Red Dead Redemption - Xbox 360

     Today I'm going to talk about Red Dead Redemption. A game I had a relationship with like oprah has with food. It was very on again off again. The game was released in May of 2010, and I just beat it a couple of weeks ago. When I first got it I played the Dickens out of it. Then it collected dust. Then I gave it another short go just to leave it sitting for the better part of a year. Well I finally made up my mind to finish it.

      Let me tell you that it is by far my favorite Rockstar game out of all of them I've played, and I've given at least everyone of them a little bit of playtime. If you are a fan of westerns you'll love the game, if you're a fan of sandbox games you'll love it. The story albeit slow and confusing at times wraps up neatly at the end. It is epic in scale and the 30 plus hours of gameplay put into it makes you really care for John Marston and his family.

     The gameplay in RDR is the usual rockstar controls and feel. Sometimes you end up yelling at the tv in frustrating battle sequences. But the lock on targeting although it seems cheap, it still fits in quite well with the scope of the game. Meaning it didn't annoy me as much as the Call of Duty crap that I hate. Horse controls are simple and understandable. Although I didn't enjoy riding across this huge map forever. I wish there had been a way to lock in a destination and just skip to that location. I know I'd have missed sidequests and some of the little touches  they added in some areas but that would have been ok with me. I bet I spent half the game just riding my horse across the plains.

     Voice acting was done well and all the sounds felt authentic. I assume they were. But my only basis for the wild west were all the spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood my dad had me watching while I was growing up. Replay value on this game I would assume to be pretty low. Once you've spent so much time with it I'd assume you'd be done with it.

     The multiplayer is decent. I didn't play too much of it. Since the controls and camera angles to me didn't feel as natural a multiplayer game as say battlefield.

     There is an add on for this game that I highly recommend and that is the dead nightmare pack. It is a cheesy, super creepy zombie add on that doesn't tie into the main story really. It has all the characters. It is just not in line with the actual ending of the game. It's almost an alternate ending. Kind of a what if. This game is probably easy to find since they sold a bagillion copies of it and have since released other editions of it. I'd highly recommend it if you want a great story. It left me wanting more. A sequel perhaps? I give Red Dead Redemption a 8 out of 10. The only thing holding it back are the floaty controls and the long drawn out horse rides from mission to mission.

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