas you are battling in about a five second span of time, then time returns to normal, and Red will pound those six shots out in about one second. Flippin cool as heck. Another guy you play with called Bill Swift (think English Bob in Unforgivin) carries two six shooters at a time. So when you dead eye with him the effects are even sweeter....and deadlier. Another player who is an Indian shoots flaming arrows as his special move.
Sound....10...enough said. A lot of songs by Ennio Morricone here (Good the bad and the Ugly composer). Really makes you feel like your in a old western. Fantastic ambience, sounds sweet in DD 5.1.
Graphics....8. Grainy as I said above, but it is obviously intended. The cut scenes makes you feel like your in a 60's movie house. Grainy picture, "pops/crackle" in the sound, little lines running through the picture/scenes. Cool a shiat if you ask me. Some noticeble aliasing, but nothing that detracts from the game experience.
Overall. So far an 8.7, nothing to complain about this game. Any fan of the old Western movies, who is also a gamer should seriously consider picking this game up. Only drawback.....no XBOX Live shootem' ups:( . But it has four player multiplayer arenas for hours of cowboy quick draws and "dead eye's"! Rockstar has done it again. I would venture to say that this game will be considered a classic for years to come. And hopefully a franchise will be started.:)
