Reception and Sales
Reception | |
---|---|
Aggregate scores | |
Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 79% |
Metacritic | 79/100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
Eurogamer | 7/10 |
GamePro | |
GameSpot | 7.4 of 10 |
GameSpy | |
GameTrailers | 7.6/10 |
IGN | 8.0 of 10 |
Official Xbox Magazine | 9.5/10 |
Official Xbox Magazine (UK) | 9/10 |
Play Magazine | 8/10 |
X-Play |
Gun received mostly positive reviews from critics, although the Xbox 360 version met positive to mediocre ratings. It holds aggregate scores of 79% and 79/100 at GameRankings and Metacritic respectively. IGN stated that "Neversoft has finally made a good game besides all their Tony Hawk". GameSpot described it as "initially a 19th-century Grand Theft Auto", while GameSpy addressed it as having "just about everything you could want from a game set in the Wild West". In its first month, the game sold 225,000 units across the four systems for which it was initially released. According to TRST sales data, the game had sold over 1.4 million units in the US by October 2008.
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