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Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is the spiritual successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver, featuring a vibrant, open world set in the decline of the American Wild West. Players take on the role of former outlaw John Marston, who is forced to hunt down his former gang to regain his family.
A Cinematic Masterpiece of the Wild West
In the vast landscape of open-world gaming, few titles have achieved the acclaim and admiration that Red Dead Redemption garnered upon its release for the PlayStation 3 in 2010. Developed by Rockstar… Read more
Western Sorrow
Red Dead Redemption is a Western themed Cowboy game and is a spiritual successor to Red Dead Revolver which was released back in 2004. Here you control a character named John Marston who is tasked wit… Read more
Rockstar did it again
Red Dead Redemption creates a very believable world, where you take the place of John Marston, a former gang member who had a tough childhood and went one to make some bad decisions. He needs to coope… Read more
Legend of the West
I picked up Red Dead Redemption shortly after I heard it was playable through backwards compatibility on the Xbox One. It was one of those games that I had seen my brother play a lot growing up, and e… Read more
Mixed bag
I really didn't like this game, it's true that there are great parts to this game, the voice acting, the environment, best horizon I think in any game; but the controls for this game were so awful and… Read more
As a whole, this game is a deeply rewarding experience, and a true marvel.
If I was asked to describe Red Dead Redemption in one word, that word would be "Masterpiece." But, describing a game of this depth with just a single word doesn't do it justice. Red Dead Redemption is… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Review
The wild west has made many writers and actors both famous and rich over the years. Countless television shows and movies have come and gone depicting their own adaptions of the lawless west, and the… Read more
A Beautiful mesh of narrative and adventure
It's painfully evident that throughout the past decade, the Western setting has never had a chance to prosper nor successfully break out into video games. There were various attempts, be it open world… Read more
Probably the best Western-themed game you can find.
I suppose it goes without saying that having an affinity for the wild west is mandatory for this game. Red Dead Redemption is, as it has been called before, basically Grand Theft Auto with horses. In… Read more
Beautiful Looking, But Clunky Story and Gameplay
I love western films and it is unfortunate that we do not get more games that are set as westerns. Red Dead Redemption is likely the best western we have seen developed to date. If you are familiar wi… Read more
Fantastic, Inspiring Game. A Perfect Western.
Guns, horses, corruption and a mission to save a family to gambling in saloons, trading with shopkeepers, hunting animals for money and bounty hunting. Red Dead Redemption is the ultimate experience,… Read more
The West is Won.
I just got done killing a bunch of bandits and marauders that rode into the tiny town of Armadillo. I used my new gun that I bought from the gunsmith. I used my dead-eye targeting and pulled off some… Read more
An amazing open world experience in the wild west!
Pros: Huge open world set in the wild west to explore Great storyline and charecters Great graphics and scenery High replay value Great online multiplayer Lot's of content and variety Freedom to play… Read more
Amazing Experience
Some games take me a bit longer to take a liking to, when I first tried Red Dead I just couldn't get a feel for the shooting, never liked how the missions seemed to play out, and didn't like how much… Read more
Best Western game ever
This game is by far the best Wild West game out there. I'm a big fan of the genre but this game really took me in with amazing gameplay, storytelling and atmosphere. You will get to know John Marston… Read more
How the West Was Wanting
Warning: Mild, vague-ish spoilers in this review. It’s a patent-pending Late to the Party review, so I’m not too concerned. I just finished Red Dead Redemption and, I have to say: it would’ve made a p… Read more
PieGuy's Red Dead Redemption Review
I think we can all agree he looks better with a cowboy hat. The common consensus is that because Red Dead Redemption is from the developers Rockstar then it will be another clone of GTA however you wo… Read more
Red Dead
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Red Dead Redemption is a game that should be experienced by all
Rockstar are completely deserving of their name. Along with other great developers like Blizzard and Valve, the Grand Theft Auto masters belong to a tier of gaming visionaries who can essentially do n… Read more
Decline of the Old West, Rebirth of a Classic Formula
Red Dead Redemption is the most recent adventure from Rockstar Games, veterans of open-world game design. Set in 1911 in a fictitious land near the border with Mexico, Red Dead Redemption takes place… Read more
dedicated to a certain scorned environment artist...
What I found most memorable about Red Dead Redemption ("RDR") is the irresistible charm the game heaps upon the eclectic bunch of characters whose interactions underlie the majority of its missions. A… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Review
Come to the lawless West as John Marston, a man with a shadowy pasted that has been sent by the government, well more like forced, to go find an old riding partner of yours. Right off the bat you'll s… Read more
Red Dead Redemption.
