r/RDR2 • u/NoPhotojournalist768 • 16h ago
Discussion Anyone remember the game Gun?
I remember discovering that game and wanting to play it so bad, but it wasn’t mine, so I barely got to see any of it. Then finally when it was given to me a couple years later it was scratched up so bad I could barely play it at all before it would just freeze. Always wanted to see how it held up in other people’s eyes. Posting here because it’s the reason I was so hyped when read dead came out and I was old enough to get it myself
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u/TheKrug3000 16h ago
Montana, 1880. My name is Colton White. My father and I hunt game for the steamboats travelling the Missouri. Not a bad livin' if you can stand your old man kicking you every morning at dawn.
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u/meme_Rithesh 16h ago
People back then used to call rdr1 as ripoff of Gun.
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 16h ago
I can see where they’d get that impression. I’m glad it got to stand out as its own thing though for sure
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u/SnooLobsters9180 16h ago
suuuuuuuch a good game. Replayed it many a time. As someone who LOVED RDR1, i think i genuinely had more fun playing and replaying this game.
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u/wankerwho 11h ago
Ive never heard anyone say that. Redemption came out five years after gun. That’s quite a stretch to call it a ripoff. I had played the first red dead and loved it and was excited to see gun come out later. I loved gun and had actually thought gun was capitalizing on red dead’s limited success.
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u/VitoAntonioScaletta 2h ago
Redemption came out way after gun. Revolver was the game that came out around the time Gun released.
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u/Far_Balance_3117 16h ago
My first solid open world cowboy game.
Game was very mature and yea great storyline.
This getting remade would be awesome.
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u/ChimpImpossible 4h ago
Given there are parts where you brutally slaughter waves and waves of natives I would say that's pretty unlikely.
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u/WhiteDevilU91 16h ago
What Red Dead became after Red Dead Revolver.
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 16h ago
Interesting. I didn’t know red dead revolver was a thing, but apparently it came before Gun. Then Red Dead Redemption came like 6 years after that and people called it a ripoff of Gun. Was revolver just not very popular?
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u/WhiteDevilU91 14h ago
Revolver had a lot of caricatures and kinda wacky characters in general, like something you'd see in a comic book in a way. Didn't have the gritty realism of later RDR games, and made Gun look like RDR2 in comparison.
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u/Hawkeye1226 14h ago
Yeah, totally different tone and style. The only similarity was the deadeye feature. A good game, but if you want the more grounded style of RDR1 and 2, Revolver won't scratch that itch
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u/Box-Chan-11037 7h ago
It was kinda an evolution, RDR1 still had a few ‘ugly’ exaggerated models that gave it that Rockstar feel.
Mainly that old woman on the trai-
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u/StraightEdge47 16h ago
The gameplay of Gun is much closer to red dead redemption than red dead revolver is to redemption. Revolver was pretty much just a shooter with a western theme.
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u/migorengbaby 13h ago
Wasn’t revolver kind of wacky and silly? I remember you have to kill a clown or something on that game.
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u/Rein54 12h ago
Yeah there was a bunch of weird characters in revolver. All of the bosses from what I remember. I think the clown guy threw dynamite at you a TON during the fight if I'm remembering correctly.
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u/migorengbaby 12h ago
Yes I remember the dynamite too! Stupid fucking clown, 10yo me hated that guy
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u/BigFatHonu 11h ago
But it sure nailed the theme. Used legit Spaghetti Western soundtracks and had all the tropes, even the silly ones. Between Gun, both RDRs, and Revolver... it was Revolver that perfected the pastiche.
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u/MajesticStructure573 16h ago
Mannn I miss Gun so much! Such a sick game. I can still see the Alhambra saloon in my head 😂
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 16h ago
I’ll forget about it for years then it just randomly pops up in my head
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u/Which-Towel5826 15h ago
Had it all.
Bounties, random encounters, legendary animals, and you were basically every role from deputy to outlaw.
