Red Dead Redemption

[VanityGirl]

I'm excited, but may I ask... what is the age rating (bear with me) as I'm only 13. My parents are fairly allowing with video games, and I'm allowed games such as Modern Warfare 2, Gears of War 2 and Mass Effect 2. The only game they haven't allowed for me is Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4.

Since the game is rated M, that should give you an idea of what you can expect.
If your parents don't like sex and cursing, then they won't like this game. There's a pretty nice sex scene, bouncing boobs and everything. So my guess would be no.

Is the map bigger than Just Cause 2? Because I never would of thought it possible. Also, I must finish that in order to get RDR ad it seems you have sold me on it.

Honestly, I can't say as I have not played Just Cause 2. However, the map is large enough for you to spend hours and hours just roaming the countryside.

Good review. It would've been better if you discussed about the presentation aspect.

If I had ps3, that would be one of the game that I bought, not to play the story but just mess around in an open world.

Be presentation, what do you mean? The game is presented as an Old Western shooter, and it does it's job very well.
If you can be more specific, I could help more.

 

[Liberaliter]

Good insight to the game, I have to wait til Friday D:

Also, try to avoid watermarked images (I.E the gamespot and IGN logos)

 

[VanityGirl]

Good insight to the game, I have to wait til Friday D:

Also, try to avoid watermarked images (I.E the gamespot and IGN logos)

Meh, those unfortunately were the best ones I could find, there were some nonwatermarked, but they were either too small or way too big. I try not to, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

 

[BonsaiTreee]

good review and awesome game. a must buy.

 

[VanityGirl]

Very nice review. I love this game. So far I've completed about 56% of the game and I'm having the time of my life, though I'm pretty sure that story doesn't go to 100%.

Also I would suggest this picture too.

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I actually thought that by playing the offline, you would get 100% complete. I've only got about 30-40% and I'm not in Mexico yet. You have to make sure you buy all weapons, get all clothes and I could be wrong, but you have to break and buy all horses.
The story is pretty long and with all the side missions, I think getting 100% offline is a possibility.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Very nice review. I love this game. So far I've completed about 56% of the game and I'm having the time of my life, though I'm pretty sure that story doesn't go to 100%.

Also I would suggest this picture too.

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I actually thought that by playing the offline, you would get 100% complete. I've only got about 30-40% and I'm not in Mexico yet. You have to make sure you buy all weapons, get all clothes and I could be wrong, but you have to break and buy all horses.
The story is pretty long and with all the side missions, I think getting 100% offline is a possibility.

The single-player is 100% completable. That is why there is an achievement for it. You never have to set foot online if you don't want to. Although, I've been hopping back and forth simply because after some of the story missions, I just want to shoot up a bunch of people, so I hop online and raid gang hideouts.

I have to say though, when it rained and thundered the first time in that game, outside of a mission, I was blown away. I was completely immersed in the atmosphere that game had set up at that point. I rode into town and sat down to play a game of Texas Hold'em as the storm raged on. It felt like it was raining outside of my own home while it rained in the game. This game is nothing short of amazing.

Good review, I enjoyed the read. I still can't get a hold on dueling though. The instructions went by far too fast for me to read them, and now I get screwed over in every duel. I attempt to shoot their hand(in order to disarm) but its only gone well for me one time. Every other time I have to either scramble to shoot them 5 more times or just get shot myself. It is really frustrating and there are no guides for it anywhere on the actual button commands and what not.

 

[VanityGirl]

The single-player is 100% completable. That is why there is an achievement for it. You never have to set foot online if you don't want to. Although, I've been hopping back and forth simply because after some of the story missions, I just want to shoot up a bunch of people, so I hop online and raid gang hideouts.

I have to say though, when it rained and thundered the first time in that game, outside of a mission, I was blown away. I was completely immersed in the atmosphere that game had set up at that point. I rode into town and sat down to play a game of Texas Hold'em as the storm raged on. It felt like it was raining outside of my own home while it rained in the game. This game is nothing short of amazing.

Good review, I enjoyed the read. I still can't get a hold on dueling though. The instructions went by far too fast for me to read them, and now I get screwed over in every duel. I attempt to shoot their hand(in order to disarm) but its only gone well for me one time. Every other time I have to either scramble to shoot them 5 more times or just get shot myself. It is really frustrating and there are no guides for it anywhere on the actual button commands and what not.

Dueling is actually pretty easy. The trick is to hit the Dead Eye button as soon as "DRAW" pops up. You Dead Eye, quickly aim and shoot 'em up.
Killing the guy in the duel does not give you any bad rep, even if you are caught cheating in poker, you will only recieve +Fame for it, so don't be afraid to kill the guy.


And yes, when it rained I was like "Woah" and definately found myself deeply immersed in the game. I enjoyed riding though the rain, I felt like a badass.

 

[Sassafrass]

Very, very good review. All of it was to the point and very informative. Nice work.

But I do have a few questions as I'm looking to get this.
How long is the single player as that is what I'll be playing mostly due to not having a good enough connection for LIVE.
Also, any glitches in the SP? I've heard some stories but they said that's mainly the MP.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

The single-player is 100% completable. That is why there is an achievement for it. You never have to set foot online if you don't want to. Although, I've been hopping back and forth simply because after some of the story missions, I just want to shoot up a bunch of people, so I hop online and raid gang hideouts.

I have to say though, when it rained and thundered the first time in that game, outside of a mission, I was blown away. I was completely immersed in the atmosphere that game had set up at that point. I rode into town and sat down to play a game of Texas Hold'em as the storm raged on. It felt like it was raining outside of my own home while it rained in the game. This game is nothing short of amazing.

Good review, I enjoyed the read. I still can't get a hold on dueling though. The instructions went by far too fast for me to read them, and now I get screwed over in every duel. I attempt to shoot their hand(in order to disarm) but its only gone well for me one time. Every other time I have to either scramble to shoot them 5 more times or just get shot myself. It is really frustrating and there are no guides for it anywhere on the actual button commands and what not.

Dueling is actually pretty easy. The trick is to hit the Dead Eye button as soon as "DRAW" pops up. You Dead Eye, quickly aim and shoot 'em up.
Killing the guy in the duel does not give you any bad rep, even if you are caught cheating in poker, you will only recieve +Fame for it, so don't be afraid to kill the guy.


And yes, when it rained I was like "Woah" and definately found myself deeply immersed in the game. I enjoyed riding though the rain, I felt like a badass.

Oh no, I totally understand its a lot easier to simply kill the guy, but if you shoot the gun out of his hand, its +200 Honor, which is a lot if you think about it for 30 seconds worth of gameplay. If you pull the gun out of the holster like it tells you, by tilting the right analog stick back and pushing forward when it says draw, it also goes into dead eye...but theres something about shooting his hand that isn't working properly for some reason.

 

[Wolfram23]

Good review. You should add that if you set the aim mode to "expert" it disables auto aim. Anyway, this game is great. Loving every minute of playing. It's fun to hog tie people and throw them on the back of my horse (Warhorse free DLC - cool, but I kinda wish it just unlocked it in the wild not simply put it in my bag). I just got the sawed off and double barrel shotguns, and did one of the story missions with them. Daaaaamn they're sweet.

I noticed tho that the pictures are looking a lot better than the actual gameplay. Seems to me all the pics have anti-aliasing on but on PS3 at least, there's none. Kind of makes me mad. I wish this was on PC so I could enjoy some beautiful and smooth graphics... but I didn't want to wait. I wonder if Xbox's graphics are also without AA.