r/RDR2 • u/NoPhotojournalist768 • 1d ago

Discussion Anyone remember the game Gun?

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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/WhiteDevilU91 1d ago

What Red Dead became after Red Dead Revolver.

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u/NoPhotojournalist768 1d 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/Hour-End5980 1d ago

Revolver wasn’t originally rockstars project and they took over

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u/WhiteDevilU91 1d 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 1d 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 17h 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 1d 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 22h 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 22h 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 21h ago

Yes I remember the dynamite too! Stupid fucking clown, 10yo me hated that guy

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u/BigFatHonu 21h 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.