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- Law of the west -  
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Law of the west is a rather unusual game, instead of simply
blasting away like most wild west games you have to talk to
the citizens of the town and avoid gunfights as much as possible.
This is done through a screen that shows you, the sheriff, at
the left side of the screen and the right side is filled by
the local towns scenery. Each character you come across walks
up to the middle of the screen and starts talking to you. You
can then answer them from a selection of four sentences each
having a different effect on the person you're talking to. You
can befriend them in the process and sometimes find out where
a robbery is going to take place or if you push them too much
they might try and kill you! The object is to befriend as many
people as possible so you can prevent more crimes and survive
for one day as a sheriff. You can't always avoid a fight though
so be prepared to draw when you see a robbery or when you are
faced by a hitman.
The idea is good but the limitations of the game probably due
to the hardware available at the time of release mean that there
aren't a lot different characters you can interact with. They
each have only limited amount of things they say and each time
you start a game they will come in the same order and they will
say exactly the same thing. That means there is practically
no replay value once you complete the game.
The graphics on the C64 version aren't bad, except for the characters
you interact with. They always stand at a long distant, to long
to be having a conversation really but this is also due to hardware
limitations. The music is quite nice with some standard western
tunes that fit the mood well.
Despite it shortcomings I found the game to be fun while it
lasted and a welcome relief from all the action games that were
the standard at the time.
Overal rating: 7/10
Erde Kaiser
Law of the west was released for two different systems here are some
notes:
| Apple |
Released
in 1985.
Game has been tested but not completed with ActiveGSapp
R4.
Graphics are not as good as the C64 version but overall
it's pretty much the same. |
| C64
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Released
in 1985.
Game has been tested and completed with CCS64 V2.0
win.
The original version. |
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Date added |
Dec-07-2004 19:30 |
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Name |
Law of the west |
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Developer |
Accolade
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Publisher |
Accolade
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First released |
1985 |
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Genre |
Misc
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Download |
Apple, filesize: 75 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 99 Kb
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Manual |
Download manual for Law of the west
, filesize: 696 Kb
This is the scanned manual. |
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Solve / Docs |
Get solve here
No extra docs available |
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