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Call of Juarez: Bound of Blood

  • mjens
  • January 13, 2009 at 8:37 PM
  • -HP-
    • July 15, 2009 at 8:46 PM
    • #81

    Ok, just finished it. Took me around 6.5 hours. Which might sound short, but I felt it had the right length.

    Really loved the game, pure shooting fest!! the revolvers really feel powerful and awesome!

    Cons

    Stars (objectives) always on screen are annoying, and make the game a tad bit too linear. Which is a shame because this engine could really handle non-linearity well, a little bit of sandbox wouldn't hurt. When playing games, I like to find the correct path on my own, not permanently being told where to go.

    Now, for the horses. During shoot-outs, if the horses are right in the middle, they just stand there. In real life, they would be scared and run the fuck outta there. (take Shadows of the colossus horse, for example)

    Sometimes, there are some discrepancies on textures resolutions, especially on the slopes of the desert level, like a very low res wall texture next to a fairly detailed rock.

    Oh, and what's with the permanent "Press ESC to skip this cutscene" during cutscenes?

    Now, for the pros.

    Great cover system!! Most of the cover systems on this gen. games are very intrusive, this one just works well! (Except for multi-player, I found it very annoying in there, mostly because it automatically zooms in)

    Gotta love those stats that apear in the end of each level, made me remember the good old Doom1 times.

    Music and sound, 5 stars!!

    Overall, a very nice experience! Oh, and NICE plot! The whole brothers stuff, really worked out! And boy oh boy, it fits perfectly in the western "universe".

    This game also looks very, very, very good, and surprisingly it runs really well at 1680*1050.

    Recommended!

    Congratulations to techland, fine job you guys did here! Cheers seir!

  • jaboo224
    • July 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM
    • #82

    I agree with you HP on pretty much all your points.

    The cover system is fantastic! its a stunning game with solid mechanics. Plenty of gameplay i think as well and not bad story arch.

    voice acting (the natives sound so lame) / lip syncing is pretty bad tho

  • Furyo
    • July 19, 2009 at 7:08 AM
    • #83

    I was initially reluctant to give this one a go, after the horrendous experience I have recently had trying the first one. It felt stiff, extremely linear and quite ugly by today's standards. But since a colleague of mine bought the second and offered to lend it to me, I said what the hell.

    And this is a very pleasant surprise. The tech holds itself pretty well and while it's sometimes obvious you guys took the easy way out of certain problematic situations (justifying horses crushing through obstacles, no mount/dismount animations, extremely weird horse riding feeling, very very simple cannon exotic gameplay sequence, etc etc) these are easily forgotten in the light of the excellent feeling shooting these guns, the concentration mode that adds a lot to what would otherwise become a chore.

    I'm currently in the hub part of the game before heading to Mendoza's, and I REALLY dig that you added this little part with side quests. I was talking to some colleagues how this game should have been an RPG to me, and there I find this hub tonight....

    Recommended play to anyone, give it a shot when you can

    Edit: Added bonus points for the ability to track your achievements progress in the menu. You took a page off Valve's playbook, and more power to you

  • mjens
    • July 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM
    • #84

    Nice, good to know you guys like it!

  • mjens
    • August 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM
    • #85

    http://www.bigdownload.com/games/call-o ... blood-demo

    DEMO is out!

  • -HP-
    • August 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM
    • #86

    http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... d-in-Blood

  • mjens
    • September 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
    • #87

    Good news:

    The patch will be released in few days. There's some pages with patch 1.1.0.0. available but it's not the final patch. The good news is that the map editor will be released. Watch this link for updates:

    http://www.cojmodding.com

  • -HP-
    • September 12, 2009 at 8:46 PM
    • #88

    Might give it a go if has decent help / tutorials.

  • mjens
    • September 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM
    • #89

    That would be great to see some maps from mapcorians!

    Feel free to ask me. I'll also make some tutorials!

  • Jenn0_Bing
    • September 12, 2009 at 11:22 PM
    • #90

    Ooooh, sounds fun, id love to get my hands on that. Finished this yesterday, been chipping away at it a bit at a time. Really enjoyed it overall, i died more times in that final fight than in the whole of the game though probably.

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