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Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:04 PM
This game does look pretty decent, but theres too many decent games coming out around 18th of may =Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:06 PM
What?! Decent?! This looks A+!Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:09 PM
GOTY easy!Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:13 PM
People say that about every game that gets them wet in the pants though. And for every game that's released, there a hundreds of wet pants'd people saying GOTY Worthy! Decent is the best way to describe something no one has had their hands on yet.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:14 PM
I've been waiting for a great western game for years, this one looks like it could be the one i've been waiting for!Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:17 PM
I'm all for the whole multiplayer running around in a gang bit but the competetive VS shit yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn! I still can't believe they put Competetive VS modes in Crackdown 2 (The original was one of the ultimate Co-op enjoyable experiences BUT NOT ANY MORE!)Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:20 PM
Why is this in Battlefield: Bad Company 2?Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:25 PM
@#10 - Because I'm jetlagged =P Fixed =)Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:25 PM
a must buy game...Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:27 PM
this game is where "it's" atThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:31 PM
Looks pretty awesome. I agree with #6, have to wait until we actually play it.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:43 PM
I'm really looking forward to this judging by the Gameplay video's and interviews one thing though...I dont want to have to travel for 5 mins online to find the battles moved somewhere else like GTA 4 other than that :D:D looks like its gonna be greatThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 12:52 PM
I've seen this preview posted days ago in the forums, who actually wrote this x360a?Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:00 PM
Good job on killing that french guy, t'was a good laugh. ;DThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:01 PM
oh man! i want this more then everThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:08 PM
Waiting for this a long time. Must be a fun and lovely story like GTA IV. ~MONK3YThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:10 PM
Can't WAIT!!!!Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:23 PM
@#16 - Yeah, that was because of an embargo change that I was late to hear about. It was published a few weeks back, then unpublished but someone managed to grab a copy before we took it down. Probably stored in Google's web of cache somewhere. But yes, this is our piece.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:28 PM
@6 have u played Red Dead Revolver? people who have played RDR know it was the most epic western game ever hence is why RDR2 is going to kick monkey balls :) ive already got mine payed off just siting and waiting :) and what else is coming out in may aside from skate 3 ( i got that payed off also lmao )Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:31 PM
Nice, I love Rockstar. There's a really good video of the Free Roam multiplayer that Rockstar narrates. This is the only place i've seen it but I imagine it will be on other sites to. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gameplay-series-red-dead/64249Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:48 PM
@#23 - It'll be here in a short while =)Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 01:49 PM
I was gonna get this but been waiting for Alan Wake for a while :/Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 02:19 PM
first day buy, i still want alan wake though...Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 02:26 PM
This just looks amazing, May 21st cant come soon enough.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 02:31 PM
Alan Wake and RDR, ugh. Gonna be a heavy day.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 02:46 PM
#28, same. I've also got Lost Planet 2, Crackdown 2, and Splinter Cell reserved. Got to keep working for these games! On topic though, I really have to convince some people to get Red Dead so we can transfer our GTA4 shenanigans over to this. :DThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 03:47 PM
I hope this doesn't have any MP achievements like GTA4 had. Very excited about this game, but will probably only devote about 5-10% of my playtime to the MP.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 04:13 PM
@28 - Same here, I want to get both, but already have Alan Wake and Alpha Protocol pre-ordered, and will also be getting Crackdown 2 and Mafia 2 and Just Cause 2! Too many open world games, get the pun?! jk, but so many great games this year, not to mention the plethora of DLC incoming too!!!!!Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 04:29 PM
Alan Wake doesnt even compare with this, THIS will be something awesome!Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 04:34 PM
@23 After watching that video I can safely say this will be the greatest sandbox game I will ever play (at least until Saints Row 3). Will undoubtedly be my GOTY.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 04:38 PM
Skate 3 and Red Dead Redemption are on my shopping list this MayThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 04:40 PM
DAMMIT!! I was hoping this would be single player only.Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 06:31 PM
@1 what else is coming out thatll be even close to this good? huh? theres nothingThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 08:35 PM
I can’t wait to play it. It looks heaps better than that other western i have played gun which was pretty boring after the first 2 hoursThursday, April 08, 2010 @ 09:40 PM
to #34 im right with you, those r my two games that i want this mayFriday, April 09, 2010 @ 02:53 AM
I hope that this game has an Aussie server for multi-player.Friday, April 09, 2010 @ 05:47 AM
This was a great article thanks!! Do you guys at 360a have english journalists too then? Back on subject, i hope also there will be no damm online cheevos, but will definately be partaking in the online experience. I really enjoyed COJ; BIB but not enough peeps playing online which was ashame as i was well over halfway to getting my 1million achievement. Glad im rich and can afford all the good releases this year, seeing as there are so many!Friday, April 09, 2010 @ 06:37 AM
My wet dream just came true.Friday, April 09, 2010 @ 06:41 AM
cannot bloody wait, the prospect of killing a grizzly bear with a knife has got my balls tingling.Saturday, April 10, 2010 @ 12:28 AM
This game is going to be as EPIC AS HELL!!Saturday, April 10, 2010 @ 02:40 PM
I have better things to be doing than playing cowboy.Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 04:14 AM
Might get this shit...Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 10:33 AM
Ya, I hated multiplayer in GTA but this sounds like loads of fun. Now if only I had 16 friends that would get this game I could proly enjoy it fully:-PSunday, April 11, 2010 @ 11:21 AM
@23 thanks for the link. Game was a must have before but after watching the vid it's a MUST HAVE NOW!Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 06:18 PM
looks pretty cool but not GOTY materialMonday, April 12, 2010 @ 07:27 AM
Everything about this game is awesome, setting, Gameplay, and the graphics are icing on the cake, a Vary nice cake.Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 01:42 PM
@40 This site is based in the UK I believe :)Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 03:34 AM
Really looking forward to this. Damn you, you low pay check...Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 10:50 PM
Looks sweet......anyone know if there is a coop on this?Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 11:48 PM
#52 there is going to be some sort of free co-op dlc released in june but idk the exact jist of that but its not shipping with co-opSunday, May 16, 2010 @ 06:09 PM
looks like a really solid looking game cant wait to play it!!
