History VideoGame / CallOfJuarezGunslinger

* AnachronisticSoundtrack: The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJXwLwcoun0 O Death]]" song sung by Silas at one point in the game (and again in the closing credit) is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Death an actual song]], written in 1920 (the game is explicitely stated to be set in 1910).

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: [[spoiler:Dwight's last name? Eisenhower.]]

* {{Expy}}: Silas Greaves is based on [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest Harmonica]], [[spoiler: sharing the same motivation: avenging the murder of his brother(s)]]. His appearance, on the other hand, [[TheExpyWithNoName is based on The Man With No Name]].

* {{Expy}}: Silas Greaves is based on [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest Harmonica]], [[spoiler: sharing the same motivation: avenging the murder of his brother(s).]] His appearance, on the other hand, is based on [[Film/TheDollarsTrilogy The Man With No Name]].

* MountainsOfIllinois: Several scenes taking place in what are supposed to be flat prairie regions of the USA have huge forested mountains visible in the background. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to the fact that the game takes place inside the imaginations of the other bar patrons, who could be either unaware of what these areas look like in real life or [[RuleOfCool deliberately embellishing]] the scenery in their minds.

* MountainsOfIllinois: Several scenes taking place in what are supposed to be flat prairie regions of the USA have huge forested mountains visible in the background. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to the fact that the game takes place inside the imaginations of the other bar patrons, who could be either unaware of what these areas look like in real life or deliberately embellishing the scenery in their minds.

* MadeOfIron: Curly Bill, Emmett Dalton, and the Sundance Kid are fought as traditional FPS bosses, requiring more than 3 dozen pistol shots to kill as they run around and shoot at you. This is Gameplay and Story Integration in the case of Emmett Dalton, who really did survive being shot 23 times.

* {{Expy}}: Silas Greaves is based on [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest Harmonica]], [[spoiler: sharing the same motivation: avenging the murder of his brother(s).]]

* WorldsBestWarrior: John Wesley Hardin is repeatedly referred to as the fastest gun of the Old West, while Jessie James is known as the greatest outlaw who ever lived. Silas manages to defeat them both, but only manages to beat Hardin because he was drunk off his ass at the time.

The fourth game in the ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' series, ''Gunslinger'' was released May 22, 2013. Opening in 1910 [[TwilightOfTheOldWest when the Old West is dwindling]], an old gunslinger enters a saloon in Abilene, Kansas. The said gunslinger, now well past fifty, introduces himself as the legendary (albeit former) Bounty Hunter Silas Greaves, and greets the handful of patrons gathered around: [[WideEyedIdealist Dwight]], [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Molly]], [[GrumpyBear Jack]], [[OlderSidekick Steve]], and [[TheBartender Ben]].

* OfCorsetsSexy: Molly the salon girl wears a burlesque corset that shows off her incredibly impressive bust. Notably this game came out just before this style of character design started to be phased out to address the evolving sensibilities of modern audiences.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Well, I am Death. None can excel.\\
I'll open the doors to Heaven or Hell.'']]
->''The [[WhatCouldHaveBeen prototype]] of the first ''Call of Juarez'' game.

->''There's a time for grievin'\\
And a time to just pray\\
There's a time for forgivin'''\\
'' [[BestServedCold But it's not for today.]]''

* FingerlessGloves: Silas wears a nice pair that somehow last for thirty years.

* TallTale: The entire point of the game. The over-the-top violence so typical in FirstPersonShooters is justified in-story by the manner how said story is presented by Silas, who is both TheNarrator and TheProtagonist—namely, as a TallTale to entertain random pub patrons.

** Surprisingly averted for the most part, any character Silas fights that is [[ForegoneConclusion well-known]] to either be still alive long after he supposedly kills them, or died by other means survives their encounters with him. The only thing that is changed significantly is [[spoiler:The fate of the BigBad Roscoe "Bob" Bryant, who died in 1878. A whole 32 year difference from when Silas ([[MultipleEndings possibly]]) killed him.]]

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: In the last level, before the final bosses, you have to fight against [[spoiler: multiple ghost doppelgangers of each boss of the game; they are only as tough as a mook, though.]]
* AlternateHistory: Surprisingly averted for the most part, any character Silas fights that is [[ForegoneConclusion well-known]] to either be still alive long after he supposedly kills them, or died by other means survives their encounters with him. The only thing that is changed significantly is [[spoiler:The fate of the BigBad Roscoe "Bob" Bryant, who died in 1878. A whole 32 year difference from when Silas ([[MultipleEndings possibly]]) killed him.]]

* BossRush: In the Duel Mode the player faces all the bosses from the main game, [[spoiler: minus Roscoe Bryant and plus Billy the Kid who isn't a boss]], in showdowns.

* BittersweetEnding: The Revenge ending. [[spoiler:Silas finally avenges his brothers after years of bloodshed, but he himself admits that his violent path has forever changed him and that, in the end, he was NotSoDifferent from Bob and his henchmen after all.]]

** After the first third of the game is completed, most missions start right as Silas catches up with the famous outlaw of each mission and dispatches them in heavy, stylistic ways. As soon as he does this, however, one of the bar patrons listening to his story will point out any inconsistencies, which then starts the mission over as it actually happened, often leading to [[RealityEnsues anticlimactic confrontations and some of the outlaws surviving their wounds]].

* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Silas brother's are murdered by three outlaws.]] As a result Silas becomes a bounty hunter and spends most of his live hunting them down. The majority of the legendary outlaws he gunned down? Silas either assumed they knew something about the whereabouts of one of his targets or they were just unlucky enough to stand in his way.