The game also sounds great, featuring a soundtrack by Marcin Przybylowicz of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt fame. All of them are presented in an isometric view, and while the graphics are far from jaw-dropping, they are good enough. You shoot your way through run-down bars, abandoned railway tracks, seedy brothels, and dilapidated mansions. The developers were definitely going through a checklist of all the locations associated with Westerns when coming up with the level design. The game’s core missions take place in some very familiar settings. His thirst for vengeance is helped somewhat by a mysterious stranger who seems to have granted Warren some supernatural powers. The main story arc follows a man named Warren, hell-bent on avenging the death of his love, Florence. There are eight chapters, or “scenarios,” to play through, several of which follow a linear story while others branch off to explore the interlinking journeys of other unfortunate souls. Hard West follows several characters experiencing tough times in the violent, unforgiving era of the Wild West.
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It sounds like a fun premise, and the game has some strong ideas going for it, but it lacks the solid execution needed for it to stand out in a month full of monumental releases. It features tactical, turn-based combat (similar to the XCOM series), taking the player through a story of revenge, betrayal, and the occult. Hard West, the new RPG-inspired strategic shooter from developers Creative Forge Games, is such a project. It’s very refreshing, therefore, when a game that is inspired by classic shootouts in old dusty saloons and stars tough, no-nonsense Cowboys is released. Sure, you will get the occasional revival of gun-toting cowboys in cinema and video games ( Red Dead Redemption, for instance), but they are no way near as well-visited as the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi. We are a long way from Clint Eastwood gracing the screen as the Man with No Name in the sixties, back when the Old West was at the height of its popularity.
The Western is a genre that has fallen into obscurity in modern pop culture.
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