Gunman Chronicles or Half-Life: Gunman (previously Gunman: TC and simply Gunman) is a first-person shooter space western video game originally created as a mod by the now defunct Rewolf Software. Gunman Chronicles was originally a Quake deathmatch mod named Gunmanship 101, then it was moved to Quake II's engine before becoming a Half-Life mod. At the Half-Life Mod Expo in 1999, Gunman Chronicles stole the show and Sierra approached Rewolf to make a retail version. After significant work, Rewolf was given some office space, funding and a mapper (Jeff Lane) by Valve Software to help complete the project. It was released as a standalone game. Gunman Chronicles, taking place at an unknown time in the distant future, contains many themes, most notably the design focuses on Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Futuristic and Western. While the game takes advantage of these in many instances, it still has a wide variety of influences. The Gunmen's Federal Starbase, Aeronautica, and the Facility at the Ferrin Moon harbor a vast collection of Techno-Futuristic and Cyberpunk themes and architecture, although they also seem to contain many designs, most notably textures and architecture, that bear striking resemblance in appearance to some of the works of the Swiss artist; H.R. Giger, who is best known for designing the Xenomorph creatures for Ridley Scott's award winning film Alien and its sequels. Many Xenome creatures in the game also resemble Giger's work. Parts of the Gunman Chronicles world seem to contain influences from novels such as Dune.

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1. steampunk? wtf, if anything it is CYBERPUNK elements.
2. Half-Life has aged excellently except for the fact that it still has shitty pathfinding.
3. Wait... HL 1 horrible combat?!
4. Surprised I haven't heard of this before, looks fun. Thanks for bringing attention to it
5. Eric Brown1 hour ago
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   Eric Brown20 minutes ago
   yeah but have you played Gunman Chronicles for Sega Dreamcast?
   I uploaded a video on my channel. you can contact Gary Walton on how to order custom made Dreamcast games and he also carry 10-12 unreleased Dreamcast games like Toejam and Earl 3 Mission to Earth for Dreamcast, the Beta game Ecco 2 Sentinels of the Universe for Dreamcast, Hellgate and The Flintstones Racing which was cancelled for Dreamcast but released for Playstation 2 for UK/ european release.
   Evil Twin (also on PS2), Headhunter and Shenmue 2 were the few last games to be released in U for Dreamcast.. In Utero who made Evil Twin also made The Shadow of Zorro for Playstion 2 but UK only.
   Japan got Capcom vs SNK 2, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Guilty gear X.
   Starnge though Japan released Nights into Dreams for PS2 a Sega Saturn port, and Altered Beast for PS2 in Japan only. There were a almost cancelled PS2 and Xbox game called malice. Sierra Studios cancelled it but it found another Publisher.
   Eric Brown1 minute ago
   This was the last cool game made by Konami for the Dreamcast. The other great game from Konami was Silent Scope which simultaneously released both the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast when the Playstation 2 first launched in United States.
   I uploaded Gunman Chronicles for Sega Dreamcast.
   It is a straight PC to Dreamcast port done by Dreammatrix in 2014.
   The HUD display has been changed with half life HUD display but everything else is the same. Also Gunman Chronicles on Dreamcast plays more like a PC demo game than a full game. Dreamcast Gunman has FMV intro video and only has 3 episodes: Space Station,
   Mayan and Rust. All the Dreamcast Half life codes do work(except for level passwords).
   It also allows you to save your progress onto a VMU. It is compatible with Pantherdc Madcatz flight stick with trackball, mouse, keyboard and standard control pad.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ndv4qT5SM
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdCwAef322U
   some gameplay footage for Gunman Chronicles.
   
   Gunman Chronicles Dreamcast weapons test.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73m6S8lEaLc
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOIZfoSJKo
   My PS2 and Dreamcast games collection and I show off Evil Twin for PS2 and DC. PS2 pal games unfortunately do not work on North American Playstation 2 systems with converter disc or Gameshark. sorry but I did not make the system. You can play both NTSC Japanese and American PS1 and PS2 games on a PAL PS2 but vice versa. Need converter or gameshark boot disc.
6. Eric Brown20 minutes ago
   yeah but have you played Gunman Chronicles for Sega Dreamcast?
   I uploaded a video on my channel. you can contact Gary Walton on how to order custom made Dreamcast games and he also carry 10-12 unreleased Dreamcast games like Toejam and Earl 3 Mission to Earth for Dreamcast, the Beta game Ecco 2 Sentinels of the Universe for Dreamcast, Hellgate and The Flintstones Racing which was cancelled for Dreamcast but released for Playstation 2 for UK/ european release.
   Evil Twin (also on PS2), Headhunter and Shenmue 2 were the few last games to be released in U for Dreamcast.. In Utero who made Evil Twin also made The Shadow of Zorro for Playstion 2 but UK only.
   Japan got Capcom vs SNK 2, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Guilty gear X.
   Starnge though Japan released Nights into Dreams for PS2 a Sega Saturn port, and Altered Beast for PS2 in Japan only. There were a almost cancelled PS2 and Xbox game called malice. Sierra Studios cancelled it but it found another Publisher.
   Eric Brown1 minute ago
   This was the last cool game made by Konami for the Dreamcast. The other great game from Konami was Silent Scope which simultaneously released both the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast when the Playstation 2 first launched in United States.
   I uploaded Gunman Chronicles for Sega Dreamcast.
   It is a straight PC to Dreamcast port done by Dreammatrix in 2014.
   The HUD display has been changed with half life HUD display but everything else is the same. Also Gunman Chronicles on Dreamcast plays more like a PC demo game than a full game. Dreamcast Gunman has FMV intro video and only has 3 episodes: Space Station,
   Mayan and Rust. All the Dreamcast Half life codes do work(except for level passwords).
   It also allows you to save your progress onto a VMU. It is compatible with Pantherdc Madcatz flight stick with trackball, mouse, keyboard and standard control pad.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ndv4qT5SM
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdCwAef322U
   some gameplay footage for Gunman Chronicles.
   
