The soundtrack adds to that, changing with each new landscape - accordions and horns pulse in the bayou, while mountain fiddle reels swirl when you make your way into coal country. Your movement through the world as you travel east creates distinct environments you can tell in a heartbeat from each other, whether it’s the red-dirt world of the postbellum South or the humid city air of St. Clear mountain sunshine glints off arcing rivers far below heavy rain clouds drape shadows and shoot out splintered light over the plains sunrise adds a salmon-pink hue to a world still covered in slight dew. Red Dead Redemption 2, first and foremost, is a technical marvel. You eventually find refuge and set up camp, but spend the majority of the game being driven eastward by the press of the law and bad decisions.
The story begins in media res as your group trudges through a mountain pass in a bitter snowstorm after a ferry robbery has gone badly wrong. Set about ten years before the original, you play as Arthur Morgan, a senior gun in the Dutch van der Linde gang. Even the game’s ending was stunning, one of the few in video-game history that genuinely surprised me and left me thinking for days afterward.Įight years later, Rockstar returns with Red Dead Redemption 2. The game featured sprawling Western vistas, a wry and charming main character, and mournful, elegiac mood as Marston’s horse trotted alongside Model Ts. Set in 1910, you played as John Marston, a former member of the Dutch van der Linde gang pressed into service by the government to hunt down his former compatriots. It had all the freedom of Rockstar’s more famous franchise, added in horses and heart, and took out much of the edgelord satire. Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption, released in 2010, was what Grand Theft Auto always should have been. The Dutch van der Linde gang rides in Red Dead Redemption 2.
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