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Red Dead Redemption is an open-world, third-person, action-adventure game
set at the tail end of the American West West era. Action takes place in the
first few years of the twentieth century and revolves around the choices that
the protagonist, former outlaw John Marston, is forced to make due to his
blemished past. The game features a morality system assigning honor and fame
points generated through the player's choices. It also features Wild West themed
mini-games, new targeting and cover systems, extensive horse riding abilities, a
wealth of period specific weapons and more than 40 huntable animals.
Story
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. A follow up to the
2004 hit Red Dead Revolver, this game tells the story of former outlaw
John Marston, taking players on a great adventure across the American frontier.
Choose to fight for honor or fame as former outlaw John
Marston.
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Gameplay
Red Dead Redemption is a third-person action-adventure game set a
fictional open-world American Wild West environment for players to explore.
Gameplay area types include frontier towns, rolling prairies teaming with
wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of
varied distractions. Along the way, players will experience the heat of
gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the
elements and animals 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. In their travels
throughout the territories of the gameworld players partake in a morality system
built on honor and fame, where they gain or lose points in each area based on
their actions. The game features an easy to use cover system, a variety of
mounts and period specific weapons including a cattleman revolver, a mauser
pistol, a repeater rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, a throwing knife, a lasso and
more. Western themed mini-games are also available, including showdowns,
gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet.
Key Game Features
- Expansive open-world gameplay set in the final years of the American Wild West.
- Massive play area made up 3 unique regions composed of towns and outposts filled
with characters with varying looks, accents, etc.
- Morality system based on honor and fame generated by the players actions
throughout the game.
- Loads of unique non-player characters to interact with.
- Western themed mini-games including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties,
cattle herding and five finger fillet.
- An assortment of period specific weapons including a cattleman revolver, a
mauser pistol, a repeater rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, a throwing knife, lasso
and more.
- The Dead Eye targeting mechanic, allowing the player to slow down time for shot
accuracy.
- Ridable horses and more than 40 kinds of animals that you can hunt or be hunted
by.
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