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Red Dead Redemption |
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Rockstar Games
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $59.99
Our Price: $48.49
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- The Dead Eye targeting mechanic, allowing the player to slow down time for shot accuracy, as well as ridable horses and more than 40 kinds of animals that you can hunt or be hunted by.
- Expansive open-world gameplay set in the final years of the American Wild West.
- Massive play area filled with NPCs, made up 3 unique regions composed of towns and outposts filled with characters with varying looks, accents, etc.
- Morality system based on honor and fame generated by the players actions throughout the game.
- Western themed mini-games including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet; and an assortment of period specific weapons.
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Product Description
Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age. The story of former outlaw, John Marston, Red Dead Redemption takes players on a great adventure across the American frontier.
Amazon.com Product Description
Red Dead Redemption is an open-world, third-person, action-adventure game set at the tail end of the American West West era. Action takes place in the first few years of the twentieth century and revolves around the choices that the protagonist, former outlaw John Marston, is forced to make due to his blemished past. The game features a morality system assigning honor and fame points generated through the player's choices. It also features Wild West themed mini-games, new targeting and cover systems, extensive horse riding abilities, a wealth of period specific weapons and more than 40 huntable animals. Story
Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age. A follow up to the 2004 hit Red Dead Revolver, this game tells the story of former outlaw John Marston, taking players on a great adventure across the American frontier. Choose to fight for honor or fame as former outlaw John Marston.
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Red Dead Redemption is a third-person action-adventure game set a fictional open-world American Wild West environment for players to explore. Gameplay area types include frontier towns, rolling prairies teaming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions. Along the way, players will experience the heat of gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the elements and animals of one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses, and ultimately pick their own precarious path through an epic story about the death of the Wild West and the gunslingers that inhabited it. In their travels throughout the territories of the gameworld players partake in a morality system built on honor and fame, where they gain or lose points in each area based on their actions. The game features an easy to use cover system, a variety of mounts and period specific weapons including a cattleman revolver, a mauser pistol, a repeater rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, a throwing knife, a lasso and more. Western themed mini-games are also available, including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet. Key Game Features - Expansive open-world gameplay set in the final years of the American Wild West.
- Massive play area made up 3 unique regions composed of towns and outposts filled with characters with varying looks, accents, etc.
- Morality system based on honor and fame generated by the players actions throughout the game.
- Loads of unique non-player characters to interact with.
- Western themed mini-games including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet.
- An assortment of period specific weapons including a cattleman revolver, a mauser pistol, a repeater rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, a throwing knife, lasso and more.
- The Dead Eye targeting mechanic, allowing the player to slow down time for shot accuracy.
- Ridable horses and more than 40 kinds of animals that you can hunt or be hunted by.
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Cover and targeting system.
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All the dangers of the period.
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Western themed mini-games.
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Realistic mounted combat.
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finally a good game on ps3!, 2010-07-26
At last a 3d game on ps3 that is not meant for 10 years old. Great story, tons of freedom, beautiful and with the Dead Eye it is fairly easy to target with no mouse.
Great game!
Excellent, 2010-07-29
This game is GREAT, a pice of art. Since you gai control there are too many things to do. There are a couple of missions that are plain stupid like the cow herd mission with bonny or shoot some guy's hat with west dickens (this mission teachs you how to use dead eye though) I love the side missions (personas, night watch, helping people on the road) didnt understand the liar's dice game at the beggining but i managed to beat some guys anyhow. Riding the horse is so much fun. Getting all the outfits takes a lot of time and you wont be bored for a while.
Amazing!!, 2010-07-30
This game is simply exquisit!! Product was perfect, no damages at all! Quickly delivered!! I recomend!
Redemption indeed: From the overrated GTA4 to this Masterpiece, 2010-07-27
Rockstar's finest open world game to date, Red Dead Redemption takes place at the turn of the 20th century (1911) to be exact. If you're expecting to blast Native Americans from the tops of their unsaddled horses maybe you should look elsewhere. These are the last days of the unlawful old west. Electricity lines stretch into the horizon, high above railroad tracks. The fictional world is on the brink of industrialization.
For starters, more so than any other open world game I've ever played, you don't play this game, you experience it. You live in the world. You are John Marston.
The story of RDR isn't top notch but it's interesting enough to keep you going along, and includes touches of timeline contextual social commentary regarding politics, religion, suffrage, social status, the effects of technology on man and more. And it's worth playing to the end as the story culminates in one of the most unexpected and original ways to end a game I think I've ever seen. You just have to experience it for yourself to truly understand what I mean.