Red Dead is a solid game by Rockstar. Of all its parts the setting is the strongest, and if you do not enjoy that you likely will not enjoy the game. I don’t think this is too big an issue as there is… Read more
This sink ain't big enough
Just like GTA4, I got 4/5's through the story then just said "fuck it". You can only do the same repetitive tasks over and over before you get turned off and don't want to come back. Especially when t… Read more
A story written in landscape format
It is rare these days that I buy a game on the first day of its release, since I simply don't have the time to play everything that I'm interested in (which is almost everything). When the "Life in th… Read more
One Word Review: Grimy
One Word Review: Red Dead Redemption Review: Grimy Grimy is a word that describes the look of the world in Red Dead Redemption, but it also describes the disgusting characters in the game. Every momen… Read more
red dead redemption
read dead redemption is a beautiful game indeed, it really lived up to its hype since it came out, i was so exited to play this game and i was in for a surprise it was actually one of the best games I… Read more
Zombies... why did it have to be zombies??
Ok, so quite honestly, this week I haven’t been playing much of anything. But that’s because a few days ago I went and fractured a bone in my hand. This sucks for many reasons, but the most prominent… Read more
Red Dead Awsome!
First off, have you ever been playing GTA running around crashing cars killing people and kinda wanted a different theme? Well here comes GTA: Western Style with Red Dead Redemption. With hours of sto… Read more
A stunning Western epic -- Rockstar's best release to date.
After all the accolades this year, it's easy to forget that Red Dead Redemption was originally rumored to be in pretty bad shape. Allegedly, Rockstar San Diego had to scrap much of what they had built… Read more
Fantastic sandbox game, set in the wild west.
First of all - I must admit I was looking forwards to Red Dead Redemption. I'm not a huge Grand Theft Auto/Sandbox game fan, but Rockstar has a record of doing it well. I'm particularly fond of Bully… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Review
By - Richard J. Back in 2002, Rockstar Games acquired the rights to publish a little-known "Spaghetti Western" game, titled "Red Dead Revolver." The game received mix reviews, but became a rare hit am… Read more
A BEAR!! FUUUU!!
This is a collaborative review with fellow Ginatbomb user, ELpork What happens when you take Rockstar’s tried and true style, mix it with the Wild West, and throw in a quality script? You get Red Dead… Read more
World 1-1 review
Red Dead Redemption review Overview "Red Dead Redemption" is the sequel to 2004’s “ Red Dead Revolver”. Developed by Rockstar San Diego for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, It follows a former outlaw, John… Read more
Best Open World Game but I'm Over this Genre
For any fans of Grand Theft Auto, Saints Row, etc., I would highly recommend this game. Aside from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (mostly due to the 80's music), I spent more time with this game than any… Read more
A Game My Dad Would Love
While I don't think it matches Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it is definitely one of Rockstar's best games. When I first heard media dudes talk about this game while it was in development, it really… Read more
A Game of Redeeming Quality
There are few games that I enjoyed so much, I wish I could enjoy them all over again for the first time. Red Dead Redemption is one of those games. The game tells the story of John Marston , a former… Read more
My Favorite GTA-Style Game to Date
Red Dead Redemption, the sequel to 2004′s Red Dead Revolver , follows in the footsteps of the Grand Theft Auto games, presenting a large open world in which the player has a central storyline and coun… Read more
Spaghetti Western Gaming
What Sergio Leone and many other filmmakers did to the western and action film genre so many years ago Rockstar has now done with video games. Cowboys were always seen as heroes and saving the girl wh… Read more
Red Dead Redemption
The Western genre is something that has historically not been explored often or well in corporate made games. There are a few notable exceptions here and there, but for the most part people that love… Read more
A must-play adventure game that exceeds its expectations
An epic adventure with solid plot and realistic characters that brought the open world concept new boundaries, amazing graphics, immense setting, one of the few games that you can't expect to bore you… Read more
Holy S(&^%
This was the last game that I played before my Xbox 360 blew up on me :( Rockstar knows how to deliver a AAA tittle. And I found myself immersed with this game. I spent HOURS hunting cougars, skinning… Read more
Best Western Game To Date
I am a big fan of the western genre. Consequently I have been continually disappointed by the lack of quality western themed games on the market. My hopes were raised when I heard about Red Dead Redem… Read more
3...2...1.. DRAW!
