NRA Gun Club

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

• 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.