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Call of Juarez | 
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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $13.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1773
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.7 x 0.7
MPN: 52363
UPC: 008888523635
EAN: 0008888523635
ASIN: B000N60GV4
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Play as two opposing characters - As Billy, use your bow and craftiness to sneak in and out of trouble; as Ray, stop enemies in their tracks with your preaching & take them down with your six-shooter | | • | Immerse yourself in the most authentic Wild West environments and scenarios ever experienced - Saloon brawls, train robberies, old-time shootouts and bare-knuckle brawling | | • | Encounter intelligent Old West enemies - they'll use their environments to their advantage, employ suppressive fire and work together as a group to shoot you down | | • | Take to the dirt roads on your horse & use real Wild West-era weapons -- from six-shooters to bows and arrows | | • | Multiplayer scenarios put you in the Old West's most infamous events, or lets you become a bounty hunter tracking down outlaws with a friend |
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Product Description
Call Of Juarez is the only game to give you an authentic look into the Old West and all its glory through the eyes of the hunter AND the hunted. It's 1882, somewhere in South Texas, and 19-year-old Billy Candle stands accused of murdering his mother and stepfather. Hot on his trail is Reverend Ray McCall, his stepfather's brother and an infamous gunfighter who believes the Lord has chosen him to be Billy's judge, jury and executioner. Call of Juarez is an epic western adventure about vengeance, survival and the search for a legendary lost treasure. The distinct rough-and-tumble beauty of the Old West is recreated, through detailed and realistic environments that spread across miles of terrain
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Not worth the Call February 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is by far the worst first person shooter I have ever played. The graphics are mediocre at best and the handling is horrific. Being able to shoot is like trying to shot an peanut with a spitball from 50 feet away. The storyline is all over the place and doesnt amount to anything else I have ever played.
In all, this game wasnt worth what I paid for it.
 Call Of Juarez, Guns and Fists February 11, 2008
Call of Juarez is an old west shooter with depth of storyline, action, and scenery. The experience combines moments of intense gunfights and opportunities to sneak through them. What the characters lack in 21st Century technology, they make up for with simple and fundamental throttling of bad guys across the nose.
As Call of Juarez opens, Billy, one of the main characters, finds himself running for his life from the other main character, an obsessive Reverend. Billy is falsely accused of his parents death, a fugitive, and the dangerous Reverend seeks justice, on his terms. Billy is a skilled climber, and sneaky, but the Reverend is a seasoned gun with a killer haymaker. As Billy tries to avenge his parents death, and stay ahead of the Reverend, he finds himself on a treasure hunt, for the Gold of Juarez.
The landscape of the great frontier is an amazing backdrop. There are wonderful moments of exploring western range on horseback and enjoying the way it all looks around you as the sun sets. It's man vs. wild when you creep upon your prey, arrow pulled back in your bow, the rabbit never knew what hit him. The Reverend is fast with the gun in high stake duels, and good with boxes, easily stack objects and climb on things to create your own defensive spot to mow bad guys down from. At times the atmosphere is like Billy the Kid, surrounded and trapped in a lone house, and the only option is to plan..., then shoot your way out.
Feeling the revolver kick out lead, jumping on a horse, and tearing off across open fields never gets old. It would have been nice to spend more time in the saddle, and less on the old boots. The fist to fist combat is a brilliant change of pace. It's great to whack the guy with your left hook, then see an opening on the right and let him have it. I would have loved the chance to bloody some more noses, or play cards.
This game was everything I wanted in a western. Like "Gun", it's the sights, sounds, and cold steel that make it the wild west.
 Just Bad :( December 2, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Normally I do not write reviews for games but this one just deserved it. I was excited as hell when this was announced but I got it really later on for only 25 dollars. The game was relatively okay at first till I got to about episode 7 which took me like an hour and a half mainly because Billy has almost no skill other than shooting an arrow. This game would have been great with only the reverand but Billy's sneaking and platforming ruined it. Also there is glitches in the game. I had to do all of episode 9 again(which is the most idiotic level in a game I have played in a while) because it saved while I accidentally fell off of the ledge at the very end. Every time I reloaded it just killed instantly. For only 25 dollars, I gave it a two because I like Westerns otherwise I would avoid it.
