The Gunstringer: Dead Man Running for Windows 8 impressions

The Gunstringer: Dead Man Running

We defenseless air current of this a trivial tardily, but the Windows 8 Xbox game The Gunstringer: Dead Man Running from Other Ocean and Microsoft is gratuitous through Monday. Dead Homo Running normally costs $1.49 despite being designed and planned as a free-to-play game, with lots of in-game purchases on offer. Then why not hurry up and become it free similar it'south supposed to be?

Head past the break for our full impressions of the game itself.

From Kinect to touch screen

The Gunstringer started life as a Kinect-specific Xbox 360 game in 2022. Its story revolves around an undead gunslinger who returns to the land of the living to exact revenge on those who betrayed him. The twist is he's a puppet – a conceit designed around the imprecise nature of Kinect controls. The original Gunstringer remains one of the most substantial, non-gimmicky Kinect games around and information technology comes with Fruit Ninja Kinect to boot. Read my full review at Co-Optimus to larn more than.

Now everyone'due south favorite skeleton puppet returns in Expressionless Man Running, a Temple Run clone for Windows 8 and RT. Since the original game had the hero running forward incessantly (players controlled his horizontal movement and shooting), it actually adapts very well as an endless runner.

On a keyboard, players dodge, leap, and duck using the arrow keys while the spacebar fires the hero's gun at treasure chests and the occasional popular-up targets. The simple controls piece of work great on touch screens too. Xbox 360 controllers are not supported, unfortunately.

The Gunstringer: Dead Man Running

Dead Man Running features a story fashion with four main stages each divided into four substages, for a full of 16 levels. Each of the main levels culminates in an exciting boss battle. There isn't much of a story compared to the Xbox 360 game, just the narration and excellent music at least sell the atmosphere very well. I practise wish the phase intros could be skipped though.

Of grade the game likewise has an Countless Running mode. With fairly good leaderboard support, competitive gamers volition certainly enjoy trying to outdistance their friends. Only run into an object or miss a turn in either mode and you're forced to either start over or spend a diamond to continue.

You can earn a unmarried diamond past playing the game for vii days in a row (very abrasive), or paying actual money for a few hundred of them. Many of the Achievements basically require players to spend several diamonds in Endless Running fashion, which volition annoy Accomplishment hunters who don't desire to part with existent money for virtual diamonds.

Windows Phone, where are y'all?

The Gunstringer: Dead Man Running

The Gunstringer: Dead Homo Running is a well-fabricated countless runner. This fashion of game works better with on the become play, so tablet gamers volition probably relish it more than desktop players. Expressionless Man Running would actually fit perfectly on Windows Phone 8, even so a phone version hasn't been appear. Considering the famine of Xbox Windows Telephone 8 games and the ease of porting from Windows 8 to phone, Microsoft really should reconsider. (Note that the original Temple Run itself is coming to Windows Phone viii in the starting time half of the year.)

Windows viii users, head here to go The Gunstringer: Dead Human Running from the Windows 8 Store.

Update: The game has returned to its regular toll.

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