Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West

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Lead & Gold: Gangs of the Wild West

Paradox and Fatshark's team-based Wild West third-person shooter, Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West came out today on the PC, but is also on the way to PSN in a couple of weeks time. That's April 22nd, ya varmints.

The rootin' tootin multiplayer shooter is classic red vs. blue stuff, with four classes to choose from and six different game modes to play, influenced by the likes of Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike.

Pricing has yet to be confirmed, but word should come through fairly soon as the launch date draws closer.

Until then, take a look at the trailer.

HD Trailer


Lead and Gold features six multiplayer maps, five multiplayer game modes, a co-op mode and a single player practice mode. The matches are five-on-five affairs and the game mechanics, game modes and maps have all been designed with one common goal: team play.


* Player characters have aura buffs — we call them Synergies — that strengthen your gang-mates if they stay in your vicinity. This is a simple but effective way to encourage players to work together.
* The experience system rewards actions that actually help the team, such as carrying mission objective items and reviving gang-mates. The experience system is non-persistent so everyone starts a new round on equal terms.
* You can revive fallen comrades. Before death, players are usually left in a knocked down state from which they can be revived by a gang-mate. This is yet another incentive to hang around your mates.
* Game mode objectives generally require cooperation. Carrying a heavy sack of gold or a keg filled with gunpowder makes you quite an easy target, unless you have back up.