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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.

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 ....

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Worthless

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I finished this game within a day. Only three major locations. Difficult moves needed. Only three major locations that I can remember. A waste of my good money!

This game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't too impressed with this game at all. You get a bunch of differ weapons to use but, you have to shoot the people over and over again. The bullets don't even affect who ever you are shooting. So when you shoot someone and keep shooting them they just keep walking towards you like nothing is happening. It also takes for ever to kill them. So very unrealistic and pathetic. The game is suppose to be using Half Life's engine but to me the graphics don't look as good. It took me a day to conquer this game so that is pretty also.

Gunman

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

To start off, the game uses the Half-Life engine and the HL AI. Which is not a bad thing since HL put the gaming community on it's ear a few years back, with it's great game. So pretty much this is HL just with different story and setting, like I said that is the good thing. There are some points about the game that no one else has pointed out. The biggest to me is the game is just to short. HL took me 3 weeks to complete, Gunman 8 hours. This has happened to me twice now with add ons to HL, and that is pretty much what Gunman is, an add on. The other problem with the game is a texture problem. This does not affect the game, but do expect a patch in the near future. The last complaint is the fact that the story seems a little weak. You really never get to know who you are in the game, or who the Gunman really are. Once again this does not affect the game play, but does affect the way you feel about the character. What I did like about the game was the gun layout. You have a good array of weapons that can be configured to your liking. This is a good idea because of the fact of only being able to carry so many things. This way your laser gun can become a sniper riffle with the right model add on. Now you can use the right weapon for the right job and do it on the fly with just the click of the mouse. I also like the fact of being able to drive a tank from time to time in the game. This gives you a nice brake from running and shooting all the time. Okay so I gave it 3 stars, will mostly because it was so short. I do not like the thought of game companies throwing a few levels into a game and just not taking the time to make a fun experience, just to make money. If you have not played Half Life, GO now and buy it and see for yourself what Gunman should have been. Also if you want a great game try Deus Ex, loads and loads of fun and game play there.

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