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Red Dead Redemption
Developer(s)Rockstar San Diego
Rockstar North
Publisher(s)Rockstar Games
Director(s)Ted Carson (technical)
Producer(s)Steve Martin
Designer(s)Christian Cantamessa
Artist(s)Josh Bass
Writer(s)Dan Houser
Michael Unsworth
Christian Cantamessa
Composer(s)Bill Elm
Woody Jackson
Various artists
SeriesRed Dead
EngineRAGE[2]
Euphoria[2]
Platform(s)PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Genre(s)Sandbox, third-person shooter, action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Red Dead Redemption is a sandbox-style action-adventure western video game developed by Rockstar San Diego, released in May 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.[1] It is a spiritual successor[4] to 2004's Red Dead Revolver.

Plot

John Marston is a partly reformed outlaw in America in the year 1911. When federal agents threaten his family, Marston is sent across the American frontier to help bring the rule of law. He must kill or capture his former gang members, including his old 'friend' and gang leader Bill Williamson or his family will pay the ultimate price.

Gameplay

Red Dead Redemption gives the player a large, open world environment allowing the player to move freely. Players on foot can walk, talk, shoot, kill, ride, run, interact with the environment, and combat enemies with firearms. Different breeds of horses are the main forms of transportation. Swimming is not an option, as the protagonist John Marston cannot swim and will drown if the player ventures too far into a body of water (though he is able to wade where the water is shallow enough).[5]

The open world environment allows players to choose how they want to play. Storyline missions are for progress. Along with the main storyline, players can take part in random events they encounter as they explore the West. These include public hangings, ambushes, pleas for assistance, and dangerous animal attacks. Players can also take part in optional side activities ranging from standoffs, gambling, and hunting animals for pelts and meat.

Red Dead Redemption makes use of a morality system where players have the ability to gain positive or negative 'honor'. Some of the ways to gain positive honor include taking an outlaw alive instead of killing him, or saving a kidnapped innocent. Negative honor can be attained for committing crimes including killing and/or robbing civilians. This works along with another system, 'fame,' showing and governing how people react based on Marston's honor status.[6]

Combat

John Marston takes cover before an incoming horse carriage.

Combat and gunplay are major parts of the game. Gunfights in Red Dead Redemption are conducted using a third-person system. The player can take cover, target a specific person, blindfire, and free aim. Individual body parts can also be targeted, as to take targets down non-lethally. When the player shoots an enemy, the game engine uniquely creates the AI reactions and movements. John Marston has an arsenal of period-accurate weapons to choose from; these include revolvers, lever or bolt-action rifles, knives, explosives, lassos, mounted gatling guns, shotguns, and cannons.[7]

A combat feature that Marston can utilize is the "Dead-Eye" targeting system. "Dead-Eye" is used in a bullet time-like manner, allowing the player to slow down the world to place a precise shot or paint in multiple shots on the body parts of one or multiple enemies. When the targeting sequence ends, Marston will fire in extremely quick succession on targeted people.

Multiplayer

Red Dead Redemption will include online multiplayer with a maximum of 16 players per session.

Every multiplayer game, both free-for-all and team based, will begin with a Mexican standoff. Survivors of the standoff will be able to move to any part of the battlefield in preparation for respawning enemies. Crates in the environment will contain extra weapons, ammo, as well as recharge Dead-Eye powers, which has all the features of the single player version except for slow motion.

Players can level up and complete weapon challenges giving rewards such as new character models, golden weapon skins, and new mount breeds.[8]

Both regular and team versions of Shootout mode follows a traditional deathmatch scenario where players or teams must accumulate the most kills. Many Capture the Flag variants are also available. Hold Your Own is a traditional capture the flag, where each team has their own bag of gold to defend from the enemy team. Grab The Bag has one team attacking and the other team defending; the attackers goal is to grab the bag and return to base, while the defenders must stop them in the act. Gold Rush is a free-for-all variant, trying to grab and keep as many bags, spawned all across the map, as possible.

Like Grand Theft Auto IV's free mode, Red Dead Redemption has its own free roaming mode. All players in the server can form and join player parties, named "posses", of up to eight players and taking part in activities such as attacking computer-controlled gang hideouts or other player posses, go hunting, and create in-server matches.[9]

Other multiplayer gamemodes in Red Dead Redemption feature up to 16 players in one game.[10]

Development

A trailer of the project was sent to a select number of people at a Sony conference in 2005, promoting the release of the PlayStation 3 system. The trailer was a tech demo of RAGE set in a western setting referred to as Old West Project and a direct sequel to Red Dead Revolver. The trailer circulated throughout the internet.[11]

In the April edition of Game Informer, Red Dead Redemption was listed as being for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.[12] Despite the listing, Rockstar confirmed that there is no PC version currently in development[citation needed].

