Rockstar goes west with Red Dead Redemption

by Jason Dobson on Feb 4th 2009 8:40AM

Rockstar San Diego is kicking the dirt off its boots and returning to the American west with Red Dead Redemption. Developed using Rockstar's proprietary RAGE engine, the sequel to 2004's Red Dead Revolver promises an open-world complete with "strong plotlines in a massive vibrant, rural environment" when it pulls into town this fall for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Few gameplay details have been revealed regarding the upcoming title, which looks to cast players not in the role of Revolver's bounty hunter lead Red Halow, but instead a former outlaw named John Marston during the turn of the 20th century.

Open world. A bad guy turned good. Just throw in Miss Kitty and her band of hookers and we're all set for GTA in the Wild West. Yee haw!

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Tags: Microsoft, red-dead-redemption, red-dead-revolver, rockstar, rockstar-games, rockstar-san-diego, take-two, west, wild-west, Xbox-360

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Sweeeeet.

Your name is awesome. Congrats.

Just hope its not in your gamertag, ms recently made me change mine because it contained "jerk" and it was found offensive.

Are you serious!? Because I've had xJERKFACEx for over a year. That would be pretty unfortunate.

Finally a game to look forward to. This looks and sounds awesome!

OH MY GOD! Your avatar, I LOVE IT!

"I am not shrimp, I am king PRAWN!"

I have completely forgot about Revolver, but I do remember that it was ok, if this is better its at LEAST worth a rent.

Ok? Ok? Red dead revolver is one of my fvourite games ever.

Why did everyone vote you down again?

people dont like me. lol

and to think someone said if I stopped with the "...." that people would stop down voting me.

don't give into terrorist demands!

No,people sort of likes you? I don't know but if everone hated you you would be in Half heart followed by a cascade of hateful comments (See Vanille or Longhorn).

I say you have a stalker.Don't worry I vote you up.

There's just one kind of man that you can trust,
that’s a dead man, or a gringo like me.

lol, thanks Jekyl & Panda I'm not giving into terrorist, simply chaning things up for a bit.

haha. This is the RDR sequel that various podcasts have accidentally mentioned a half dozen times in the past few months. Obviously, this has been shown a bit around town.

Red Dead Revolver was a great game. I had it on the PS2 and remember the bosses being some of the coolest characters in a game. The guy with the coffin on his back was great. lol!

RDR was a decent launch title. Looking forward to an open-world western.

Ooops, I was thinking of Gun. I vaguely remember RDR. Was there a scene in it where you were in some sort of canyon flinging artillery bombs across the river to your enemies?

I think that was GUN...

yeah that was red dead. as far as i'm concerned, best game ever in the history of video games (next to halo 3, fallout 3, and tetris). YER GONNA BLOW UP REAAAAAL GOOD COWBOY!

i hope it's longer than the last one, if it is i will be purchasing

I never played Red Dead Revolver..is it still worth playing for the first time now? The concept always sounded cool.

It's an okay game. Great idea and some of the presentation around it is great, but I remember the game having a feeling of not quite being done. Terrible AI, some collision problems, some needed tweaking of game mechanics, etc. There are two bosses I particularly remember, the first being a boss I never even fought because he just fell off the moving train we were going to fight on. The second one was a boss I needed to stop from killing townsfolk. He was quick and pretty tough to beat until I just stopped, took out my rifle and started to cap him from across town. The fact that he was getting shot in the head and there were no people to shoot on his side (they followed your character) didn't even phase him. Weird stuff like that happened often in the game.

But I chalk all that up to the fact that Rockstar picked up this game after Capcom dropped it and then didn't take the time to really make it their own. Here's hoping that they've taken their time and will come out with a great sequel. But I hope they don't try to make it too open. I actually kinda liked Red Dead's linear nature.

cool, thanks for the impressions!

I actually REALLY liked the game. It was a lot of fun and I loved how the game did the standoffs. The game would go into slow motion and you could even shoot him in the hand, leg, or head if you were quick enough. It was very unique and a lot of fun. Yeah it seemed like it was unfinished but a sequel has incredible potential. I'm definitely looking forward to this one.

*searches brain*
The name rings a bell, but i can remember literally nothing about the original.

I remember Gun, which was alright, does that count?

Have to look back to the PS2 and XBox days. It was a fun title. I thought Gun was a lot more fun though.

I'd like a FPS multiplayer western, personally.

Though I don't play it, my room mate loves "Fistful of Frags," which runs the Source engine. It's a mod, and so is still in progress, but you might give it a look.

There's a couple of them out there. I've heard Darkwatch is pretty awesome.

"Fistful of Frags" mod for the Half-Life 2 Source engine. I've been having a lot of fun with that game the past two weeks. I'd highly recommend downloading it and checking it out. The sad part is there aren't a lot of servers, but usually you can find a good full server during peak gaming hours.

Although I didn't like GTAIV (R* made it too serious), I'm gonna keep my eye on this one.

The first was the greatest cowboy game I've ever played, and ever since I beat it in 2 days at a friend's house I've been hoping for a sequel, praiz dah lawd!!!

I remember I bought my Xbox with this game. Great times. Played the duel mode by myself for hours at a time. Four way duels were always a blast, even if I was alone... Hope this has some multiplayer duels. If so, EPIC WIN.

And... Why does this guy ALSO look like Clint Eastwood? Reds brother maybe?
WHAT A TWEEST!

The original Red Dead Revolver is still worth checking out, IMO. It's been a long time since I first played it, but I remember the gun duels being twitchy fun.

I must say, however, that Gunsmoke for the NES is still the single hardest western shoot 'em up I've ever played. That damn Ninja(!) level was intense.

I want a sequel to Outlaws, GET ON IT LUCAS ARTS, and stop being shitty while you're at it.

I'll second that. Outlaws was a badass game. I loved it.

I'll also second the part about LucasArts stopping the suckage.

I wish they'd make a sequel to Full Throttle as well.

I remember that game... I also seem to remember enjoying it.. not 100% sure on that though.............

Whorehouses, cattle rustling, arachnid robots -- sign me up!!

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, the original one was sweet.

Sweet, western games are one of the few under utilized genres that really deserve more

*registers complete agreement*

you and i think alike bats

I say what this game really needs is music by Ennio Morricone.I would buy it first day for that.

Don't be a fool for a smile or a kiss,
or your bullet might miss.
Keep your eye on your goal.

There's just one rule that can save you your life,
that’s a hand on your knife, and a devil in your soul.

Never played the original, but I loved GTAIV and Gun so I'd reckon this'll be worth picking up.

RDR was pretty good reckon this will be sick.

What was the other Western open world game? That was AWESOME!...

GUN - that was a brilliant game - anyone else get caught up in the online poker game linked to it. Brilliant..

This was one of my bro's favorite games. He's going to be stoked.

I loved both Red Dead Revolver and Gun. more westerns are welcome in my game collection.

co-op horse-back riding please!

I liked the first game a lot... it was super rad... this is awesome news! :)

commenters talking about Gun has made me want to play the classic NES game Gun.Smoke

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