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Disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is definetly a step back for Sierra. This game seemed to have all the annoying parts of half-life plus a few of it's own. Half Life is a great game, but it's engine does have some problems. This game seemed to be incomplete or like corners were cut to get it out for Christmas.

I finished this game in less than a week and I didn't really spend that much time on it.

This should never have been published.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Shocking words aren't they? You'll have to read my explanation carefully before you go off crying.

The game is great! There is absolutely no doubt about it. The levels sport some phenomenally high levels of detail, as well as careful attention to texture placement. (Half-Life had some badly misaligned textures) The new enemies are carefully thought out and nicely detailed. Everything that needed to be done right was certainly done right here.

Except for a few gripes. Beginning with the game's length. The game is too short to justify spending $39.99 ($29.99 with rebate as of this writing) ReWolf developed this game, not Valve. Before Sierra approached this team of developers for publishing rights, ReWolf wasn't even a team of professional developers, most of them were amateurs like you and me. A group of people who loved the game so much that they decided to get together to make their own levels to play. I'm too good of a game player to have a game as short as this to last me any reasonable time. Coupled with too linear levels the game just rushes by. How many distinct areas are there? Three, four? I don't know, it all went by so fast. So what would have ReWolf done if Sierra didn't approach them? Same thing that every one else would have done. Post it on their webpage and become one of the hottest downloads since Team Fortress Classic or They Hunger.

The game pulls some amazing stunts with a drivable tank and an attacking dinosaur but there was never enough. How much more could ReWolf have added to the game if the free roving tank was better utilized? Could ReWolf have added a "free roving" space craft? With the awesome skill of including the tank why were the levels so darn straight forward? It didn't matter that I sometimes had no clear idea of what was happening, there was only one direction to go in. Why was the "training" session so short? The learning curve and the control adjustment for better utilizing the multi-weapons are a bit sharper than usual. The game is like high school love. It flares in intense passion for only a short while and when it finally goes away, there's an empty void, and you're left desperately looking for something else to fill that void. Remember this game has quality not quantity. Which one do you want?

DON'T BUY IT. A Waste Of Time And Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought to myself, hey I loved half-life, same studio same engine, this could be cool. How wrong I was... DON'T BOTHER!
This game is buggy uninnovative and dull, with lots of features that range form useless to outrightly annoyinging. It starts out slow with a manditory tutorial and then quickly limits your options more and more until you finally discover the waste of breath plot. I could go on and on about why this is a waste of time and money but you probley get the gist of what i'm telling you. DON'T BUY THIS GAME.

National Lampoon's Half Life

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Gunman is a..clone of half life. The graphics and sound are dated, it's short, buggy and.., the AI is good but it uses half life's AI. It should be called National Lampoon's half life or Carry on half life.

Gun this one down!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game had extremely lousy/lossy graphics, which should not be an issue anymore. The plotline of this game was interesting, but the targets were too hard to whack and there was an extreme paucity of weapons and ammo to defeat these intergalactic buggers. This game, like Alice, had to be played in Cheater/God mode all the way to the bitter and quite dull ending. And when any game forces the player to resort to that artifice, it usually means the game is a real ....

Half Life, in another form - but not as good!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When this game was first introduced by ReWolf Software, I admit I was excited about the possibilities this game possessed. When Valve took over the project, I pretty much lost any interest in the game. I was really hoping that the game would actually be in the Half Life universe, rather than only using the antiquated graphics engine. Sadly, I was incorrect. The unfortunate part of the game is...well, the game. Turok was bad enough on the N64. Why would I want to play it on the PC? If the game was still offered as a free download like several other Half Life modifications (Team Fortress Classic, Front Line Force, etc.), I would have given the game a higher rating. Otherwise, the game is not worth the $30. And that is my two cents.

Go away, Half-Life wannabe.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: February 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This, simply put, is a COMPLETE RIP-OFF. The engine is of course Half-Life's, and "Gunman" does very little to modify the original product. Same sounds. Same coding. Nothing new here. The level design is some of the most basic i've ever seen since the original Nintendo came out, the AI (artificial intelligence) is so buggy i could literally stand and shoot an ememy wthout the slightest of stealth, and they still wouldn't act as if i'm there (and this is on the "HARD" setting). How could such a bad game be published by Sierra? There's PLENTY of modifications better than this on the web for free, and they actually are fun to play (Wasteland HL, for example)! In other words, this is a game that some kids in their basement made and tried to sell. I could make better maps and models than thoughs featured in this game (and in some instances, I have). The texturing is awfull, at least compared to Half-Life's. The sound, as mentioned before, is mainly just the original recordings. The character animation is cartoonish, with the plot going along the same line.

Your probably wondering about my system specs, right? Well, I can promise you that I wouldn't rate this game down based upon some crappy 3D card. Throughout the whole game I played it on a Geforce 2 Ultra on a resolution of 1024 by 768.

The controls are weak compared to HL's, and are very annoying. In "Gunman," each weapon has a secondary, or perhaps more, fireing option. To activate each one, you must go through a serious of buttons to push, which may seem like alot when your being crowded by a bunch of enemies.

OVERALL: Do not buy this game. It is very buggy, and should have had a patched released by now. And besides, theres more heavily modified games on the web for free (... should have a number of links to them). The story line is humorously cartoonish, and not at all original. The characters are unbelievable. The sound is the same. This should have stayed on the web.

A good first person shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Gunman chronicles shows it's heritage from Valve. The game engine and graphics appear right out of half-life. There is a patch for 3dfx video boards. The patch provides open GL and glide support. The AI is better than half-life. Characters have a greater ability to move with the scenes. The story lines and scenes could use more work. It's certainly worth a few rainy afternoons of play.

Walker - Texas Ranger: in Space with Dinosaurs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this game - don't even accept it as a gift. It attempts to emulate the success of HalfLife and somehow fails totally.

For example, HalfLife had a really interesting variety of weapons. Gunman has dull weapons which they've tried to make interesting by souping them up to the point of being annoying. There's one particular gun that can be configured in about 50 different ways (OK, I exagerate: it could easily be 30, though), to be a rocket launcher, grendade launcher, or tripmine, but it's such a pain to configure it that it's just not worth the effort.

And the plot. Well. I didn't stick around to see what the rest of the game was like, but the first 20 minutes or so that I played was so bad, I couldn't stop laughing. HalfLife's plot was convincing and believable, Gunman was like an badly written episode of Walker Texas Ranger.

The graphics were also pretty ugly, but after the problems with the weapons and plot, who'll notice?

Great 3D shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

At first it could be easy to overlook this product, as it is a total-conversion of the classic Half Life that was created by a group of new programers the world over. Many of the team had not even met one another as they worked on the project. That being said, they game is fantastic, the work that resulted is a fantastic 3D action shooter, with an enjoyable storyline. The player is cast in the role of Archer, the new leader of the Gunman. The Gunman battle enemies in the galaxy keeping it safe for colonization. The General of the Gunman was lost in a mission years ago, and in the time sense, deadly alien Xenomes have been raiding the colonies and killing all they find. Before long, Archer is deep in the mix, and being assaulted of all manner of creatures, in a all out war for survival and to end the Xenome menace. The game is a solid program, and has a very gripping and involving story. I especially enjoyed the level where the player gets to use a tank, and the enemies are very well designed and amongst the best ever created for a 3D shooter. The weapons in the game all have multiple settings for different abilities, and this can make for some great strategy when playing online. Here is hoping for another chapter in this series in the near future.

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