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RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2

Remember when we were growing up, playing cowboys and indians?  Ok, well some of us old timers did. No seriously, we did. Anyways, even if you can’t remember it, or you never played it, it was awesome.  Getting together with your friends and the cowboys would chase the indians and well, Read Dead Redemption 2 is nothing like your childhood games of cowboys and indians.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a Western-themed action-adventure game set in an open world environment. It is played from either a third or first-person perspective and the player controls Arthur Morgan, an outlaw and a member of the Van der Linde gang. The game features both single-player and online multiplayer components.

The game brings back and deeply refines mechanics from the previous game, such as the combat, gunplay, honor system and more. It also has many new features, including dual-wielding and swimming.[7]

The game focuses heavily on player choice for the story and missions. Certain moments in the story will give players the option to accept or decline additional missions and lightly shape the plot around their choices. During IGN's first look preview on the topic of how player choices can affect interactions and missions, Rob Nelson, Co-Studio Head at Rockstar North, said: "We try to give you options within a lot of these missions to choose how you approach it, whether you'll send your buddies in first or whether you'll go in first."

Players can communicate with any non-player characters (NPC) in dynamic ways new to the series. Arthur can choose different dialogue trees with NPCs as having a simple friendly chat with an individual, or threaten them for the player's own personal interest, or they can kill them and loot the corpse.

Red Dead Redemption 2 features item degradation, with equipment such as weapons requiring cleaning and oiling. The player can visit a barber to change hairstyles; however, styles are only available to players depending on how much hair their character has, with hair growing realistically throughout the title over time. Arthur can also gain or lose weight depending on how much he eats, a feature absent from previous Rockstar games since Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Characters have different sets of clothes for different weather conditions and also have to regularly eat and bathe.[9] Some actions that were once more automatic have been greatly expanded upon in detail, including skinning a kill and examining objects.[9]

Red Dead Redemption 2 features both hunting and fishing, which provide food, income, and materials for crafting items. When hunting an animal, players will need to move slowly and carefully and watch the wind direction to avoid alerting their prey. Choice of weapon and shot placement is also important and will affect the quality of the meat and pelt, which in turn affects the price that traders will pay for them. If prey is injured, they will try to escape.

After a successful hunt, players can either skin and butcher the animal on the spot or take it with them whole. Animal skins and carcasses will rot over time if not properly tended to, and this both decreases their value while making them stink, and makes the character a target for wild animals when out of town. Skins, parts, meat, and entire carcasses can all be loaded onto horses to be sold to the butchers or the general store in town, taken back to camp for the stew pot, or crafted into clothing or other items. Trappers can craft more exotic goods for players.

The world of Red Dead Redemption 2 spans five fictitious states of the United States. The states of New Hanover, Ambarino and Lemoyne are new to the series and are located to the immediate north and east of Red Dead Redemption's world. The states of New Austin and West Elizabeth return from Red Dead Redemption. West Elizabeth has also been expanded to include new regions. The states are centered on the San Luis and Lannahechee Rivers and the shores of Flat Iron Lake. Ambarino is a mountain wilderness, with the largest settlement being an Indian reservation; New Hanover is a wide valley that has become a hub of industry, and Lemoyne is made up of bayous and plantations resembling Louisiana and east Texas and is home to the former French colony of Saint-Denis. West Elizabeth consists of wide plains, dense forests, and the modern town of Blackwater. This region has been expanded from the original Red Dead Redemption to include a vast northern portion containing the small town of Strawberry. New Austin is an arid region centered on the frontier town of Armadillo and the MacFarlane Ranch, also featured in the original Red Dead Redemption.

The player takes on the role of Arthur Morgan (Roger Clark), a lieutenant in the Van der Linde gang. Among the returning characters from Red Dead Redemption are John Marston (Rob Wiethoff), protagonist from the previous game; antagonists Dutch van der Linde (Benjamin Byron Davis), Bill Williamson (Steve J. Palmer) and Javier Escuella (Gabriel Sloyer), who, along with Marston, are Arthur's allies; Abigail (Cali Elizabeth Moore), Marston's partner; Jack (Marissa Buccianti and Ted Sutherland), Marston and Abigail's son; Uncle (James McBride and John O'Creagh), an elderly member of the gang; and federal agent Edgar Ross (Jim Bentley).

Alright, alright.  Now that we got the wikipedia information out of the way, this game looks amazing.  I’ve taken the time to watch the official gameplay trailer and part 2,  and I got blown away.  

The graphics alone were beyond the expectations of what I had.  Don’t think for one moment that you will lose a ton of quality when playing, because you’re not going to.  Rockstar Games did it right with this game and kept the quality close to that of cinematics.

There is so much to be able to do in this game, but the best advice that can be given, all actions have consequences.  Keep that in mind with EVERY choice you make in this game because the people you meet and interact with are going to remember it.  Shoot and kill someone’s husband/father? They’ll remember you and treat you accordingly. Steal from someone? Expect a bounty on your head or them to come gunnin’ fer ya.  So always be ready, because you never know what’s going to happen.

Now in the game itself, aside from the storyline, you can buy and upgrade your guns (some of them look amazing), shop, hunt, go bounty hunting, commit crimes that the PayDay 2 guys would be proud of, and so much more.  This game is so immersive that you even have the options of changing your clothes, shaving or becoming grizzly Adams, even whether to bathe or not.  

Regardless of what choice you make, the real choice right now comes down to something far more simplistic, are you interested?  Vanguard is looking at bringing this game to TAW but with a major twist, it’s going to be on the XBOX and PS4, not the PC (yet).  So if you’ve already pre-ordered or are looking into buying the game and would like see this game in TAW, please fill out the Future Game List.  Go on, I’ll wait for you to do it, I don’t mind really.

So saddle up, make sure you’re loaded up on ammo, because you’re in for one bloody ride as you ride off into the night.

If interested in seeing this game in TAW (XBox and PS4), or if you want to be apart of the Spin-up team. Fill out this form and let us know.

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