Give NRA Gun Club a shot
by Ken Weeks 
{ May 11th 2006 at 10:00PM }
Video games have been teaching kids about the right to bear arms (as in blow away anything that moves) for years, but it still seems odd to find a target shooting game sponsored by the National Rifle Association. Developer Crave stresses the "non-violence" of NRA Gun Club -- but you don't have to be Sarah Brady to find that ironic given the "100 faithfully recreated firearms," including everybody's favorite plinko pistol, the Intratec Tec-9. With a graphical upgrade and perhaps a voice-over by Charlton Heston, Gun Club would be a great Xbox Live Arcade title, but instead its shot-to-hell visuals are likely to be forgotten during the PS2's waning summer. Too bad. You can never be too careful with that virtual shotgun.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JRM @ May 11th 2006 10:06PM
Though I don't support gun posession, this makes a lot of sense for the NRA to make their point of view that "guns don't kill people" valid. But I doubt the success of this. Didn't the NRA make a game like this before?
DMON @ May 11th 2006 10:19PM
they made a crappy PC game called NRA Varmit Hunter. it wasn't range target shooting, but it might as well been. all you do is shoot stationary prarie dogs with a rifle from long distances.
Angus @ May 11th 2006 10:27PM
Maybe on the wii, or with a lightgun this game could be pretty cool.. but target shooting? Maybe it's got more to it, but.. eh..
Yay, TEC-9, see it can be used for something other than, y'know, the standard shooting up your school..
Danno @ May 11th 2006 10:41PM
Can you mod the TEC-9 in the game to go full auto?
brook @ May 11th 2006 11:32PM
wow. a bunch of douchebags made a video game. hooray.
epobirs @ May 12th 2006 2:48AM
#1
Does that mean you favor gun exorcism?
Big Sexy @ May 12th 2006 3:35AM
YAWN. I prefer my real life Glock 19 for recreational shooting. As for you liberal wimps, quit whining because you're too sissy to use a gun.
Pickypants @ May 12th 2006 12:00PM
Yup Big Sexy, that's why.
We're so sissy. That's why we don't like our children shooting themselves in the face with our own guns because we are too goddamned stupid and toothless to put a lock on our night side stand.
We're so sissy because we don't get bamboozled by right wing politicians posing as "gun friendly" so they can use your vote against your interests by poisoning the air you breathe and the water you fish in.
Good call.
funkonaut @ May 12th 2006 2:36PM
If it weren't for the 2nd amendment, the only people with guns would be the criminals. That's why I've got a shotgun in my house.
Don't set yourself up to be a victim. Exercise your Consitutional right. Support legal gun ownership.
Don Jose @ May 12th 2006 2:53PM
To hell with target practice. Get an FPS. Bullets have left marks on in-game objects since Goldeneye.
I want a skeet shooting game (and not a crappy one like the minigame in Cabela's Big Game Hunter--I want one with realistic physics), maybe on wii.
Skeet is the only gun sport with any real-life draw for me, but it's so damned expensive I can rarely practice between tournaments.
TheBlunderbuss @ May 12th 2006 5:40PM
Apparently, Joystiq doesn't keep up-to-date on things.
Heston hasn't been NRA's president for four years.
The poor guy has Alzheimer's so I imagine a recording session would take a while :)
TheBlunderbuss @ May 12th 2006 5:42PM
Yeah, I know they didn't say he was the president, but I was thinking Heston has been out of the limelight for a while and would probably be disinclined to do any work.
Alkaiser @ May 12th 2006 9:58PM
Don Jose:
There actually is a skeet shooting mode in the game. It's pretty useless, though, because the hit detection in the game is crap.
This is a value title. It's supposed to be awful, so it's not like the fact that it's bad is a shock, it's the fact it's THIS bad. It's a game where you shoot staionary targets, and the game looks like it could very easily be a PS1 launch title.