Outlaws review

The plot

In this Western 3D-shoot 'em up you take on the role of ex.Marshall James Andersson, a retired lawman who lives a quiet and simple life on his farm togeather with his wife and daughter. But one day when James rides into town to visit the store there comes two men to his farm. It is a man called Dr. Death who works for Bob Graham, a former gun-fighter who now tries to buy all the land in the area to build a railroad there. When James's wife Anna refuses to sell she angers Dr. Death who beat her to death and sets the farm on fire. And as if that wouldn't have been enough he also kidnaps James's little daughter. James becomes furious when he returns home and after burying his wife he sets after the vilians to seek his revenge.

My opinion

The graphics in this game makes you feel like you are in the middle of a western cartoon and the more than excellent sound gives you the feeling of beeing in a real western movie. The sound effects are wonderful and the music is gorgeous, probably the best sound quality I've ever heard in a game. The levels are big and logically built (most of them at least), the enemies are good but there could have been a bit more variation on them (a very usual problem in most 3D-shoot 'em ups). The weapons is one thing that they could have worked a little more on, they may work very well but three different shotguns which each work very similar is maybe a bit dull. The thing that wights that up is the excellent western feeling that makes you feel almost as Clint Eastwood when you walk throug the desert town surrounded by trigger happy mexicans.
I give it 4 skulls of 5 possible.

Boner.

Our opinion

BonerI AM CLINT EASTWOOD!!!4
BoneheadA good shoot 'em up but there are not so many different enemies to shoot!4
BraindeadI Love Western! In other words, the game rules4
WretchedA LucasArts masterpiece!4+
The Goat-KeeperThe "spagetti western" feeling is complete, you got to love it!4+

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