Gun (video game)

When life robs Colton White of all that matters, the only thing he can trust is his GUN.

A Wide Open Sandbox Western Third-Person Shooter.

Colton "Cole" White lives a life of a Mountain Man with his father Ned. However, after a routine hunting mission, he encounters man named Reed at a river steamboat where he and Ned sell their game. Reed leads an attack on the ship with help of the local Renegades and just before Colton falls overboard, Ned tells him a startling truth: He isn't Colton's father, and there's a small treasure waiting for him.

After recovering, Colton sets out to find Reed for some good ol' Revenge. He ends up crossing paths with Magruder, Reed's boss, who has closer ties to Colton's past than he knows.

GUN was a Multi Platform release for PlayStation 2, Game Cube, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PC. It also got an Updated Rerelease on PSP as Gun: Showdown.

Tropes used in Gun include:

100% Completion: Easier to get than a lot of games of this type.
Action Girl: Jenny.
AKA-47: Averted. All the guns are given their actual names. Even the Rare Guns.
Ancestral Weapon: The Ferguson Rifle.
And This Is For: Said by Cole before he kills Reed: " This... is for Jenny!"
And Your Reward Is Clothes: Your clothes change as you progress through the game. You get your final set by completing all the hunting missions.
The Archer: You get to use bows.
- Plus flaming arrows and dynamite arrows.
The Atoner: Ned.
Awesome but Impractical: The Nock Gun and the Cannon Nock Gun. Sure, they're ridiculously powerful weapons, but the only way to get them is to beat the main missions (for the Nock Gun) and all the side missions (for the Cannon Nock Gun), at which point, the only use for them is to wipe out towns or take out random bandit attacks which occur from time to time.
- There is an easter egg that lets you replay earlier levels with your advanced weapons and skills once you've finished the game. Playing the first few levels with the Nock Gun, the Ferguson and full quick-draw skills is fun, but no challenge at all.
Awesome Yet Practical: The Ferguson Rifle. Sure, it only has a one round capacity, but by the time you get it, you can reload quickly enough for that not to matter. Plus, it has plenty of stopping power. Enough to take arms and legs off.
An Axe to Grind: An axe is your second melee weapon.
- Well, one of them anyway. You also get a Bowie Knife, and a Cavalry Saber.
Bald of Evil: Dutchie.
Bar Brawl: One breaks out when you visit Alhambra saloon for the first time.
Beard of Evil: Magruder.
Big No
Bling Bling Bang: Hoodoo Brown's engraved Colt Peacemaker revolvers. You get them once you defeat him.
Boarding Party: You get your first taste of gunfight action when the Renegades attack the Steamboat you're on.
Bond One-Liner
Bragging Rights Reward: After finishing the game 100%, you get the most powerful shotgun and an armored steed.
Bullet Time: The Quickdraw mechanic.
Cattle Drive: One of the side missions.
Chinese Laborer
Cold-Blooded Torture: Done to Clay when Hoodoo's men capture him.
- Soapy Jennings also got his share of torture.
Cool Horse: "Reverend" Josiah Reed has one badass-looking horse. Which you can get by the way.
Cover Drop: The picture on the cover is actually Magruder's logo of some sort.
Destination Defenestration
Did Not Do the Research: The game is stated by Colt to take place in 1880, but, according to Clay, takes place ten years after the American Civil War ended, which is not an accurate date. Also, see Writers Cannot Do Math
Dirty Cop: Hoodoo's deputies who in fact are the rather famous outlaws J.J. Webbs and Dave Rudabaugh.
Disposable Sex Worker: Jenny.
The Dragon: Josiah Reed appears to be Magruder's Dragon in the beginning but the title belongs to Dutchie.
Ear Ache: Magruder orders his Dragon to cut Reed's ear off as a punishment when he fails to bring the missing piece from the cross of Coronado to him.
Escort Mission: All the time...
Even Evil Has Standards: Despite looking like Rob Zombie's great grandfather returned from the dead, and being a little Axe Crazy, Sergeant Hollister is a pretty accommodating host when he captures Colton and Soapy. Offering them drinks and even some captured Indian women. Granted he's doing this while he tries to figure out whether or not to KILL them and gut their corpses. But still, can't say he's not a gracious host.
Everything's Worse with Bears: The tutorial ends with a fight against a bear.
Everything's Worse with Wolves: Wolves are common enemies in the side missions.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: There are guns and you get to shoot with them too!
Exploding Barrels
