I Reviewed EVERY Call of Juarez Game | Full Series Retrospective

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MrHammers

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@theopatino2379 9 ай бұрын

Gunslinger is currently on sale on Switch for $4, it plays well, worth picking up.

@RAIN_2001 8 ай бұрын

Gunslinger is awesome

@swempytimes 9 ай бұрын

Call of Juarez is one of my favorite video game series of all time. Thank you for giving it the attention and love and research that I feel it deserves.

@man.actual 8 ай бұрын

Same

@Ave_Satana666 6 ай бұрын

If only it had a better name

@man.actual 6 ай бұрын

@@Ave_Satana666 what’s wrong with the name

@J4cobSkiJumping 2 ай бұрын

It's not a good research. What about custom maps? That Techland shared ChromED editor to make custom maps for both - COJ 1 and COJ: BiB? What about multiplayer in COJ 1 and various gamemodes on it that people still play to this very day. He forgot about some things, that's not the best research i've seen. What about DLC that was released for Bound in Blood only for the consoles, adding few new multiplayer maps What aboud a DLC for Call of Juarez (2006) that was only available on consoles as well - duel mode Eh..

@thecstineman 9 ай бұрын

What I love about your reviews is that you talk about the bad and the good, and don't just roast or kiss up to the games. Sometimes people just wanna suck a game off or burn it to the ground in their reviews, and having someone reviewing these niche games with more objectivity and balance is a net positive.

@timgimmy609 8 ай бұрын

agreed so many "reviews" are recapping the story beat by beat and then calling it a masterpiece

@thecstineman 7 ай бұрын

@@timgimmy609 agreed man

@xxsnowbirbiexx7530 9 ай бұрын

Call of Juarez really is slept on. I remember being upset that there were no hats in multi-player in a cowboy game, but looking back is was pretty killer with what they did. if they ever do decide a sequel. I hope that its a mashup of BiB and Gunslinger. Thats a killer formula.

@TheRastafarianStuff 7 ай бұрын

no sequel will ever come out, mostly because the last installment of the series was hated by everyone and because red dead redemption set a bar so high I highly doubt any developer will approach the western genre anytime soon

@funkyfish1026 2 ай бұрын

MY MAN, at like 24min when the music from bastion kicks in. Amen brother

@foller2electricboogaloo575 9 ай бұрын

In my opinion: Call of Juarez: Needs a remake in the engine of Bound In Blood. Bound In Blood: Needs a remaster for new consoles. The Cartel: Must be forgotten forever. Gunslinger: It's pretty good.

@GenesisBoi 7 ай бұрын

I feel like the reason Thomas became an abuse drunk was also the death of his brother. People pick different ways to cope where Ray went the religious route however Thomas went the self destructive path dealing with the pain.

@tylertheguy3160 9 ай бұрын

I like how among these decent westerns you have the fucking fever dream that is The Cartel.

@EddiMoFetti 9 ай бұрын

I have a Mandela effect for the second Call of Juarez cause I vividly remember playing the story mode co op with my brother back in the day but last time I played it, it was only single player, that shit really confused me

@SupremeOracle 5 ай бұрын

Maybe confused it with Army of One?

@ArexJrones Ай бұрын

Times splitters has western levels similar to call of juarez

@cannongerber3257 Ай бұрын

I had the exact same thing happen to me! But I realized what me and my brother would do was switch who was playing each level and I would always be Rey and he would always be Thomas, so it sort of felt like we played the whole game together.

@edb2863 9 ай бұрын

I remember playing the multiplayer for bound in blood back in the day, it was so fun. I genuinely preferred it to call of duty and the like, but it was a struggle finding games even back then

@HiGlowie 7 ай бұрын

If you’re looking for a stealthy multiplayer fps with cowboy aesthetics, check out Hunt: Showdown. I tried it and it’s not really for me since it’s more or less all stealth based. That and the servers are absolute dog shit.

@TheBeastlyFollower 6 ай бұрын

Me too, I switched back and forth between the multiplayer on that and another almost game with nearly dead multiplayer at launch, Medal of Honor: Airborne. I've heard that some people on PC recently have started up some community servers on Bound in Blood in an attempt to populate it again, I believe they have a discord with some files to download. I haven't tried it though so I can't speak on its popularity. Fistful of Frags or Smokin' Guns are fun as stand-ins though, although they're pretty old and most matches are only against AI. I did try Hunt: Showdown and I like the aesthetics and visuals, but I didn't know what the hell was going on. That tends to be my experience with 'extraction' shooters as a whole though, I was even more confused when I tried EFT. If I remember correctly in Hunt I walked up to a guy and started using my mic, thinking it was kinda like DayZ or Rust back in the day and there was the option of working together with randoms to team up to fight the AI or do objectives together or something, but he just shot me in the face immediately. Pretty looking game though.

