Tech Stream

Gaming in the Wild West

17 July 2009

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While  frontier America has proved a successful setting for many films and TV series, it hasn’t been that popular with gamers or games studios.  It’s been often seen as a risk to set a game in the Wild West, and an easier proposition to use space, fantasy or specific historic battlegrounds, like those in WWII.

Bajo from Good Game on ABC TV joins us this week to chat about why this is, and whether we’re likely to see more games set in the Wild West in the future.  A lot of people are getting excited about the release of open-world Western Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar Games, but this week we step into the boots of the McCall Brothers for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood a first-person shooter (FPS) from Ubisoft for the PC and consoles.  Use the MP3 link above to listen.