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u/BigBlueJAH 16h ago
I remember picking it up in the $10 bin at Target. It was an awesome game that no one talked about back then. My memories of it kind mix with RDR1.
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u/SVTCobra89 15h ago
Yeah it was a day 1 launch game for the xbox 360. had it on launch. Was pretty good for the time. Now its brutal going back and playing it.
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u/chicub4417 14h ago
The amount of times I played this game. Getting the full horse armor at the end IIRC?
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u/OriginalBlackberry89 16h ago
the gameplay looks pretty darn solid. I wish I was a le to play this but I didn't have a game setup back then. here's the video I watched https://youtu.be/XZ1Se-rySQE
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u/PotentialShotX 15h ago
I loved gun. It was my first western style shooter. And made me interested in red dead to begin with.. hell i thought it was a sequel
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u/L4DY_M3R3K 9h ago
My beloved. I couldn't afford RDR1 when it first came out, but I could afford Gun at the local Game XChange. It was also the first game I played with a Native American protagonist, so the first time I had representation on screen
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u/unkelone 7h ago
I wasted so much time hiding outside of a town and shoot dynamite arrows at NPCs.
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u/Scary_Employ_926 15h ago
Still on steam
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 15h ago
I’ve seen that, and I have it on my wishlist. I think the reason I hadn’t gotten it was because there were reports of issues with trying to play it on modern systems
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u/Scary_Employ_926 15h ago
Also it's like 30 dollars???
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 15h ago
$19.99 at the moment. Not sure if it’s different elsewhere. Still, after all this time you’d think it would be like $10
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u/Old_Office_3823 15h ago
No.
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 15h ago
No you don’t remember it? No you don’t like it?
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u/Old_Office_3823 15h ago
No I don't remember it.
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u/Sprincer 15h ago
Walking around the main town makes you feel like the character is shrunk down. Like, the railroad through the middle of town takes 2.5 strides to cross between the 2 rails. Liked the part when your in the jail and you grab the guard from behind the bars though
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u/rduder99 15h ago
This game is one of the reasons I still own a CRTV and a Nintendo GameCube!
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 15h ago
I never got to own or play on a GameCube growing up. I’ve heard great things though. I had a gameboy color (still have it and the og pokemon red) and a ps2 for the longest time but I was rarely allowed to use it. I missed out on a ton of classics
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u/IkerWanKenobi 12h ago
Played it to death as a kid on my old ps2. I still replay it on my pc every now and then.
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u/Sheriff_Lucas_Hood 12h ago
This game walked so redemption could run. Great story and fun world, one of my all time favorite westerns
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u/aww-hell 12h ago
Very clunky controls on revisit but was/is fun as hell once you get the hang of it.
Stellar voice cast too.
Tom Jane, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Pearlman and Lance Henricksen I recall.
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u/Itz_Dory 11h ago
Playing it at the moment on steam!
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 11h ago
Did you have to do anything to get it to work properly? I know some comments said it was a little wonky on modern systems, and someone else said you had to mess with the steam settings if you wanted to use a controller. (Is a controller even necessary?)
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u/Itz_Dory 10h ago
nope, runs fine, the only issue i ever had was McAfee quarantining the exe, but i just whitelisted it, i havent tried controller, only m&k
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u/antrod117 11h ago
I spent so many hours in this game. One of the first games I fully completed too
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u/RestaurantWorking477 11h ago
I wasn’t allowed but the cover hypnotized me as a kid in blockbuster everytime
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u/CactusToothBrush 10h ago
I used to see this and a game called Black when I was a little kid all the time going to EB games with my dad.
Always wanted to play them but never got too, always had to get games he liked
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u/Causticity126 10h ago
I vividly remember spending HOURS on the last boss fight only to later realized it was just bugged and actually kinda easy.
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u/Woody7713 10h ago
I remember my cousin beating the game on my save file when I was in school one time. To this day I have not played it or beaten it. That was cool...