This is the RDR experience when it comes to single player most the time. Graphic - 9.8/10 Sound - 10/10 GamePlay - 9.9/10 Story Telling - 9.8/10 Customization - 7.5/10 Graphics: I've had some superb e… Read more
Nothing is Forgiven
"My side ain't chosen. My side was given." Every now and then a game comes along that defines a genre. Rewrites it, if you will. There have been many attempts at the western genre in videogame history… Read more
The Untameable Wild West
Yet again Rockstar gives us yet another instant classic. Either it be gunning down your enemy alone, or with friends Red Dead never runs out of fun. Getting bored of Hunting? How bout a game of liar's… Read more
The Good, The Bad and the Nitpicks
The Good: Rockstar has outdone themeselves by making a story so beautiful that it feels like being part in a really awesome Spaghetti Western film. The story starts out real slow but it eventually ope… Read more
rockstar, [john master[n]s of their craft]
a game based on those old wild west movies you see on TV some times. you play as old man mastern, a crotchety old man who is a villain, not unlike gollum from the lord of the rings movies. mastern get… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Review
The old west was full of corrupt officials, greedy bandits, murderers, and petty thieves. This made living an honest life almost impossible. That is the only thing John Marston wants, a simple life on… Read more
The beautiful Wild West
Red Dead Redemption is a western sandbox style game developed by Rockstar San Diego. While Rockstar tries to avoid comparing it to GTA it is essentially, like everyone else says, Grand Theft Horse. It… Read more
Rockstar Presents a Gaming Blockbuster
Red Dead Redemption developed by Rockstar- Single Player campaign only Reviewed on an Xbox 360 Arcade, Samsung 56” DLP 720P with Tritton 720ax Headphones Video games are one of my hobbies and have enj… Read more
Lazy
I was excited about Red Dead after being thoroughly disappointed in GTA 4. I was hoping that it would have the same spirit as "San Andreas" or "Vice City". But unfortunately Rockstar seemed to take a… Read more
If you like videogames then you must buy Red Dead Redemption!
I gotta say RockStar has done it again. They have even managed to top GTA4! But first let's get one thing out of the way. The game does indeed as you would expect have some open world jank going on. H… Read more
Legendary West
I was really excited to start playing Red Dead Redemption and I haven't been disappointed in any area except for the shitty ending of the game in the single player campaign. I won't spoil it for anyon… Read more
Pertnear True Confessions
Dag Nabbit! A hunned words?! I suspect I barely know dat many. But I reckon I'll giver a look see n' see what I kin muster. Firstly this game is buggier than a horse and carriage. But like the conveya… Read more
"I'm many things, most of them bad."
If you say he isn't cool, I don't know what is. John Marston, I'm impressed. This game was amazing. It was nothing like what I've ever played before and hey, what do you know, it was put out by Rockst… Read more
How the West was Won (By Rockstar)
Red Dead Redemption is the latest open-world action offering from Rockstar, the same people who brought us Grand Theft Auto and other lesser known titles, and it's a game that - without question - you… Read more
Outshines GTAIV!
Tweet: Outshines GTAIV with it's gorgeous and free-flowing environments, simply stunning! Recommendation: BUY @ $60 (full price) Pros: . As usual with Rockstar, Story and characters are second to none… Read more
Saddle up and grab your revolvers: It's time to get Redemption
Oh my god. Rockstar have done it again. How could anyone ever have doubted them? From the developers of Grand Theft Auto and Bully comes Red Dead Redemption. This game may well be their finest creatio… Read more
hooked
GTA was great, to a point. I suppose it's because of the fact that everything was too much like what we see nowadays. Crime infested cities, hoodlums in the ghetto, and car chases. I would always find… Read more
Just Amazing
Red Dead Redemption is a western not really a 2nd one in the series to red dead revolver but really starting there own series off with John Marsden. the story is one of the best stories in a game and… Read more
Hear Me Out
Hear me out is a monthly article dedicated to playing devil’s advocate for the current “it” game. It’s in no way meant to offend the game, the reviewers, fans or developers of said game. Reddog DL - h… Read more
Testing
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Step in front of a runaway train, just to feel alive again.
Despite being big on the silver screen, there really haven't been a ton of western video games and even fewer good ones. Sure you've got your Call of Juarez , Gun , and Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmac… Read more
It’s basically GTA set in the old west.
