The Western genre is a 50/50 one. Many people love it passionately, and many others just can’t seem to get into it. The same goes in the world of video games: whether it was the awesome Wild Gunmen or maybe even Gun Smoke on Nintendo, up to the more recent GUN and Call of Juarez games, you either dig them or want nothing to do with them. The latest video game effort that will take us to the wild old west is a game called Red Dead Redemption, and it now has a great new trailer.
Red Dead Redemption is a sequel of sorts to one of the not-so-good Westerns of the past, Red Dead Revolver, and both are developed by the masterminds behind the Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar Games. While the first game didn’t have a whole lot to offer, this new game is not only looking to join the party, it’s looking to take over the genre. Not much is known of gameplay and what to really expect, but if you watch this video, you will surely see that they may have gone and created the most impressive and authentic old western world that we’ve seen so far.
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The huge draw to Red Dead Redemption is that it will be the first Western to offer the highly-desired “open world” adventure. Past games in the genre were a lot of fun, but you could only go and do so much, so there has been an urge for a huge and completely open cowboy adventure. The game will apparently be created in similar fashion to GTA, but in 1908, which is the only thing I need to hear to want to play it. Horses and trains will be used as travel and fast travel options. Developers have also added the changing weather system, which is always a necessity in creating realism. It’s expected that there will be a bounty of good side missions to do, which was missing from other games and goes hand-in-hand with the demand for an open world.
All that’s left now is playing the actual game, and I for one can not wait. Being a massive fan of all things Western, the thought of being able to play around in those times is incredibly hard to top in terms of excitement. Even this very moment, I’m listening to Nick Cave, who did the music score for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and The Proposition — two recent Westerns that have to be mentioned at the top of the list with the others classics.
The game will be released on April 27, 2010 on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Trailer
There has already been an open world western. It was called Gun and it came out 4 years ago.
Comment by K — December 2, 2009 @ 12:07 am
I made sure to mention Gun and Call of Juarez.
Both had large areas that you could ride a horse around, but they were not open world. Open world is more like Oblivion and Fallout 3 where there’s loads of locations to discover, things to do, and danger to encounter — not just one or two places to go and a wolf.
I loved Gun, but it definitely was not the open world Western that folks want.
Comment by The Movie God — December 2, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
I actually enjoyed Red Dead Revolver. It had one of the best quick-draw-shootout mechanics for a western game, which worked especially well in multiplayer duels. I also thought the writing, voice acting and storyline were above par.
This new one looks very promising indeed.
Comment by Shilling — December 2, 2009 @ 8:37 pm
I agree, Red Dead was fun.
My favorite Old West shooter experience would have to go to Time Splitters 2 in multi-player. Setting up the clocktower level and having only Old West weapons. My friends and I literally played that on Gamecube all stinking night once. So. Much. Fun. And the controls were great.
Comment by Slipstream — December 2, 2009 @ 9:39 pm
Gun was open world free roam, that means your not forced to do one thing after another, so what if the world was small is was still free roam. but yeah I get your point. Oblivion is a way better example of free roam.
I hope red dead is more like oblivion and not gta4.
Comment by John — December 4, 2009 @ 9:52 pm