Gameplay is relatively simple - you have a huge array of guns and other weapons to choose from as Arthur, and the majority of missions do involve shooting your way into or out of situations - Arthur knows what his skills are, as do those who come asking for his help. You story starts shortly after a robbery gone wrong has forced your gang into hiding in those mountains - and carries on as you try and settle old scores and rebuild your fortunes.Īs a study of the damage that can be done lust for revenge it stands with the best of them, and it's as brave and ambitious a portrait of a man's descent into madness as you'll find in any medium this year.

You'll meet small-town tough guys, robber barons, bloodthirsty agents, crooked clerks, slavers trying to make a living and slaves trying to survive. It has hundreds of characters - the cast numbers around 1,200 when you include motion capture and voice actors - with pixel-perfect renditions of everything from the largemouth bass you've just caught to the can-can girls on stage whose show you've just taken in. With mountains, forest, desert and more all having their own ecosystems, it features hundreds of different types of animal and gorgeous vistas. Bits are very much modeled on Colorado's mountains and plains, others on the swamps around a large town modeled after an early New Orleans, and plenty more besides. It's an open-world game set in a (slightly) compressed version of the Old West. You play as Arthur Morgan, a senior member of a gang of outlaws in 1899. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a prequel to Red Dead Redemption, a cowboy game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto.

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