One of the best stories I've experienced in a game, although the beginning is tortuously slow-paced, and you're introduced to 20 characters all at once and hear about their life stories while slowly trotting around a snowy mountain doing nothing.

When something is happening, it's always exciting or intriguing (or both). There's a good mix of serious grittiness and charming/funny dialogue throughout. Regardless of how important a character is to the story, there's never a drop in quality.

The gunplay is fun but feels clunky at times due to the way recoil recovery works. You'll feel both like a real gunslinger and a complete bot during your playthrough.

The biggest gripe I have is the slowness of traveling around at the same pace Hector Salamanca would. The game forces you to go slow on long journeys, and you'll notice that when you're on a horse, you have to fight the controls as if you're driving a car and someone else is grabbing the wheel for a laugh and crashing you into a pole.

There's a lot of drawn-out dialogue at the beginning of missions where you're riding a horse to go somewhere, listening to two characters have banter that could easily be in a cutscene, rather than making you spam the sprint button to go at a reasonable speed constantly for unbearably long journeys.

Overall, it's an amazing game; I just wish they'd cut back on the simulator-esque mechanics that feel like they kill the pacing.

One of the best stories I've experienced in a game, although the beginning is tortuously slow-paced, and you're introduced to 20 characters all at once and hear about their life stories while slowly trotting around a snowy mountain doing nothing. When something is happening, it's always exciting or intriguing (or both). There's a good mix of serious grittiness and charming/funny dialogue throughout. Regardless of how important a character is to the story, there's never a drop in quality. The gunplay is fun but feels clunky at times due to the way recoil recovery works. You'll feel both like a real gunslinger and a complete bot during your playthrough. The biggest gripe I have is the slowness of traveling around at the same pace Hector Salamanca would. The game forces you to go slow on long journeys, and you'll notice that when you're on a horse, you have to fight the controls as if you're driving a car and someone else is grabbing the wheel for a laugh and crashing you into a pole. There's a lot of drawn-out dialogue at the beginning of missions where you're riding a horse to go somewhere, listening to two characters have banter that could easily be in a cutscene, rather than making you spam the sprint button to go at a reasonable speed constantly for unbearably long journeys. Overall, it's an amazing game; I just wish they'd cut back on the simulator-esque mechanics that feel like they kill the pacing.