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The Gunstringer 360

Format:
360

Genre:
Shooting

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Episode one of Scripted Gamer digs into the latest trend in Western gaming. Even Fred and Bob, our theatrical reviewers, found a happy helping of gun slinging to be had here.

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Scene: Bob and Fred are sat on a sofa with two Xbox 360 controllers.

Fred: Welcome to another edition of scripted gamer.

Bob: (sings theme tune to the good the bad and the ugly)

Fred: What are you doing

Bob: (continues)

Fred: Oh good grief, Really Bob

Bob: Are you talking to me pardner

Fred: Well yes who else would I be talking to, you’re the only other person here

Bob: It was one of them rhetrioical questions

Fred: Rhetorical

Bob: Thems fighting words mister

Fred: How is rhetorical a fighting word

Bob: oh you said it again this leaves me no choice, prepare to meet your maker

Fred: Will you cut it out

Bob: Draw!

Fred: Bob!

Bob: bang, bang bang.

Fred: Really!!

Bob: You are so dead right now

Fred: Well clearly I’m not

Bob: Well you totally would be if you was in the gunstringer

Fred: a tenuous link at best but one I’ll take, todays game is the Kinect shooter the gunstringer

Bob: It’s Brill

Fred: Now normally me and Bob are usually sceptical of kinect games as we find more often than not they are a bit...buggy

Bob: As in they dont do what they’re meant to do, or they do but only just

Fred: The gunstringer however is a unique concept

Bob:Bob: You control an undead puppet

Fred: Marionette

Bob: It’s not a girl Fred, it’s a puppet

Fred: that’s not what..oh never mind, so whilst your left hand controls the...... puppets movement the right controls your gun

Bob: And you shoot pretty much everything

Fred: there’s a primitive cover shoot system but it’s still unique for Kinect

Bob: The story is a classic revenge tale

Fred: except that you seem to be performing the tale to a live theatre audience

Bob: yeah that was a bit weird....but fun

Fred: Yes weird but fun, I cant imagine how you find it easy to relate to that

Bob: even though I dont really get what you just said, something inside me knows it was a dig about me

Fred: I have no idea what you’re talking about

Bob: HMMMM, well basically folks we rate this game, it’s not for hardcore gamers but it is a lot of fun

Fred: and weird

Bob: definitely weird

Fred: Just like you, we’ve been the scripted gamers

Bob: OI!!!

Fred: Goodnight

Written by Adam Moran

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Adam Moran writes the Scripted Gamer column.

"Here, we find out what happens when theatre meets videogames. We will soon be hitting the road and performing our review scripts infront of a real living audience."

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