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    Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West

    Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Apr 08, 2010

    Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is a team-based multiplayer shooter, featuring a Western setting and four playable character classes.

    ferginator4k's Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West (Steam) (PC) review

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    A solid Multiplayer title that suffers-

    Lead and Gold is the new title from Indie developer FatShark and is a team based Multiplayer shooter in a western setting.
    It is a very similiar game to TF2 despite the change in perspective.  Players can play a variety of game modes which are western twists on classic multiplayer gametypes, For example Shootout is Team Deathmatch.
     
    Players can choose between one of Four classes to play in the games strong array of maps-

    • The Blaster - Is a shotgun wielding prospector who can also toss dynamite at the enemy.
    • The Deputy- Is the standard class with a repeater carbine and the ability to tag targets similiar to marking targets in Bad Company 2.
    • The Gunslinger - Is a dual pistol wielding bandit who can fan his revolver shots to deadly effect.
    • The Trapper - Is the sniper class of the game and she also possesses the ability to set traps which will lock an enemy in place for a period of time.
    Each of the classes also have passive buffs that enhance the performance of the other classes, giving an incentive to have a varied team.
     
    The core gameplay is solid with classes working well together, excellently designed maps, smooth graphics and an outstanding soundtrack. 
     
    The All the games problems can be traced back to online issues of Lag due to the developers choice to use Matchmaking.
    Fatshark is a european company which means that the servers are located in europe and as i live in Australia this means laggy as helll games all the time, i understand that -
    A-Its not the developers fault that my connection isnt good
    and B-The developer is working on implementing dedicated servers due to the issues and damage to the community for this game that Matchmaking has caused.
     
    Lead and Gold is a fantastic multiplayer shooter that currently suffers from online issues that will hopefully be solved soon.
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      It's like the old times, when games were actually fun 0

      Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West (Steam)(PC) by solidamus90 on April 10, 2010

      "Lead and Gold" is not that simple to review because you can really look at this game in so many different ways, you can try it for five minutes and say: "This game sucks because you can't crouch and you can't unlock weapons n' shit". You don't have a huge pile of RPGish gameplay elements or insanely realistic and great looking graphics and you can ask yourself, do you really need all that? If the answer is yes, then you can stop reading this review because the game isn't really for you and I do...

      93 out of 105 found this review helpful.

      Basic? Yes. Fun? Sometimes. 0

      Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West (Steam)(PC) by schizoid on April 24, 2010

      Since this review dedicated server support has been added. When you set out to make a simplistic game which falls back onto the good old times where multiplayer games were a lot simpler and didn't rely on flashy over the top action to catch the players attention, you'd better make sure that you get the basics absolutely perfect. Unfortunately Lead and Gold falls short of doing this, becoming more of a chore to play than the fun back to basics western shooter it aspires to be.     Yeehaw!      ...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
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