Gun (2005) (Computer game)

Disclaimer: Like many game reviews here, this is written a good chunk after the fact, and so may be a little vague on actual details.

At the time of release I recall being pretty impressed with Gun. I suspect in light of Red Dead Redemption it's aged slightly badly, since it does many of the same things—being mostly open-world with significant opportunities to try side-missions such as bounty-hunting or herding cattle—but Red Dead Redemption largely does them better.

The big weakness I recall at the time was that the world didn't quite seem big enough: obviously a game is never going to model genuinely hundreds of miles of terrain, but everything seemed slightly too close in Gun and thus immersion was broken slightly.

The story is a largely straightforward revenge affair involving an (adopted) father (played by Kris Kristofferson) murdered by a railroad-baron who's after a lost city full of gold (the actual story is obviously more complicated, but not to worry!). The game itself was not too difficult, except for the fights with the bosses, which came across as slightly gimmicky at times. I never managed to defeat the final boss, which involves the railroad baron dressed in armour, who could only be defeated by shooting his dynamite in the air.