Gun Showdown (PSP)

I like some Western films. I like the good ones, mostly involving Clint Eastwood. This puts many of those to shame. The wide vistas, the stirring soundtrack... it's the closest thing to being in one of those movies. The storyline is engrossing and very adult, the action is so fast you almost don't realise how quickly you've picked up the skills you need, you just react in a gunfight and, when it's over, it feels like a real shoot-out. The side-missions are engaging and well worth the effort for the extra money to buy power-ups for equipment and your horse - believe me, you're going to need both - and the enemies are so well-written and hateful you genuinely want to kill them. There are few better games than this for the PSP.

Gun Showdown gives you the opportunity to be a Wild West Gunslinger, taking hero Colton White through various missions to avenge the death of his father. The good bits: 1. Graphically it is excellent with loads of different scenery. 2. There is a very large gameplay area to explore. 3. Plenty of good side missions, such as Poker, Pony Express, Keep the Peace and Federal Marshal. 4. The substantial single player experience will keep you playing for quite a while. 5. There are plenty of different weapons options. 6. If you like your gore quota high, there's lots of blood too! The bad bits: 1. The control system is horrible and is the reason that I have marked the game down. As a previous reviewer said, it does get better if you stick with it for a while but you will still find times when you are so busy trying to aim your shot that the bad guys have hit you several times! Basically you move forward,backward and strafe left and right (why strafe? What is this obsession with game designers and strafing? It would all be so much easier if you just turned left and right with the stick!)with the analogue stick. You then have to turn and aim shots using the face buttons, which is as horrible as it sounds. You can invert the controls so that you aim using the stick and move with the face buttons, but that is no better. In a later encounter with a bad guy on a horse, the control system shows just how bad it is as by the time you've lined up your shot, he's moved on! The "Quickdraw" feature does help but you can't use it all the time so that doesn't solve the problem completely. 2. It would be nice to see a few more signs of life in the towns; it can get to feel pretty lonely out there! 3. Sometimes the action buttons don't work very well; in timed missions this can be a real problem, especially if you have to press the down button four times just to get off your horse! 4. Actions like zooming and changing between your weapons are unwieldy and you will probably find yourself forgetting the button combinations that perform these tasks. Overall, Gun Showdown is a good game only let down by its cumbersome controls. If you can find it cheap then it's a good buy for fans of the genre. Shame there's no half stars option as really this game is good enough for a three and a half star review but the control system is too annoying to allow me to give it four stars. Therefore, I have rated it 4 stars for "fun" to even it out!

Gun Showdown for the PSP is an enjoyable shooting game, although it suffers, like most shooters, from the lack of available controls on the PSP. In spite of this, the game is well designed and atmospheric enough for it to remain enjoyable and worth putting in time to get used to the controls.

Gift therefore 4as I don't know

Great game

I am a big fan of the original Gun for XBox so I was excited when a PSP version came out. Turns out with the exception of a few extras this is the same game and not any kind of sequel. This factor doesnt make the game any less fun or make me regret buying it, in fact I love this title its like GTA but with horses instead of cars. The one thing I did have a problem with is the controls, since the PSP lacks a simple 2nd stick to make the aiming and shooting easier it makes playing the game something of a chore. The graphics are great and arent that far from the XBox version and the voice acting by Lance Henricksen, Tom Skeritt and Thomas Jane as the main guy are just awesome. This is one of the few games out there from a sleeper hit release that actually features a quality character and voice actor line up...fingers crossed for a sequel.

If you are looking for something different, this is the game for you. You can ride around all day on your horse, completing tasks or just hang about in the saloon gambling. The tasks are challenging and great fun. They range from arresting and jailing to escorting the stagecoach across the sandy desert where you will encounter the indians. You also have mini tasks where you do jobs for people, taking their horse to the stables ( timed challenge ). killing all the bad guys for the sheriff is a good one, you can earn money and buy different items. A must for all you cowboys and cowgirls out there!

I'm writing this review based solely on the PSP version of the game. Contrary to a number of press reviews the controls for this game aren't as bad as they make them out to be. You do have to stick with it for 10-15 minutes but once you get the hang of things they're not that bad considering the psp has only one analog stick. If you are having problems with the targeting then the best thing to do is to go and do some gold mining and then up grade your 'Quickdraw' as soon as possible. This makes things a lot easier. The graphics are pretty good but the towns are like ghost towns and it seems the only time anyone sets foot outside is to have a go at you. It's not only the towns that are empty but pretty much the whole of the Wild West. This is no GTA where there is always something going on. The big problem with this game is the riding. Frequently during missions you have to get from A to B as quickly as possible and I'm afraid the game just doesn't keep up and you are faced with a 'loading' message. I found this to be really annoying. Apart from the above problem, there are a couple of glitches here and there which unless you pay a quick visit to gamefaqs.com you'll begin to wonder if you are ever going to get past a particular point in the game. Although I must say 'glitches' in games these days seem to be more and more common and are probably the result of lazy testing or publishers who are keen to get a game out before its ready. On a more postive note I would say this game is well worth buying. There are a number of extras included on the psp version that aren't available on the different console versions. So if you fancy something different from GTA go for it, it's not that often that you get the chance to be a gunslinger in the Wild West.

El principal problema es que el juego me vino sin manual y sin caja un presentación horrorosa y el producto estaba incompleto, así que esta e mi valoración sino tendría 5 estrellas.