Gun is - pardonne mon Francais - ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ adorable. I tried to play this first on my old dinosaur, a 1.9GHz XP machine with a GeForce 440MX, but that wasn't up to the task. Next I finished the game sometime before the Plague Times on the Gamecube version on the Wii U through a sort of compatibility layer called Nintendont. (the Wii U is basically a souped-up Wii which is basically a souped-up Gamecube)

You can SEE that it's Neversoft's in-house engine, responsible for THPS3, 4, UG, UG2, etc. That's on full display, especially in the Load/Save screen. It is, by all modern standards, absurdly ♥♥♥♥-ugly. That is mind, not a knock against it, by any stretch of the imagination. It is simply a result of trying to cram gritty reality into the engines of the sixth video game console generation, not in the least, engines developed by skating-obsessed frat bros.

And yet, purely because the game can't fully pull off what it's trying to do, GUN is what many story-based games fail to be: fun. The crosshair is at least the size of Wales, so as long as your target falls within the box, it'll get nailed. There's a super-fun 'Quickdraw' mechanic, sort of like Dead Eye in RDR, where you can quickly snap to enemies and shoot all you want, beyond your six-shooter's normal capacity, letting you quickly gain the upper hand when you're overwhelmed. Above all, despite being story-based, GUN still wants you to have fun, something which a lot of story-based games fail to be.

The presentation is equally adorable. I've talked about how ugly the game is, the polys are absurdly jagged, the textures stretched to within an inch of their life yet trying in vain to exhibit vast detail. By that same token, Activision gave them a mandate to level the game up, so must have loosed enough in the budget to get some heavy acting hitters, folks like Lance Henriksen, Brad Dourif and Ron Perlman, to voice-acting heavyweights like Kath Soucie, Nolan North, Dwight Schultz, Fred Tatascoire, and Vanessa Marshall, heck even Kefka himself, Dave Wittenberg, and Koki Kariya himself, Andrew Kishino, are here. They give stellar performances that push the game forward and make it feel like a fine production. And yet, the subtitle background takes up like the upper fifth of the screen while the subtitles themselves are only two lines.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: GUN is stinking adorable. It's the video game equivalent of a good boy who fell in with good and cheeky friends, but they all clean up to go to their weddings together and do right by their ladies. Absolutely pick this up.

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I couldn't beat this game 20 years ago. I finally completed it. 10/10

Save often! I had a few crashes that cost me a couple of hours of replay.