Gunz is an acrobatic third person shooter/slasher. Weapons available include: swords, daggers, machine guns, shotguns, rocket launchers and pistols. Game modes do not contain objectives, but variances of deathmatch (one player may have extra power and health, one team has to kill an enemy captain). There is also a Quest mode where players team up to defeat NPCs.
The most noteworthy aspect of the game is the movements. From the start, players can easily dive, run on walls or climb to high places. Those maneuvers are enough to get you by at low-mid level play, but you will need to learn a lot more to compete with veterans. Gunz has ‘legal glitching’; the top players use complex keyboard and mouse sequences to glitch their character into doing rapid movements and attacks.
Paying players have access to a wide variety of clothing, stronger armor and weapons. The biggest advantage comes from health and armor which can double a players overall defense. Weapons have smaller bonuses over their free counterparts. Because the game’s skill difference is a major factor in balance, non-veteran paying players will still have a hard time competing against veteran non-paying glitchers.
Whether you are a casual or hardcore player, the acrobatics make this game a lot of fun to play because you must utilize your surroundings to out-maneuver your opponents. You can get by without learning ‘glitch moves’, although going 1 on 1 with a veteran won’t be much fun. I recommend playing Gunz to increase maneuvering-defensive skills (learning the glitches won’t help in other games). – RenegadeFerret 8/4/2010