Thursday, April 08, 2010
As such, we've been itching to get some hands-on time with Rockstar's Western opus for months now, as it's about as close to living the Wild West dream as we're ever likely to get. So when the invite came through telling us that the first round of Red Dead Redemption multiplayer sessions were to take place at Rockstar's London offices, we naturally leapt at the chance.
In an international affair, we were pitted against games journos from all over Europe and were thrust straight into Red Dead's free-roam hub; the instruction not to shoot one another until we're given permission instantly goes out of the window. Like GTA, between multiplayer matches you're given the entire single-player map to explore, so pushing up on the d-pad to whistle for a horse is a good idea if you want to quickly get around the towns and homesteads dotted around Redemption's vast world. That being said, most of the time you're likely to find players just killing each other for shits and giggles. Kill an innocent non-playable pedestrian though, and you can expect to be hunted and executed by the law.
Before we plunged into the competitive stuff, we start with a posse leader who sets a waypoint for the entire gang of sixteen players to follow. So saddling up and riding to a marked gang hideout where a group of bandits are holed up, we canter down the trail, taking care not to kick our horse to death. Upon arrival, a gunfight immediately breaks out, triggering even more undesirables to spill into the area from the surrounding ridge, which in turn leads to an ambush and an even busier, more frenetic gun battle.
It's great fun that eventually leads on to other criminal strongholds, such as an abandoned mansion where our foolhardy decision to sling several sticks of dynamite through the front door ends with us being sworn at by a French journo who gets caught in an errant explosion. Oops! As each mission ends, a statistics screen pops up giving you the lowdown on how well (or how poorly) you did, and as it happens, our dynamite-fuelled rampage pushes us to the top of the scoreboard. Ha! Take that France!
Moving onto 'Gold Rush' – a game type that has you collecting and gathering bags of gold dotted around the map before depositing them into nearby chests to score a point – we start to get a feel for the game mechanics, pressing right bumper to gracefully slide into cover, dashing to green markers on the map to collect Deadeye pick-ups and hoarding as many weapons as we can from handy sparkling crates.
In single-player, Deadeye slows time, enabling you to paint red crosses on nearby enemies, and it works in much the same way in multiplayer, boosting accuracy without the aid of slow-motion. Weapons meanwhile, stay in your inventory (accessed via the left bumper and a twiddle of the right analogue stick) right until the end of the round, giving you a rather extensive cache of artillery to choose from, including numerous six-shooters, rifles, shotguns and projectiles like dynamite or throwing knives.
Actions like these grant XP, which persistently builds up throughout multiplayer, levelling your character up and enabling you to purchase new clothing and items to customise your badass bandito, sheriff or cowgirl. You're also able to acquire XP while free-roaming by executing special actions like killing a grizzly bear with a knife or shooting the hat off a wanted villain, for instance
Red Dead Redemption's single-player is shaping up to be unquestionably superb, but it's also heartening to see that a great deal of care and attention has gone into the multiplayer too. Rockstar has apparently learnt some valuable lessons from GTA IV's multiplayer, making the experience more focused, compartmentalised and therefore better suited to the 16-players that the game supports.
There's a clear, concerted effort that has been made in ensuring the multiplayer aspect of Red Dead Redemption is both meaningful and worth revisiting, and although there are still a few kinks to be ironed out, it's reason enough to make Redemption one of this year's most wanted games.
Red Dead Redemption is out May 18th and May 21st in North America and Europe respectively.