Hey 93 games and Focus home interactive, 1997 called, they want their pathetic graphics and crappy controls back.

Call of Juarez first piqued my interest when it was on the Official Xbox Magazine’s disc about two months ago. So I rented it from my local video store, hoping it was not too good to be true… boy were my hopes dashed. I’ve been looking for a great western shooter for a while, and I have yet to see one, so I was hoping that Call of Juarez might deliver. I like games where you shoot with guns that really exist, and where the graphics look like landscape that really exists, or at least existed in the past.

And before the breakdown, what the hell was up with the beginning of this game? Why do I have to go down this nasty hill with terrible controls? It took me like 10 minutes just to get down the hill because it is impossible to judge what distances of falling will and will not kill you. Now let’s get to the breakdown…

Pros:

  • The guns in this game actually existed at some point in history
  • The story line seems to make sense

Cons:

  • Game play is limited by the story line rather than moved by it
  • You can only shoot who the game wants you to shoot
  • The tasks the game wants you to perform are actually very hard to guess sometimes
  • The beginning of this game just flat-out sucks
  • The accuracy of the weapons seems to be off considerably at times

The bottom line is that this game might be neat for people who haven’t been lobotomized with a rusty spoon, but for the rest of us it would be nice to have a game that actually delivered on the hype.

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