
Basing the narrative structure on Bastion, they aimed to use the game's unreliable narrator to examine the fine line between fact and fiction in establishing the legends of some of the West's best-known figures. In returning to the Wild West setting of the first two games in the series, the designers decided to focus on the importance of storytelling in myth-making. In making the game, the designers were very much trying to redeem the reputation of the Call of Juarez brand after the critically reviled and commercially unsuccessful The Cartel.

Telling his story to a group of saloon patrons in 1910, Silas's increasingly grandiose and difficult to believe tales find him hunting Roscoe "Rustling Bob" Bryant, as he either teams up with or squares off against Wild West legends as Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Newman Haynes Clanton, Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, Henry Plummer, John Wesley Hardin, a Chiricahua war party, the Dalton Gang, George Curry, Kid Curry, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, and Frank James.Īfter The Cartel changed the series' setting from the Wild West to the modern-day, Gunslinger returned the series to a western milieu. The game tells the story of Silas Greaves, a bounty hunter in the American West during the second half of the 19th century.

It is the fourth game in the Call of Juarez series, although narratively, it is unrelated to the three previous titles ( Call of Juarez, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, and Call of Juarez: The Cartel). In December 2019, it was ported to the Nintendo Switch. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in May 2013 via Steam, UPlay, the PlayStation Store, and Xbox Live Arcade.

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is a first-person shooter set in a western milieu developed by Techland and originally published by Ubisoft.
