Live Magazine September 2014 Volume 9/2014 | Page 24

Red Dead

Redemption
Red Dead Redemption took one of
Rockstar’s sleeper hits and gave it
an open-world makeover. While Red
Dead Revolver was a fantastic game,
it was made at a time when Rockstar were still finding themselves as
a developer. Red Dead Redemption
however, contained some of the best
gameplay, production values and
story found in any Rockstar game.
While Rockstar games have always
had fun stories, Red Dead Redemption’s actually evoked emotion, as it

focused on a brilliant troubled protagonist and was also free from a
lot of the references and tributes to
classic cinema that the Grand Theft
Auto series is known for. Instead of
Scarface meets Goodfellas, we got
a completely original story (compared to Rockstar’s previous games)
about a former criminal trying to
leave his old life behind. Now a family man pursuing life as a rancher,
John Marsten is forced to make difficult moral choices numerous times
throughout the game. His decisions

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won’t just affect him though, he has
a wife and child to protect, numerous
friends and associates as well as the
government agents who wish to control him.
Everything about Red Dead Redemption screams AAA quality.
Graphically, the game is gorgeous,
the story is Rockstar’s best one to
date and the gameplay is near-perfect. You couldn’t ask for a better
game offering the Wild West experience.

Written by Nick Getley

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