Product Description

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is the prequel to the critically acclaimed Wild West action shooter Call of Juarez. As the McCall brothers, players enter a doomed quest for the legendary Gold of Juarez leading them from a ravaged Georgia during the Civil War to the Aztec ruins of Mexico. They make their lawless trail into the wildest West ever depicted, using their gun slinging skills and killing all of those that stand before them. But when brothers face Lust, their bound of blood feels thinner than ever...

• Dual Collaborative Gameplay: Players can choose to embody either Ray or Thomas, each with a distinctive gameplay style, specific abilities, and weapons. They collaborate with their other brother taking advantage of each of their strengths and joining fire in the fiercest fights imaginable.
• Deadly Gun Slinging: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood offers a visceral shooting experience, relying on gun skills and upgradeable guns. Whether close or long range, they harness a variety of weapons from heavy caliber canons to machine guns and various pistols for face-to-face duels. Every accurate shot increases their concentration, which allows them to unleash deadly shooting modes when outnumbered, and even deadlier ones when the brothers work together.
• Uncharted Territory: Bound in Blood depicts the West before it was tamed with iconic settings full of outlaws. The McCall brothers face a gritty Lady, a renegade Apache chief, a greedy Mexican bandit, and a vindictive Colonel, all driven by greed and moral disregard. The players enjoy a wide variety of situations, using horses, canoes, and wagons to explore the open natural landscapes of the mythical Wild West and of its legendary period.
• Innovative Western-themed Multiplayer: Gunslingers, Bandits, and Marshalls struggle online for the bounty. Multiple characters are unlocked for team-based objectives modes or the

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #304 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2009-07-03
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

Good looking western.
Call of Juarez is a little gem. Graphically it is very good, I sometimes find myself looking around at the scenery, there are a few tears but considering the draw view it is very polished. Controls are different but not impossible to master after an hour or so, you will soon be shooting from the hip. The controls feel similar to Resi 5 at first with the exception that you can run 'n' gun.

The story is very good, and you do start to sympathise with the characters. You can play as Ray or Thomas in most chapters as each character has their own skill or trait. However if you like collecting trophies then you will have to play this at least twice which is not a bad thing, as the characters take different routes so it won't be the same on your 2nd walk through. Voice acting sounds quite authentic and not too clichéd.

The game does start off slow as your fighting in the middle of the American civil war but I'm guessing it is to get you used to the combat controls. The game really picks up when the civil war is over and you start to get engrossed in the story, and soon becomes very hard to put down as you (well I did)will want to know how the story pans out.

The checkpoints as another reviewer has pointed out is a bit cumbersome and does pause the game momentarily, however as this game was made for 3 formats one can only presume that the autosave is very similar to that on a PC, but it really doesn't detract from the gameplay.

The side quests are a nice touch, adding a bit of variety and the chance to earn some much needed cash. Cash we can be spent buying new and better weapons. Also the horse riding elements is pretty good and quite easy to control and shoot at the same time. There is lots to do on single player, and even more on multiplayer, and after couple of hours I had no problems to report. Another good feature is that any kills or money picked up gets added to your single player and trophy stats, again this will please the trophy hunters.

I gave this game 5 stars for fun and 4 for overall. If you like FPS and ye olde style guns then you will love this. Call of Juarez is the benchmark for good old story telling in the wild west.

Bound To Please
Do not be put off by the one star review,this is definitely not a one star game. It looks good, it plays well and has great atmosphere. OK it is not a perfect game but if you like Westerns and First Person Shooters and don't have a COD4 fixation you should enjoy this.

OK for City Slickers
There are a lot of shoot `em ups out there and to be honest there are only a few routes the game can actually go. I think it's fair to say that the futuristic space romp has been done to death as has the world war mission type, both in the olden days and modern. Then came the zombie type which I personally love (See revs of Fear 2 and Left for Dead) but the wild west seemed to go relatively untouched which has got to be a mystery? I mean who doesn't like a tale of an ol' gunslinger galloping through the Wild West with a sheriff hot on his stirrups?! It's gold right? Well maybe in October when Red Dead Redemption comes out it will be - in the case of Bound in Blood it's more Fools Gold; shiny and looks good, but scratch the surface and it's not as polished as it looks.

The good points are they have managed to squeeze a load of cowboy clichés in this game which makes it feel really authentic, duels, cannons, cart chases and dynamite to name a few. Also the way you can rapid fire your six shooter by pulling the control stick down like the hammer on a pistol - we've all done this as kids, remember pointing at someone with your finger and flicking your thumb with your other hand? Well you can do it for real here and blow multiple people away! You can also mount horses, get into bar room brawls (Including busting through saloon swing doors) and you can even twirl a lasso by swinging your control stick. It's all good novelty fun.

Through the game you have the choice of which brother to play as, the only difference I could see was one can kick a door down and not climb and `tother one has a rifle, that's about it. Now I don't know why they didn't make this part a split screen co-op? It's all well and good games these days being tailored for online playing but what happens to the mate you got sat next to you? He has to sit and watch that's what.

Other than that the cut scenes are great as you'd expect from games these days, but they get a little wearing when you are repeating a section you have died on a dozen times and cannot skip them...which will happen because the difficulty is anywhere from a simple breeze to rock hard.

Story is interesting enough to keep your attention but where I feel this will ultimately lose out to RDR later in the year is the fact that it's still very dictated where you can actually go. You cant really explore around and despite taking the wide path through that corn field, there still is only one way through which ultimately cuts the lifespan of this game short and although I didn't finish it, I have no real desire to repeat what I have already done.

All in all, good fun and hits a lot of nostalgic notes for those city slickers but I recon rent and wait for the `most wanted' game to come out in Oct...