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''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.
You play as Red Harlow, who after being violently orphaned at a young age becomes a bounty hunter in classic [[Man With No Name]] tradition, hunting down [[World of Ham|colorful outlaws]] for whatever money he can get for them. A chance encounter puts him on the trail of the man behind the death of his parents, and the game climaxes in a huge battle to finally bring him to justice.
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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* [[Acquired Poison Immunity]]: The same [[All-Natural Snake Oil|snake oil]] that Professor Perry's poisoned entire communities with (and makes anyone else ''[[Body Horror|putrefy]]'' if they get it on their skin) [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|apparently]] acts as a [[Super Serum]] on the man himself.
▲* [[Acquired Poison Immunity]]: The same [[All-Natural Snake Oil|snake oil]] that Professor Perry's poisoned entire communities with (and makes anyone else ''[[Body Horror|putrefy]]'' if they get it on their skin) [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|apparently]] acts as a [[Super Serum]] on the man himself.
* [[Action Girl]]: Annie Stoakes.
** [[Dark Action Girl]]: Whip-crazy Bad Bessie and Christina, the shotgun-toting lady stripper.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Background information for about everything can only found in the in-game journal, which is filled by buying various items.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: "Blind" Willy Wilson.
* [[Ancestral Weapon]]: The Scorpion Revolver.
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** 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 Beard]] [[Beard of Evil|Of Evil]]: Diego, who's also a [[Badass Grandpa]].
* [[Badass Boast]]: See [[You Shall Not Pass]] down below.
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Jack Swift and Sheriff Bartlett, among others.
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* [[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.}}
* [[Big Fancy House]]: The second-to-last level takes place in one of these
* [[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."
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** 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:
{{quote|"[[Léon: The Professional|Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?]]"}}
* [[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.
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* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Bad Bessie.
* [[Death Mountain]]: Rogue Valley.
* [[
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The bridge in the level where you play as General Diego looks ''exactly'' like the bridge towards the end of ''The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.'' Both of them are even blown up!
* [[The Dragon]]: Colonel Daren to General Diego.
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* [[Flare Gun]]: General Diego's special move, which is used to guide cannonfire in his level.
* [[Four-Star Badass]]: General Diego.
* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Gabriel Navarro, Mexican gunfighter and barfly.
{{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.
* [[General Ripper]]: Diego again.
* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: Dammit Dr. Perry, ''stop teleporting''!
* [[Ghost Town]]: Tarnation, thanks to Mr Black.
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* [[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.
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Bad Bessie wears little more than a corset. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether this is [[Fan Service]] or [[Fan Disservice]], though.
** The Saloon girls combine this with [[Stocking Filler]].
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Besides Red, all of the different playable characters are only usable for one level.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: Revolvers is all there is, cowboy - at least as far as handguns are concerned. But the best gun in the game IS a revolver rather than a rifle or shotgun.
* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The game offers quite a few scenes of amazing Western scenery.
* [[See You in Hell]]: Last words of many, many mooks.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: One of the outlaws in Widow's Patch does this. Red doesn't take kindly to it.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Being highly based upon [[The Western]], in particular [[Spaghetti Western|SpaghettiWesterns]], the game has plenty of shout-outs to various cowboy films.
** Diego, while fighting you, will shout [[Scarface|"Say hello to my little friend!"]]
** One fight in the Annie Stokes level plays out an awful lot like a game of ''[[Space Invaders]]''.
** Supporting character 'Blind Willy Wilson' is most likely a [[Shout-Out|nod]] to the blues singer Blind Willy McTell- [[The White Stripes]] covered one of his songs.
** The dueling contest itself is almost a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the Sam Raimi film ''[[The Quick and the Dead]]''. Red Harlow's name is a [[Shout-Out]] to the unrelated Louis L'Amour novel of the same name.
** Three dueling enemies in the Jailbreak level are named [[Sergio Leone|Sergio]], [[Ennio Morricone|Ennio]] and [[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|Eli]]
** Mr. Black's gatling-coffin is similar to the one used by [[Django]].
* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: A pretty well-executed game play mechanic. It's also {{spoiler|how you finish off the [[Big Bad]]}}.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The saloon's player piano keeps going during the bar fight level so you get glassed and thrown through tables to the perky sounds of 'Oh, Susannah' and a ragtime version of 'Flight of the Bumblebee'.
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