Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood isn’t a game for everyone - a Wild West themed, story-driven first-person shooter with deliberately (Read: Slower) paced gunfights is bound to turn a few people off, especially with the mature themes and language used throughout the adventure in order to give the game a much harder edge than traditional shooters (even the filthy space marine types).

Bound in Blood is, however, an excellent experience, with solid and satisfying gunplay, great production values, open-world side missions, and well acted cutscenes… even if those cutscenes are a little lengthy for those of us with an itchy trigger finger. Bound in Blood manages to provide something a little (and sometimes, a lot) different to the usual shooter fare, which makes it an enticing proposition for gamers tired of busting caps into the faces of evil aliens, Mid-Eastern soldiers and foreign thugs.

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