In Call of Juarez, you'll play the various missions in the single-player game from the perspective of two very different characters. The first, and most foreboding, is Reverend Ray, a former gunslinger turned to the cloth who looks mean and acts even meaner. The second character is Billy, also known as the Candle because of a shiny medallion he wears.

While you play as two different characters, their stories, as well as their lives, are intertwined. Revered Ray just happens to be Billy's stepfather's brother (his stepuncle, I suppose). Billy never really got along with his stepfather and, after one particularly nasty fight, he ran away from home. He returned home a few years later only to find the bloody, lifeless bodies of his mother and stepfather, along with a bloody message scrawled on the wall that reads "Call of Juarez." Unfortunately, Ray just happened to be making a visit to see his brother at the time and found Billy standing over the dead bodies with his trusty whip in hand. Billy runs to avoid the Rev and find the killers, while Ray runs after Billy, hoping to track down the kid that killed his brother. How's that for family values?