Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood cover art
Practiced Masterywestern FPS

Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood

A linear western shooter testing aim and learned encounter pacing through scripted set pieces.

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Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
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EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    6/10

    Aimbot would trivialise the gunfights and showdown duels

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    1/10

    Scripted campaign enemies; thin multiplayer adds little prediction

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    2/10

    Encounter layouts are unknown on first run, then fixed

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    4/10

    Cover routes and concentration-mode usage are learnable patterns

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

Game details

Released
2009
Developer
Techland
Platforms
PS3, PC, X360
Modes
Single player, Multiplayer
IGDB critics
79/100
IGDB users
77/100
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