It’s arduous to imagine that it’s been over 8 years since I first performed and reviewed Colt Specific. This decade-old recreation of motion programming a practice heist has been delighting players with its 3D practice and chaotic gameplay for over a decade.
However not too long ago, there was a high quality of life improve for this rootin’ tootin’ recreation. The Colt Specific Large Field is a re-release of Colt Specific, full with a brand new character and a pair of expansions. Is that this a worthy improve to your age-worn copy? Let’s discover out!
Gameplay Overview:
I’ve truly coated easy methods to play Colt Specific in fairly strong element in my unique overview. So, if you need the complete ins and outs, give it a learn right here.
The short of it’s that you simply and your fellow gamers are robbing a practice with the objective of being the bandit with essentially the most loot. Every spherical, you’ll play 3-5 playing cards right into a communal motion programming stack. Some playing cards will likely be face up (so you realize what different gamers are doing), whereas others will likely be performed face down.
As soon as all of the playing cards have been performed, the stack is revealed, one card at a time, and the matching participant takes that motion. This includes shifting across the 3D practice, capturing/punching different bandits, and gathering loot tokens.
The chaos comes when one other participant does one thing you didn’t anticipate. Reminiscent of punching you to a special automotive, shifting the Marshall into your automotive (forcing you to the roof), or stealing the loot you wished. On the finish of 5 rounds, the richest gunslinger is the winner!
Recreation Expertise:
The gameplay on this version of Colt Specific is similar to the unique, so once more, I’ll refer you to my earlier overview to see what I consider the core gameplay (spoiler alert: I gave it 4.5 stars). So let’s speak about why you may need to choose up the large field.
Because the identify implies, that is certainly a giant field, a lot larger than the core recreation. Nonetheless, you get a strong quantity of content material with the large field. Along with the core recreation, it additionally comes with two expansions: Marshalls and prisoners, and Horses and stagecoaches.
Marshalls and Prisoners: This enlargement options two modules to make use of. One lets a participant tackle the position of the Marshall. The Marshall has 4 targets to finish, and if achieved, the Marshall wins the sport. So whereas the Marshall performs just a little in a different way than the core bandits, for essentially the most half, he’s doing lots of the identical issues. The prisoner module provides a jail automotive and good concept playing cards for the bandits. These playing cards can be utilized to repeat a earlier card’s motion or free prisoners from the jail cell, incomes loot or a sidekick.
Horses and Stage Coaches: One which we’ve additionally reviewed up to now, however to summarize, this module provides horses in your bandits (and sure, the meeples match on prime of the horses). A bandit can use the brand new horse motion to leap on a horse subsequent to the practice and transfer as much as 3 vehicles earlier than leaping again within the practice. Mainly, you should utilize it to maneuver sooner contained in the practice as a substitute of only one automotive. The stagecoach rides alongside the practice, and you may ship your bandit in there to assert a hostage. The hostage is price extra cash on the finish of the sport, however is a little bit of a hindrance in the course of the recreation.
One factor that’s wholly new within the massive field is a brand new bandit Character. Silk, as she’s named, permits you to choose her character capacity from 3 selections. One offers her extra versatile motion. The dodge energy enables you to give impartial bullets from the marshal to a participant of your selection. And the block energy enables you to cease different gamers from getting into your automotive by the rear door. Whereas the character powers are general pretty minor by way of the general gameplay, extra content material is at all times welcome.
Lastly, individuals like me who love organized video games will respect the large field because it gives storage for the core recreation and each modules. The field is split into slots and even has an insert information to let you realize the place all the pieces must go. For individuals who like this sort of high quality of life improve, it’s a welcome addition. Though there isn’t room to carry the Couriers and Armored practice enlargement, you’re by yourself for that one.
Closing Ideas:
When you already personal Colt Specific and the primary two expansions, you then most likely don’t have lots of causes to seize this massive field. The storage resolution is very nice, however not 100% crucial. The identical could be stated for the brand new character, Silk. Nonetheless, for those who solely have the core recreation or no Colt Specific in any respect, then that is the version to get. It has a ton of replay worth, a strategy to retailer all of it, and a few small bonuses as effectively.
As nothing within the gameplay has modified, I’m not going to provide it a brand new ranking (I’ll stand by my unique one). Even in any case this time, Colt Specific remains to be an ideal recreation of motion programming mayhem.
