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GamesRadar ' s Meikleham called Red Dead Redemption 2 "the best looking video game of all time" with some of the most impressive lighting and weather systems, [14] and USgamer ' s Williams considered it one of the best-looking on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. [26] IGN ' s Reilly praised the lighting engine, facial animation, and level of granular ...
Red Dead Revolver ' s setting is quite transient, as Red moves from town to town throughout the game. The most prominent location is the town of Brimstone, which acts as a hub between several missions. The game takes place in the United States, in an unidentified region of mostly desert, although some levels also feature a forest or mountain ...
The game was the fourth best-selling game in the United Kingdom in 2010, as well as the fourth best-selling PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 title. [214] The game sold over 95,000 units in its first week in Japan; the PlayStation 3 version was the fourth best-selling game of the week with over 70,000 sales, while the Xbox 360 version was seventh with ...
The game was released worldwide on October 26, 2018, for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. Red Dead Redemption 2 received "universal acclaim" from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic ; [ 5 ] it is one of the highest-rated games on Metacritic, [ 6 ] and the highest-rated PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game alongside Rockstar's ...
The Xbox One was the best-selling console in November 2014. [288] The Xbox One took 104 weeks to reach the 2 million units sold in the UK, generating £726m in revenue. [289] The launch of the revised Xbox One S and Xbox One X models, in August 2016 and November 2017, respectively, greatly improved sales of the system in the region.
Red Dead Redemption is one of the first games by Rockstar to use an original score. Music supervisor Ivan Pavlovich cited the large scale of the game as one of the largest difficulties when producing the score; to achieve an effective gaming experience, the game could not solely feature licensed music, like previous Rockstar games. [53]
A game mechanic introduced in Revolver and later carried over into other Red Dead games is "Dead Eye", a targeting system that temporarily puts the player in slow motion to place one or multiple precise shots on an enemy's body. When the targeting sequence ends, the player character automatically fires to all marked locations in very quick ...
Red Dead Redemption 2 won Best Score/Music at The Game Awards 2018, [53] Best Video Game Music at IGN ' s Best of 2018 Awards, [54] and Best Music from Giant Bomb. [55] It was also nominated for the Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game at the 8th New York Game Awards , [ 56 ] and Excellence in Musical Score at the 6th SXSW Gaming Awards ...