Publisher:Rockstar Games
Developer:Rockstar San Diego
Genre:Third-Person Action, Historical Shooter, Sandbox
Players:1 (2-16 online)
ESRB Rating:M (Mature)
Release Date:May 18th (US), May 21st (EU)
Platforms:Xbox 360, Playstation 3
Developed by Rockstar San Diego, as a follow up to the 2004 hit game Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age. The story of former outlaw, John Marston, Red Dead Redemption takes players on a great adventure across the American frontier. Utilizing Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open-world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teaming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions. Along the way, players experience the heat of gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the harshness of one of the world's last remaining wildernesses, and ultimately pick their own precarious path through an epic story about the death of the Wild West and the gunslingers that inhabited it. [Rockstar Games]
- courtesy of Metacritic
America, early 1900's. The era of the cowboy is coming to an end.
When federal agents threaten his family, former outlaw John Marston is sent across the American frontier to help bring the rule of law. Experience intense gun battles, dramatic train robberies, bounty hunting and duels during a time of violent change.
Red Dead Redemption is an epic battle for survival in a beautiful open world as John Marston struggles to bury his blood-stained past, one man at a time.
Developed by Rockstar San Diego, Red Dead Redemption is coming for Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system on May 18, 2010 in North America and on May 21, 2010 in Europe.
- from the official site
- Epic single player story that takes place in a large, open world that is one of the biggest Rockstar has ever created
- Explore 3 large territories throughout the world: The Frontier (New Austin), Northern Mexico (Nuevo Paraiso), and The North (West Elizabeth)
- Active weather system that changes while you play as well as a running ecosystem with 40 different types of wildlife
- Over 400 unique NPCs with difference voices, dialects, and personalities
- "Fame" and "Honor" systems track your moral standing as well as your notoriety affecting the world around you
- Rockstar's first game to feature difficulty settings which change the level of aim assist - Casual (auto-lock + faster health regeneration), Standard (aim-assist), and Expert (free aim - no aim assist)
- Many different weapons to choose from including revolvers, shotguns, repeaters, fire bottles, dynamite, gatling guns, and even cannons
- Utilizes Rockstar's proprietary RAGE Engine as well as Euphoria physics for unique death animations and location based damage reactions in characters
- Multiple different side missions as well as mini-games including Blackjack, Texas Hold 'Em, Five Finger Filet, and more
- Hunt and skin animals to trade their pelts for upgrades
- In-game economy and stores for upgrading weapons, outfits, and more
- Expansive multiplayer component allowing you to roam the game's entire world with up to 16 players
- Large amount of single player and multiplayer challenges
Free Roam brings the open-world experience to multiplayer for up-to-16 players, with the opportunity to form posses of up-to-8 to take on the world's gang hideouts, ambient challenges - and each other. Free Roam also gives players a living, breathing world instead of a generic game lobby - with the freedom to roam the open expanse, hunting or creating shootouts before heading into competitive game modes - and leveling up with every major action. With each level come new avatars, outfits, mounts, playlists and challenges.
Sometimes it takes a posse to take on a gang. Form posses with friends to take on gang hideouts and ambient challenges within Free Roam, or have your posse leader bring you into competitive matches at any time. Posses can hear each other talk via voice chat, no matter how far apart they may be.
Just like in the single-player experience, some areas of the multiplayer world are overrun by bandits. Gather up your posse or any other players in Free Roam, ride out to find the hideouts and take those scurrilous bandits down.
Are you a hunter, a survivalist, or a shootist? The entire multiplayer world is filled with ambient challenges. Whether alone, with other Free Roam players or with your posse, discover unmarked hunting areas to take down waves of deadly predators, track down rare fauna in Survivalist Challenges, or earn yourself the title of Public Enemy by marauding towns and taking on Law Enforcement.
Red Dead Redemption's competitive multiplayer serves up clas$ic multiplayer match modes with a distinctly Western twist: every match starts with players eye-to-eye in a clas$ic showdown. Experience team-based Gang matches, Free-For-All Shootouts and clas$ic Capture The Bag modes in specially designed locations within Red Dead Redemption's vast and beautifully detailed open world.
Similar to the ambient challenges in Free Roam mode, the Competitive Multiplayer modes also offer challenges that will unlock experience points and other perks. Weapon-based challenges for getting a certain number of kills or headshots with a specific gun will earn you the golden version of that weapon and additional challenges will reward you with XP and a custom title for your gunslinger.
Deathmatch, Western $tyle. It's you versus everyone else - try not to die. Keep an eye out for better weapons scattered across the area and use Dead Eye pickups to refill your Dead Eye meter, helping you take down enemies quickly.
Your priority is to grab as many bags of gold as you can find, and take them to the nearest chests - killing comes second. You can grab up to two bags of gold at once, but all that weight will slow you down.
Team Deathmatch on the frontier. Work with your team to pin down enemies and rack up kill streaks.
Infiltration and theft. Each team has a base and a bag. Steal the other team's bag and bring it to your base. In larger areas, strategic use of horses and ballistic weapons placements will keep opponents on their toes.
One bag, one chest, two teams. Stake your ground, and defend the chest until a bag appears. Once it arrives, grab it and take it to your base to score.
This is the complete collection of all the trailers Rockstar have released. All are listed in order of release.
- Debut Trailer
- Official Trailer: "My Name Is John Marston"
- Gameplay Series: Introduction
- Gameplay Series: Weapons & Death
- The Law
- The Women
- Gameplay Series: Life In The West
- Gentlemen & Vagabonds
- Gameplay Series: Life In The West: Part II
- Gameplay Series: Multiplayer Free Roam
- Gameplay Series: Multiplayer Competitive
- Revolution
- Red Dead Redemption Official Launch Trailer
These are fan videos and preview videos that have been made for RDR.
- Red Dead Redemption - Blaze Of Glory - Fan video set to "Blaze Of Glory" by Bon Jovi
- Red Dead Redemption - Xbox 360 Gameplay: 10 Minutes of Gameplay From Someone Who Got an Early Copy (Minor spoilers)
Here are what some are saying about Red Dead Redemption already.
- "My Experience with Red Dead Redemption has Me Chomping at the Bit": The Press Go Hands-On
- "Genuinely Captivating and Visually Stunning" - More Impressions of Red Dead Redemption
- Red Dead Redemption Previews from IGN, MTV and More: "Gorgeous, Expansive"... "Awesome"
- (UPDATED) Asked & Answered – Re: Vice City, Red Dead Redemption and Chinatown Wars
- GameSpot Interview: Breaking in the Digital Horses of Red Dead Redemption
- Red Dead Redemption Hands-On - Xbox 360 Previews at GameSpot
- GameSpot: Red Dead Redemption getting free co-op DLC
- The Guardian UK: Red Dead Redemption: Hands-on with the final code
- GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley - Red Dead Redemption coverage
Red Dead Redemption on Metacritic:Xbox 360|Playstation 3
- Game Informer- 9.75
- GameTM (UK)- 9.0
- Official Playstation Magazine (US) - 10
- Playmania (ESP) - 9.8
- PSM3 (AU) - 95%
- Gamereactor (SE) - 10
- IGN (UK)- 9.8
- IGN (US) - 9.7
- Eurogamer - 8.0
- Eurogamer (IT) - 9.0
- Now Gamer - 9.3
- EDGE- 9.0
- NZGamer - 10
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