Layin’ down the lead on them there ornery bottles. Though fundamentally, Weird West is action-oriented, there’s plenty of scope for strategic planning.

The reason for the bird’s-eye view quickly becomes apparent as it easily allows you to see at a glance the whole world of possibilities at your fingertips. It’s a nice way for patient players to clear out a gang of gunslingers ahead quietly without having to waste your precious ammo, though it can also be a good way of getting in the best position to toss in some dynamite and cause havoc. Stealth is also an option, as you can hide in the long grass, sneak up behind unaware foes and choke them unconscious. I could lay impromptu traps by placing a gas lamp down a narrow hallway and shooting it when foes came through, creating a fiery killzone. I could kick barrels of TNT down onto groups of ornery cowpokes with explosive results.

Once I went through tutorial bits, all the possibilities opened up. At first, the default camera felt obnoxiously far out as I first started moving my character around from the viewpoint of about sixty feet above her head, but the reason soon became clear. Weird West at first feels like a third person shooter, as you’ll be laying plenty of foes low with the big iron on your hip but it’s so versatile and strategic in how you can approach every situation that it’s really so much more. This is a weird west indeed, where crackpot tales about the supernatural turn out to be true and things are always stranger than they appear. Of course, it soon becomes clear that this is no bog-standard western, as the people who took her husband aren’t interested in his land or money, but instead as meat for some inhuman, flesh-eating monsters. This sets her on a path to rescue her beloved and avenge her son. It starts with a genderbent version of a well worn western trope where a former bounty hunter, who has laid down her guns for a quiet farm life, only for her son to be murdered and her husband kidnapped. Weird West is the type of game that sets the imagination aflame.

Weird West is a Western Like You’ve Never Seen Before

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