@Summer0711 3 ай бұрын

@@HiGlowieI wouldn’t say it’s really stealth based it’s just very difficult. You can definitely play really aggressive. Hell you can even play completely melee and find relative success it’s just got a huge skill ceiling and can get pretty grindy

@carmina-solis 9 ай бұрын

i’d never heard of this series before! thank you for the introduction, i’m definitely going to check these out further!

@xs.150 5 ай бұрын

Bound in blood is my favorite FPS game of all time! I've been playing this since I was a kid! Thanks a lot man u are a REAL legend for explaining this OG franchise🔥

@gntpapi 9 ай бұрын

Such an underrated series! The first one was an extremely impressive for the time and remember it blowing my mind frequently!

@autfg5921 9 ай бұрын

Oh man I am dying for another Call of Juarez game although I doubt we will ever get one. Bound in Blood was my favourite and I actually quite enjoyed The Cartel, despite what everyone says.

@ryanpriscott7028 6 ай бұрын

Fun fact the only time I could reliably use the Bible was the mission where you hop on the train and you enter the carts, managed to make the 4-5 enemies stop for a moment and listen, I then proceeded to gun them down before they could fight back 😂

@matteobonelli8442 Ай бұрын

Honestly, Bound in Blood has one of the best plot and soundtrack of all times, in my opinion. Plus, the first two games would make for an excellent tv series!

@KaedeSoulStriker 2 ай бұрын

I always seen these games in GameStop as a kid… there was always a Call of Juarez game in stock and i never knew anybody whose every played it so its cool seeing what i missed fr

@TheDoctorDoge 9 ай бұрын

When I played the first call of Juarez, every time I played as ray I would have the Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other and just spam random quotes while streaming it to my friends

@Thetrue777luck777 9 ай бұрын

I found a Easter egg of the game sunset riders in RDR2. Turns out the city of Valentine in RDR2 is the same city of the bonus stage in Sunset Riders. If you go to Valentine stay in front of the stables and look to the city you see the store and the salon on the left and the hotel and many other stores on the right. It's the same of Sunset Riders XD

@kloakovalimonada 8 ай бұрын

I loved the first one so much. Some of the scenarios I won't ever forget. Gunslinger is also fantastic, such a clever concept, one of the smartest I've ever seen in any game really.

@kushfeast209 9 ай бұрын

Right on time just finished up the series 🙌

@AlfredFJones1776 9 ай бұрын

I need that Total Overdose review my man.

@simple-commentator-not-rea7345 8 ай бұрын

You're not gonna believe me, but there's a video showing all those character intro's and the lead writer Rafal Orkan actually responded to my comment, confirming that yes, Pistol Pete was the inspiration behind Silas. At least I hope it was actually him, I'd hate to imagine someone would sink so low as to pretend to be someone else

@Mackbro69 8 ай бұрын

Gunslinger is probably one of my favorite games of all time lmao replayed it to many times

@Laxhoop 9 ай бұрын

My personal theory as to why Billy claims that Thomas is a drunk abuser, is that he’s just projecting. It’s clear that Billy at the beginning of the game isn’t exactly a Saint. He literally steals multiple people’s guns, when we later see that the only reason he’d need one in the town, is because of his own actions while there. Thomas probably did beat Billy, but it was probably because he deserved it, though a young Billy never took it that way. And as for why his Mom told him where the gold was? Well… That really is a massive plot hole, I’ll be honest. Though my best guess would be that she saw a lot of who Thomas and Rey once were in him, and hoped that if he did find the treasure, it would be a wake up call for him like it was for them, rather than a death sentence, because she probably felt that he was going to go off treasure hunting no matter what she did. Although, that’s really just me writing a reason for the game, at that point. We never know his mom well enough in either of the games she appears in, to know why she would do this.

@slxxpyhollow 9 ай бұрын

Wtf I literally only knew about 1 of these games, I had no idea there was FOUR of them. I wish I knew about the series sooner, Call of Juarez seems like a game I would've been into heavy on the xbox 360

@MrHammers 9 ай бұрын

Really only the first two are connected, cartel and gunslinger just kinda do their own thing haha

@Phoenix_SMT 8 ай бұрын

Gunslinger is a masterpiece

@846nick 9 ай бұрын

i like the video and commentary, keep up the good work!