The Good – Having written some impressions on this awhile back, I hope you guys don’t mind me repeating some stuff(aka copy-paste). It’s basically GTA set in the old west. Here we have a living breath… Read more
The Wild West is Exhilarating
When I first heard about Red Dead Redemption. I thought it was going to be a disaster. Once I found out who was developing the game, I quickly invested my money into it. And I am very well pleased. Po… Read more
Play it NOW! - Red Dead Redemption
John Marston is single-handedly the greatest protagonist that Rockstar has ever created. The game's ability to capture his personality and simultaneously recreate the picturesque Wild West setting, ma… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Review
So much has been written before Red Dead Redemption was released, and so much has been written since that it is hard to keep up with everything that has been said so excuse this coming across as anoth… Read more
The Definitive Wild West Experience
This might even be the definitive open-world experience. Rockstar has created a game that fulfills nearly every promise that GTA IV brought to the table, and it raises the bar for "sandbox" games in t… Read more
The Boys Are Back In Town
Come on guys, its a Rockstar game. Yes, Red Dead Redemption is from the makers of the great GTA IV so it must be awesome right? Right! Red Dead Redemption is a game that brings the genre of the good o… Read more
Typical Rockstar Formula
Rockstar's newest sandbox game takes players to a place surprisingly untapped by developers: The Old West. Actually, more like early 1900's Old West where the ways of horse-riding, shooting your food… Read more
GTA on horses
I loved GTA , all of them, each one bringing something new to the series or refining existing elements. While Red Dead lacks some of the better elements of recent GTA games, for example the social int… Read more
Crump's Red Dead Review
Red Dead Redemption Review. So the wait is over, Rockstar have finally released Red Dead Redemption, yet another huge sandbox game for Xbox360 and PS3. Set in 1911 this Western Grand Theft Auto has a… Read more
Red Dead Redemption: For More than a Fistful of Dollars
Just to make this clear: this is a Red Dead Revolver sequel, but it has none of the characters that the 2004 original did. Red is not the protagonist, replaced by John Marston, who is, in my opinion,… Read more
Red dead redemption
red dead redemption is the sequel to 2004's red dead revolver, The game star John martens, a outlaw with a past that won't let him leave behind, The game is essentially grand theft 4 meets the wild we… Read more
Perfection is stopped by a few issues.
Red Dead was a strange situation for me, when I first heard of it I thought to myself, “really? More western games… I thought we just got over that.” But then I heard that Rockstar San Diego was givin… Read more
Grand Theft Redemption?
The Wild West is dying, and Red Dead Redemption is unlikely to let you forget it. It's not just its barren desert landscape, but its entire ethos, washed away by rapidly encroaching governmental contr… Read more
Grand Theft Whatnow?
Ever since I fell in love with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, I have wondered the same thing over and over: why don't they do this game, but with cowboys? There was Red Dead Revolver, a linear, level-ba… Read more
A beautiful, life-filled world with spaghetti (western).
There was little said about Red Dead Redemption before I became extremely excited about it. I heard the terms "western", "sandbox", and "Grand Theft Auto 4 engine". This was enough for me to already p… Read more
The art of world building
On a lonely windswept hill I witnessed a man huddled over a woman’s corpse, he wept and slowly pulled his revolver to his head. I reacted to slow and soon there were two corpses lying in the dirt. Eve… Read more
Everything I would want in a game
To start it off, this game is fantastic. As stated in the title, this game delivers, to me personally, everything I could possibly expect or want from a third person shooter. If you haven't picked up… Read more
Rockstar goes MMO, well kind of
Here is a review of latest masterpiece from Rockstar. Yes masterpiece. Rockstar is of course most known for their open world Grand Theft Auto game's. Which interestingly enough started as more of a ra… Read more
Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is sort of like the Bully of this console generation. It does the open world thing Grand Theft Auto does, and while the setting may be more niche than that series, there are some t… Read more
Absolutely Amazing
I am sure there are more than enough of people out there that will say that the game doesn't live up to the hype, or that it could have been so much better. But I say that Rockstar has done an absolul… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Redefines
Red Dead Redemption is one of the few games that I knew next to nothing about upon its release. All I knew going in was that it was developed by Rockstar's San Diego team, it was a spiritual successor… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Review- The Warpzone
By Matt Calamia I’ve always been a bit hesitant about review an open-world sandbox game. There is just so much to cover in so little space, that it can be a little overwhelming. A massive story, side-… Read more
The New Definition of Open World
If you were a troll, you could say that Red Dead Redemption is GTA 4 with a Wild West skin, or a mod. If I wanted to hate, I could agree with you. However, Rockstar improved the GTA formula in several… Read more
The West has never been this Wicki-Wicki-Wild.
Pros Tells a good story with plenty of likable characters. Shooting feels good. Good use of music. Plenty of activities to pursue outside the main storyline. Cons It only happened once so I won't hold… Read more
red dead redemption- a riveting experience
For one, let me start off saying this game is much more then just gta4 with horses. the game revolves around a former outlaw by the name of john marston. he is partiality reformed and lived on a ranch… Read more
Red Dead Redemption Review, My thoughts.
