Many people have been looking for a good westren style game for a long time. Call of Juarez was heading in the right direction, but still didn't live up to what people had hoped for a westren genre game. Red Dead Redemption looked to change this with an open world style westren game and implemented a story line to go along with it. This IS the westren game people have been waiting for.
Story: Red Dead Redemption takes place throught the early 1900s with the colonization of the westren America. John Marston the main character of the game is an outlaw who took part in gang related actions until they betrayed him and left him for dead. I won't spoil any of the story for you, but if your looking for an emotional story with twists and turns, many characters to meet and a lot of action this is the game for you. The story itself took me around a total of 12 hours to beat as i took time to do other side quests etc. The story explains itself well and certain choices you make will affect how the rest of the story will play out. The voice acting in the game is great. All the characters have their own personality to their voices and don't sound like people just picked off the street. John Marston is especially a character you will remember.
Graphics: This game is absolutley gorgeuos. The landscapes, towns, sky, just everythihng looks great and realistic. There are actually quite a few different landscapes to explore including forest, snowy mountains and dry dusty deserts. There is also a good amount of animals within the game to give it a more realistic feeling to it. These animals looks great as well and have good animation. Character models look great and cutscenes use the game engine so no CGI cutscenes here, but they still look great. Every character has a great amount of detail. One of my only complaints to the graphics is that there isn't a great variety of trees in forests or cacti in the desert. Not a big deal, but it can be noticeable if your paying any attention. The weapons in the game could also look maybe a tad bit better because they basically look like sticks that shoot, but most people wont really notice things like that. The weather effects in the game are also superb. Thunderstorms on a good sound system will have the thunder booming through your house. Rain starts puddles on the ground, snow storms occur in the mountains and the sun sets and sun rises look great.
Gameplay: This one of the highest points of Red Dead Redemption. The game is so much fun to play. Tons of things to do and basically you'll never get bored. Hunting animals, finding criminals, playing poker, drinking its all there to make this feel like a true westren experience. The guns feel powerful like they should and with the engine allows basically real physics of the human body. Depending where you shoot your victim they will react to where they are shot and actually fall over by the impact of the bullet. Just an example if you shoot a guy in the hand you will literally disarm him and he will clench his hand in pain. If you shoot someones knees out they will fall to the ground and try to continue fighting back. The horses in this game are also the best horses i've ever used in a game. They are very easy to control and have amazing animation. You will literally see the muscles in their legs contracting whle running. The game almost feels too realistic at times which is really saying something. Red Dead does have its fair shair of glitches though as any open world game does. None of them are game breakers, but at times your horse may get stuck in the ground, people float in mid air, teleport to random places somehow etc. None of these will ruin the great experience this game gives you though so no need to wory. Red Dead also uses and easy to use cover system that is defanitley handy in bigger firefights. One of my biggest complaints about the gameplay though is that you can't swim. If you touch the water you die which really takes away from the realism.
Multiplayer: Red Dead almost seems to have two full games in one package and multiplayer is just a great as single player. You can go online into the open world with your friends and take on gangs, try to get a huge bounty on your head etc. Basically anything you want to do. If you've played GTA 4 you'll feel right at home here. Red Dead offers quite a few game modes that vary from team death match to playing poker. Online you get your own character with tons of skins, guns and horses to unlock. Leveling up can take a while though if you only play in the open world so i'd recommend playing TDM etc to earn XP faster. Since im writing this review now I have to mention the Undead Add On that just recently came out in October. Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare offers a brand new 6 hr campaign that features zombies. The DLC is priced at 10.00 and honestly I would have paid a full 60.00 for this add on thats how great its is. It even comes with a new multiplayer mode called UnDead Horde where you basically hold out against increasing waves of zombies for as long as you can. Its very fun to play with friends.
Undead Nightmare Campaign: The DLC campaign in my opinion is all right. You basically are tasked with running around cleansing towns and graveyards. It would have been nice though for a little more variety in side missions and maybe allowing the zombies to be able to climb up to the higher areas because once your up on a roof the zombies can't get you so it's basically free headshot time. The zombies do have different varieties though and they do move fast so be worried when your out in the country because they can pop up anywhere anytime. The story is again very good with emotion if you've come to know the characters etc. The story is around 6 hours long and features Zombies, Zombie animals and few mystical creatures I wont spoil for you. When you find them you'll be pleasntly suprised. They also changed the atmosphere and music to make it feel more haunting. The sky is a little greener and thunderstorms happen more often to make you feel like the world is obviously in a depressing time.
Overall: Red Dead Redemption in my opinion has a very good chance at recieving game of the year this year and I think everyone should have this game in their collection. Its just that good. Gameplay, graphics story and everything is just outstanding. The multiplayer adds so much more to a game that would have been worth the 60.00 for just the campaign itself.
Undead Nightmare DLC 9/10
GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."
The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.
Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.
A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.
Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.
Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC
God damn I love motorstorm so much
At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version
In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that
Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.
I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.
Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.
Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.
I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.
Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.
Whispers of a potential remake or remaster of Rockstar's classic cowboy epic Red Dead Redemption have intensified.
PC gamers never got RDR1 ... of course gamers are ecstatic.
hell, bring other old titles to PC too, like Killzone 2,3 & shadowfall, infamous 2nd son, MGS4, Uncharted trilogy, TLOU 2, Halo 5, Fable 2, Bad Company 1, Bloodborne, Demon souls, Army of Two, etc ...
PlayStation games probably also no longer have a convenient way to play either with the game on a console Sony isn't willing to emulate it's a bit of a forgotten game like GTA IV
Only be exited if it's a Remake.
If not, then it's likely another crap remaster like the GTA3 remaster.
Supposedly the studio behind GTA remasters is no longer working with Rockstar, like they arent involved with them at all anymore so im curious whos working on this remake if its true.
Hell yes.. I recently went from gaming on Switch OLED to doing all my gaming on my laptop and I definitely wouldn't mind blasting through Killzone on it. Also want Gears 2 and 3 on it as well. All available on Steam would be a mighty blessing as well.
The earliest rumours due this remaster must go back like 10 years basically when the PS4 came out this however is the first time I've felt confident saying it's happening
Eh, I'll believe it when I see it. Also I don't see a remake happening, maybe a remaster, but no way a remake.
Yea, they've never even properly remade a GTA game yet, as much as I'd love to have a RDR remake. Hopefully we'll be proven wrong, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
I actually just started playing the original again for the first time since it originally released. Not sure when this remaster is supposed to be out, but maybe I should just wait.
The Red Dead Redemption remaster may also be coming to Nintendo Switch, judging from some recent findings on the newly updated website
People on Reddit have been saying that the logo they put up says rockstar presents on top of it. Let's hope rockstar does it and it not pushed off onto another untalented house
The switch is just under or about as powerful as the base Xbox One. Why don't you think it can run an Xbox 360 game well?
@Terry_B
I mean, I have. Most if not all older game ports have ran better along with better resolution/Updated graphics. There's a few bad ports here and there but the majority run great.
The Switch would probably run the game better than the 360. I have an original 360 and the game has noticeable frames drops all the time.
Seems more likely that some rockstars games are on the way to a switch 2 when it Launches in 6-12months time
I don't see why not Rockstar dropped LA Noire on the Switch and they dropped that GTA broken trilogy on the Switch as well.
