Western and Pirates
 

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...

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

Westerns:
Railroad Tycoon 3

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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:

: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

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