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Monday, August 13, 2012

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

 The year was 1864, several years after the McCall Brothers Ray and Thomas abandoned the army during the civil war to go protect home to their family farm from the North. But they soon learn that their mother has died. Now they must go to Mexico with their younger brother William, to search for a legendary treasure that may or may not exist, so that they may build a new home for their family. But along the way you will be faced against gangs, Indians, and a small army of Confederate soldiers, led by your former general that promised to kill any abandoners of the Confederacy.

  Gameplay was pretty basic and you'll learn how to do just about everything in the first chapter, so you'll get the hang of it pretty quickly. Aiming is easy, even without the aim bot, but aim bot can be turned on at any time. The game was like a mix of Army of Two and Red Dead Redemption. The game is like Red Dead Redemption because it is a very Western based game and continues on into Mexico. But also because of the looks towns, buildings, and characters are all good examples. The game also includes horseback riding, but does not have a wide variety of horses. but one thing that's similar are the side missions. Both games have wanted posters or one thing that's similar is a protection job. Although in Red Dead Redemption they aren't exactly side missions they are more of just bonuses. The game is also similar to Army of Two because it gives you the option to choose between two characters. And both characters have their own specialties. For example Ray uses a lasso to get to places Thomas can't, and Ray uses dynamite to blow down doors that Ray can't open.
  Details in this game were really good including characters, backgrounds, buildings, horses, and weapons. There was a wide variety of background characters and enemies, and all of the looked great. Like I mentioned earlier, there was not a wide variety of horses in the game but they were all great. Backgrounds and building also looked great, but some textures on things like wooden stairs weren't as good. There also was a wide variety of guns, each one was different. From Throwing Knives to Crossbows this game gives you a wave of weapons to use to help combat you in your quest to find the Aztec gold. Guns are a big part of this, all of the weapons look very realistic, and you can really tell the difference between a Rusty Rifle and a Superb Rifle, even shotgun shells and bullets look good.
  The voice-overs were probably the some of the best I've seen, all the actors did a great job of portraying all the accents for the characters. The voice actors for Ray and Thomas did a great job of sounding very South Western.
  There weren't many dislikes except for two things. One thing was that there was no co-op campaign. And the second thing I didn't like was that it takes to many bullets to kill an enemy.
  There is Online Mutiplayer, where you can do several different missions with friends at numerous places. There is also DLC's for Call of Juarez to unlock Secret Missions.
  But overall the game was good, but it was not the best western game I've ever played, but it would belong on my Top Ten best western games. It had good graphics, story, and sound and I think it deserves a 4 out of 5.