@MrHammers 9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@TheRastafarianStuff 7 ай бұрын

before Red Dead Redemption, Call of Juarez was the best western based videogame

@LDZWolf 6 ай бұрын

Naa gun was the best Western

@TheRastafarianStuff 6 ай бұрын

@@LDZWolf the only thing I know about gun is how its called and how the logo looked like

@taylorsmith3031 8 ай бұрын

I played BiB all the time with my brother. I grew up with Call of Juarez instead of RDR, and I hope they make another Call of Juarez game with a story like that someday.

@aursunao2817 3 ай бұрын

Bound in blood was what got me hooked on the series and I still remmeber all the hours of lan parties in the multilayered and love em

@asmodir_7932 8 ай бұрын

Am I the only one who wishes the cartel was better? I think it could have been way better considering their previous game, a modern day atmosphere would rock

@Hairlesswookie62 9 ай бұрын

tommy tallarico's music is amazing in this

@arielmino643 9 ай бұрын

Since gunslinger was my first exposure to the series, then i heard the game's soundtrack i knew that this was going to be one of my favourite videogame series, wish they would do another shot at this series, maybe do one where the really early 20th century has the last cowboys riding motorcycles or something like that

@FreelancerND Ай бұрын

Gunslinger still plays and feels as a GREAT game. Gunplay in on it's own league. And storytelling style is higwly enjoyable.

@hemangchauhan2864 9 ай бұрын

I need to try Bound By Blood

@MrHammers 9 ай бұрын

It's the best one imo

@LukaJebo 12 күн бұрын

this game thrived all because the developers listened to the fanbase, lotta other games could learn from this

@DillonDaVillain222 6 ай бұрын

Bound in blood and gunslinger are two of my all-time favorite games

@fakeperson9788 8 ай бұрын

What would be awesome, a Western Zombie game by Techland.

@mightyarbokking7197 5 ай бұрын

I remember when me and my brother shared the 360, he said he bought a game that was on sale that he said was a western, i got so excited since i thought he bought Red Dead Redemption, only to be disappointed it was CoJ: Gunslinger, so disappinted to the point i actually cussed him out, wasn’t until i finally played it myself, that i owed him one heck of an apology. And you bet when this game was released on Switch, i bought it soon as it went on sale, replaying the game on Switch, was like slipping into the comfiest pair of shoes, i must thank my brother very much for getting me into Gunslinger, though i never played the others and probably never will, as long as i have my Switch ever since my 360 broke, Gunslinger will remain a game in my library for years to come!

@AIB-xx6bn 8 ай бұрын

It is really cool that the had a nod to gunslinger in dying light the following, where all the revolvers looked the same as the ones in gunslinger

@jf_paes1589 5 ай бұрын

I swear I'm the only person who had no issues with the dueling in Bound in Blood because every time I hear people review this game, they always say the duel sucks major ass and it's fucking atrocious to control and I'm like ??????? and I played it on PC too, I found it easy and quick to learn the controls, I barely lost any duels.

@pvtmcfinger3770 9 ай бұрын

Great breakdown, however there's only one thing I wouldn't agree on. Duels are actually great, especially in Bound in Blood. Reason you struggled with aiming is because you need to move simultaneously as the opponent moves. If he moves off your center your aim will be off and you will not be able to shoot him. I believe the instructions are presented in the first duel in the game.

@oolooo 9 ай бұрын

The best part of Gunslinger is how the ending reconfigures what we thought of the adventure we saw being told and hits us with the revelation: what Silas has been telling us is the Truth , he is not making this up . Too bad the """Engraved Guns""" were so ugly .Wish they could have given us real Life examples of inlaid and engraved guns , like the pimped out Colt Single Action Armys that the Dalton Boys used at Coffeyville to signal their final strike .

@scatered1 9 ай бұрын

Hoooooweee boah I tell you h'what I sure do love me some Mr Hammers!

@tsycho1619 9 ай бұрын

Over two hours, f*ck yeah. I'm in.

