![]() ![]() Or you can locate boxes and stack them up so you can climb over the wall and avoid the starting guards completely. You can even subdue the guards and start to sneak in by hiding behind objects. Alternately, you can maintain your range and pick them off one at a time. You can enter the town guns blazing and try to shoot your way through every single enemy. However, these two broad options branch out wildly for players. In broad strokes, each conflict can be resolved using combat or stealth. Once a cutscene wrapped up, I saw how many options that players will have in Weird West. ![]() The devs ran across a walled-off town filled with ne’er-do-wells that are aligned with sirens. ![]() This became evidently clear when we experienced our first combat encounter. Image used with permission by copyright holder It showed that anything and everything can be interacted with. It’s not a useful battle skill, but it was certainly novel. In the demo, the player threw a held bottle into the air and shot it like a gunslinger in an old-timey roadshow. Moving and sitting in chairs, rummaging through barrels, and even grabbing bottles and throwing them. As soon as the game starts, players can interact with anything they can get their hands on. That DNA can be easily seen throughout the game, as the developers really want players to interact with the world. ![]() Many of the developers working on Weird West came from Arkane Studios, the studio that worked on Preyand Arx Fatalis. The developers say that they want to bring what they have learned from past games to create a compelling simulation game. However, thanks to the art direction everything was clearly presented despite a small spectrum of color on the screen. Usually, I would complain about how everything is just garbled together and how difficult it is to differentiate between a roof and dirt on the ground. One interesting thing I noticed is that the color palette is very earthy and brown. ![]()
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