Western and Pirates

[Rose]

Two very different genres, but I'm looking for the best Western game and the best Pirate game. "Best" encompasses historically realistic and, well, fun. I've played GUN and I thought it was ok. I have Pirates! which I love, but I'm looking for something a bit more realistic in terms of ship battles. I'll ask about pirate games in the pirate forum as well -- just thought I'd check here.

Edit -- I see The Noob has already asked my pirates question in the Pirates Forum. Now about those Westerns...

[Tikigod]

Pirates:
Pirates of the Caribbean (Sea Dogs 2) with Supermod.
Age of Pirates (very little mods available)

Westerns:
Railroad Tycoon 3

[ajrimmer42]

For a pirate game, i would also reccommend POTC. As for a western game, Call of Juarez rocks. Red Dead Revolver for PS2 is also very good.

[kiwi_2005]

"Call of Juarez" is the best western shooter ever to come out for a long time.

[Boris]

Yeah, call of Juarez is pretty damn cool.

I've been waiting for a decent western shooter since the last good one, Outlaws way back in the 90s.

[Tikigod]

Call of Juarez - gameplay & technology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Be9Ml9ON5w

[Boris]

Unfortunately AA doesn't work with shader 3 enabled, but damn it looks sweet

[Reaves]

POTC and AOP for the pirate games. Head over to www.piratesahoy.net for any pirate game stuff.

[Ilpalazzo]

I played Gun. Stinking pile of crap if you ask me. Always wanted to try Red Dead Revolver. Never got to.

I played Call of Juarez last year. It's a great game. Kinda sucks that it's so short though. I beat it in 2 days and had no reson to play again. Scripted, not much replayability.

However I never really got to try much multiplayer. From what I saw it seemed a little lacking. Has anybody gotten into CoJ mp? Are there a lot of people playing it? If the mp is good I might buy it. Otherwise I don't think it's worth it for such limited replayability.

The game has a really cool duel boss fight thing in some parts of the game. Am I the only one who thinks they were dumb for not making that duel part into a multiplayer game mode? That would be hella fun.

Sucks that the western genre is so underrepresented in video games. Guess it might be another year or 5 till the next good one.:dead:

[HunterICX]

:hmm: I tried the game POTC

and I must say I quiet starting to like it a lot.

the stroms are cool, the naval battles are good too :up:
graphics are very nice

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/9028/stormrr4.jpg

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4404/frenchso2.jpg

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9900/seadogszm2.jpg

[Reaves]

Age of pirates uses an improved version of the STORM engine. So it's POTC graphics but better.