Western Outlaw

Dec 11th, 2008 by cm1

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While the game industry has seen a bumper crop of World War II-themed first-person shooters in the past couple of years, shooters set in the Old West have been few and far between. The last notable one was LucasArts’ Outlaws, which was released more than six years ago. Groove Games and Jarhead Games have attempted to fill the void in Western-themed games with their own shooter, Western Outlaw. Unfortunately, the game suffers from terrible graphics, lackluster sound, and dated gameplay that will remind you more of a bad Quake II mod than a modern first-person shooter.
According to the manual, Western Outlaw’s graphics engine is the Lithtech Talon system, which is the same one used in Aliens Versus Predator 2. Even knowing this makes it difficult to believe that the two games are related in any way, shape, or form. Western Outlaw’s graphics are riddled with drab, blurry textures that are stretched on top of extremely low-detail, blocky character models. Hands don’t consist of discrete, separate fingers. Rather, they look like oven mitts with lines drawn to delineate one finger from the next. Dinner plates and rolls of bandages, which should look round, instead look more like stop signs.
The bandits you fight in the game consist of just three or four different clones, with only slightly varying outfits. It’s probably appropriate that all the enemies look the same. They all use the same cheap one-liners over and over again as well. If the game wasn’t so short, we’d have gotten tired of hearing “Come on out, stranger!” and “Argh, you got me!”
Perhaps the only redeeming quality in Western Outlaw is how well the developers modeled the game’s weapons. You start the game with a single-action revolver, and as you make your way through, you’ll collect double-action .45 caliber revolvers, a shotgun, a Sharps buffalo rifle, and a Winchester repeating rifle. The animation for firing and reloading each of these weapons is pretty realistic, and the sound effects aren’t quite as bad as the rest of the game, either. Since none of the weapons carry a lot of shots and reloading is very time consuming, you’ll actually have to use a bit of strategy in the later levels when you face several enemies at once. Still, the game’s interesting weapons aren’t enough to carry the rest of the package, which is very poor overall.
Fans of cowboys and spaghetti Westerns will have to continue waiting for a good Old West-themed shooter. Western Outlaw’s primitive production values, brain-dead AI, and shamefully brief campaign make it a game that everyone should definitely avoid.