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A companion app, released alongside the game for Android and iOS devices, acts as a second screen wherein the player can view in-game items such as catalogs, journals, and a real-time mini-map. [64] The game was released for Windows on November 5, 2019, [ e ] and was a launch title for Stadia when the service launched on November 19, 2019.
The game uses a morality system by which the player's actions affect their character's levels of honor, fame, and how other characters respond to the player. An online multiplayer mode is included with the original release, allowing up to 16 players to engage in both cooperative and competitive gameplay in a recreation of the single-player setting.
Red Dead Online 's public beta opened for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 27, 2018, to players who owned a special edition of the base game, and then progressively opened to all owners. [ a ] The progressive release was a choice by Rockstar to mitigate any major performance issues by the influx of players. [ 8 ]
Polygon ' s Chris Plante found the game's portrayal of Native American characters, inspired by a "mashing together of real-world people, locations, and groups into single entities", to be insensitive and confusing, but that the game's political commentary shined when focusing on the entitlement and power of the Braithwaite and Gray families. [91]
The vistas in the game's world were inspired by the paintings of artists such as Albert Bierstadt. [4] [21]While one of the main themes of the original game was to protect family at all costs, Red Dead Redemption 2 tells the story of the breakdown of a family in the form of the Van der Linde gang.
Arthur Morgan is a character and the main playable protagonist of the video game Red Dead Redemption 2.A high-ranking member of the Van der Linde gang, Arthur must deal with the decline of the Wild West while attempting to survive against government forces and other adversaries in a fictionalized representation of the American frontier.
Rockstar San Diego, Inc. (formerly Angel Studios, Inc.) is an American video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Carlsbad, California.The studio is best known for developing the Midnight Club and Red Dead series.
Downloadable content (DLC) for the game was released following its launch, [70] with focus on maps and game types suggested by the community. [71] According to Strauss Zelnick , chief executive officer of Rockstar's parent company Take-Two Interactive , the game's DLC releases were an effort to slow used game sales, providing an incentive for ...