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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

07 Jul, 2009, 12:00 pm IST | Avinash Bali | PC

In between certain levels you’ll be granted a bit of free roaming, which actually comes as a breath of fresh air from all the on-rails shooting. During this time you can earn money by apprehending outlaws or by umm... herding cattle. Money earned by completing such missions can be used to purchase faster and more powerful weapons.The game also has a few boss fights scattered around the place and since this is the Wild West you can only take them out in a fair duel. The dueling system has been vastly improved from the first one and is sure to test your reflexes since it takes only one shot to kill or be killed in this mode.__STARTQUOTE__Bound in Blood is a solid shooter backed by solid production values, good voice acting and an interesting plot.__ENDQUOTE__Unlike the previous game, you can actually select which brother to play as before every mission begins. Unfortunately the game does not support co-operative play so when you play as Ray or Thomas, you’re left with the enemy AI controlling the other one. Friendly AI isn’t too bright but it doesn’t get on your nerves either. The only stupid aspect over here is that you can’t stray too far away from your brother or the mission gets terminated immediately. Thankfully the excessive amount of platforming that plagued the first game has been cut down drastically and unless you’re playing as Thomas, you have nothing to worry about here.

Visually the game is very impressive and even though Techland axed DirectX 10 support from BiB, you never really miss it. The game packs in a ton of detail and variety into existing locales. Enemy models tend to get a bit repetitive but both Thomas and Ray are well detailed. Weapon detail is pretty stunning as well and if you’re a fan of American history or weapons in general you’ll appreciate the effort put into them.

Like I mentioned earlier, voice acting is pretty stellar and I really like the chemistry between Thomas and Ray. They love each other like brothers should but at the same time they also rag on each other like two brothers would. The banter exchanged between them during the game is also pretty entertaining. �

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is a marked improvement over the first game. Techland has fine tuned many gameplay aspects to make this game thoroughly entertaining. They’ve axed the annoying bits and replaced it with high production values and balls to the wall gunplay. Its a solid shooter backed by solid production values, high octane gameplay, stellar voice acting and an interesting plot. Buy it now!

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