When something is great just say it’s great, and that’s exactly what critics from all across the spectrum have been saying: Red Dead Redemption is a masterpiece which will sit in the same room with other great accomplishments, the likes of Grand Theft Auto, Halo, God of War and Metal Gear Solid just to name a few.
I remember when details about this title began surfacing, people were skeptical as to whether Rockstar, the same come that produced Grand Theft Auto were able to pull off a successful open world, yet story-driven and intriguing title. Guess what? They did.
From the moment I saw some footage I was sold. In fact, I thought, why hadn’t developers ventured to the West? It would have been a bold move yes, but at the same time gamers, although not tired of the many genres that we’ve come to expect, are craving for something different from the overkilled FPS, and Hack-n-Slash settings. Apparently Rockstar took a risk, but somehow I believe that they knew they were heading into fresh territory, one ripe for exploration.
Today, the 18th day of May 2010, Red Dead Redemption is available now and analysts have predicted it will sell past 4 million in the first year. I predict it’ll do 6 million. What ever the final numbers are, there’s one thing we already know for sure. It’s more than a great game, Rockstar has created a masterpiece.
IGN said: “Red Dead Redemption is a must-play game. Rockstar has taken the Western to new heights and created one of the deepest, most fun, and most gorgeous games around. You can expect the occasional bug or visual hiccup, but you can also expect a fantastic game that offers the Western experience we’ve all been waiting for. Red Dead Redemption is a complete game in every sense — both the single player and multiplayer modes are excellent — and still manages to offer an attention to detail you rarely see from a game of this scope.”
GameInformer relayed: “To succeed where other Western games have failed, Red Dead Redemption deftly recreates a sandbox playground of a tumultuous historical period swept away by technological progress. The game perfectly captures the expansiveness of frontier life and the gritty gunplay of spaghetti westerns, rightfully earning its place alongside the great Western films and the best Rockstar games.”
Eurogamer uttered: “[Red Dead Redemption] is an exceptional Rockstar game, one that successfully re-clothes the Grand Theft Auto framework in an exciting, distinct and expertly realised scenario. But just how satisfying the formula remains after the exuberant destructiveness of Red Faction: Guerrilla, or the joyful, ad-hoc player stories born in the freedom of Just Cause 2′s playpen, is increasingly under scrutiny. And even within Rockstar’s own canon, there is little here for that smart young journalist to inform Liberty City about that it didn’t already know. A magnificent eight, then.”
Here’s 1up: “Anyway, Red Dead is a great game to climb into and just live for a while, and that’s everything I wanted. In fact, I’m actually feeling pretty annoyed that I’m not wandering around in there right now. Stupid videogame reviews. There are herds to save, outlaws to kneecap, frontier ladies to rescue, random strangers to tie up and drop off a cliff for no reason, and sunsets that need riding off into.”
And we here at Games Thirst couldn’t agree more. It’ll take you about 20hrs to get through this one, so you’ll have a whole ton of fun for a very, very long time. Don’t know about you, but Red Dead Redemption 2 is a given now.
And already, I’m excited. All that sub HD talk, and which version is superior is just fanboy rage. Leave me out of it.