Eyepatch of Power: Magruder.
Facial Markings: Both Indians and Renegades use them.
Fake-Out Opening: First thing you see when you start the game are Conquistadores wandering in a desert.
Fingore: Magruder shoots two of Soapy's fingers off when he is interrogating him.
Flaying Alive: After buying a certain item you'll be able to scalp your downed opponents if they are still alive. It doesn't net you anything, it's just cool.
Frontier Doctor: Cambpell.
Gatling Good: There are plenty gatling guns.
Gorn: This game does not scrimp on the violence.
Greed: Magruder's motivation.
Grievous Bottley Harm
Groin Attack: One of the wanted outlaws is a chick who castrated someone.
- This gets a Call Back when the victim of said Groin Attack goes Axe Crazy and tries to burn down a town.
Guns Akimbo
The Gunslinger: Colton.
Halfbreed: Colton.
Harder Than Hard: The Insane -difficulty.
Historical Domain Character: Clay Allison, Chavey Y Chavez, Dave Rudabaugh, J.J. Webb and Hoodoo Brown all existed in reality.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Jenny and Sadie.
Hyperactive Metabolism: Drinking Whiskey fixes all injuries.
I Like Swords: Cavalry sword is one of the melee weapons you can get.
- The best one, in fact.
Injun Country
Ironic Nickname: "Honest" Tom.
Knife Nut: Knife is your starter melee weapon.
Meat Shield: You are able to do this to disoriented foes.
Moe Greene Special: How Magruder lost his eye.
Molotov Cocktail: Here they are known as Whiskey Bombs.
Money for Nothing
Mountain Man: Ned.
New Game+: Available as a cheat when you have finished the game.
Not What I Signed on For: Ned's reaction when he witnessed the Apache village massacre by Major Magruder.
One Word Title
Pistol-Whipping: Ned is shown whacking Renegades with his rifle when he runs out of bullets at the end of the steamboat battle.
Plot Hole: Clay's information about when he believed Ned to have been killed, combined with Colt being an infant that Ned found during this incident means that Colt cannot possibly be older than 12 years old.
- Made even worse by the fact that Colt mentions via a flashback that around a dozen years prior to the game, he was attacked and almost killed by a cougar.
Pony Express Rider: One of your side jobs.
Prison Episode: This game has two of them.
Pyromaniac: Toby "The Torch", the former mayor of Dodge City.
Quick Nip: You carry a flask of whiskey which can recover some of your health whenever you drink from it.
Railroad Baron: Magruder.
Rancher: One of your side jobs.
Rare Guns: The Ferguson Rifle and the Nock Gun.
La Résistance
The Remnant : Colonel Hollister and his army can be considered this.
The Rustler: One of the enemy types you get to fight.
The Sheriff: Both Dodge City and Empire City have one, and both give you deputy missions where you have to clean the town yourself.
Shoot the Rope: You must rescue Soapy this way.
Sinister Minister: Josiah Reed, one mean bastard who fancies himself a man of god... while ruthlessly murdering innocent people.
Slashed Throat
SNK Boss: Magruder.
Space Compression
Super Drowning Skills
Take My Hand
Taking You with Me: When defeated, Colonel Hollister puts a few dynamite sticks into his wounds and attempts to blow you up.
Token Romance: Subverted. Though Colt sleeps with Jenny early on and there seems to be chemistry between them, Reed slits her throat less than halfway into the game.
Two Shots From Behind the Bar: After Jenny is taken hostage at the Alhambra Saloon, the bartender unlocks a cabinet behind the bar and pulls out what appears to be a rifle. However, after the cutscene ends he actually uses a pistol instead.
Video Game Cruelty Potential: The Dynamite Arrows have this in spades. Hit a civilian with one and they'll run away (the standard reaction to being attacked); a few seconds later, *BOOM*. Except for prostitutes, who will run towards you in an attempt to knife you, so only attack them from a safe distance.
Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Go around murdering civilians, and a "Town Patience" meter will pop up. If that meter drops to zero, then the town's militia will start coming after you.
Wanted Poster: You can start Bounty Hunter missions by examining these.
When All You Have Is a Hammer: Literally every single challenge and obstacle in this game is overcome by shooting it.
Writers Cannot Do Math: According to Clay, Ned was nearly killed in an incident during the Civil War, during which Ned found Colt, as a baby, ten years prior to the start of the game. No more than a few seconds of thinking about this should make it clear what is wrong with that statement.
- Though, it does explain why everyone refers to Colt as "kid".
The Wild West