Xbox fans rejoice as Six-Guns has arrived on Windows Phone 8

Six Guns for Windows Phone 8

It's been a rough few weeks for Xbox Windows Phone games. We haven't seen a new Xbox-branded game since UNO & Friends released at the finish of July, for crying out loud. Sure, the new version of Fruit Ninja and Chaos Rings' recent Windows Phone 8 compatibility accept helped, but mobile Xbox fans even so thirst for brand new games and Achievements.

Today that thirst gets quenched for a while! Like a much-needed whisky on the rocks later an afternoon showdown, Half-dozen-Guns has finally arrived on Windows Telephone eight. First announced back in March, 6-Guns is one of the xv games that Gameloft recently promised in August. It also happens to be gratis! See our first impressions video and more than details subsequently the break!

Windows Phone heads to the Wild Due west

Six-Guns starts with a fashionable, fully-voiced move-comic introduction. Our hero (or is that antihero?) Buck Crosshaw wakes up simply outside of a desert town, head throbbing with hangover. You know, pretty much your friendly neighborhood Games Editor's typical Dominicus morning time experience. Soon a woman's scream beckons, and the tutorial begins…

Gameloft's latest release is an open world action game modeled later on Rockstar's popular Reddish Expressionless Redemption console game. A virtual stick on the left controls Cadet's move, while swiping anywhere on the right adjusts the camera. A large revolver button delivers melee blows or fires Buck's gun. If y'all've played a panel-style action game on mobile phones such as The Amazing Spider-Man so you'll feel correct at home with 6- Guns' controls.

Slinging guns ain't piece of cake

Six Guns for Windows Phone 8

This is a Wild Westward-themed game that spans a large globe, so of form our hero needs a horse. Tapping the equus caballus button at the tiptop-left corner calls your trusty steed. Once you've accepted a quest, you can simple hop on Rainbow Dash (or whatever you lot phone call your horse) and follow the glowing waypoint markers to the mission destination.

Along the way you'll pass a beautifully rendered landscape. Half dozen-Guns features some splendid art designs, though the frame rate falls a flake short. It seems to run on the aforementioned engine every bit The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises, which means it's playable but not the smoothest game in boondocks. I'k willing to put upwardly with some frame rate hiccups (or what you lot immature'uns phone call lag) in order to play a huge game with a cool western theme.

Go it now on phone, soon on Windows 8

Six Guns for Windows Phone 8

The lineup of Xbox-enabled Windows Phone viii games is looking slim for the balance of the year, and then Six-Guns came not a moment too shortly. The game clocks in at merely under 500 megabytes, but as with all Windows Telephone viii games, you'll need at to the lowest degree four times as much space (approximately two gigabytes) in order to install information technology.

An interesting facet of Gameloft's Baronial annunciation that you lot might've missed is that Vi-Guns will be coming to Windows viii too! The Windows 8 version will be Xbox-enabled and free, just like this one. Gameloft hasn't announced a specific release date for the tablet and PC game still – hopefully it comes sooner rather than later on.

Six-Guns – Windows Telephone 8, including 512MB devices – 436 MB – Complimentary – Shop Link

Thanks to Mark Tepper for the super speedy tip!

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