Short, Repetitive, but Relatively Fun November 1, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Call of Juarez joins other Western themed games in immersing you in shoot-outs, cacti, wood fences and tumbleweeds. You switch between the characters of Billy - the young half-Mexican lad, and Ray, his uncle, a gunslinger who is out to kill him.
The conflict is that Billy, coming home after several years of roaming, finds his mother and abusive stepfather are dead. Ray thinks Billy has done the deed. The story then plays out with Billy trying to clear his name and find a fortune, and Ray wanting revenge.
The story is extremely linear, as you might expect in this situation. If you're hopping between the two characters and, as Ray, you were able to Kill Bill, the game would be over. I definitely understand the linear gameplay. Heck, in pretty much any game you want to achieve their end objective, be it take over the town or destroy all the enemies. Still, it's nice to feel you have some control along the way. Entire roads are blocked because of a plot twist??
Also, as much as it is linear, it is very vague. You're told to do something, but then you have to stumble around for a while to figure out what exactly they want you to do in order to progress. It can get frustrating.
The graphics aren't that bad on a high def TV - the individual leaves on the trees are visible and the humans are reasonably detailed. We've taken several trips to the western US region and it really is pretty out there. They did a nice job on some of the cut scenes, with small reflections in metal surfaces, the dull rasp of leather, and other details. The clouds aren't solid objects that drift - they actually change shape as they go.
The voice work in the game is reasonable enough, but while I liked the soundtrack at the beginning, it got really repetitive REALLY quickly. In some games the soundtrack blends in really nicely and you enjoy it. That's not the case here. It's a shame too, because sometimes it's peaceful as you walk along beneath the drifting clouds, with the grasses slowly waving, the birds singing in the trees.
As much as I appreciate the differences of sneaky Billy with his whip vs shooting Ray with his guns, I just didn't like this game as much as some of the other westerns we own. It was too linear, the soundtrack was too maddening, and it was too short. A great game to rent for a week, and that way you can see if you adore it enough to keep it after that.
Very Disappointing September 1, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was eagerly waiting for "Call of Juarez" because it looked like it would be an updated, more freeform version of "Gun" from last year which I liked a lot, except that it was short, and much too linear, and thus, in my opinion not worth $60. Well this game is a tiny bit better as far as visuals, and a little more bloody (which I like; if you're playing a shooter, it's more realistic to have a HAVOC type engine with blood, ragdoll physics and so on, instead of the "enemy" just dropping where they are, and their body disappearing 20 seconds later). but it's too short, too linear, and in my opinion, not worth $60.
You play as 2 characters, sort of like in "The Getaway," but this is back in about 1870 so there are no cars to jack, the weapons are simple, and you don't have too many original things to do. The controls to me were awful; very confusing; I'd try to draw a gun, but bring out a Bible instead, now, I like the Bible, but it doesn't do much good when you bring a Bible to a gunfight, ha ha. The shooting part is frustrating; the enemies can take like 10 hits, unless you manage a head shot, but you can take about 4. You only have limited ammo; you can take guns off dead enemies, but they usually have less ammo than you did, because they shoot at you non stop, whether you are hiding are not, (and hit you sometimes at random, when they cant even see you, which SUCKS); and since headshots are hard to hit with the lousy controls, you have to use 7 or 8 shots to take an enemy down, so when you get to that big gunfight parts you will have like 5 bullets left and die quck. And unless you hide a lot and "rest" you will die, and reset a lot. The save system sucks; autosave at certain points, no quicksave.
The gameplay is disappointing; very linear. You can only go to certain areas. You can't shoot innocents (at least I was never able to), which I HATE in a shooter. "Freeform" games are supposed to give you the choice of being evil or not. A big part of that `is getting to kill innocents. If you cant do that, the game sucks, IMO. (I know, I'm bad, but thats my preference-I don't ALWAYS kill innocents I just like to know I CAN).
Gameplay is too short-not even 10 hours. Multiplayer didn't impress me. There's either no one else on line, or brats that think theyre playing Halo 2. This game is not recommended; especially at full price. If you're interested, get the demo first; you'll see a good sample of how the gameplay and controls are frustating (stupid me, I figured the full game would be better. I was mistaken). If you're still interested, RENT first. If you STILL want it, wait at least till the price drops DONT pay $60 for it.
NOT reccommeneded. If you want something like this "GUN" is a better game and is $19.95 now.
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