GUN Showdown, PSP Exclusive - Trailer
Activision in anti-Native American handheld shocker!
You may already have played Gun, Activision’s Wild West gunslinging console shooter. If not then it’s highly likely that you’ve heard a little bit about it, if for no other reason than controvo-storm generated earlier this year for perceived racist content in the game.
As the Association for American Indian Development said of the game back in February, "It has come to our attention that video game publisher, Activision, has released for Xbox 360, Xbox, Playstation, PS2 and PC, a new game set in the American West with some very disturbing racist and genocidal elements toward Native Americans. The game is called "Gun" and features a frontiersman hero named Colton White. One of his earliest tasks that the game player must complete before advancing to the next level is to slaughter, not once, but on an ongoing basis, Apache Indians. Not only slaughter (and this is the terminology used in the game) but to scalp (terminology also used in the game) them as well with a "scalping knife" that can be purchased as part of the many weapons offered to the hero of the game, Colton White."
However, touchy native American concerns about good old of game of Cowboys and Injuns aside, Activision has just released some new details on the forthcoming PSP version of the game, entitled GUN Showdown and due for release this coming autumn.
So what’s new? Hollywood scriptwriter Randall Jahnson (of ‘The Doors’ and ‘Mask of Zorro’ fame) is writing the storyline, as he did on the original game. There’s also promise of new missions, new quick-play modes and multiplayer combat. Plus some new cool weapons which inevitably means new, gory ways of killing off those pesky "vengeful Native Americans". Cue further moaning on about racial stereotyping in videogames without actually playing the game thoroughly.
To see some multiplayer Cowboys and Injuns, without the tedious "bang-bang, you're dead / no I'm not / yes, you are / no, you missed", check out this latest video for the PSP exclusive.
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Windows Media (12.8MB)
As the Association for American Indian Development said of the game back in February, "It has come to our attention that video game publisher, Activision, has released for Xbox 360, Xbox, Playstation, PS2 and PC, a new game set in the American West with some very disturbing racist and genocidal elements toward Native Americans. The game is called "Gun" and features a frontiersman hero named Colton White. One of his earliest tasks that the game player must complete before advancing to the next level is to slaughter, not once, but on an ongoing basis, Apache Indians. Not only slaughter (and this is the terminology used in the game) but to scalp (terminology also used in the game) them as well with a "scalping knife" that can be purchased as part of the many weapons offered to the hero of the game, Colton White."
However, touchy native American concerns about good old of game of Cowboys and Injuns aside, Activision has just released some new details on the forthcoming PSP version of the game, entitled GUN Showdown and due for release this coming autumn.
So what’s new? Hollywood scriptwriter Randall Jahnson (of ‘The Doors’ and ‘Mask of Zorro’ fame) is writing the storyline, as he did on the original game. There’s also promise of new missions, new quick-play modes and multiplayer combat. Plus some new cool weapons which inevitably means new, gory ways of killing off those pesky "vengeful Native Americans". Cue further moaning on about racial stereotyping in videogames without actually playing the game thoroughly.
To see some multiplayer Cowboys and Injuns, without the tedious "bang-bang, you're dead / no I'm not / yes, you are / no, you missed", check out this latest video for the PSP exclusive.
MPEG4 XviD (11.3MB)
Windows Media (12.8MB)
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HeathenUK 20 Jun 2006 22:26
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You know you don't have to defend it just because it's a video game.