Red Dead Redemption, Split/Second debut on UK charts

I am John Marston...

I wasn't considering getting this game at all, but the reception it is getting has struck a chord with me. Especially the words from the number of people who like me, found GTA4 boring, yet are loving RDR.

Red Dead Redemption just feels like a much more 'complete' world than GTA IV.

One example: In the GTA series it was very common to see people or vehicles 'fade in' a block or so away from you. I have only once seen this happen in Red Dead (and I was perched high up on a hill, able to see for miles in every direction). You can see horses approaching from a great distance, or chase them over a ridge after they disappear from view. This goes a long way toward making the world feel real, and not something that's being constructed by the game-gods when you're looking the other direction.

There are many more examples of why this game works better than GTA, but this comment would turn into a multi-page rave. I love this game. Everyone I know who has played it loves this game.

You will recognize a whole lot of games elements from the GTA series, but they have either been tweaked for the better, or they just feel much more natural in the western setting than they ever did in the modern city setting.

@waves
To be fair, how much more does GTA4 have to render than RDR? ALOT MORE!!

FF Versus XIII, FF Agito XIII, MGS Rising, MGS Peace Walker, MH3 PSP, Pokemon Black & White, Metroid Other M, The Last Story, FFXIV, Xenoblade, El Shaddai, DQIX, DQX, Maijin The Fallen Realm, Enslaved, FF Light Warriors, Inazuma Eleven and Portal 2.

Even though I don't want them I must also list Halo Reach, KH PSP, GoW GoS, CoD BO, MoH, Assasins Creed Bloodlines, DeadSpace 2, Prince of Persia, SIngularity, Fallout New Vegas and StarCraft 2.

E3 is going to be brain freezingly amazing. My wallet on the other hand is going to be ravaged FFXIII style.

Did you mean The Last Guardian?

@PS1

So many good games to buy this year...thank god humans invented credit cards!


@Traceur

Yes, I did mean it.

Read?

redding is fundamental.

Sorry, nothing out right now is "leaps and bounds" more impressive than uncharted 2. Maybe slightly more impressive, maybe on par, but not "leaps and bounds".

/end of fanboy rant

Yeah whats so mindblowing about the physics? They're nothing mind blowing, eurphoria was great when GTA 4 came out but now its pretty standard.

Mass Effect 2 was.

to begin, compare trains

I felt the same way as u before i bought this game, i was afraid it was going to be another boring or repetitive sandbox game like i found gta and infamous to be but luckily something about this game is a lot more satisfying...

sweet photoshop dude