Red Dead Redemption pre-order bonuses announced

by Ben Gilbert on Feb 10th 2010 12:54PM

Red Dead Redemption's many, many pre-order bonuses are now detailed on the game's official website, and we can't imagine anyone will be prepared for the barrage of options listed when you click that link. No less than eight different pre-order bonuses, split between ten different US and UK retailers have been dreamed up by marketing. In typical Rockstar fashion, the practice of "exclusive" bonus content has become excessive bonus content.

Among the options listed are the "Golden Guns Weapon Pack" (more "Fame" per kill), from Amazon, which also comes with a $10 Amazon gift card; the "War Horse," a steed that Rockstar claims can't be bested by any other horse in the game, only available from Best Buy and HMV; and the "Deadly Assassin Outfit" from UK retailer Game (and maybe GameStop, if the getup wins the vote -- uh-huh, there's a pre-order vote). So yeah, we're going with the Amazon option, too.

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Tags: amazon, best-buy, bonus, game, gamestop, Microsoft, pre-order, pre-order-bonus, red-dead-redemption, retail, rockstar, rockstar-games, rockstar-san-diego, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (45)

Amazon always wins with the $10 dollar credit. Always.

Definitely. I've saved loads over the past year with this. With no tax and free shipping if you're patient, it's a steal on new releases.

Tru Dat!

Why wouldn't you just buy from Amazon?

I'll be going with Amazon for this as well.

SSFIV releases the same day... where is my golden Blanka + $10?

You could also just buy it from Amazon, buy it from gamestop (for the first day purchase), and do the old switcheroo.

You get the low price of amazon, the pre-order bonuses from gamestop, along with hostile glances from their employees when you return the amazon copy to them. =D

This game looks great

Or, you know, just get Release Date Shipping...

Wow, so it's more convenient for you to drive miles to some store than to open up your door and pick up a package?

Release date delivery FTW!

Release date shipping is great if your UPS guy delivers in the morning.

Mine never comes around until 3-4 in the afternoon, and since Tuesday/Wednesday is my weekend.. I'd much rather just hop in the car and make the trip to Best Buy or Gamestop and get it at 10AM. It's probably different for people who have to work on Tuesday.

I'm always temped by the $10 credits at Amazon, though. Having $425 in Gamestop credit means I will probably just head there...

Man, I'm just glad this game is coming out. The DLC is an extra bonus.

I've already preordered at Best Buy to get the $5 Coupon. I'd ride that horse until its legs grind to nothing!

Yeah I'm a little impatient and would love a faster horse.

I want the horsey and the golden guns. Def gonna preorder at both and then just return one 20 minutes later. Hahaha

I'm getting it at best buy, I preordered it months ago when they had that buy one get half off deal. Think I'd rather have the BB preorder bonus if I hadnt anyway

I'd rather have that steed, too. I'm pre-ordering mine at Best Buy

how do you have $425 credit? Did you rob gamestop and then sell it all back to them?

I get Release Date Delivery for damn near all major titles I purchase from Amazon...as for them always getting the best pre-order bonuses....that "Treasure Map" for Uncharted 2 was full of shit....

Oh god, the treasure map...I so wanted to call Amazon on that.

I hope the weapons are just gold plated, I don't want them exploding in my hands.

and the legend of one hand shag remains far away :(

it didn't bother me too much, as I canceled my pre-order from them and yet somehow still got the code...if not for the Internet I would have had a hard time finding some of those....especially the ones up in the damn air...

Definitely release day shipping, ftw. Compared to three years ago when I made less money and still bought the same amount of games, I'm saving a ton by not driving out to the nearest retailer; same goes for shoes/hiking gear/etc. If Amazon sold groceries and hookers, I'd never leave the house.

I love Gamestop in Canada.

This game comes with a gaming guarantee. Since I already have credit there, I feel comfortable risking if I actually like the game. I probably would be much more on the fence, otherwise.

And from what I've seen from Gamestop Canada, you get a "red dead revolver" as a pre-order bonus. Supposedly an actual, physical Revolver... Of course, Gamestop employees have known to be, oh, WRONG... but still.

Good lord, your avatar is awesome.

What's a "gaming guarantee?"

wow. reply fail. Never include anything that looks like an HTML tag in your post.

It doesn't work.

That said. Thanks Obvious, I'm quite fond of it. Met the artist at a comic convention once, he was... amazing. Spent better part of an hour or two just talking with him. Have an amazing HUGE penciled page of his that cost me a book at another table which he couldn't get to. Best memories of comics... ever.

That said, back on topic... I guess I should have explained what the guarantee is.

If you pre order a game that has the guarantee, you have 1 week from the date of release to decide if you want to keep it. If you choose not to, and return it within that week, you get the full price of the game back in store credit.

I'm doing it for Bioshock and now Red Dead.

They have it on God of War, but I won't have to take them up on that :)

So you can open it, play/beat it, then simply return it and you get full price paid plus tax in store credit? That's not bad deal at all! Gamestops in America will only give you another copy of the same product if it's unsealed.

lol!

golden revolverssss O_O.. wish I had money :'(

It doesn't release until the end of April.. Save some money =P

Youd rather pay $10 extra and get a worse preorder bonus than wait a few hours for shipping? The cost of tax for a game isnt much less than release date shipping (they ship it overnight the day before release which guarantees youll get it on the release day, if you dont get it on release day theyll give you another $10). Not to mention you wouldnt be supporting a horrible company.

They also might still be doing the free month of Amazon Prime trial, which means free release date shipping. And then you can queue up all your other preorders with free release shipping before the trial runs out since once you add items to your cart the price doesnt change even if Prime expires.

Obvious, I

who sucks at replying?

I do!

/facepalm

Preorder bonuses? How about Rockstar show more media from the game first so that I might actually care enough to preorder first? Those few trailers released so far don't help enough.

I have high hopes for this game. The other western games so far haven't appealed to me as being very good, this seems like it may.

Best Buy's bonuses are usually a code that everyone can use rather than unique, but not always.

Amazon it is!

Golden guns? Almost as bad as 'pre-order L4D2 and get a hat in TF2!'

Are the guns just gold? They aren't stronger or more durable than other guns? Who gives a ____? The horse that is superior to all other horses or even whichever gamestop costume wins could be the way to go. For those of you who aren't aware the costume choices at gamestop give the following bonuses:

Savy Merchant: Buy guns and ammo from any merchant for half the cost.
Deadly Assassin: Regenerates 'Dead Eye Targetting' twice as fast.
Expert Hunter: Get double the animal skins from each animal you kiIl.

I guess the other way to look at it is those other bonuses are FAR more likely to be available as purchasable DLC in the future than the golden guns.

A golden revolver.

10/10 for originality.

Could I preorder at one store and buy the 2 other codes over the internet. Or would they only let me use one at once?

For Reward Zone members at Best Buy, there's also a 250 point bonus if you preorder. That's essentially a $5 Gift card.

I guess everyone will have forgotten how much the hate Rockstar for the way they treat their staff when this comes out then? Oh yes, silly me that was last week...

This is probably going to be one of the best new games of the year.

This game will be awesome, till this game the only other good game like this was gun,

Best pre-order deal for AUS is at game.com.au you get golden guns, war horse, assains suit... people have said you may only use one of theses codes. if that be the case use war horse cause once you get further with your guns they can become gold :D

this game will own

this game is goin to be great im definetly gettin da war horse cuz golden guns are just for show best buy for da win!!!

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