@sneakymcgee 8 ай бұрын

I remember seeing "call of juarez: gunslinger" discounted for free on steam, and now I really wish there were more well made old western games in the world

@beebothecheeto Ай бұрын

Eddie in cartel is voiced by the same guy as the playas voice in saints row 2. Thought it sounded familiar

@FreelancerND Ай бұрын

Tell everything you like about RDR, but mowing down criminals as preacher, with a colt in one hand and bible in the other all while citing holy tests... That's an experience =)

@MutantMasterRace 8 ай бұрын

Played Gunslinger and really liked it. Def gonna check out the first 2 games.

@schizoidmeme5470 9 ай бұрын

My only issue with William killing was that it wasnt in Cold Blood, but Self-Defsense. Something even the Bible teaches is okay via Luke. "Sell thy Cloak for a Sword."

@coreycasciano3255 8 ай бұрын

Gunslinger is the only one i played and the game has aged beautifully

@HiGlowie 7 ай бұрын

Wonder why this series wasn’t more well known? Granted, back when these games were released AAA games were still good so maybe the series just got lost in all the decent games that came out of the era

@Zirnick 7 ай бұрын

I forgot about this series 😢 childhood core

@austin2727 3 ай бұрын

I just played through the 3 good ones and I had to change my dpi and in-game sensitivity for every duel in 'bound in blood'

@Kethploy 7 ай бұрын

Dwight twist is really surprised me too

@drnoobsauce 8 ай бұрын

great job on this

@coolguy5244 5 ай бұрын

The only reason why I cared for this game series was because of the second game because of the beginning of the story you’ll understand why

@TedMyth 2 ай бұрын

35:50 - I have news for you. It's not the duels that suck... It's you.

@E_blanknamehere 8 ай бұрын

Gunslinger is just a great FPS. It's polished arcade style fun And it did it 3 years before Doom

@buddyleonard9352 9 ай бұрын

Totally biased but these are my favorite videos you’ve made, great videos!

@Figdudeton 9 ай бұрын

Damn, KZbin compression fucking massacres the first game...

@jordanwhateley1714 9 ай бұрын

day 1 of politely asking for a cry of fear retrospective

@CarolinaBoy80399 2 күн бұрын

What’s the name of the outro instrumental?

@marcusanark2541 9 ай бұрын

I like long length videos.

@jonza4534 9 ай бұрын

Is sucks that the cartel didn't turn out as a concept it sounds fun I guess I'm a sucker for a cop story

@tommymorgan4677 2 ай бұрын

Gunslinger is my favorit and I don`t think The cartel is so bad.

@Ctrl-Alt-Del. 8 ай бұрын

i want to play all of them. I hate that there are some like Cartel that are not available anymore.....

@andrewhill2728 9 ай бұрын

played this when i was a wee lad

@shawbag11 4 ай бұрын

tbh the only one i liked was gunslinger cant really say i care for the others

@d0o0b-w1g 7 ай бұрын

What about the first western fps aka outlaw?

@sagitta98 9 ай бұрын

At first I thought Call of Juares is related to Call of Duty.

@andreworders7305 5 ай бұрын

4:55 ugh, Garth Ennis

@rangerghost2474 9 ай бұрын

Alright hear me out, Call of Juarez:Undead nightmare 😂

@Laxhoop 9 ай бұрын

I prefer the story of the first game, but damn does it feel awful to play at parts. The simple story of a wayward young man and his bitter step-uncle, both finding their way and learning to forgive the other through an epic cat and mouse chase that leads them down a path of needing to confront both of their pasts is really cool on paper. But sadly, while I do enjoy the general story and characters more here, there are many moments in the story that aren’t properly earned, as they just sort of happen. Like the game expects me to care when the native chief character is killed when we barely even got to know him. And the twist of who Billy’s father is, and how all of this is tied to Rey, his brother, and everyone else, makes basically no sense (and certainly isn’t helped by the prequel). The second game seems to be the most liked of the series, but the big moments that the first game hinted at are all ruined. Why would you ruin the moment where the brother dies, by overshadowing it with a fight against a confederate in a sinking sand city? Also, the fact that we met multiple characters from the original doesn’t add to the story, it just makes things more confusing. Like, the game should be an intimate story of a family being torn apart by greed, only for the untimely death of the youngest to finally make both elder brothers see the error of their ways. Instead, the story is hell set on making this dumbass confederate general into the overarching villain, that a lot of the themes and big moments are just ruined as a result. The first game didn’t even introduce the main villain until 3 missions before the credits. Yeah, granted, that came with its own set of issues, but the lesson to learn from that wasn’t “we need a main villain, and need to forcefully insert him into the story as many times as possible!” No one likes the third game. And the fourth game is a fun romp, but I really would have liked to see more from the son in the first game, he could have been part of the story, at the very least.

