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Game Information
- Platform: Windows 98 / 95
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Four unexplored planets keep the scenery changing, and provide a variety of habitats for your enemies
- Hundreds of realistic new textures and fantastic architecture make the levels in Gunman Chronicles some of the best ever
- All new monsters both alien and human, inhabit the Gunman Chronicles universe
- Hordes of startling xenomes, lurching machines, carnivorous beasts
- Configurable weapons allow players to adjust their firepower to meet the situation at hand
- Original sound and music set the perfect mood in the detailed worlds
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
With the popularity of Half Life growing month by month and Counterstrike the add-on, fuelling this further, many hard-core gamers are turning their talents to developing add-ons to the games. One keen Half Life player decided to do just that, but when he showed Valve, Half Life's developers, they were so stunned that they have released it as a standalone game.
Based, therefore, on the Half Life engine, this game has all the intensity of Aliens vs Predator, the storyline of Half Life and the AI of Soldier of Fortune, showing them that Gunman Chronicles is how a game should be don.
With the introduction of some new weapons, the ability to drive vehicles and dinosaurs roaming the countryside, you've got a game that takes the mantle forward for Valve.
The storyline, like Half Life, is very consuming and you can easily get sucked in to the realm that is The Gunman Chronicles. Although the game has some great niceties, like dinosaurs that attack you or the bad guys while you are in the middle of a fire fight--very handy if they eat them rather than you--the games weapon system can be at times slightly awkward to the unfamiliar player.
While most games offer a secondary fire to weapons, Gunman Chronicles tries to take this a step further by offering three of four. Options-wise, this is great, but you can't help but feel that an extra hand would come in handy sometimes to access the additional weapons.
Putting this minor point aside, if you are a fan of Half Life or the first-person shooter--and lets face it, who isn't?--then Gunman Chronicles is going to be right up your street for the next big challenge.
If, though, the genre is slightly unfamiliar to you, although a great place to start, a better option would be to try something a little less complicated, like Half Life and work your way up. --Stuart Miles
Product Description
Gunman Chronicles is a story-driven, first-person game powered by the Half-Life engine. Players take the role of a futuristic Gunman, with a mission to destroy the alien Xenomes that mysteriously began appearing five years earlier. Now, it seems that someone has been altering their DNA, allowing them to be bigger and stronger, plus the Xenomes are spreading somehow to planets across the western spiral arm of the galaxy. Levels range from dinosaur-infested jungle ruins to techno-wastelands. In order to rid the galaxy of the evil aliens, players can customise their weapons, control vehicles such as tanks, and be assisted by computer-controlled characters. There are also multiplayer game modes available for play over the Internet.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
It's not Half-Life. You try and forget that when you play Gunman, but it's really difficult, considering just about everything in this game will remind you of Freeman, Slaves, and the rest of the classic. Even the grunts look decidedly Barney-ish.
It's not as bad as some reviews make out. It's short, but while it lasts, it's a lot of fun, and I for one certainly went back for another shot. The action is non-stop, the plot isn't bad at all, there's some great areas (the last base, which starts to collapse very convincingly around your ears, sticks in my mind), and you even get to crush your enemies with a tank!
But when I was playing it, the word "mod" wouldn't stop playing through my mind. I read a review a while ago on this that I couldn't help but agree with: - the best way this could have been promoted is as a nice little addition with the next Sierra release.
It's not as bad as some reviews make out. It's short, but while it lasts, it's a lot of fun, and I for one certainly went back for another shot. The action is non-stop, the plot isn't bad at all, there's some great areas (the last base, which starts to collapse very convincingly around your ears, sticks in my mind), and you even get to crush your enemies with a tank!
But when I was playing it, the word "mod" wouldn't stop playing through my mind. I read a review a while ago on this that I couldn't help but agree with: - the best way this could have been promoted is as a nice little addition with the next Sierra release.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
I don't know why so many people slate this game as it's simply great. Those who are comparing it to Half-Life have to remember that the original game in a genre always has the benefit of being THE original, and subsequent games have to measure up or surpass it. Gunman Chronicles may seem to be more of the same in comparison, just with a different story - so crazy, I love it: In deep space, a vengeful General Custer lookalike has genetically modified dinosaurs on an Alien World and decides to feed you to them, as he's seriously got it in for you. When that fails he dumps you on another planet, where a female computer takes over his hate campaign. Anyone complaining that this game may be too short should ask wether that the reason for such is because it's so playable, and anyone complaining about the graphics must be running it in software mode as they are fine on my none-too-modern Open GL Graphics Card.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
The half life similarity was what persuaded me to buy this game, and it turned out to be amazing. So many weapons, 4 worlds. This is a 5 star game, no doubt about it. The second best game you'll ever buy. (next to half life, of course.) If your after a quick andreneline fueled boost, forget drugs, try GUNMAN! Another fine game from sierra. And at £8.99, theres no reason not to. I cannot persuade you enough to buy this game. Beleive me, you wont regret it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
I thought it was pretty good(I've played Half-Life)
Yes this is a modded Half-life,Hell! even whilst I was exploring the disc for info it said Half-Life in the (minimised)window!! Read more
Published on 12 July 2008 by Mr. M. L. Hanford
Inside Gunman Chronicles
Gunman is a classic first-person shooter with everything you could possibly want. The graphics can sometimes be a bit disturbing but apart from that it is a great game. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2002 by duncanmelville@hotmail.com
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The HL engine was wasted on this. It lacks the suspense and bite of HL, it is much too short (despite the advertising there are only two playable planets) and I noticed several... Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2001
Mole hills out of Mountains...
Well I have to be honest and say that I'm terrible when it comes to impulse buying. When I'm shopping it's usuallt a case of look, grab, Buy. But... Read more
Published on 21 July 2001
It's no half-life!!
I bought this game because I thought that it would be just like half-life. Unfortunatly it is not the graphics are dodgy, the enemies are not life like at all and the story is just... Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2001
Oh Dear.....
What a massive step backwards this is...as we all know - based on the Half Life Engine and Originally a mod - Gun Man Chronicals shows it's non-proffesional roots here. Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2001 by Marc
Gunman Chronicals
I picked up this game and saw the holy sign- Half life. I just had to have it. I raced home, put it onto my brand spanking new GeForce 2 powered monster and started playing. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2001
Gunman Chronicle(s?) - enjoyable but short...
I remember rushing to town when my pre-order of HL came in on release day. After two of my best gaming weeks ever, I went online for some deathmatch... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2001
Gunman Chronicles by Sierra
Poor graphics and the same old (corridor type) gameplay, keep your money in your pocket for something better. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2001
2 years after Half Life...
A couple of years ago, like the rest of the gaming world, I was blown away by Half Life. After then enjoying Opposing Forces nearly as much as the original I was eager to get hold... Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2001 by MikeJC
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