Maybe this is just us, but we get a little nervous when a demo is released nearly three months after the game it's supposed to be promoting. "Call of Juarez? You want to try that?" Ubisoft seems to be saying. "You mean the western thing where you're a preacher or whatever? Yeah, that's probably lying around here somewhere, let me check in the back."
As an aside, we find it interesting that the Call of Juarez demo gets to Xbox Live on the same day that the Call of Duty 4 public beta begins in earnest. Honestly, if we were at home on a Friday night and had to answer one of the calls, we'd be flummoxed. Duty always wants you to go fight for your country or something but Juarez is usually planning to read bible verses to people and then shoot them. Ah well, at least they're better than Cthulhu. You may just want to block his number.
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Aug 29th 2007 1:01PM (Unverified) said
Procopio, I thought exactly the same thing. Damn, they really need to make the preacher series good, and not destroy it.
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Posted: Aug 29th 2007 11:26AM (Unverified) said
That game was such a letdown, no wonder it lost so much momentum before it was released. The preacher levels were a lot of fun, but the skinny young guy with the whip? Ugh. It was like they were trying to capture the spirit of all those horrible jumping puzzles in the original Halflife, and mix it with all those horrible stealth games where if the super aware AI heard you step too loudly, you automatically lost. The story was all over the place, the voice acting was really inconsistent, and only half the game was even moderately enjoyable as a really standard run and gun FPS. I mean, I love westerns, and I'm glad they took a shot at it, but I'd take Red Dead Revolver or Gun over this pile of crap any day of the week. Even the PSP versions.
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Posted: Aug 29th 2007 12:20PM Garageink said
I agree I am way into westerns. I loved red dead revolver and gun, so of course I snapped up juarez on release day. and promptly allowed it to collect dust a few hours later. I just can't stand the stealth and jumping parts. I want a good western game based on Unforgiven, tombstone or palerider.
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Posted: Aug 29th 2007 2:37PM Rax Dakkar said
I find it odd that i played a demo of this game on PC last november. I was really excited back then, but I couldn't purchase it becuase it was realeased in europe. When I heard it was coming to america I was excited again, to play a FPS that was postapocalyptic/WWII, but then it took till summer to come out so I never picked it up. I can only imagine the opposite happens with games being relesased in the US first then going to europe, and this really make absolutley no since for the publishers. They could easily have gotten a sale from me if i could have bought it last year right after I played the demo, and I'm sure many europeans feel the same way about how long it takes games to reach their countries.
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Posted: Aug 29th 2007 3:53PM Rymix said
Is this the first FPS where the point of focus shifts depending on where you're looking?
I mean, if you look through a window, the scenery outside is in focus and the window frame is out of focus.
Look at the window frame, and the scenery gets blurry.
Quite clever, I thought, if a little distracting.
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I mean, if you look through a window, the scenery outside is in focus and the window frame is out of focus.
Look at the window frame, and the scenery gets blurry.
Quite clever, I thought, if a little distracting.
Posted: Aug 29th 2007 6:36PM (Unverified) said
I just downloaded and tried it out of curiosity. Terrible. I got bored after I wasted 5 minutes wondering what I was supposed to do after I slow mo killed the cowboy guys. I read the bible to a wagon wheel for a minute and then I decided to pick up the wheel and throw it at the ground. It got stuck in the ground and started looping this scraping sound effect over and over. I'm Ok. I deleted the demo off my HDD, I'm safe now.
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