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Red Dead Redemption 2 is a Western-themed 2018 action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games.A prequel to the 2010 game Red Dead Redemption, the game is set in 1899 in a fictionalized representation of the Western, Midwestern and Southern United States and follows outlaw Arthur Morgan, a member of the Van der Linde gang.
The team decided that the player would control one character at a time in Red Dead Redemption 2, as opposed to the three protagonists simultaneously in Rockstar's previous title Grand Theft Auto V (2013), in order to follow the character more personally and understand how the events impact him. [5]
Red Dead Redemption 2 was referenced several times in the South Park episodes "Time to Get Cereal" and "Nobody Got Cereal?" in November 2018. [232] Game footage was used in the first music video for " Old Town Road " by Lil Nas X in December, which scholars saw as the impact of the game's influence on Western culture and country music .
A Game of the Year edition of the game includes all of the additional content. Red Dead Redemption 2, developed by Rockstar Games, was released on October 26, 2018, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, November 5, 2019, for Windows, and on November 19, 2019, for Stadia. The game was also widely acclaimed and a commercial success, generating $725 ...
While researching for the game's score, Jackson found that Ennio Morricone's work—particularly on Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy (1964–1966)—was already a departure from typical Western music of the time, instead featuring sounds popular at the time such as "psychedelic guitars, lots of noises", so Jackson felt that he could also take ...
In October 2018, Houser said the team had been working 100-hour weeks "several times" throughout the year. [4] Many sources interpreted this statement as crunch for the entire development staff of the game, comparable to similar accusations made by wives of Rockstar San Diego employees in regards to the development of the game's predecessor.
Red Dead Redemption is a Western-themed action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective.Players control John Marston and complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story; in the epilogue, players control John's son Jack. [4]
In the early stages of development, Rockstar decided which elements from Red Dead Revolver could be carried over; [4] beyond the Dead Eye and dueling features, very few other elements remained. [4] [33] While Revolver represented many myths and iconic images of the American frontier, in Redemption the team tried to represent the reality of the ...