gunSkateboarding and sand don’t mix too well. Perhaps it’s this reason – the physical incompatibility of rubber wheels and grip tape with ten million grains of purchase-less crushed rock – that has ensured the world of professional skateboarding and that of the poncho-clad, revolver-toting, rotten-toothed cowboys are yet to meaningfully converge.

Nevertheless last year, undeterred by this tradition of thematic segregation, developer Neversoft took a break from its relentless output of Tony Hawk skateboarding games to work on a Wild West themed shooter. And quite the success story it turned out to be, too, boasting a surprisingly good story, a well-crafted and believable world of 1800s yee-haw America, and some impressively realised good, bad and ugly, stubbly men shooting each other to win the affections of beautiful hitch-high skirted women.

The transition from console to handheld has been handled by Rebellion, who has seen fit to not just transport the desert grain pixel by pixel on to the small screen, but to also add in a fair few impressive tricks and flips of its own.

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