Contents.Storyline The player assumes the role of the game's, a nameless individual addressed only as 'stranger'. The stranger rides into an unnamed town and is approached by an elderly (Ben Zeller), who appeals to him for help. He tells the stranger that the and his daughter have been kidnapped by a gang of led by the notorious 'Mad Dog' McCree (Rusty Dillon), and when the tried to stop them, they locked him up in the jail. Two of the gang appear to silence the prospector, but the stranger shoots them.
The prospector then tells him that One-Eyed Jack holds the keys to the jail, and is in the. For the remainder of the game, the exact order of events depends on the player's decisions.The stranger enters the saloon, where One-Eyed Jack and his cohorts are making trouble. The stranger defeats them and takes the jail keys. He visits the jail and frees the sheriff.
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The stranger and sheriff set out to stop Mad Dog, but are ambushed by three of his gang outside the jail. They defeat them, but the sheriff is fatally shot. With his dying breaths, he tells the stranger that the map to Mad Dog's hideout is hidden in the local mine, and that he should consult the prospector before going there.The stranger sees that the is being by Mad Dog's men. Tower 57 hud.
After he stops the robbery, a thankful boy advises him not to enter Mad Dog's hideout from the back entrance (sometimes, he'll advise not to take the front entrance). He finds the prospector has been tied up to a pile of live explosives by Mad Dog himself, and saves him by severing the fuse.After finding the map in the mine, the stranger follows the path to the hideout. He shoots out the smokestack, forcing Mad Dog's gang out as the hideout floods with smoke. He shoots them down as they come out and saves the mayor. However, McCree himself has escaped with the mayor's daughter, leaving behind a taunting note for the stranger.The stranger confronts Mad Dog in a final quick-draw showdown. Forewarned that Mad Dog wears a, the stranger defeats him by shooting both his hands. The mayor then unties his daughter.
As the townsfolk congratulate the stranger, Mad Dog recovers, and is seen riding a horse off into the distance.Gameplay In a series of stages, the player must shoot enemies before they fire, avoid shooting innocent bystanders, and reload each time their six-round revolver is depleted of bullets. Shooting a bystander or getting hit by a gunfighter results in the loss of one life out of three and is followed by a clip showing the town doctor commenting on the player's actions.However, this traditional gameplay is interspersed with 'showdowns', which are fast draw duels that play the same as American Laser Games's later release. The arcade version is equipped with a specialized light gun which can detect whether or not the player had properly lowered the light gun at the beginning of the duel. Home versions of the game attempted to simulate this mechanic by having the player's gun unloaded at the beginning of the duel, and not allowing it to be reloaded until the same moment when the arcade version would allow the player to draw.The home versions allow the player to choose from three difficulty modes.Development Mad Dog McCree was the first title released by American Laser Games, a company which was born out of the founders' previous venture of producing police training simulators. American Laser Games filmed all the footage for the game in its home state, and used local actors to fill all the roles. Local rancher Russ Dillen played various outlaws in the game including the titular Mad Dog, for which he had to dye his natural blonde hair black.
His wife Lori played the saloon barfly. Ben Zeller, who plays the prospector, went on to have major roles in two further American Laser Games productions, and.Release The arcade edition of the game has been released with four different hardware setups, using a as well as a motherboard with special interfaces for controls and booting, and a genlock. Home versions were released for the,.
A port for the was announced in 1994 and reportedly in development but it was never released. Mad Dog McCree was the first in a series of American Laser Games releases to be reissued by with updated video and sound quality in 2001 for, playable with a standard DVD remote.In 2009 the game was released for the Nintendo as part of the Mad Dog McCree: Gunslinger Pack. Included in this collection are its sequel. In 2011, it was released for. On June 14, 2012, it was released on the for the. Revealed on January 21, 2013 that the game would be released for the following day. The PlayStation 3 version features remastered video presented in and a new interface.
Sequel A sequel was released entitled.Reception ReceptionAggregate scoresAggregatorScore32% (PC)55% (3DO)34.5% (DVD)35.83% (Wii)27.2% (3DS)60% (PS3)31/100 (Wii)41/100 (iOS)27/100 (3DS)gave the 3DO version a 5.5 out of 10, commenting that the video quality is poor by 3DO standards and that the controls are so bad with the 3DO gamepad that the game is almost unplayable. They noted that the game might be better with the upcoming 3DO, but that no 3DO light gun or mouse was yet available. Praised the video footage of the arcade game for its amusing cowboy stereotypes, but similarly rated the 3DO version as an unacceptably bad port, citing load times that break the player's immersion and the abysmal control when not using the yet-to-be-released 3DO light gun. Reviewing the Sega CD version, the magazine noted that the video is so grainy that the manual diagrams one of the levels because the important items in it are indiscernible. GamePro nonetheless assessed it as the best home version of the game to date, due to the ability to play it with a light gun. The magazine was much more approving of the later CD-i version due to the high quality live action video and the bundled, commenting that 'This slick-looking revolver handles well and sports a hair trigger that'll make a out of anyone.'
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