Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is a first-person shooter in which there is, unlike the previous games in the Call of Juarez series, only one player character available - the bounty hunter Silas Greaves. Each level in the game features a series of primary objectives, which must be completed sequentially as the player moves through the map. Available weaponry includes six-shooters, quick shooters, rangers, shotguns, sawed-off shotguns, rifles, sawed-off rifles, and dynamite.] Unique and more powerful weaponry can also be unlocked as the player proceeds through the game.