Dead Man's Hand

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Description

The Mexican gunslinger El Tejon once joined the dreaded Nine gang, hoping to become rich and famous. However, as he became disillusioned with the gang's murderous ways and distanced himself from it, he turned into a liability to the criminals. The gang's leader shot him and left him for dead; barely surviving, El Tejon was imprisoned by the authorities. In the prison, he meets a member of a revolutionary movement, and becomes determined to regain his freedom and exact revenge upon those who betrayed him.

Dead Man's Hand is a first-person 3D shooter set in the Wild West. The protagonist is armed with a fairly standard arsenal, which includes pistols, rifles, shotguns, TNT, bombs, etc. The game rewards the player for precise shooting and creative ways of killing enemies (e.g. by shooting a rock that drops on them): as the player practices these activities, the protagonist's "trick meter" is being gradually refilled. A full trick meter allows secondary shooting mode, unique for each weapon. Between levels the player can compete in poker to increase the protagonist's health and ammunition.

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Alternate Titles

• "荒野大镖客" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Дикий Запад: Игра со смертью" -- Russian spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: UnrealEngine2
• Gameplay feature: Horse Riding
• Setting: Western / Old West
• Xbox World Collection series

User Reviews

I Really Tried To Like This Game.	Windows	null-geodesic (243)
Brief entertainment for the restless.	Windows	Joakim Kihlman (275)

Critic Reviews

Diehard GameFan	Xbox	Mar 18, 2004	7.4 out of 10	74
Extreme Gamer	Xbox	May 10, 2004	7 out of 10	70
Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	May 01, 2004	69 out of 100	69
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	May 18, 2004	69 out of 100	69
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Windows	Apr 21, 2004	67 out of 100	67
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	May, 2004	67 out of 100	67
GameSpot	Windows	Mar 26, 2004	6.6 out of 10	66
IGN	Windows	Apr 06, 2004	6.2 out of 10	62
Jolt (UK)	Xbox	May 11, 2004	4.3 out of 10	43
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Windows	Aug, 2004		40

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Compatibility

Dead Man's Hand was one of the games not compatible with the Windows XP service pack 2 update. It took a while until a patch was released.

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• Dead Man's Hand (Official Website)