There’s a lot to be said for side-scrolling shooters like The Gunsmith. With all these Xbox 360s and Playstation 3s coming out and presenting ever-more complex terrains and worlds, it’s nice to sometimes just run in a straight line killing as many of the enemy as you can.

The Gunsmith does that in aplomb – run, shoot, run, shoot; occasionally lobbing some dynamite at anyone with a bigger gun that you. And any game – like The Gunsmith – that involves jumping over stray turds gets a gold star in our book.

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