Back in November 2005, the Western title "Gun" was released for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Playstation 2, GameCube and Windows to quite favourable reviews, with the game scoring 79% on MetaCritic.
The game tells the story of Colton "Colt" White, after a hunting-based tutorial, gamers where swiftly thrown in to the bleak world of Western stories, Shoot outs on boats, preventing arsonists from sending the local bar up in flames, fastest finger shoot outs, horse back shoot-outs and much more. Although faced with countless dangers, Colton survives the experience that is "Gun", with its favourable reviews and with 1.4 Million units sold as of 2008, a sequel would seem to be an obvious next step. Well, we were given a portable port of the game for PSP in the form of "Gun: Showdown", a suprisingly good port, but it wasn't the sequel many desired...
There have been a number of hints targeting towards a sequel to the game, in the 2006 Demo of "Tony Hawk's Proving Ground", a poster was discovered for "Gun: Magruder's Ghost", this raised high hopes for a sequel, but six years later...nothing, no announcement, no trailer, no sequel. Although hope remains, with Joystiq reporting that at a financial Conference, the sequel was hinted at.
In June 2010, a job listing for Neversoft was discovered, detailing that the company was working on a "new action shooter game", could this be Gun 2? Could the title finally be ready to surface? My guess is that the poster seen within "Tony Hawk's Proving Ground" was a joke poster for a made up film and not actually related to the actual sequel, why? Because I think for Magruder to return, it would not follow the style of the game, it would be to unrealistic, however, I do believe, and hope, that a sequel is incoming.
With the hugely successful "Red Dead Redemption" having been released earlier this year, competition for a Gun sequel is fierce, however, Gun was released after Red Dead Revolver and in my opinion was a big step up, adding free roaming and much Much more, could Gun 2 do the same with "Red Dead Redemption"? Having purchased "Red Dead Redemption" and invested hours and hours into the title, I think it is incredible (as most Rockstar titles are), but it makes me want a Gun Sequel even more than I already did. Fingers crossed for something soon...
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I've been wondering the same thing GUN was awesome loved every minute of it I've been waiting for a sequel ever since I beat the first
I still consider GUN the best Western game even after RDR
Hopefully now people will see that western games will sell. The numbers that Red Dead Redemption pulled in surprised even me. I loved the original Gun and would love a new installment. There haven't been many western games this gen, at least good ones anyway. Gun and Red Dead Redemption are two notable exceptions, even though Gun was at the very beginning of this gen on the 360 in 2005.
After playing RDR, i want more western games, i love the setting.
Activision cancelled Gun 2. I can't remember where I read it but I know I did. They were working on it though. They probably have started work again on it after Redemption's success or they will.
By the way. What's it like in 2012? lol It's been four years since 2006 not six. That Proving Ground demo came out in September 2007 so it hasn't even been three years yet. Nice read though. I liked Gun. It would be hard for a sequel to be better than Red Dead Redemption though. The main reason I liked Gun better than Red Dead Revolver was because it was open world. It seems like that was really the only thing Gun had on Red Dead.
i think as you mention that after the sucsess of RDR were gonna see alot of western style games coming up! Also id loooove to see a GUN 2! GUN was good the story was just too short!! good blog though!