Score: 10
"very good"
date: May 20, 2009
I really enjoyed this game, it's a fine stealth/shooter. It has (almost) everithing a good game needs: nice graphics, good western atmosphere, good controls, saves and ok sounds.
There are however some minor things this could be improved with:
- a run button: when there is a huge playing are, like here, traveling long distances slowly gets boring.
- a minimap: with such linear gameplay it's not likely that one gets lost, but it would help knowing wich parts did I visit alredy and so it would spare some unnecessery wandering.
- And, what the game needs the most: more variety of weapons. Becouse altrough there are lots of weapons in the game, the most of them are useless. The 2 pistols are good only as long as one can't afford something better. Same goes to the cheaper rifle. The shotgun not only has a very short range but altrough it fires 5 pellets it still misses too many times, so it's also useless. The gatling immobilizes, wich makes one an excellent target, so it isn't good either. So the only good gun is the winchester.
To add more variety, I think the guns should be improved.
If it would be possible to fire behind some cover, that would make the gatling a useful gun, since the operator wouldn't be exposed anymore.
The shotgun should have longer range, better precision and should fire more pellets.
There should be a pistol with a decent accuary and fast fire rate, that made it a good sidearm.
The special weapons are also more expensive than useful: the beartrap is useless, becouse it's easier to shoot the enemies than lureing them into the trap. Same goes to the barrel. The dinamyte and the molotov are too expensive, it's not worth useing them regularly. And their area of effect is too small.
I think the molotov should be much cheaper and the dinamyte should have a larger area of effect.
