So there I was standing in front of the porch, blood splattered on the door and the frail body of an elderly woman crumple into a heap on the front step, a tomahawk protruding grotesquely out from her skull. And I took a minute to recall all the events that had brought me to this grizzly scene; my uncle was dead, I had just buried my mother, and my dad died so that I could escape, and the man responsible was going to pay dearly. I was going to slaughter everything he held dear and then and only then I would kill him.
There are very few games that I can say moved me so, and Red Dead Redemption was one of them. When I finished it the thoughts racing through my brain were, "That was epic," and "I need more." And after almost 3 days(72 hours of gameplay) of playing this western saga I felt like my gullet had barely been whetted and I needed more it was tremendous amounts of fun riding a horse through the landscape, the gun play was superb, and although the story was predictable it was delivered exceptionally well.
I still remember my first duel standing there with sweaty palms waiting for the bell to toll, and pulling the R stick back and flicking in it into position as fast as I could was a true thrill. The only complaint I have is that after of hours of questing I would frequently forget how to duel and would have to sink or swim if someone challenged me. Or running into a gang hideout guns a-blazing with a sheriff and his two deputies never gets out. The gameplay was not without faults to be sure, like an auto targeting system that made it exceedingly easy to drop baddies but that is a small complaint. And out in the frontier west you didn't have to play nice either you could go rogue and drop every by stander you see, or you could eschew gunplay all together and play poker, or blackjack, or my favorite liars dice until you had enough money to buy entire towns, really whatever suited your fancy. Hell for those who wanted to kill without the targets shooting back you could go hunt any animal you saw.
Another favorite past time of mine was getting on a horse and just riding. I loved watching the landscape pass me by and listening to the time appropriate soundtrack, I enjoyed riding from dawn 'til dusk and watching the sun rise and the color palette changes that it impacted on the landscape. Before I forget to mention it one of my favorite things was the random encounters, from hunting and gathering challenges from strangers to the asshats who enjoyed stealing your horse, or helping an injured pinkerton captured escaped convicts on their way to hang. Although I hated those assholes who wanted to steal my horse I throughly enjoyed dealing with them, I would shoot them in the leg and damage them enough to get them of my horse I would then lasso them and drag them behind my speeding steed until the expired more often than not through towns to show them I mean business. Really anything is possible on this turn of the century Grand Theft Horse game.
Many things can be said of R* some nice some others not so much, but what I will say is that they out did themselves with this one, and I highly recommend it to any fans of the genre who have played games such as GUN or the Call of Juarez series. The fabled GTA maker has done a lot of things to help innovate the industry and even if you are not a fan of the franchise this is one game no one should ever pass up. I suggest you go pick this up right now from your local game provider, or if you're a PC person you know what to do(*cough*PIRATE*cough*). Also being a fan of R* I would also advise you to check out their up coming game LA Noire which I have already pre-ordered because I love me some old timey games, anyways I think that's all for me tonight...
safety and peace,
toodlekittens
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