The graphics really bring the gaming world to life. Gameloft have thankfully got a good one here in Six Guns, with good granularity in the movement, and smooth panning of the graphics to look around. But there are good virtual controls - and bad. It's not perfect, as again you have to rely on a virtual joypad on the screen, with the direction control under the left thumb, and the 'look around' managed by swiping in any other 'empty' party of the screen (your fire and reload controls are specific buttons). From calling your horse to your side so you can gallop towards a new mission, to the tight zooming in to aim your gun carefully at the enemy, Gameloft have got a pretty good third person shooter in 3D vibe going on here.

Which is a shame, because the other developer priorities are making the game look fantastic and giving it a good vibe of the Cowboy genre. Providing you with a solid storyline was not high up on the developer's list of priorites, which makes playing Six Guns a rather disjointed feeling. No, I don't know either, and the game doesn't make it clear. The game opens with a series of cinematic cut scenes, drawings and captions, which set up what little story there is - you're a cowboy, and you've decided to help the good people of the world against all manner of evil.Īnd for some reason, that evil includes zombies, vampires, and supernatural beings hiding in the rickety mines around the map. Let's start with the game, because it's all very promising for the first ten or fifteen minutes. But in the case of the latest Xbox Live title, Six Guns, the fortune is going to be earned by Gameloft, through a rather punishing freemum system.

Saddle up, as all the cliches would say, it's time to take yourself to the Wild West, to seek your fame and fortune.

Six guns review