Red Dead Redemption (PS3) - Review

Introduction

Rockstar is really wanting to be the king of the open-world games, and they deserve to be. Red Dead Redemption is a game that bring GTA elements to the old-west, but it isn’t just GTA with horses and cowboys.

Story & Characters

The story is deep and keeps the player playing, to see what will happen to John Marston, an ex-outlaw, that has to capture members of his ex-gang and bring them to justice, so he can see his family again. John’ll  encounter many different people in the game, and most of them are very interesting and fun. John Marston is a character that most people will sympathize with, he had a hard life, make some mistakes and now wants to start a new life, but he lives the consequences of his past. Also the game has one of the best and unexpected ending.

Gameplay

The gameplay is very similar to GTA IV, but it’s better. Shoot a gang of criminals in this game is very rewarding, sometimes you’ll fell like John Marston is a one-man army, thanks to the lock-on system and the use of the Dead Eye, that allows you to see things in slow motion to take many enemies at once. Also there’s a good variety of weapons: pistols, revolvers, rifles and knifes. You’ll be ridding horses for a good time, and ride horses is as fun as drive cars in GTA, also in the game, you can hunt animals, play poker and fight in duels. The health works like in Call of Duty, if you’re hit, just get cover to recover your health, there are also items to recover health, but I don’t see necessary to use them, in the end. The controls are very good, it just takes a little time to get use to the controls on the horse.

Visuals

The game looks amazing! The environment feels alive and is full of details, having a good variety of vegetation, deserts and animals, in the deserts and forests. The weather works very well, the sun rising in the mountains is just beautiful, and the cities looks just like the ones in western movies. The characters are very well designed and the physics of the game is one of the best I ever seem.

Sound

All sounds makes you feel like you’re in a western movie. All effects were well-made, the musics are great and the voice acting is just superb.

Replay

RDR is a game with a lot of stuff to do, in both single player and multiplayer mode. In the single player, in the cities and on the way to certain locations, you’ll find a lot of people needing help and the Strangers missions. Also you can look for treasures and play many mini-games. And since the main missions are very cool and fun to play, even when you beat the game, you’ll probably go through the game all again, with no problem. The multiplayer mode is awesome, full of co-op missions and different matche modes, all online modes very fun, where you level up and them, you can change your character and your mount. It’s simply one of the best online multiplayer I ever played.

Good & Bad

The Good: Great story and main character, cool shoot outs , a lot of stuff to do in the single player, awesome online multiplayer and amazing environments, that feels alive.

The Bad: The game has some bugs.

Conclusion

Red Dead Redemption is simply one of the best games I ever played. Has a great story, great gameplay, full of extra missions, cool mini-games, incredible multiplayer mode and very good graphics. Definitely is a game that everybody, who has a PS3 or a X360, must check it out.