Call of Juarez

It's like someone watched a spaghetti Western, drank six espressos, and said, ‘Let’s make this into a game with parkour and Bible quotes.’ art at its finest.

It's alright. A very clearly low budget, small game with a precise idea of what it wanted to do, but experimented with a lot of things. It definitely wanted to be a more realistic western shooter, so you have stuff like quick draws based on your reaction time. Billy's missions are very...flawed. The stealth feels very forced and dysfunctional, however it is made up for with extremely fun arrow mechanic. Also, the lasso being used for platforming is A VERY fun idea. Reverend Ray's missions are the highlight, because they offer badass shoot-em-up gameplay, while making you still act with a lot of tactic, by hiding behind objects, timing your shots and your slow-mo double wield aiming. I wanted to get more of things like horse riding, especially on the mission where you had to chase a culpruit on a horse and fight off a bunch of goons on their own horses using a shotgun or a rifle. It's great, just very janky.

Classic western with lots of great set peaces and solid gun play. 8/10 Can be a bit challenging at times so make sure to save often!

A really good western story Good story progression Fun gameplay that is a little bit outdated As good as a game released in 2007 can be, 8/10

No matter who you are, a preacher wearing a conquistador chest plate dual wielding a Bible and a pistol is one of the most badass and unique choices I've ever seen in an FPS game, and I absolutely love it. I hardly ever used both revolvers because of this bit of flavor added to Ray's character. I only wish there were more quotes in the rotation of things to say. Call of Juarez is an incredible hidden gem, a classic game with lots of charm and atmosphere. The plot is a bit mundane, but it's good enough to hold your interest, and the voice acting for most of the characters is solid for the time. The atmosphere when you're out in the wilderness is top notch, and the weapons all feel great to use. If you want to play a Western revenge story with one of the most badass preachers in fiction, pick this up.

[C-] Long campaign, groaning every time you climb something was atrocious especially with mission 9 climbing a hundred times had to turn sound effects off, only good thing was slow mo shooting#zesty

If you've ever wanted to “play” a Western Cowboy movie, this is your game. The guns, the dueling, the horse-riding sections including a long chase after a wagon carrying bandits and a kidnapped girl – They've got the tone down perfectly, except for when the game's jank breaks the immersion. Starting with the positives, this is a game in which aiming is the key skill. There's a bit of forgiveness on hitting your targets and it's mostly not an iron sights kind of thing, but you have to work at lining up the crosshairs even using a mouse. All of that results in tough but satisfying gunfights requiring good player aim even when provided a bunch of options and powers. For example, you can focus to zoom in, you can hold a gun quickfire style with your other hand feeding in bullets, you can duel-wield the large variety of pistols, and you can even duel-wield a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun to get the smaller crosshair for the normally inaccurate shotgun. There's a scoped rifle, thrown dynamite and a couple awesome turret gun spots. Weapon degradation causes rusty guns to eventually overheat and break, because apparently no one here is cleaning them. This forces you to trade up for those dropped by your enemies, though it's a bit odd to see guns treated as family heirlooms in one scene and then left behind during the next fight. The experienced gunfighter character has a special concentration mode where, if you walk around with no weapons drawn, he can pull them out in a flash as time slows down and two crosshairs move into position at the center. It's weird but makes you feel like the badass you are. Or he can hold a bible in one hand and throw out fiery biblical passages while shooting bad guys, which is silly fun. Also, the voice acting for characters is excellent. One or two line reads feel like they missed the meaning, but they sound like professionals performing a classic radio play. The story is both grand and focused, involving a lost treasure and a chase across the border with villains at every stop. The plot puts the two heroes in conflict; chapters alternate between a kid who's sneaky and mobile and prone to getting in trouble, then an old guy chasing him with the intent to kill in the name of revenge, and they solve other problems along the way. The old guy has a dark past and is one of the few people wearing armor, which makes him a deadly tank in fights. Unfortunately, this is where the game's flaws and jank show. Movement feels stiff and awkward and there's a troublesome determination to do it all in first-person “immersion” that makes everything more difficult. Sometimes they throw in timed “events” where you have to figure out what the game wants you to do before a short timer runs out, and these can get sneaky or complex. The game is also from the era in which everyone had physics puzzles, so of course you can pick up items. Maybe you'll even create a barricade in a fight, or at least that's what the designers may have imagined. In practice, it's annoying and useless. The early tutorial on using a box to climb higher is the last time you'll ever need that, and there's a total of one lame physics puzzle. Finally, let's just say the game is from the grimier westerns in its treatment of women. But if you can play through the jank and awkwardness, this is a full-throttle action adventure with serious drama and character growth. Plus it doesn't take long to beat and has some challenge for the experts.

