POSSE UP! [Red Dead Redemption]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD24MkbHQrc&feature=related

The game is set in 1908; it focuses around a former outlaw, John Marston, who is sent across the troubled American Frontiers to help in bringing the rule of law. It was revealed in the trailer that Marston has come to kill or capture his former gang partner Bill Williamson. Along the way Marston moves through more Territories including to assisting rebel soldier Abraham Raias into a Revolution against the Mexican Army in 1910.

The game will use open world gameplay similar to the Grand Theft Auto series with sandbox environments and a free-roaming ability. The environments will include frontier towns, prairies, and mountain passes. Realistic horses created with the Euphoria animation engine will play a major part of the game's transport. The game will also feature over 40 different types of animals that can be hunted, realistic weather changes (including seasons) and the ability to ride trains to travel to certain places faster. These animals include: Horses, Mules, cows, bison, bears, mountain lions, deer, dogs, coyotes, wolves, rabbits, armadillos, snakes, vultures, ducks, chickens, and more yet to be discovered.

Some bitchin' trailers have been put out lately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEMxSUGZ6TU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjVtc4SGjv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Go2wm1w8RY

And the game looks freaking amazing

ALSO CONTROVERSY

An anonymous blogger filing under the heading "Rockstar Spouse" has penned a letter of complaint about working conditions at Red Dead Redemption development studio Rockstar San Diego.

The lengthy posting appeared yesterday on a user blog on the game development site Gamasutra and was signed by "Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego employees." The post claims that since March 2009, San Diego employees have suffered "degradation" that "extends to their quality of life and their family members" in the form of mandatory 12-hour days six days a week, have had pay cut and vacation limited. The post alleges that this extended crunch-time stress has affected the health of some employees. The "wives" blame management and a Rockstar "thirst for power," urging changes in the working conditions at the San Diego studio: "If these working conditions stay unchanged in the upcoming weeks, preparation will be made to take legal action against Rockstar San Diego."

Rockstar Games did not respond to requests from Kotaku for comment about the letter or any actions the company might take because of it.

While the charges of an anonymous blogger — and the sentiments echoed below the post by anonymous commenters allegedly familiar with the workings of the studio — must be met with skepticism, the letter was clearly designed to evoke memories of 2004's "EA Spouse." Six years ago, Erin Hoffman, writing anonymously as "EA Spouse" complained of unfair working conditions at Electronic Arts. Her complaints about the long hours and stressful lives of EA developers gained industry-wide attention and was the topic of several stories that appeared on Kotaku. But by 2006 EA appeared to change its ways and Hoffman was praising the happiness of people who worked for the company.

The charges levied in the "Rockstar Spouse" post are unproven. We'll continue following this story as the veracity of the complaints — or lack thereof — comes more clearly to light.

Meta T. Dust

8 Player coop confirmed

Meissnerd

GTA: Horses

Skull Man

Abracadaniel

I would play this.

Graves

I was gonna make this thread, because I love all of this much more than any of you can even fathom.

But nah.

I have this game paid for in full.

QuestionMarkMan

I want this game so bad. Way more excited than for any GTA game.

Recoil42

I feel like this game is going to be the most successful unsuccessful game ever.



But god, I'm rooting for it.

Graves

Recoil42 wrote: »

I feel like this game is going to be the most successful unsuccessful game ever.



But god, I'm rooting for it.

So pretty much the first game.

Skull Man

this is gonna be like that game GUN should have been

Olivaw

Skull Man wrote: »

this is gonna be like that game GUN should have been

Hell yes, son

Lassoing dudes and holding up stagecoaches

What's most important is obviously having a fistfight on top of a moving train

That's the most western thing you can do

Skull Man

the most western thing you can do is watch your family starve while your land turns to ash and your cattle turn to bones

Graves

GUN had me so excited, it was the first 360 game I played and it was so short and so slightly disappointing.

Skull Man

see I was playing GUN at a friend's house

so I got about five hours in and thought it was the best game

it was like a year before I found out I was about an hour from the finish

Daric

Is this coming out on all consoles or 360 exclusive or what?

I played the shit out of the first game. Multiplayer was fun until I got the guy whose special move was an artillery strike and then no one could beat me.

