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This unique twist, combined with the fact each of these battles are scripted rather than randomly generated, means that a lot of the encounters feel memorable and I’m still thinking about a few of the bigger set pieces.

The tempo makes every battle feel desperate, a far cry from the controlled SWAT team approach of, say, XCOM. Get it wrong and you’re often caught out of position and out of action points surrounded by enemies. The end result of a lot of these changes is that Hard West 2 seems to reward efficient and boundless aggression, encouraging you to take risks for huge rewards. Your gun-wielding outlaws can do similarly – reloading isn’t a consideration here, so get someone with a rifle in a good snipers nest and they can shoot everyone they see until they miss a shot or run out of targets. This can allow for impressive pushes, as your indigenous warrior – with a series of perks for close range combat – will happily push into a crowd of enemies and butcher them all, getting a new burst of energy each time he drops an opponent.

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You can bounce rounds off of metal objects to shoot enemies behind cover and around corners, and every time you put an enemy down your character gets a burst of bravado, giving them a full refill of action points letting them take their turn again.

There’s lashings of Western style to the game, too.