User Reviews (11 - 21 of 43)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Yeeehaaaww!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I read allot of average reviews for this game before I bought it and I bought it anyway without having played it a lick. I was right as usual, critics are just people with subjective opinions; just like this one.

Personally I have been looking for a good Western Shooter for quite a while and this game really delivers as far as I'm concerned. The music soundtrack is awesome, as was stated elsewhere. The gameplay is a pile of fun and for those of us who are real Western fans it's all you want from a game like this. The scenery is cool and retro and everything has an air of grit and Morricone!

Red is a fun character as are some of the others you end up playing with. All in all I've had a blast playing this game today and while I'm not done with it yet I'm enjoying myself in a way no other game has offered in quite a long time.

If your after a cool Western Shooter with interesting takes on gameplay like the duels (Deadeye mode), then this might just be the game for you. I would advise not reading the reviews of the major gamer sites and magazines on this game, they were way off base for my money. Play it!

Max Payne in the old west

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like Max Payne you will like this game. The levels are varied and interesting. It was neat riding the horse to catch the train and shooting indians while riding in the wagon. The missions were not overly long so I felt like I was moving right along in the game. Dueling was difficult but once I figured out how to move fast it was manageable. I finished the game in five days. About 8-10 hours of game time. Bottom line is I never got bored. It was an addictive (although frustrating at times ) game.

A classic western shooter made by Rockstar!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I went to Gamestop a few weeks ago and picked up this game due to its introduction. I mean, how addicting is this introduction that you find on the back of this game?

"Vast, Rugged, and lawless, as a young man,
you were helpless to prevent the slaughter
of your family at the hands of bandits,
many years later, you live as a
bounty hunter bringing criminals to
justice, while struggling to unravel
the mystery of your past. You must find those who murdered your family. Then, you will take your revenge".

Just that simple and detailed introduction is what made me pick up this game in a flash, and i can tell you, i defintely do not regret it considering its excellent gameplay, graphics, audio and lots and lots of violence! I mean, what do you expect from Rockstar?

The story is great, you basically play Red whos family has died and hes basically avenging their deaths. As you progress through the levels, the story becomes more in depth addicting you even more to the game.

Graphics- The graphics in Rockstar's Red Dead Revolver are actually really good, and it was a surprise to considering that their graphics usually arent. But it was different in this game. The character models look great, the background detail is amazing as it takes place in the old Western times, and boy, can you tell that it does. The cutscenes are very well done but the only problem with the graphics in this game that i find is that the blood, much like a lot of other games, lacks in detail and it looks like a big shower of red circles which they could have done a much better job with. But overall, the graphics are probobly one of the better aspects of the game thus making Red Dead Revolver very fun and entertaining, but a little TOO gruesome at times as characters heads can sometimes completely implode and blood goes flying everywhere.

Gameplay- The gameplay in Red Dead Revolver is extremely good as well. You are given many options that you can do such as lock on to characters, perform special moves with your western gun, duck and roll and many others. As you progress through the levels, you get the option to buy new guns which make Red Dead Revolver a more rewarding game to beat, as many games now a days aren't at all, you just beat them for the sake of it. Simple and easy controlls to master, and yet such a detailed game, make this game a must play.

The only problem that i find with this game is that it can be extremely frustrating at times. For example, i remember that in one level i had to fight of seven sets of four enemies before i finally got to the boss (there are bosses in most of the levels.) The bosses can also be extremely difficult to beat, which make this game more frustrating at times.

The multiplayer is also great, up to four players can battle against each other, using practically any weapon they want, once they find it around the map. Very addicting, and highly fun/entertaining to play.

But overall, the gameplay of Red Dead Revolver is great, and even if your a little bit of a gaming expertice, this game shouldn't be that difficult to beat.

Audio- There isn't much to say about the Audio aspect of the game. Its just old Western music that gives Red Dead Revolver a more of a theme to it, so it doesn't end up being a wannabe western game.

Unfortunetely, there is no online play for Red Dead Revolver. I think that they should have made it so that it did, and that 16 players could play at one time. If that were so, i would have given Red Dead Revolver a full 5/5, but for now i'm sticking with 4/5. Still a very fun/entertaining game to play, no matter what the price!

glued to my seat

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's about time a good western game comes down the pipe! I don't know why people are saying that this game lacks originality. I thought this game was in a class of its own. I like the fact that you can play as multiple characters throughout the missions and the storyline is pretty cool too. The graphics are beautiful and the gameplay is smooth. If you like games like Max Payne, GTA, Dead to Rights etc.. you are sure to enjoy RDR. If you hate video games, but like western movies you'll still enjoy this game. The only bummer about RDR is there is no co-op. Heck of a game anyway!

