Six-Guns

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Six-Guns
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Developer(s) Gameloft Iberica S.A.U.
Publisher(s) Gameloft
Producer(s) Jonathan Stock
Jean-Claude Labelle
Designer(s) Diego Barragan
Programmer(s) David Flix
Artist(s) Arthur Hugot
Christophe Latour
Toni Rodriguez
Platform(s) Android
Windows
Windows Phone
iOS
Release
  • iOS
  • December 5, 2011
  • Android
  • March 17, 2012
  • Windows/Windows Phone
  • September 4, 2013
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player
multiplayer

Six-Guns is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Gameloft. [1] It was released in 2011 for iOS devices, on March 17, 2012, for Android devices, and on September 4, 2013, for Microsoft Windows and Windows Phone. [2]

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Gameplay

Six-Guns is a wild-west styled open-world, action adventure third-person mobile game. The player may roam about on foot or by horse to complete missions as a man named Buck Crosshaw across two game maps, Arizona (with deserts and mesas) and Oregon (featuring forests and mountains). An in-game store and currency system allow for upgradable clothing items, weapons, and horses, with optional microtransactions available for additional or premium credits. As missions are completed, the player is rewarded with coins and experience points, unlocking access to higher tier items from the store. The main storyline and campaign follows Crosshaw's discoveries of the happenings and fate of his lost wife, while a multiplayer mode features online team deathmatches and capture-the-flag.

The Windows 8 version had support for touch controls, keyboard and mouse, and a gaming controller. [3] The game could also cloud save to a linked account, such as Game Center on iOS or Xbox Live on Windows.

Plot

Buck Crosshaw, a lone and amnesiac outlaw, awakens in the Arizona desert and heads west in search for the nearest settlement. Approaching a ranch, he witnesses a group of bandits raiding the property. Buck fends off the bandits and is rewarded with an Azteca. As Buck rides away his memory is triggered, and he recalls his wife being mysteriously killed. Unsettled, Buck heads to the town of Socorro to drink and repress any memories of his wife.

Upon arrival, the local sheriff recognizes Buck as an outlaw and confronts him at gunpoint, accusing him of murder which further stimulates Buck's memory. The two are disrupted when a band of raiders arrive and begin to pillage the town. Buck assists the sheriff in defending Socorro, for which the sheriff releases him. Buck decides to visit his wife's grave to recall his memory. At the graveyard, Buck witnesses a group of grave robbers stealing his wife's corpse, prompting Buck to investigate into her death. He tracks the robbers and discovers them to be part of a larger gang of ruthless outlaws and criminals. After killing several gang leaders and encountering nightcrawlers, witches, and werewolves, a mysterious monster hunter known as the Exorcist confronts Buck and reveals the true nature of the gang.

The Exorcist explains that the outlaw gang is a secretive cult fixated on performing a ritual to summon demonic and supernatural entities, including the devil himself. Buck's wife was a powerful witch in the cult, and Buck shot her after realizing her evil intentions. The Exorcist reveals that his wife survived, and that he needs Buck's help in preventing her from conducting the ritual.

Buck is initially discouraged, but later overhears some cultists and follows them to an abandoned mining town. After defeating the cultist guards, Buck enters the mine and confronts his wife. She reveals that Buck never reciprocated her love for him, and that she had to create love elixirs for his affection, which developed into an obsession with witchcraft and Satanism. The Exorcist arrives and impales the witch before she fatally wounds him. Buck fights the witch and defeats her, but then succumbs to a wound from her ritual knife.

Buck awakens in a strange, etheric dimension facing the devil as a shadowed incarnation of Buck himself. The devil reveals that he possessed Buck’s body to kill his wife to instigate the events leading to the ritual. With assistance from the Exorcist’s spirit, Buck fights and defeats the devil. Buck emerges from the mine and buries the Exorcist’s body, vowing to rid the land of the remaining supernatural entities.

Reception

Six-Guns received mixed reviews, scoring a 59 on Metacritic. [4] Many critics praised the graphics and audio of the game, but criticized the repetitive and simple gameplay. [5] [6]

Some also felt that the controls were poor on touchscreen devices. [7]

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