NRA Gun Club
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NRA Gun Club is a non-violent, first person shooter. Over 100 licensed firearms are in the game and the game is approved by the National Rifle Association.
The game features Certification Mode, Quick Match and Mini Games. In Certification Mode, the player can unlock courses and events by meeting the minimum target score for each course they pass.
Plinking, trap & skeet shooting, long-range rifle and practical/tactical courses challenge the player throughout the course of Certification Mode.
These levels are also available immediately from Quick Match mode if the user wishes to practice a specific range or course. All ranges and courses are available in Quick Match for practice only.
Pistols, rifles and automatic weapons are available in the game; the player can read short descriptions for any of the firearms.
Mini Game modes include variants of Darts, Golf, Tic-Tac-Toe and Bowling. An amusement-park style Shooting Gallery is also available for players to enjoy.
Up to 8 players can play against each other in "hot seat", turn-by-turn play.
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Average score: 17% (based on 3 ratings)
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Average score: 2.9 out of 5 (based on 4 ratings with 1 reviews)
This is a flawed premise, but entertaining.
The Good
- Licensed fire-arms with descriptions about their invention, use, etc.
- Long guns and pistols
- The 'wandering' of the gun sight and the ability to 'focus' or hold breath was done very well - even better than Metal Gear (1 and Twin Snakes, anyway) - it isn't as terrible as the near-Parkinson's twitching of Mass Effect or completely unrealistic like Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
- Vintage guns as well as modern
- Several different challenges
- Decent sound capture
- Graphics are fine, nice attention to materials
- The game has a nice difficulty to it - you can access about a third of the content before it gets challenging
**The Bad**
- Lack of music created lack of atmosphere
- This really should have been a gun-con game packaged with a gun-con (maybe a handgun with detachable butt stock and barrel so it can represent both short and long guns?). I would have paid $50 for that
- Some of the 100 licensed fire-arms are simply the same gun with the barrel slightly longer - when they look the same, sound the same, and almost shoot the same, I feel like I've been cheated
- The sniper challenges are almost pointless unless they are the time trials
**The Bottom Line**
I've always been a big fan of guns, the craftsmanship, the styling, knowing what the internal mechanisms are and how they harness power or accuracy so differently the same cartridge. So when I saw NRA Gun Club bargain priced I bought it for the licensed material and in the hopes that it would be fun escapism between games with more linear stories. I played the game over a few weeks, averaging maybe 2 hours per sit-down. I did enjoy it, but it isn't a game I think I'll be going back and replaying.
PlayStation 2 · by Kyle Levesque (904) · 2011
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Is it light gun compatible? | IRMacGuyver | Sep 3, 2021 |
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Game added October 25, 2006. Last modified February 7, 2024.