{"id":63290,"date":"2014-04-27T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T22:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63290"},"modified":"2014-04-28T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:46:23","slug":"the-best-in-the-west-the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/63290-the-best-in-the-west-the-wild-west","title":{"rendered":"The best in the West &#8211; the Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These games all take place in an open-world setting with gunfights, hunting, dirt, and TNT &#8211; they are the Wild Wild West games of the modern gaming era.<\/p>\n<p>You better have your wits about you playing these titles,\u00a0there is no such thing as a second chance in the old West.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood &#8211; PS3, PC, Xbox 360<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/call-of-juarez-bound-in-blood\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Metacritic: 78<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a several titles that fall under the Jaurez series &#8211; some are great and some not so great. Bound in Blood was my favourite.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 2009 and developed by Techland, Bound in Blood featured two playable characters, bounties, stand-offs, and everything that you loved about being a cowboy.<\/p>\n<p>Bound in Blood was <em>the<\/em> Western of its day, and its showdown mechanic proved that every shot really does matter. The game impressed critics and score highly all round.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q4OCOb57OyU?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">GUN &#8211; PS2, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, PSP<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/gun\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Metacritic \u2013 76<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gun was\u00a0the open-world western of the PS2. Set in the 1800s, you play as Colton White, a gun-slinger seeking revenge while dealing with the trials of living in the Wild West.<\/p>\n<p>Bandit attacks, robberies, hunting animals, and cattle herding are all staples in the game, and it featured the ability to switch between third-person and first-person views &#8211; which was revolutionary at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The melee combat was another great addition, with the ability to use bows, knives, sabres, and tomahawks, to fell your enemies very useful.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lxrU0DVF_iA?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Red Dead Redemption &#8211; PS3, Xbox 360<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-3\/red-dead-redemption\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Metacritic &#8211; 95<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words cannot describe Red Dead Redemption&#8217;s amazing gameplay, strong story, and tragic ending.<\/p>\n<p>You need to explore the Wild West in all its glory, hunting, gathering, searching for bandits, and causing a Gunfight every now and then in this genre defining game.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stand-out features was the cover system, which went hand-in-hand with the Dead Eye mechanic, allowing you to slow down time, target a few enemies, and then blast them away.<\/p>\n<p>Couple this with the ability to throw your horse off a cliff it didn&#8217;t want to jump off and, later in the game, the inclusion of zombies, and you have a title worth of all the 10\/10 scores it received.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3gBctl1h_2o?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Know any other games set in the Wild West that are worth taking a look at? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63659-chinese-gamers-outnumber-us-citizens.html\">Chinese gamers outnumber US citizens<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63641-russian-gamer-unlocks-all-wow-achievements.html\">Russian gamer unlocks all WoW achievements<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63647-project-cars-release-date-announced.html\">Project Cars release date announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you hankering for some Wild West action? These games will fix you right up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":63687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6666,12349,21,10946],"class_list":["post-63290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-call-of-juarez","tag-gun","tag-headline","tag-red-dead-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63767,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions\/63767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}