Six-Guns

Six-Guns is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Gameloft.[1] It was released in 2011 for iOS devices, on March 17, 2012 for Android devices, and on September 4, 2013 for Microsoft Windows and Windows Phone.[2]

Six-Guns
Developer(s)Gameloft Iberica S.A.U.
Publisher(s)Gameloft
Producer(s)Jonathan Stock
Jean-Claude Labelle
Designer(s)Diego Barragan
Programmer(s)David Flix
Artist(s)Arthur Hugot
Christophe Latour
Toni Rodriguez
Platform(s)Android
Windows
Windows Phone
iOS
Release
  • iOS
  • December 5, 2011
  • Android
  • March 17, 2012
  • Windows/Windows Phone
  • September 4, 2013
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player
multiplayer

Gameplay

Six-Guns is a wild-west styled open-world, action adventure mobile game. The player may roam about on foot or by horse and complete missions as a man named Buck Crosshaw across two game maps, Arizona (with deserts and mesas) and Oregon (containing forests and mountains). An in-game store and currency system allow for upgradable clothing items, weapons, and horses, with optional microtransactions available for additional or premium credits. As missions are completed, the player is rewarded with coins and experience points, unlocking access to higher tier items from the store. The main storyline and campaign follows Crosshaw's discoveries of the happenings and fate of his lost wife, while a multiplayer mode allows for online team deathmatches and capture-the-flag.

The Windows 8 version had support for touch controls, keyboard and mouse, and a gaming controller.[3] The game could also cloud save to a linked account, such as Game Center on iOS or Xbox Live on Windows 8.

Plot

You play as Buck Crosshaw, a cowboy who has been considered an outlaw and therefore he faked his own death. He seemingly had killed his own wife due to suspecting her being a witch (he's being proven right later in the storyline). As Buck you have to fight outlaws, witches, vampires, zombies and participate in horse races and shooting at jama-jamas. There is also a sidequest storyline, and particular quests either in one state only or in both: the quests take place in Arizona and Oregon as well as multiplayer locations.

Buck Crosshaw, a lone, amnesiac, cowboy wandering the desert lands of America finds himself saving a farmer's daughter from bandit raiders, remembering a vivid image of himself killing a woman he assumed was his wife. Sometime after reaching a town, he is forced to fight off a large group of raiders, saving the town and escaping the law after slowly gaining back more of his memory. This leads him to discover a secretive crime ring that gains support from demonic entities for wealth and power, gaining the assistance of a local tavern owner who lost his son to the bandits and a mysterious monster hunter after the true cause of the incidents.

After defeating the ring-leaders of the crime cult, the hunter, known as the Exorcist, reveals that the tavern owner was the true mastermind behind the cult, and that his wife was indeed a witch. She attempted to use a ritual of immense power to summon who she believed was the devil into the world, but is seemingly failed as Buck was unaffected and later shot his wife dead. The Exorcist reveals that the witch survived, and was intending to finish what she started, this time in a hidden temple somewhere in the desert. Buck decides to get himself arrested to force the cult out of the woodwork, managing to escape and pursuing his target to an abandoned train where he fights off more bandits and is forced to escape, but finds the temple in the process.

Here, the barman reveals that he is infatuated with Buck's wife, intended to complete the ritual himself so that the "Devil" could possess him and he would become the witch's new beloved. Unfortunately, the witch has no intentions of this, and ensures that the barman dies poisoning himself. The witch reveals that Buck never really loved her, that she had to use love potions and other means to get him to love her, but even then it didn't work. Angered about this revaluation, Buck attacks the witch, assisted by the Exorcist but the later dies informing him that she must die to stop the ritual.

After this, Buck is seemingly taken over by the "Devil", who was successfully summoned by the ritual, but was unwilling to return the favours of the witch, just like Buck. The "Devil" temporally took over Buck's body so he could kill the witch and free himself from her influence, but it cost Buck his memories doing so. After a fierce battle, Buck finally rids himself of the "Devil" and returns to wandering, not after he buries the Exorcist for his sacrifice in helping Buck be free.

Reception

Six-Guns received mixed reviews. Many critics praised the graphics and audio of the game, but felt that the controls were poor on touchscreen devices.[4][5]

References

  1. "Six-Guns for Android (2012)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  2. "Xbox fans rejoice as Six-Guns has arrived on Windows Phone 8". Windows Central. 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  3. "Six-Guns for Windows 8 Review: Cross-platform gunslinging from Gameloft". Windows Central. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  4. Ago, Valency1in Gaming • 2 Years (2018-03-04). "SIX-GUNS GANG SHOWDOWN GAME REVIEW". Steemit. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  5. Magennis, Niall. "Six Guns Review". Trusted Reviews. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
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