   Gunman Chronicles Dreamcast weapons test.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73m6S8lEaLc
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOIZfoSJKo
   My PS2 and Dreamcast games collection and I show off Evil Twin for PS2 and DC. PS2 pal games unfortunately do not work on North American Playstation 2 systems with converter disc or Gameshark. sorry but I did not make the system. You can play both NTSC Japanese and American PS1 and PS2 games on a PAL PS2 but vice versa. Need converter or gameshark boot disc.
7. Eric Brown1 minute ago
   This was the last cool game made by Konami for the Dreamcast. The other great game from Konami was Silent Scope which simultaneously released both the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast when the Playstation 2 first launched in United States.
   I uploaded Gunman Chronicles for Sega Dreamcast.
   It is a straight PC to Dreamcast port done by Dreammatrix in 2014.
   The HUD display has been changed with half life HUD display but everything else is the same. Also Gunman Chronicles on Dreamcast plays more like a PC demo game than a full game. Dreamcast Gunman has FMV intro video and only has 3 episodes: Space Station,
   Mayan and Rust. All the Dreamcast Half life codes do work(except for level passwords).
   It also allows you to save your progress onto a VMU. It is compatible with Pantherdc Madcatz flight stick with trackball, mouse, keyboard and standard control pad.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ndv4qT5SM
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdCwAef322U
   some gameplay footage for Gunman Chronicles.
   
   Gunman Chronicles Dreamcast weapons test.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73m6S8lEaLc
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOIZfoSJKo
   My PS2 and Dreamcast games collection and I show off Evil Twin for PS2 and DC. PS2 pal games unfortunately do not work on North American Playstation 2 systems with converter disc or Gameshark. sorry but I did not make the system. You can play both NTSC Japanese and American PS1 and PS2 games on a PAL PS2 but vice versa. Need converter or gameshark boot disc.
8. here's my latest upload on Gunman Chronicles for Sega Dreamcast. It only has 3 episodes. Space Station, Mayan and Rust. I also uploaded other half life mods like Half life Black Ops and Half life Grunt for Dreamcast.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ndv4qT5SM&feature=youtu.be
   check out my other videos in my channel for more gameplay footage on Gunman Chronicles and my Half life mods collection like Opposing Force on Sega Dreamcast.
9. I uploaded Gunman Chronicles for Sega Dreamcast. This is not the full game and only has 3 episodes. Space Station, Mayan and Rust. It was ported from PC to Dreamcast using the unreleased Dreamcast Half life Gold source engine made by Dreammatrix in 2014 while Override ported Half life Black Ops to Dreamcast in 2009.
   All the half life Dreamcast half life will work(except for level passwords) and it also allows you to save in Half life USS Darkstar, half life Black Ops, Half life Grunt and Gunman Chronicles. Opposing Force is also on Dreamcast but I haven't tested if it saves or not.
   Anyways Goldeneye half life and Gunman Chronicles are demos and not the full game. Goldeneye Half life was going to be completed but it never happened. There's only a demo.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ndv4qT5SM
   this is the link to the Dreamcast version of Gunman Chronicles.
   strangely enough there were plans to bring Gunman Chronicles to Nintendo Gamecube but it never materialized. I guess it was cancelled and scrapped.
10. I uploaded a video on Gunman Chronicles but not for pc for Sega Dreamcast but it's not a full game. only Space Station, Mayan and Rust episodes. All the codes from the Unreleased Half life Dreamcast game are present and long loading times. I don't the password levels work though. It does allow you to save your progress. It plays more of the Demo Gunman Chronicles on Dreamcast.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ndv4qT5SM
    this is my link to Gunman Chronicles on Dreamcast. Dreammatrix ported this game to Dreamcast in 2014 and also included the intro. Like Counter Strike, all Half life mods are using the unreleased Half life 1 engine on Dreamcast.
11. https://youtu.be/LjVLOcYyc1I
12. I just uploaded Gunman Chronicles for Dreamcast. it is a PC port made by Dreammatrix who did the port. it only has 3 episodes and is not the full game from PC version. Episodes are Space Station, Rust and Mayan. intro fmv video is included too but picture quality is low resolution.
13. quite happy I got the physical copy
14. I just added Gunman Chronicles to the Community Wishlist on GOG.com. While I was at it, I threw in a reference to this review.
15. I'm probably in the minority in this, but I also preferred Gunman over Half Life, Gunman is more action packed and just more fun.
    I liked what they did with the weapons, though it was the first time we had something like crysis before crysis existed, the developers from crysis just refined the system using what's been on NOLF and Gunman then put better controls around the system.
    However it still have the shit intro just like Half Life .... but other than that it's quite fun, for some reason I liked their chemical gun mostly to blow up those bee launching monsters with it or with the Polaris Blade
16. Amazing Game
17. I tattooed the cover art of this game down the back of my arm when this was originally released.
18. Never heard of this, it looks amazing.
19. All the salt from HL1 fan boys is pretty funny. I enjoyed the review nonetheless, keep up the good work!
20. Subscribed...!!!