Call of Juarez

[Xenocrates]

Reviews about this one are mixed, but I've played it through (no spoilers):

• The gameplay is fantastic at times and it gets better and better as you go on.
  
• The horseback gunfights are as good as it gets for gaming with friends around. It's like watching a movie at times and plenty of laughing out loud.
  
• The puzzles aren't too shabby.
  
• Graphics are state of the art.
  
• Music and sounds are excellent. The music does what it should, it creates a sense of urgency and rushes you.
  
• Some of the maps are huge and there are no loading breaks - the engine has great potential, it looks like a film star and moves like an athlete.
  
• Script and story are great. Not inferior to anything from Hollywood. The preacher character is well-written and reminds me of Mobboss for some reason. Actually I'm pretty sure it is him!
  
• The ending is pure class and very original.

Now the bad stuff:

• Loading could be shorter but it didn't bother me.
  
• The start is extremely frustrating and the game takes an hour to warm up, during which time you will be swearing like a lumberjack at Techland, especially during the early sneaking parts. Trust me, it gets a LOT better after the first couple of chapters.
  
• It's supposed to be need a good PC, but I found it ran perfectly on mine. But I have a new one with 3.4 GHz Dual core, a 6800 Ultra and 2 GB ram. If your machine isn't much different from mine it should be OK.

I haven't checked out the multiplayer yet, but as a single player game I liked it very much.

Yeeehaaaa

 

[odintheking]

Heh, call of juarez. I live right next to Juarez (J-town).

 

[Maniacal]

The blue text is UNREADABLE with the black background.

Link?

EDIT: How can you have played it through? It's not being released until December 5th... unless the demo is long. (I have not checked out the demo yet, tomorrow night).

 

[Volum]

Because its been out since mid Septermber i Europe....... It's an okay game, not really super but it managed to keep me occupied. Multiplayer is awful tough, one of the worst ones ive ever seen i think.

 

[Maniacal]

Well, I've enjoyed the single player demo greatly. They are still a little linear, but there is some replay value. Don't know about the multi, but if the multi is bad than that will suck.

I hope they make a second one, and learn from any mistakes in this one. I found the voice acting to be superb. And it ran just fine on high settings with my 7800 GT, 1 gig of ram, 2.2ghz CPU.

 

[Xenocrates]

No link, I wrote it myself!

I agree it's extremely linear, some reviewers said it was a bit like a 'more focussed oblivion'. They're talking rubbish! There's almost always only one route to take.

I can understand why people don't like it, especially the excrutiating first hour and the lack of variety of weapons. But it must of hit me on a good day. It's sufficiently different from the average game to stand out. You just have to give it a chance.

 

[Maniacal]

The sneaking wasn't that hard. I played around with breaking stuff in his house, even threw a chair at the farmer! The horses are well done too though I think the levels should be longer (I only have the demo though). Multiplayer isn't bad at all. It's rather fun actualy. I will buy this game, but not for more than $20.

 

[Maniacal]

Unfortunately there are wallhackers out there, I;ve only run into one, we managed to TK him aout 1/rd of the time, but he is so annoying kills all the others on the map.

 

[Shylock]

I hate the sneaking parts but the Preacher parts are brilliant.