Developer Ronimo Games has released a new trailer for its upcoming title, Awesomenauts, highlighting one Sheriff Lonestar.
I’m not going to go into much detail about the character himself here. I’ll leave that to Ronimo, who sent us a full bio and some info on his attacks. I normally don’t do this, but I’m going to go ahead and paste it below in full. Because with details like “a wealthy Bovinion visionary opened up a park where visitors would come to see a genetically re-engineered cowboy in action,” clearly Ronimo thought this through.
Also, note that the original Awesomenauts theme song (which pops up towards the end of the trailer) may be the best thing I’ve heard in a videogame… ever.
At the heart of the milky way lies the Bovinion system, ruled by a semi intelligent cow-like species. Although technologically advanced to an acceptable level, these Bovinions have maintained a tribal form of society for several thousands of years. Until recent years, an age-old custom in this society was to scare young Bovinion calves with bogeyman stories about a scary cowboy. Naughty Bovinion calves would, as the story went, be caught by this cowboy’s unrelenting lasso.
Recently, a wealthy Bovinion visionary opened up a park where visitors would come to see a genetically re-engineered cowboy in action. But disaster struck and the cowboy escaped his cage. Before the Bovinions could react the cowboy had wrangled the entire park staff. Terror shook the Bovinion civilization as the cowboy started to wrangle every single Bovinion on the planet! Suddenly the Bovinions found themselves out of their cities and wrangled into herds on green meadows by the whisky drinking, bucket spitting, yeeehaawing horror.
Once the entire Bovinion civilization had been wrangled, the cowboy, naming himself Sherriff Lonestar, rode a rocket ship into the sunset, his job complete. Now Sherriff Lonestar fights as a mercenary in the robot wars, combining his awesome cowboy-powers with high tech weaponry to earn some solar to spend on whisky and cigars.
Lonestar’s abilities:
Dynamite
Lonestar is a great fan of shooting things, but sometimes bullets just won’t cut it. So to make sure it stays down, Lonestar will chuck cigar-lit sticks of dynamite at his foes!
Bull
To keep himself sharp, Lonestar trains with powerful holo-Bulls that knock anyone away. New fangled portable holo-tech allows him to turn his training program on his enemies!
Shoot
Even though it’s a but modern for his tastes, Lonestar has shot his way out of many a tight situation using his deadly and accurate space blaster!
Double Jump
Using the simple thrusters he integrated into his classic cowboy boots, Lonestar can do an extra jump in mid-air. Handy for traversing mountains of wrangled Bovinions!
Some of Lonestar’s purchasable items:
Mister TNT
Increases the explosion size of dynamite.
“Free black van included.”
Techno Viking Helmet
Makes hyper bull deal damage.
“This helmet is property of chief Red Beard.”
Cheetag Bullets
Increase rate of fire of blaster.
“No Zurians were harmed during the testing other than the ones that were.”
