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The Gunstringer
Released On: Sep 13, 2011
77
8.1
All Platforms
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 Critic Reviews
77
77% Positive
46 Reviews
46 Reviews
20% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
3% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 Critic Reviews
77
77% Positive
46 Reviews
46 Reviews
20% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
3% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
With all the chaff you have to swipe through on the Kinect, you can forget just how good it feels when something just works. That's exactly what The Gunstringer does: It works, and in a smart, slick way that feels simultaneously natural and fresh.
So if you own a Kinect, and you aren't playing Zumba seven days a week, The Gunstringer is a game you shouldn't pass up. With its lowered retail price and accurate controls, the game delivers on the Kinect's promise of an innovative and fun game experience. With the only flaws being the length and 'sitting' mode, The Gunstringer is a game all Kinect owners should try.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
8.1
74% Positive
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
15% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
11% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
8.1
74% Positive
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
15% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
11% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
This shooter doesn't take itself too seriously and features platformer passages as well. Despite its cute appearance, don't underestimate The Gunstringer: It can be stressful at times.
The game is entertaining enough to replay, and there are enough extras to provide even more incentive to return to The Gunstringer.
Even if The Gunstringer is quite short and maybe too easy, it's actually a great example of how you can create a (sort of) hardcore game for Kinect, with intuitive and enjoyable controls and a great Spaghetti Western atmosphere.
It might not be the most robust or laugh-out-loud funny game in Twisted Pixel's catalogue but based on entertainment value, ingenuity and the way the game works around Kinect's foibles rather than pushing its luck and falling down, it'd be downright criminal to deny the talented studio those few dollars more.
It's short, shallow and repetitive, and where humour might elevate the experience, the pointless and clunky motion controls drag it down again.
Fantastic game, i wish there were more Kinect games like this. Good control, fun gameplay and looks good too. My only complaint is that its short, yeah you have the one free dlc and the one pay for dlc but if only the game was that little bit longer it would have ticked all the boxes.
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Xbox 360
game was tons of fun, insane & action packed, just the right length of time, and very well done. Couldn't stop playing once i started, and the humor is just as admirable. The controls work amazingly well, and the game could the inspiration for a new IP for Microsoft... they should really buy up this development group.
Let's put it this way... if this isn't convincing enough for you: I was knee-deep in Gear of War 3 [and enjoying it], and a friend told me to goto pickup this game just on a whim... I wasn't expectiong much, and alone and behold, here I sit at midnight replaying through Gunstringer while GoW 3 sits on the shelf... it was that much fun!
I want to see alot more of The Gunstringer in the future!!!
definetely worth buying, with boatloads of extra content too! easily the coolest Kinect title, and great game for the xbox 360! oh, you also get fruit ninja for free :)
PS: im not sure how anyone could have given this game any less than a 9/10... either they are just that ignorant, or they are kinect trolls who have some sort of odd grudge against a pretty slick piece of technology.
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Xbox 360
Take a collection of Wii minigames - not the Wii Sports fun variety, but of the shovelware 'tradition' - give it a coat of paint of 'weird' humor, release it as an independent company and you have The Gunstringer: a game that's idiotic in all levels possible but critics and 'core' gamers will praise because they want to 'support the small guy' - not to mention justify the fact they did bought Kinect but are too lazy to use it to play what it's generally best for, dancing and sports/exercise games.
Don't believe the hype: this game no different from what most 'core' gamers have come to expect from Wii/Kinect/Move shovelware minigame collections. It's totally on rails, it's gimmicky, it tries to rely on the idea of 'making gaming fun' by removing any kind of challenge or depth - just an example, wherever else you would get to play platform sections *on-rails*, just flicking your arm up to jump? Even 8-bit games had more depth than this. Worse yet, it doesn't do anything with Kinect that better games, such as Child of Eden or Rise of Nightmares, haven't done before. It just hides it in a uncensored humor sheen and the promise that you can play it sitting on the couch.
Oh, and it's by an indie company, which makes people *way* more forgiving. The only real upsides to the game are the controls, which work very well, but even then it's hard to give it much credit since they're absurdly simple - that is, the game doesn't really go the distance to use Kinect such as Rise of Nightmares or even Kinect Sports did.
What's even more annoying is that the game tries so hard to be funny that just ends up being silly. There's a difference between crazy, out-there humor such as in Shadows of the Damned ,and what Gunstringer tries to do when it shows a grown cowboy stickin' it into a giant alligator; it's not **** humor, it's 10-year-old-giggling-at-porno-magazines humor. Which says a lot about how the industry, even its indie side, views 'core' gamers: as complete idiots who will never grow up. And in part they're right, given how this trainwreck of a 'game' is being received by so-called 'trusted' sources such as Joystiq and Game ****'s sad to notice how platform wars and political ideologies have trumpled people's best judgements. But time will show how Gunstringer is forgettable, I hope.
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Xbox 360
Summary The Gunstringer is a Kinect game about a marionette out for revenge.
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- Xbox 360
Initial Release Date: Sep 13, 2011
Developer:
- Twisted Pixel Games
Publisher: Twisted Pixel Games
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