Call of Juarez

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Call of Juarez

Developer(s)	Techland
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft, Focus Home Interactive and Ascaron
Latest version	Demo (July 28, 2006)
Release date(s)	7 September 2006 in Benelux and France. 15 September in the UK and 2007 in USA.
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	PEGI: 16+
Platform(s)	Windows
Media	DVD
System requirements	Windows 2000/XP, 2.2 GHz Pentium 4/Athlon 2400+, 512 MB RAM, GeForce 6600/Radeon 9800, DirectX 9 sound card, 700 MB HDD
Input	Keyboard, Mouse

Call of Juarez is a Western-themed first-person shooter from the Polish developer Techland.

[edit] Overview

Call of Juarez is loosely based on a number of Western movie hits from the seventies and eighties. Players will choose to play as either one of two different characters: Billy, a young fugitive accused of murder, or the merciless vigilante hunting him down, the Reverend Ray, an ex-outlaw who turned to religion, believing that God Himself has chosen Ray to be the instrument of His wrath.

Billy's character provides a stealth and sniper element to the game. With his whip he can latch onto objects to get into hard to reach locations. Billy also has a zoom viewing mode that allows him to hit long range targets.

Reverend Ray is a hard core shootist. Not only can the Reverend wield two pistols at the same time, he can enter "Concentration mode" allowing him to hit multiple targets in a drawn out second. Along with his other weapons, Ray wields his bible and spouts fire and brimstone scripture while he blasts the enemy with his trusty six shooters. The reverend also wears an armoured chest piece allowing him to soak up more damage than Billy.

Although violent, Ubisoft has eliminated corpse beating and will eject you from the game for beating an innocent animal.

Techland has published a singleplayer demo and a multiplayer demo.

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