@MrHammers 9 ай бұрын

Your criticisms of bound in blood are super valid when it comes to the storytelling. I personally thought it was the strongest game in the series, but I think they could've made the plot a little more independent of the prior game. But on the other hand the first two games are really the only two that were related at all. Cartel and gunslinger just did their own thing

@benkersten1705 9 ай бұрын

Damn, I’m watching more of your channel.

@andreworders7305 5 ай бұрын

9:36 there’s climbing?

@MrHammers 5 ай бұрын

yes, compare Billy climbing by being able to grab ledges 08:33, and the Ray having to stack boxes to get a ledge 11:05

@NoliePolie523 9 ай бұрын

5!!no way

@ganin_ 8 ай бұрын

Maybe I was too tired while watching this but how the hell can Ben be related to the McCall brothers if they all died without having kids?

@MrHammers 8 ай бұрын

Billy and Molly are his great grandparents, making Thomas his great great step father and Ray and William his great great uncles lol. Technically not related to the McCall's by blood, only in name from Billy 'Candle' McCall. His related to Juan Mendoza by blood though, as he's Billy's actual father

@ganin_ 8 ай бұрын

@@MrHammers that's what I was assuming. Weird of them to make him basically a copy of a character he's not actually related to lol. Great video by the way.

@MrHammers 8 ай бұрын

@ganin_ gotta relate to the series somehow I guess LMAO thanks my man

@trevorstockwell8290 9 ай бұрын

Two problems i had with the games was the rop swinging from the trees or to get to a higher point and the duals, god I never liked the duals in bound in blood

@hollowinside1962 Ай бұрын

I wished they would ditch dying light and make a fps open world call of juarez

@JaelaOrdo 9 ай бұрын

Ray McCall = Gunslinging Gul Dukat

@projectfear22 9 ай бұрын

Wonder what the chances are of a new COJ game

@droids75 9 ай бұрын

Probably 50/50 Gunslinger did pretty well but it seems they are more focused on Zombie games

@emceenati1497 9 ай бұрын

1:18:30 Not accounting players who played multiple characters Sorry dude, but that IS actually accounting players who played multiple characters

@MichelGG117 9 ай бұрын

I Can say without a doubt that I love these games! Pretty good westerns. But as a Mexican, I cringe whenever I hear how they pronounce Juarez LMFAO

@mischievousjr.9299 9 ай бұрын

I regret not playing these games, I was too young to play them, I was on the Wii Also the games looked bootlegged asf to me Some sh!t id see in the swapmeet and i did

@straydawg2035 8 ай бұрын

I don't think Red Dead Revolver excelled at anything.

@NiceDiggz 8 ай бұрын

I believe I've played 2 all the way through but the last one i just didn't like at all

@KrazyKain 9 ай бұрын

Hey great video for a great series. Just one thing, Jim Sterling goes by they not him. They still use the Jim Sterling brand but goes by the name James Stephanie Sterling and tends to prefer Steph.

@shanetaylor761 9 ай бұрын

Wtf there's 4 of these games?

@pintadocachorrao 9 ай бұрын

❤

@wyattshook2775 8 ай бұрын

I bought the cartel when i was like 15. Game really just sucked. I hated the intro level and i hated their snarky remarks. It was such a shitty game, i wish i got one of the other call of juarez games but never did

@98loud 8 ай бұрын

bit of feedback: sometimes you contradict yourself minutes after saying something. "The game is really fun to play" then "Is the story worth the meh gameplay" or "shooting someone with an arrow from the shadows never gets old", "lightening can reveal your position" to "the stealth gameplay of the first game was clunky"

@amanojaku7735 5 ай бұрын

When a 36 year old drunkard (me), sses zoomer failing at duels in BiB and Gunslinger, -- basically activities that require basic human level concentration and basic levels of dexterity... I wanna ask: are you capable of pouring water in a glass? Can you read more than two sentences back to back? How many years it takes you to memorize 3 colors shown to you? How many toilet paper stacks you go through before wiping your arse?

@MrHammers 5 ай бұрын

I gotchu bro. 1. I am 31, so we are about the same generationally. 2. I spill sometimes 3. Depends how long the sentences are 4. Basic colors would be easy, but no complex ones 5. I use a bidet Anything else?