The graphics and sound are very well done. Voice acting is ranges from average to well done which is on par for a RockStar game. Ambient sound effects are really effective in setting the tone and immersing the player into the game, be you nervously dismounting your horse to skin an elk because you hear the growl of a grizzly bear nearby, or hearing the footsteps of your boots on the wooden floor of a rowdy saloon, an upbeat piano song playing in the background. Steam powered trains chug their way through the land, cougars scream as they maul you and the eerie cry of foxes at night will leave you feeling unsettled as you travel through dark moonlit forests where wolves and vastly more dangerous mammals could be lurking. Pistols and rifles sound loud and hefty (there's a good-sized roster of firearms in the game if you're wondering), and causing an explosion inside a cave results in a loud muffled explosion that will have you reaching for the volume controls.
Graphics wise, player models and textures are just merely passable, but the environment you live in for 20-30 hours is where the beauty of this game lies (I spent just over 40 hours but did 100% of the single player content). The world is really the star of this game. Riding through Armadillo at night, with rain pouring down and spalshing in muddy puddles, the occasional bolt of lightning brightening the cloudy sky in the horizon was a surreal experience. There were times I'd just be riding around and I would marvel at the beautiful landscape before me: The orange and yellow sunset peeking through the evergreens of Tall Trees, contrasting the bright white snow underfoot, for example. Sunsets and sunrises were particularly stunning, as were the moonlit desert environments, the bright stars twinkling in the sky high above, not yet obscured by the pollution of modern industrialization. Truly an immersive world. If you're sporting a nice, big high definition display you will be rewarded with some jaw-dropping views that will make you wish you could capture screenshots and save them for later.
Yes, there are a ton of mini games and side quests to keep you busy, but they are completely optional. As you ride around you'll be approached by strangers begging you assist them with things ranging from helping them get back their horse that was just stolen, to assisting a friend who is about to be unlawfully hung by a group of thugs. It's up to you. Ignoring them won't effect your reputation in a negative way, but helping them will give you a little extra spending cash and sometimes a bump to your reputation. You'll be challenged by gunslinging duelists who wish to make a name for themselves. Accept their challenge, or ride away. Again, optional. The stuff is there for your entertainment, and to flesh out the world, but it's up to you what you do with it. Then there are mini-games like playing games of horseshoe, blackjack, poker, five-finger fillet, etc. Unless you're going for 100% completion, all these things are optional. That's the beauty of such a well crafted open world game: The option to choose.
And as with all open world games Red Dead Redemption has it's fair share of bugs and glitches. Nothing game breaking ever happened to me (game breaking meaning a quest bugged and wouldn't let me finish it, or any freezes or crashes - nothing like that ever occurred during my playthrough) but I encountered a few bugs that were at least amusing to behold. No video game is perfect and RDR is not an exception to that rule. Expect chugging framerates in heavily populated areas (Blackwood city being the worst offender), at last on the PS3. If you're a fan of Westerns and you have, like me, become jaded with the GTA series after, what in my mind, was a disappointing GTA IV, you owe it to yourself to check this game out. This title has restored my faith in RockStar open world games. Multiplayer is decent so far..I've only invested a couple hours but I'll probably move on to another game rather than try to reach the level cap of 50. Looking forward to more single player DLC, which was announced recently.
Gems like this are few and far between. Red Dead Redemption is my Game of the Year for 2010....so far. Give it a shot, bucko!
JULY 30 Edit - PS3 VS 360 version: I just learned that, graphically and frame rate wise, the 360 version is superior to the PS3 version. While the 360 version is rendered in true 720p, the PS3 version only runs at 1152x640 - a whopping 20% decrease in resolution. So if you have both consoles I would recommend getting the 360 version. It's a beautiful game regardless, but the 360 version has a more stable frame rate and higher resolution. But don't take my word for it. Google "digitalfoundry red dead redemption face off" and read about it yourself. I played the PS3 version and I loved this game so much I'm going to pick up a used copy for the 360 and play it again!
I'm feeling in the far west right now, 2010-07-29
amazing story line... nice action scenes... its just like GTA but in the far west...
If you liked GTA, you will love this one.
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Amazon Minimum Age: 204
Binding: Video Game
Brand: 2K Games
EAN: 0710425375736
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Label: Rockstar Games
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Manufacturer: Rockstar Games
Model: 37573
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: PlayStation 3
Publication Date: 2010-04-30
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Release Date: 2010-05-18
Studio: Rockstar Games |
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