Well for starters I really had high hopes for this game and it truly delivered on every level. The start of the game really opens up the games story very well and slowly introduces the main character,… Read more
A BEAR!! FUUU!!
NOTE! Was written for a 10 out of 10 system. Story: Red Dead Redemption is a GTA game set in the ol’ west, and follows our lead character Mr.Gruff… I mean John Marston, as he tries to hunt down a memb… Read more
Become John Marston and seek your Redemption
Red Dead Redemption takes what we love from the Grand Theft Auto franchise and applies it to a world that is unfamiliar and largely untapped in the world of videogames. Serving as a spiritual successo… Read more
A Fistful of Awesome
The list of western themed games is very short. The list of good ones is even smaller. Leave it to Rockstar to not only make the best western game but to make one of the best games I have played in re… Read more
Rockstars reminds us that Western Games are NOT dead
It would be too easy to compare Red Dead Redemption to Grand Theft Auto. The similarities are vast, at least in the UI, and the main quest system is practically the same. Yet, Red Dead Redemption (whi… Read more
Ded Read Deremption
Red Dead Redemption is the prime example of how a sandbox game should be. The comparisons to GTA IV are totally irrelevant and unnecessary. Rockstar has done a phenomenal job in creating an enthrallin… Read more
The adventure of a lifetime
Red Dead Redemption is a fantastic game, let's get that done right off the bat and even though i may have a few gripes with it it's still one of my favorite games of all time with one of my favorite c… Read more
Another Rockstar Classic!
Rockstar have created the best open world game ever, with Red Dead Redemption. This game takes a formula that was mastered with the GTA series and takes it too a whole new level. Setting the game in t… Read more
Red Dead Review
Rockstar games has taken one of their lesser known franchises and elevated it to elite status in their latest effort with Red Dead Redemption. The result is a game that in many ways surpasses all of t… Read more
No Country for Dumb Men
Red Dead Revolver was a modest action-shooter-game-thingy released on last generation’s consoles in 2004. I’d best describe it as an unorthodox spaghetti-western game with strange controls and a cast… Read more
A Western deserving of its plaudits
The American Old West, home of the cowboy, ranchers, county sheriff's and the ubiquitous noble steed. The dusty plains of the Western desert of late 19 century-early 1900s have barely been touched wit… Read more
Blood thirsty criminals, whores, and gunslingers.
Red Dead Redemption is a open world,3rd person, action adventure with its protagonist, John Marston, seeking to free his family from corrupt government agents by tracking down a ruthless outlaw and ei… Read more
No puns, a Rockstar classic.
It's easy to forget just how special Rockstar games can be. Grand Theft Auto taints and enhances the company in equal measure with the connotations conjured when Rockstar is brought up is one of moder… Read more
A return to form for Westerns.
I've come to a realisation, Rockstar and the branches there of are some of the best game developers in the current generation of consoles. They make their games with equal portions of well rounded cha… Read more
Goodbye, Horses.
Meet John Marston. He's a nice guy. Usually known for the satire and comedic parodies of their flagship franchise – Grand Theft Auto – Rockstar Games has taken a more serious tone with their new take… Read more
Liquid looks at Red Dead Single Player...
Liquid's Review of Read Dead Redemption Single Player B eing a die hard PC fan there are not too many xbox360 games that get me excited any more, but when a new free roaming title from Rockstar hits t… Read more
An Almost Perfect Game (Single Player Only)
Now, I'm not the best writer so cut me some slack in that aspect of the review. I just want people to know about the game. Also I haven't gotten around to playing multiplayer yet so I didn't touch on… Read more
Great So Far...
Lets face it, by the time i've played through the entire game, most of the people that are on the fence will have had their minds made up so I figured i'd throw in my 2 cents before they become no lon… Read more
Gritty, beautiful, and one hell of a good time.
Graphically, the world of RDR is designed with more detail than has been seen to date - the attention paid to color, lighting, texture, and mood are simply jaw dropping. Getting the ambiance of this g… Read more
Grand Theft Horses
So, I have a couple of confessions. First of all, I'm only a handful of hours into Red Dead Redemption, so I don't have the most educated opinion on the game, but I I've played enough to get a grasp o… Read more
Red Dead Ridiculously Great
I love me some westerns. There's just something about seeing the awkward teenage years of a fledgling country. The term wild west may or may not be accurate, but our imagination is alive with the idea… Read more