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Six Guns Available

    Hey everyone. Gameloft has placed a new game on the app store. It's a title I've been waiting for and I wasted no time downloading it. This game is free, with in-app purchases. It is a whopping 422 MB, which means it is deep.
   Gameloft has created a virtual wild west and you are a gunslinger. I have only played the game for a few minutes but allow me to give you some of my first impressions. First off, the graphics are very good. There seems to be a few bugs that will need worked out. For instance, it gives you these missions. When I rode out to protect this big tree (it has spiritual meaning for the Apaches, I guess), I won the battle but it keeps pointing me back to the tree. When I walk that way, it starts that battle over. Very frustrating. So, I just whistled for my horse and rode off into the desert on my own, against the wishes of my guidance arrow that I normally follow. I saw a railroad station in the distance and rode over there. It was deserted but I found some gold. There was, alas, no one to shoot. I saw a buffalo wandering around. I had a pang in my soul when I saw him and thought about how millions of the shaggy beasts were slaughtered for their hides. ( See my post called The Iron Buffalo). However, at the risk of seeming callous, I did shoot this shaggy guy and kill him. Hey, it's a game! Okay?
     As I rode back toward the tree, I happened across a pack of wolves. I started a scrap with them, much to my pain. I shot several of them but they jumped on my horse and killed him. Of course, I fell to the ground and they jumped on me. I pulled my Colt and accounted for another of the varmints before I cashed in my chips. (Western for died) Of course you re-spawn, come back to life. Hey, talk about a faithful horse, when I re-spawned, I whistled for him and that rascal awoke from the dead and came to me. That is some cool whistle right there, don't you think?
    This western setting is some wild place! It is spooky. At the tree fight, I had some women chasing me with butcher knives and they appeared to be vampires. They, along with their compadres, (a group of bandits) required multiple shots to kill. I suspect that they were a bunch of undead persons. There is a pronounced supernatural or horror theme to this game.
    In the very early stages of the game, I can say that it seems to have great possibilities. I hope I am not disappointed. I'd say try it, but I wouldn't let little kids play it. Those vampire women are scary.
    Hey, you'll like the scenery. Once I rode up to a big canyon. It ran for miles and looked like a big gash in the earth, similar to what you might see in the desert southwest of Arizona, Utah or New Mexico. It made me want to go out west again.
     One more thing, the game crashed on me a couple of times. So, check it out. I think it may be very cool.
    From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills, pardner!

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