Fun from front to finish with plenty of replay value

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A well-rounded third person western shoot'em up with a good story backdrop and colorful characters. The player is taken through level after level of old school shootouts, bar fights, train jackings and show downs. The sheer variety of game play is what keeps this game fresh. Each level has it's own charm and the pace is given a good change up by occasionally switching the characters you play (which all enhance and progress the storyline). The controls and aiming are smooth and the graphics are dusty and gritty like the old west. Kills are gratifying as the screen does this little 'pulse' to let you know when you've dealt the fatal blow. While there is a backdrop of 'revenge-of-my-murdered parents' plot, the game has a small city of Brimstone with npc characters to chat with and get more storyline. There are also shops you can enter to purchase goods and spend money unlocking journal pages (a readable scrap book that gives background information on items, places, things in the game) and showdown characters. These showdown characters make for another side game more suited for multiplayer purposes. A good array of guns and other weapons equals non-stop action. RDR is fun from front to finish with plenty of replay value.

Kind of like Italian Westerns of the 60's and 70's

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When you play the game, only thing you wish is that they had better graphics. The game play is ok. Does remind one of old Italian westerns. The theme of revenge, and a bounty hunter in search of the killer of his parents. The character even looks kind of like Eastwood. Not the best game but still fun to play.

Mr. De Leon, You'd Be Very Proud...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

..Firstly, i think that i should point out that while i am and always have been a very avid and prolific gamer, in the past few years, this love of sitting, eating, and pushing buttons into the wee hours of the morning on any day of the average week has become..a thing of lesser joy, i'll say. In the past three or four years, there have been few games that have made me want to actually finish them off, that have made me want to see how the various characters ended up, whether they lived or died,how the storyline tied up....Indeed, i can honestly say that games like Max Payne, Grand Theft Auto, and The Assassin have never really drawn my attention....it was mostly fighting games for me...or maybe the exceptionally sensible exception, such as Kingdom Hearts....and then came Red Dead Revolver. Recomended to me by my Best Friend and 1/5 of my KA-TET, i bought this game simply because i was given a good rating, and was told that i'd absolutely love this game. The person who gave the rating to me has the same type of tastes that i do in video games, so, without so much as a careful onceover of my checking account balance, i bought this game, ock, stock, and barrel. And man, was i right to do that. The game starts off nearly identical to your typical Western flick, what with the killing of the main character's family, and his following proclamation of Bloody Wrath And Revenge. The game fast becomes an excellent forray into why games like this matter, that is to say, why it is important to dare being original...failure may follow, but so might Glorious Success! The game plays just as those before it did, but to me at least, the controls are far more well oiled and appropriate for a game such as this. As violent and bloody as the average player would want, Red Dead Revolver is no pinch on the inclusion of great tall tell telling, either. The story is absolutely hokey and old hat and by the book Old West, but that's what makes it great to play. You feel as if you're living through all the twisted complications and plot throwbacks that the main character is as you play the game. And best of all, all the right touches are there. The ten gallon hats. The fast shoot outs and Duels. The sheer look of the game and backgrounds. The over the top villans and their fun, yet deadly pltos and plans. You even get to save 'The Old Farm' at one point in the game. The cast is so authentically varied that it had my friends and i reeling back in surprise. Too many times have i had the experience of playing through a game with the heroic caucasian main character...not here, though. There are Hispanic, African American, Indian and even female main characters to play through the game with, and what's more, their inclusion adds to the game, making the overall story more sensible and more real. It just feels more authentic. It feels very reinvigorating to not play through a completely fictitious landscape that is the video game equivolent of Friends, with no racial or cultural diversity at all. I won't say too much else, but for those of you who are really itching to get away from the Grand Theft Auto-type gameplay and storytelling that has rather infected the genre of late, have a look and play at this fantastic game...you will NOT be disappointed.
Hawksmoor...From The Bleed

Where did all the cowboys go?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: August 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let's face it, American cowboys have gotten far less attention then their Japanese samurai counter-part, it seems like every month we get some new hack 'n slash title full of sweaty samurai. But perhaps the most reasonable explanation to all that could very well be that western games stink. The only bright spots that come to mind are Lucas Art's Outlaws and Konami's Sunset Riders. So attempting at all cost to bring the cowboy back into the picture, perennial controversial-spurring-favorites Rockstar Games have planted for us in the gaming soil Red Dead Revolver.

o discuss Red Dead Revolver without bringing up an issue of just how much explicit graphical nature this game has would be almost unheard, especially taken from the game company that gave us Manhunt and Gran Theft Auto. Much to my surprise, this game didn't really have anything that was over-the-top, it was all kept to a minimum.