Downloadable content

Outlaws to the End

Rockstar announced that in June 2010 they will release free co-op downloadable content for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. The DLC will include six new co-op side missions ranging from raiding a mine and stealing the gold to riding down a river to secure a town's weapon cache. The DLC will include new multiplayer rewards as well as new trophies/achievements.[13]

Soundtrack

Untitled

Red Dead Redemption Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack of video game music from the game Red Dead Redemption. The music was mainly composed by Friends of Dean Martinez member Bill Elm and ex-member Woody Jackson along with additional contributions from various musicians including Swedish folk musician José González.

Track listing

All music is composed by Bill Elm and Woody Jackson, except where noted

Red Dead Redemption Original Soundtrack (75:18)
No.TitleLength
1."(Theme From) Red Dead Redemption"5:38
2."Compass (Red Dead On Arrival Version)" (James Lidell)2:59
3."Already Dead"1:31
4."Redemption In Dub"2:09
5."Dead End Alley"2:06
6."Muertos Rojos (aka The Gunslinger's Lament)"5:50
7."Triggernometry"5:23
8."Estancia"2:02
9."El Club De Los Cuerpos"6:24
10."Exodus In America"4:59
11."The Shootist"4:17
12."The Outlaw's Return"6:54
13."Luz Y Sombra"5:19
14."Bury Me Not On The Lone Prarie" (William Elliot Whitmore)2:24
15."Born Unto Trouble"3:12
16."Far Away" (José González)4:39
17."Horseplay"3:49
18."Deadman's Gun" (Ashtar Command)4:15
19."Gunplay"1:28

Marketing

On February 3, 2009, Rockstar Games announced the first official trailer.[14][15] Resulting trailers showcased numerous characters, gameplay features, and multiplayer modes that will be featured in the final release.

The game was featured on NASCAR driver Joey Logano's #20 Toyota Camry in the Nationwide Series running of the O'Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 17, 2010.

In North America, television network Fox plans to present a half-hour in-game special directed by John Hillcoat on May 29, 2010.[16]

Bonuses and versions

In North America, GameStop and Rockstar collaborated on a pre-order bonus in which customers could vote for one of three outfits that Marston could unlock in the game. Each outfit came with a different bonus. For example, the "Deadly Assassin" outfit allows Marston to regenerate Dead-Eye targeting twice as fast. The "Savvy Merchant" would halve the purchasing price of ammunition and guns and double the selling price for ammunition and guns. The "Expert Hunter" would double the amount of money the player could get from selling hides of animals. Voting was open to all, but only those who pre-ordered the game through Gamestop will receive the winning outfit, The Deadly Assassin.[17]

Along with the GameStop pre-order special, there are several other pre-order bonuses through other game store chains throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. These are the "War Horse" and the "Golden Guns".[18] The War Horse is a black horse with a white mane, tail and markings considered "rare" as well as being "faster" and having "more health" than any other horse in the game.[19] The golden guns reward increases fame with each kill, allowing users to progress much quicker up the ladder of fame.[19] The official online Rockstar Games store, the Rockstar Warehouse, offers a Red Dead Redemption T-shirt as the pre-order bonus.

A limited edition version of Red Dead Redemption has been announced. With some countries receiving the Golden Guns and the War Horse, all will contain the Deadly Assassin outfit along with the original soundtrack.[20][21]

Photos of the PlayStation 3 box art of the game indicate that it will include two exclusive bonuses where the player can attack an additional gang hideout and wear a new outfit.[22] In addition for the PlayStation 3 version, certain trophies in the game unlock rewards for PlayStation Home, PlayStation 3's online social gaming network.[23]

Reception

The game has been met with universal critical acclaim, with much praise given to the presentation of the open world, story, and soundtrack. The game currently has a 95 on Metacritic and a 97 on Game Rankings.

The New York Times wrote, "In the more than 1,100 articles I have written for this newspaper since 1996, I have never before called anything a tour de force. Yet there is no more succinct and appropriate way to describe Red Dead Redemption."[36]

IGN heaped praise on the game giving it a 9.7/10 saying "what is most impressive about this sandbox is how fun it is to simply hop on a horse and take off across the prairie." In conclusion they exclaimed "Rockstar has taken the Western to new heights and created one of the deepest, most fun, and most gorgeous games around. You can expect the occasional bug or visual hiccup, but you can also expect a fantastic game that offers the Western experience we've all been waiting for."[37]

GameSpot awarded the game 9.5 out of ten and said that it "raises the bar for open world action games".[34]


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