Red Dead Revolver: Difference between revisions

''Red Dead Revolver'' is a [[Third Person Shooter|third-person shooter]] from 2004, developed by Rockstar Games after sitting in Capcom's [[Development Hell]] for a while.

 

 

Sound vaguely familiar? That's because the game's an extended homage to the classic [[Spaghetti Western]], as least as much as its predecessor ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' was to film noir. A lot of effort went into the atmosphere, including giving an oversaturated and 'grainy' cinematic quality to the visuals and building a [[Crowning Music of Awesome|fantastic score]] heavily influenced by (and almost indistinguishable from) Ennio Morricone's best.

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* [[Action Girl]]: Annie Stoakes.

** [[Dark Action Girl]]: Whip-crazy Bad Bessie and Christina, the shotgun-toting lady stripper.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: "Blind" Willy Wilson.

* [[Ancestral Weapon]]: The Scorpion Revolver.

** Several character-specific special abilities in multi-player also cross into this.

* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The exquisite pair of Scorpion pistols that Nate Harlow and Griff have custom-made are also the most powerful in the game. One bullet was enough to sever Colonel Daren's left arm from its socket.

* [[Badass Boast]]: See [[You Shall Not Pass]] down below.

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Jack Swift and Sheriff Bartlett, among others.

* [[Bayonet Ya]]: The Bayonet Rifle

* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Governor Griffon, your father's former partner, who sold you and your family out to Diego and Daren, and used the proceeds to become Governor.}}

* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: The Widowmaker revolver is one pimped out piece.

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Jack Swift after killing knife-thrower Clyde 'The Blade' Slade: "I think you've lost your edge."

** Annie Stoakes also faces a pair of buffalo-riding outlaws who can cause her cattle to go nuts and try to flatten her, making them a literal example.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Mr. Kelley has an adopted daughter named [[Natalie Portman|Natalie]] who he's training to be a gunfighter like himself. If Red speaks to her in the saloon, she will sometimes say:

* [[The Cavalry]]: Inverted. They show up at the usual time, but they're on the Big Bad's payroll.

* [[The Chief's Daughter]]: Falling Star, Red's mother.

* [[Flare Gun]]: General Diego's special move, which is used to guide cannonfire in his level.

* [[Four-Star Badass]]: General Diego.

{{quote|"Keel heem, and let's get back to dreenking!"}}

* [[Gatling Good]]: The preferred Old West method of delivering [[More Dakka]]. A few stationary ones are scattered about the game, and you are required to commandeer a train cart-mounted one to take down a locomotive during one level. Also, Mr. Black likes to keep one in that coffin on his back.

* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: Dammit Dr. Perry, ''stop teleporting''!

* [[Ghost Town]]: Tarnation, thanks to Mr Black.

* [[Monster Clown]]: Early on you do battle with an army of shotgun wielding midget clowns.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Mr. Black and Mr. Lynch.

** The Saloon girls combine this with [[Stocking Filler]].

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: The Duellist.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: The voice actor for Red can't really decide whether or not he wants to use a "western" accent, and since Red doesn't speak very much, the accent used for Red changes in pretty much every scene that he does speak in.

* [[Quick Draw]]: Several enemies will engage you in quick draw duels throughout the game. You're also required to participate in a quick draw tournament late in the game.

* [[Railing Kill]]: Can be done to one of the rifle-mooks on the third level.

* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The game offers quite a few scenes of amazing Western scenery.

 

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[[Category:The Western]]

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