I’m a big fan of western movies, especially the old Sergio Leone Dollars series and there aren’t many good western games. Smoking barrels however is one of the best, made by prolific games designers games sheep .

Firstly there’s a nice intro which explains how the main game mechanic works, its pretty clever, you place the mouse in a safe area and when the referee says shoot you have to throw your mouse at the target and shoot when it goes over. It feels almost exactly like a proper shoot out would, you get sweaty mouse finger waiting for the draw.

The game plays out over a number of tournaments each one getting slightly harder and you can spend winnings from each contest in the shop to buy better guns, or bullets or just dress up items for if you like that sort of thing.

As usual with everything Game Sheep do its amazingly well presented, lovely menus, and nice little animation touches.

The game is pretty much the perfect flash online game, it has a great core gameplay mechanic, lots of depths, progression through levels and a few nice mini games thrown in as well,

Go and play Smokin Barrels.