Gameplay consists of both linear missions involving combat or open-world exploration. It’s an interesting setup as John’s mission is one of desperation - the bureau employing him has his family held hostage to ensure his cooperation. He’s a former outlaw, now forced to work under the watchful eye of an investigation bureau in an effort to wrangle up former members of the infamous Van Der Linde gang, John’s former posse. Taking place in a fictionalized version of the American West, RDR is a third-person action-adventure in which players control John Marston. This latest port to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch offers clear evidence lot of that, nostalgia be damned. Red Dead Redemption was - and still is - a masterpiece. The truth is, however, I didn’t need to do all that to confirm what I already felt back in 2010 when I first played it.

In the time I’ve spent playing through the latest port of Rocksar’s seminal Red Dead Redemption, I’ve watched films like John Ford’s Stagecoach and the Coen Brothers’ True Grit in an effort to absorb the Wild West in many different ways, putting myself in the right headspace to review a game as massive and as important as the original Red Dead. It’s a genre of film I’ve become quite acquainted with in all its different forms and subgenres (neo-westerns, spaghetti westerns - even acid westerns) and one I’ll continue to seek.

WTF I recommend The Bravados if you haven’t seen it. HIGH It’s still one of the greatest games ever made…

Rdr online review