Slightly dated, but still some great moments of gameplay

User Rating: 7 | Call of Juarez X360
Call Of Juarez may not be a game that will ever rock your world, but it's certainly got some great moments and a lot of ideas for the Western genre, even if not all of them are pulled off.

You play as 2 characters: The first is Billy Candle, a young cowboy who returns home just in time to find his mum & stepdad have been murdered. Thats when the second character: Reverend Ray (Billy's step-uncle) shows up, he sees you looking all guilty and running from the scene of the crime.

And so the chase is on.

This 2 character dynamic gives a great pace to the game and stops it from ever getting too repetitive and boring.
With the Reverend it's more unleashing the wrath of God with your pistols and with Billy it's a lot more of a stealth game, hiding in bushes, sneaking past baddies to get to your destination.

And overall it works well. The gunplay is a lot of fun. It feels a little strange to begin with, but this is because we're so used to unrealistic FPS's that when you are given 2 old western pistols and asked use them its not as simple as shoot and blast anything infront of you and expect to hit it.
You are actually going to have to hit it (and in the correct part of the body too)

The greatest achievement this game has is that it distracts you from the fact that at it's core, it's just another run of the mill FPS.
The story and especially the Voice Acting make you feel like you could be in the old wild west and the constant changing between the 2 characters keeps it from getting stale.

Original? Slightly
Cliched? Of course
Stock FPS? Kind of
Alot of fun for very little cash: Definitely

7.0: Go on you know you want to.