needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message gunman chronicles the us box art for gunman chronicles . european variations mimicked the style of half life s box art . developer s rewolf software publisher s sierra studios director s herbert flower producer s jeff pobst designer s stefan baier programmer s brian legge artist s renier banninga mary allred miriam howes composer s anthony brown chris liesch engine goldsrc platform s microsoft windows release date s november 20 2000 genre s first person shooter mode s single player multiplayer 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 . the game was popular at the half life mod expo in 1999 and sierra approached rewolf to make a retail version . after significant work and with some office space funding and added staff it was released as a standalone game . plans were drawn to release gunman chronicles on gamecube 1 but it was never released . contents 1 gameplay 2 synopsis 2.1 setting 2.2 plot 3 rewolf software 4 see also 5 references 6 external links gameplay edit gunman chronicles is a first person shooter that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game much like its predecessor half life . while gameplay is similar to half life s in terms of health and armor systems and artificial intelligence one major aspect of gunman chronicles is the ability to customize each weapon . each weapon the player obtains has multiple alternate modes for various situations ; for instance the starting pistol can be turned into a sniper rifle or a rapid fire machine pistol while the mule a rocket launcher can be configured to fire homing rockets timed explosives or cluster bombs . another new aspect of gunman chronicles is the ability to drive vehicles something that was expanded on in half life 2 . during the latter half of the game there is a lengthy vehicle section in which the player is able to drive a tank through a system of canyons . similar to the vehicle sections of half life 2 the player occasionally comes across obstacles hindering the tank s path which will require the player to stop and figure out a puzzle or activate a switch . the game features a wide variety of enemies including rogue gunmen turned bandits giant dinosaurs genetically modified aliens called xenomes and robotic attack drones . bandits will roll around to dodge fire while returning fire with dual pistols or rifles while xenomes will charge at the player in packs with reckless abandon and release homing projectiles upon death . similar to half life certain objects such as vases and crates can be destroyed to provide ammunition health and armor . unlike half life however armor takes the form of actual vests and can not be replenished by chargers like health can . unlike half life and its expansions gunman chronicles however sparsely uses cutscenes to tell key parts of the storyline . these usually appear only as transitions between different worlds and levels however and thus most of the plot is seen through the eyes of the player like in half life . citation needed synopsis edit setting edit according to the game s introductory cutscene the gunmen act as a sort of military police force for humanity s inter galactically expanding colonial empire at an unknown time period in the distant future . during a mission five years prior to the beginning of the game the gunmen were dispatched to a planet called banzure prime to investigate a communications breakdown with a research colony there under the command of their leader known simply as the general . while investigating the colony they come under attack by massive worm like organisms that form one part of a larger genus of creatures known as xenomes . the general seeing his men have no chance by themselves takes command of one of the gunmen s dropships and begins performing bombing runs on the attacking xenomes destroying several before being captured in the jaws of one of the larger creatures . meanwhile the player character major archer rallies the remaining gunmen and orders them to retreat to the remaining ships and get off world immediately assuming that the general is already dead . the general still alive as his fighter is dragged underground pleads apparently unheard for rescue over the radio but the gunmen leave before having a chance to receive the message . plot edit five years later the game places the player in direct control of major archer preparing for a mission aboard the gunman space station aeronautica . after a training level archer and a small detachment of gunmen are deployed to a dinosaur inhabited jungle planet under orders to investigate an outdated but extremely high ranking gunman distress signal . the signal is revealed to be a trap and the gunmen come under heavy attack both from unidentified human forces and the indigenous fauna . the player is eventually forced to fight his way through a series of catacombs where he encounters the general still alive despite having been eaten alive on banzure prime . he reveals to archer that the silicon based xenomes are incapable of digesting carbon based humans and that he the scientists from the research colony and the other gunmen consumed by the xenomes managed to fight their way out of the creature s gullets after archer left them for dead . the vengeful scientists and gunmen have now formed a rogue cell with the general as its leader and are engineering new xenome breeds to use as weapons and to exact their vengeance upon archer . the general allows archer to leave so as to watch him die at the hands of the planet s vicious reptiles but he manages to infiltrate the generals cargo ship bound for a falling moon that plays host to an outdated ai called the mainframe that has been unstable for sometime since the general left it . at the moon the ship comes under fire from the now fully insane ai s drones . the general dumps the cargo module archer is hiding in in order to gain speed and leaves the ai facility s science team behind to die . as archer progresses through the facility he learns that the mainframe s primary battle is with a major xenome infestation that the humans brought onto the moon . fighting both attack drones and xenomes alike archer makes his way through the facility . despite the mainframe s best efforts archer manages to destroy most of the kata space anchors that keep the moon from falling to the planet below . archer survives the destruction of the anchors but is stranded on the falling moon . archer eventually finds the mainframe and they form an uneasy alliance the mainframe will provide an aerial drone for major archer to escape in but only if he takes the mainframe s core with him . major archer agrees and they battle through hordes of xenome forces with the help of the mainframe s attack drones . major archer and the ai successfully reach and board the aerial drone but fail to navigate through an asteroid field on their way into kata space and crash land on a desert planet called icnus encountering and fighting rogue gunmen . icnus turns out to be the location of the general s main xenome facility . archer battles his way through the facility with the help of the mainframe accidentally causing a captured worm xenome one of the most dangerous xenomes in existence to break loose . the mainframe helps archer to the general s location and they engage in a firefight where the ai s newly constructed super drone defeats the general s kata drone . the general bails out but is immediately attacked by the escaped worm xenome which comes out of a crevice and consumes him once again . the mainframe states its intention to make the xenome facility its home as it calls for backup and gunman reinforcements arrive shortly after to contain the xenome infestation and capture any remaining rogue gunmen . rewolf software edit rewolf software logo rewolf software also known as rewolf entertainment was a game development studio established in utah by herbert flower also known as herb flower in 1996 . 2 the development team came from the mod scene and was put together for the duration of one project which was gunman chronicles . 3 after gunman chronicles was shipped rewolf entertainment dissolved and its team members moved on to new ventures . a couple of months later in 2001 herbert flower co founded mythyn interactive 4 together with paul witte while the core team on gunman consisting of stefan baier renier banninga and adrian banninga moved to the netherlands where they co founded streamline studios together with alexander l. fernandez . citation needed see also edit list of video games derived from modifications references edit http au.ign.com games gunman chronicles gcn 855781 moby games website archived 13 february 2011 at webcite rewolf entertainment . mobygames . retrieved 9 october 2016 . moby games company entry mythin interactive archived 13 february 2011 at webcite http www.gamespot.com news valve to shut down won servers 6102754 http www.metacritic.com game pc gunman chronicles critic reviews http www.ign.com articles games gunman chronicles pc 15345 http www.eurogamer.net articles r gunchron http www.gamerevolution.com review gunman chronicles external links edit gunman chronicles at mobygames video games portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gunman chronicles & oldid 743367511 categories 2000 video gamesgoldsrc engine gamesgoldsrc engine modsfirst person shootersmultiplayer online gamesdinosaurs in video 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