The Greatest Western You Will Ever Star In. Brief repetitive gameplay and glacial load/save times my only real gripes.
The two characters you play force you to adapt to very different gameplay styles. The younger of the two is stealth-based - lots of sneaking, climbing, and swinging from your whip. The older character is pretty much guns-blazin', spurs janglin', destruction and wrath - lots of shooting, very little sneaking, and even some bible-beating. One plays as one character and then the other - often chasing through the same areas. This gets a bit repetitive: young dude - often armed only with a whip - sneaks past a load of bad guys, then old dude chases him through same area and shoots the bad guys. Two things make this game work for me: The story line and the gunslinger's Concentration Mode. Concentration Mode is similar in concept to "Bullet Time", but with two reticles (left and right guns) slowly converging on a central point through a slowed-down world. Get good at this and you can nail five or six guys while they're still fumbling for their holsters. The slow-mo animation of their rag-doll bodies crumpling from the impact of your bullets is intensely gratifying. I want Concentration Mode and two trusty revolvers in every game I play now. The Combine can eat my lead.
So if you want to explore, hate stealth games, and want a game you can play for weeks on end, then this is not the game for you. If you love westerns, Indiana Jones, and precision weapons, then you will probably really enjoy this game - while it lasts.