MrMonroe

yes

I fucking love Western games

Olivaw

Skull Man wrote: »

the most western thing you can do is watch your family starve while your land turns to ash and your cattle turn to bones

while having a fistfight on top of a moving train, yes

Skull Man

Olivaw wrote: »

Skull Man wrote: »

the most western thing you can do is watch your family starve while your land turns to ash and your cattle turn to bones

while having a fistfight on top of a moving train, yes

while a prostitute steals your gold

Knob

i love westerns and want to play an awesome western game

why are they all so mediocre

Graves

I've been looking for my copy of RDR since this one was announced, apparently it fell in a wormhole and was sent to Robin Williams 6 months from tomorrow.

Vee

Sooo excited for this. Love me some westerns. I expect there to some Clint Eastwood references in the game.

QuestionMarkMan

I've got the soundtrack to the first game and it's goddamn amazing

Olivaw

Vee wrote: »

Sooo excited for this. Love me some westerns. I expect there to some Clint Eastwood references in the game.

I think there's actually a poncho you can wear

MrMonroe

Knob wrote: »

i love westerns and want to play an awesome western game

why are they all so mediocre

Gun was excellent, I don't care what anyone says

Graves

QuestionMarkMan wrote: »

I've got the soundtrack to the first game and it's goddamn amazing

WOO WOO WOO WOOOOOOO

WOO WOO WOO WOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOO WOO WOO WOOO WOO WOOOOOOO

WOO WOO WOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOO WOO WOO WOOOWOOOO

WOO WOO WOOWOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOO WOOOOO WOO WOOOOOOOOO WOOO WOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Metzger Meister

SO GODDAMN EXCITED YOU HAVE NO IDEA

Knob

MrMonroe wrote: »

Knob wrote: »

i love westerns and want to play an awesome western game

why are they all so mediocre

Gun was excellent, I don't care what anyone says

gun was mediocre as all hell

it's just number one in a field of poop

Balefuego

oh nooooooo I dont want to buy another gaaaame

Moriveth

This game looks rad

and yeah Gun was a tremendous disappointment

Spacehog

Call of Juarez 2 was good except for being pretty linear.

Also the deadwood box art, I would play that game so fucking hard like you don't even know.

QuestionMarkMan

GODDAMMIT

Rockstar's Western follow-up Red Dead Redemption, originally slated for release in late April in North America, has been pushed back to mid-May.

The delay, which was revealed today as Take-Two Interactive announced their quarterly financials, has the North American release of Red Dead Redemption set to May 18th. The new date puts the North American version in line with the European release, which remains unchanged at May 21st.

During the Take-Two conference call, the company's president and CEO Ben Feder explained the reasoning behind the shift.

"We shifted the launch of the game by several weeks into the third quarter. We believe this is the optimal time frame to release what is being hailed as the next generation of sandbox games."

Olivaw

Well at least it's only a few weeks!

Right?

Calamity Jane

gun was the only game in town for a while

the call of juarez sequel looked great visually but that was about it

Calamity Jane

the problem with western games is that they're done with two conflicting coats of paint

your character is inherently altruistic in his endeavors and does good deeds to proceed in the game

while his modus operandi is brutally killing people

it is like being the duke and clint eastwood simultaneously and that's retarded

it's one or the other

Calamity Jane

everything else is horses and revolvers and indian side missions

Calamity Jane

just make a western game based on a cormac mccarthy book

Meta T. Dust

Also most western games eat tits by not having like 20 god damn revolvers and variants of rifles and shit.

Call of juarez sort of covered that some, but that was a shit game for shitters so who gives a fuck.

PiptheFair

Anjin-San wrote: »

just make a western game based on a cormac mccarthy book

it is 20 minutes long and you get stabbed then raped and die alone in a dried river bed

Calamity Jane

yes

they will be grueling and harrowing but they will be twenty authentic moments

Calamity Jane

think of dog you forgot to feed before hitting the ol' trail

(PRESS A)

Nuzak

Anjin-San wrote: »

the problem with western games is that they're done with two conflicting coats of paint

your character is inherently altruistic in his endeavors and does good deeds to proceed in the game

while his modus operandi is brutally killing people

it is like being the duke and clint eastwood simultaneously and that's retarded

it's one or the other

well rockstar seems pretty on the ball with this after gta4

i mean if you're gonna play a game that encourages sociopathic behaviour, gonna make the PC a sociopath