Highly recommended!  Really.

Picture GTA in the Old Wild West with an interactive Sergio Leone Western touch.
 I've never actually been into GTA.  I mean, going around in a modern big city
as a thug, beating, robbing and killing people with a hiphop soundtrack?  Is
that fun?  But being a former outlaw gunslinger in the old west, that's much
better! :)

Really, the most amazing thing about this game is the world:  a huge open map
spreading miles and miles beyond view under red sunsets and high noons.  Truly:
you see things far off in the distance that may look like mere scenery, but
after much galloping you eventually get there!

First time around I completed a few main missions and then gone on just
wandering aimlessly through the desolate but beautiful lands, hunting the
various kind of fauna out there, helping strangers assailed by gangs or beasts,
accepting various sorts of challenges and duels, galloping with my horse like
there's no tomorrow.  That's not even counting the main plot!

The game gives such sense of freedom it's unbelievable and the settings and
music (Ennio Morricone inspired) are hauntingly beautiful.  2 thumbs up!  Story
itself looks like an amalgama of older western plots and works like a charm to
tell the tale of former outlaw John Marston.  I guess I'm about 2% done so
far...

So, if you happen to have a PC, XBox 360 or PS3, just give it a spin.  Well
worth it.

I feel glad that 2 of the current generation top games have been historical
simulations of sorts.  I'm sick of war and marines of all kind...

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