Classic. Quickdraw, duel, slow motion. Jump puzzle, hunting, whip... The world is bigger and livelier than Call of Juarez 2. I believe this game has the best immersion in the trio. DirectX is a game changer, it makes the game looks really good. Some crashes then and there on windows 11, switching between the original, safe mode and DirectX will solve those crashes.

Howdy If you consider that the game is almost 20 years old, it is ok. I had fun for the first 2 hours, but unfortunately I encountered a game-crashing bug after that. It is the same bug that many others also had. I couldn't pull my gun while in a duel, so I couldn't go forward in the game. I couldn't find a solution for it, and the game isn't exciting enough to handle with it. Because of this bug, I can't recommend it. If you want to buy it, wait for a sale. There are no achievements to obtain. Playtime: ? hours Overall: 3 out of 10

Pretty fun but also super outdated. I like the idea of both stories & characters being separate but also connected and intertwining, it's impressive they did it as well as they did in 2006. That being said Billy's half of the story is incredibly boring and far too slow, Ray's half carries the game so much it's not even funny. Also the game barely runs on modern machines and crashes every hour or two but it's still worth playing. 5.5 / 10

The game is 18 years old and from a xbox 360 days, I don't like it when it is locked set to shader 4. Get it to go down to shader 3 and it looks better, smoother and higher FPS. The quick draw i still haven't quite figured out how to do it but i managed to pull it off after 30 attempts. Story is interesting and got all 3 on a sale. I haven't finished it yet so to be continued...

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is "technically" better in every way, but it doesn't have The Preacher yelling "For I am the Right hand of GOD!!!!!!!!!". Lordy this game needs a remake! It's Janky, badly optimized, with horrible conveyance (Keep a walkthrough on standby for this one) and the movement, stealth and combat feel awful. But!!! When I have a dedicated Bible button to quote scripture as I do THE LORDS WORK!!! I stop caring. When I get a mission to hunt rabbits and climb a big ass fucking mountain, and stop midway to gaze at the beautiful view... I stop caring. It's a perfect B-Movie but in game format. I see now why The Preacher was the most Iconic thing from this franchise!! His voice acting is heavenly!! His body armour actually works to stop bullets in game!! He feels like a horror movie monster hunting down Billy, like that one episode from the Simpsons with Skinner's hunting down Bart. He's just so fucking cool!!! Billy's... also good. He's the "Luke Skywalker" to The Preachers "Han Solo", you know? No complaints! I like that he calls out the American racism happening to him because he's a Mexican, but the game also shows Billy has learnt racism towards the Indian people that he has to confront after Calm Water saves him from nearly dying. Weirdos would call that "Woke" today. I like that his levels are very experimental, most not even having combat... when they aren't pretty bad stealth missions. They do "try" to make him feel like the scrappier rogue! but unfortunately the mechanics just aren't polished enough to make that feel good to play... and you get an instakill bow that slows down time when you aim, so... He feels like a "Skyrim Stealth Archer" instead of a "Jason Brody from Far Cry 3", you know? Which is why I think this game is praying, BEGGING THE LORD, for a remake!!!

Nice to play it again after 14 years.. feels different ofc but for it's time, very good game.

I tried, but the game is too old school wants you to do things it's way or you die and when you need to keep redoing sections unskippable cut-scenes become really annoying.

Call of juarez is a western first person shooter. The story is okay, i found it short. The gameplay is very good, but can be challenging with the duel's I wish this was remastered so i can use my controller. I do recommend this title. 6/10

Aside from some outdated language, it's actually pretty good, would recommend

A good story, but this game needs a remaster, badly..

Graphics and music aren't the best, But I enjoyed it, Thought Billy and Rays sections of the game were fun and had some unique mechanics. Rays bullet time mechanic and using Billy's whip for platforming. Loved the shooting and the riding.

Great game beat it in about 10 hours Pros -makes you feel like a gunslinger -had a fun story to play with lots of twists and turns - was cool seeing the people who worked on the game as little cards -interesting mechanics Cons - Lotta old game jank - the showdowns were tricky sometimes my gun wouldn't comeout - had to watch playthoughs a few times (the guy playing had to watch tutorials lol) Anyways I'm going to play blood in bound

Great game. I like Ray's voice.

Funny cowboy game.

Tem que atender o chamado do juarez

janky but good

A classic

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silly billy