Red Dead Revolver

Reviewed by:
Alex Porter

You can practically hear the warbly ocarina, feel the saddle sores and smell Clint Eastwood’s foul, hand-rolled cigar in this video game homage to spaghetti westerns. Roaming the range packing pistols, shotguns, and dynamite, you step into the moldy boots of Red and five other characters, each with distinct tools of destruction and special moves. Red’s Dead Eye meter freezes time to target a series of enemies (or their specific body parts; the testicles even, if you please) then quickly peppers ’em with lead. Travel on the backs of horses, cows, and the majestic buffalo or on moving trains and stagecoaches. Show-offs can even stealthily duck behind cover and shoot at foes’ feet to make ’em jig like Michael Flatley sans Ritalin. When that gets old, just send ’em to the great saloon in the sky to drink deeply from the trough of death.

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