Maybe that’s for the best – both of these games are good, but neither is really ‘Game of the Year’ material. Despite its success, it’s not out of the question for someone to have heard of the game and even played it, without being aware that it’s a sequel, albeit mainly in spirit. The most famous Western game to date is also the most successful, ‘Red Dead Redemption’, which won several Game of the Year awards, beating out titles as impressive as Mass Effect 2, Heavy Rain and Halo: Reach. Heck, Shigeru Miyamoto’s very first game back in 1979 was ‘Sheriff’, but that was a little before my time. ‘Gun.Smoke’ and ‘Sunset Riders’ were pretty good, and I’ve been looking forward to ‘Wild ARMS’ for a while now. ‘Call of Juarez’ maybe, but ‘Outlaws’ did a Wild West FPS first. I can’t honestly say that I’m upset that the genre hasn’t received more attention, as the games would lose their uniqueness, but it’s still a shame that I can’t even name 10 games that could be considered such. Maybe it was watching ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ as a child (well, when I was 19,) but there’s something about a good old-fashioned Western that can keep me entertained for hours. But one genre I love that never really kicked off is the Western. The yesteryear of gaming was populated by platformers, then RPGs rose to fame from SNES to PS1, and most recently the market has been flooded by either FPS games or more casual endeavors. I don’t think it’s a shocking revelation to say that some genres of gaming are more popular than others.
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