You start the game as Red, the lone gunman whose pa' was killed when he was just a young 'un. Much like Conan the Barbarian revenge upon your father's grave is the primary focus for igniting the plot. Think Conan, just not as many governors and well, more sheriffs. The games story mode doesn't play anything similar to Gran Theft Auto, so cancel out any assumption that you'll be robbing people of their wagons and horses to cruise around town--instead the levels are condensed to linear and very tight surroundings. In addition to playing as Red, about 1/4 of the way to finishing the games many levels you'll take control of an additional character, who plays just the same.

Regardless of which character you play as, Red Dead Revolver is a standard action game dressed in a cowboy costume. You manuever around the playing field taking cover from enemy fire, thanks in large part to the backgrounds this isn't much of a problem. What did annoy me was how unresponsive the controls were--Rockstar took a gamble by creating a control scheme too different than everyone elses. The finished results are unpleasent; by moving around with one analog and aiming your gun with the other poses a seroius problem when faced with numerous enemies. Also the inability to quickly change the camera freely led me on many occassions to die without ever knowing who was the culprit responsible for my death. There is a brief moment when you are allowed to use more firepower then usual. This mode is called 'Dead Eye', when you have accumulated the points for "bullet time" you can press a button and slow down the camera in a Matrix fashion. Doing so allows you to chain six seperate hit points on the enemies body, after that you can send them straight to the ground. My conclusion on this is, the ability itself sure is useful but a little more creativity would've been nicer. Then at final praise, comes the dualing action the game offers which happens at scripted times of the game. It attempts to simulate a classic gun duel, and to some degree succeeds in authenticating this as a western game. You pull back the analog stick to grab your gun, push it forward to point it at the bad guys, and then giving you a short amount of time to try aiming for the sweet spots before all hell breaks loose. It's a novel concept, but the fact that you can't actually decide when to use it turns it into nothing more than a flashy gimmick.

If I were to choose a version I would go with the Xbox edition, merely based on visuals. The game is a little more polished and the resolution is a few pixels higher, but in the end both PS2 and Xbox versions of Red Dead Revolver suffer from low frame-rates and glitchy looking character models. Character models that a first grader can make out of wooden blocks and construction paper. And some levels really do heighten the amount of suspense higher than what is really offered, take the train stage for example. The music is decent, there are those same tunes that flavored Kill Bill Vol. 2 so well. Too bad the voice acting has to go and screw things up, when I say it's bad I mean its' really BAD. The writing is also poorly done, I understand this is only a game but with so many standards furthering the crossing of movie and game dynamics, cheesy voice acting just doesn't cut it. With a little more freedom to whatever you want to do, better graphics and a more understandable controls--Red Dead Revolver could've been a top choice action game. As it is given to us, it will sell and obtain some acclaim thanks to Rockstars Games' incompetent marketing moves but listen to me, it isn't what the hype makes it out to be.

I really liked this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i'm pretty freaking picky with so many losers out there the last few years. Its fun, its everything to do with the old west. It plays really well. At times you can ride horses, or even bulls. You carry you side arms and a rifle (weapons get better through out the game).

Its just a good game. Again i like to be able to run and duck behind a rock and pop up shooting and duck again. I thought the gameplay was great.

The showdowns are hard, and i think unnessesary that they put them in there. They don't happen too often but they're more of just a nuicance.

The only thing i wished it was longer. I don't finish a lot of games i start, but this one i couldn't stop playing.

Hope that helps.

Something refreshing and new

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It didn't take me long to fall in love with this game. I have read several reviews for this game, and I felt that none of them gave the game the credit it deserves. This is the first review for ANYTHING that I have taken the time to write, so that must say something about this game.

When I first heard of the game, I said to myself, "Ahhhhh, a WESTERN GAME!" A new western game has been long overdue for a long time, and who better to bring it but Rockstar games? The fact that Rockstar made this game also made me think that this was going to be a western GTA, but it simply isn't true. Red Dead Revolver is a new gameplay experience, so if you love GTA but need some variety in your gameplay, Red Dead Revolver is the game for you.

The game does a great job of putting you in the middle of the action. You feel like you're in a western movie. Experience everything you love about your favorite Clint Eastwood flick: bar fights, train car hopping, riding horses, and high noon quickdraws just to name a few. The sound and music are incredible and the weapon variety is pretty amazing too. Bad guys have incredible "western-made" one-liners.

Multiplayer isn't that bad either, since you can unlock tons of characters and places to fight.

This game deserves a shot for anyone looking for a new, unique game. This game is also for those who want a good challenge. Expect many good hours of engrosing gameplay from this title.

Do yourself a favor and pick it up.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 Next 

Actions