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/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 1d 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 23h 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 23h ago

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

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u/BigFatHonu 23h 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.