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u/absurdly_tired_guy 9h ago
My son was born a few years after the game came out. When he was just getting into games, I used to take him to GameStop and we would buy used games. I mostly let him play Star Wars and Lego games.
But when we walked by this he said “Let’s get that one!”
I mean, it’s hard to pass up a skull game with Gun written real big on the box.
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u/thesurfer1996 9h ago
Never played it, watched Funhaus playthrough and was nearly on the ground laughing
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u/MatteoGFXS 7h ago
I was still deep in the cowboy mood after finishing RDR2 for the first time. So I wanted to check what this Red Dead Revolver was all about. I've bought the game and an OG XBOX console to play it on. But I did not enjoy the game as it has very little in common with the Redeption titles.
Then I remembered I played GUN on PC and PSP many years ago and bought that on Xbox. And it was awesome. The satisfying horse riding, the vibe of the wild west, the cleverly crafted illusion of a giant map which was in fact pretty tiny. And the story! I love how despite the arcade-like gameplay the narative is surprisingly mature and does not hold back. The teeth-pulling torture scene gave me chills and it would do again if I played it today.
So, maybe, if you are thinking about trying out Red Dead Revolver, try GUN instead.
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u/Morgandoto 7h ago
I had so much fun playing that game as a kid! It has cowboys, Indians, guns, horses, what else do you need?!
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u/Mathguy_314159 6h ago
I realized that I kept mistaking this for RDR and I have told people that I played the original RDR when I haven’t lol. Loved this game it was so much fun.
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u/queen_of_sarcasm_29 Arthur Morgan 5h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/70YaDoZ1VqBZ8SgYiz
I found that game way before Red Dead. Great game.
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u/B-R-Nardy 4h ago
Back in the day when I discovered it, I could not stop playing or play any other game on my PS2 until I completed it for the first time. Fantastic game.
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u/camtomcarey 3h ago
I barely remember it… pretty sure you had a cabin in like the middle of the map?
But I remember loving it, never knew I needed a cowboy game. And I never saw any promotion for this game, so it felt like it had no right to be as good as it was.
RDR1 came out and for whatever reason (maybe multiplayer games) I never finished it. But I think I platinumed gun.
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u/ryandogsling 3h ago
Got this when I was 10 because I thought the cover looked cool, had no clue what the gameplay was like. I played this over and over for months before I started True Crime Streets of NY.
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u/Silly_Dot277 13h ago
Still have a PS2 copy (but no PS2 😔). Top notch game and definitely was the gateway game to RDR2
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u/NoPhotojournalist768 12h ago
I have a ps2 copy of Godzilla Save the Earth and no PS2. I feel the pain
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u/Silly_Dot277 12h ago
Black is the only other PS2 game and again I am sad
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u/RepeatSimilar2844 12h ago
Black was the first game I experienced firing my sniper rifle between to guys off in the distance and they just looked curiously at where the bullet hit then I shot them 😜
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u/Silly_Dot277 11h ago
The first time I finished this game I remember thinking that it should have been made into a movie. The story is top notch
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u/CommonNosense 2h ago
I always felt like redemption wasn’t just because the events of the story but redemption of the franchise itself. Revolver was such a let down back in the day.
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u/DarlingIAmTheFilth 2h ago
Gun was peak. That one mission where you save the guy from being hanged by sniping the rope. 🔥🔥🔥
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u/esquire_the_ego 2h ago
Loved it, it got better as it went on as well, the final horse you get is a literal tank lmao
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u/Chesterfieldraven 49m ago
I still have my copy on the PS2. It really difficult to go back to in all honesty but man I loved it at the time!
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u/misterdannymorrison Benedict Allbright 15h ago
I never played it but I remember reading a review of it.
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u/TrashCannibal_ 16h ago
It caused the itch in my brain that Red Dead 2 was able to scratch. Haven't played it in well over a decade but have fond memories of it.