Information
Release Date-May 18, 2010
Developed By-Rockstar
Genre-Action Adventure
Platform-360,PS3
Age Restrictions-17+

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Synopsis
The storyline of Red Dead Redemption will take you all over a vast swath of countryside that straddles the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Along the way you'll meet, assist, and spill blood with a many other characters while John goes to make things right for him and his family dealing with many other enemies. The characters have very good acting and are super realistic in my mind.

If there is any criticism I could level at the story, it's that Marston occasionally feels divorced from the action, his motivations muddled as he is all too willing to help anybody that asks for it despite his own pressing matters. A simple, "I'm being made to do this," from Marston is all you'll get out of the protagonist for much of the game while secondary characters drive the tale along, which was a bit of a disappointment for me. This all changes towards the end, however, as Red Dead Redemption builds towards a shattering climax that is amongst the best I've ever seen in a videogame. (Second paragraph found on IGN site)

The Storyline
Basically your going for revenge on his former gang members. It starts with him going for the revenge but backfires greatly and his his almost killed. Another farmer family takes him in and cares for John as he heels and gets better. He does multiple things to help them such as breaking in horses or killing wolves that are eating there chickens. The government takes Johns wife and kid as ransom for his services. John cant do anything now but capture the former gang members and bring them in to get his family back. There are also a VERY wide sort of side-mini games to do. In all the whole entire campaign(just main story missions) will take around 24 hours from beginning to end. Also while the whole story line is good be warned for a bad ending to a good game. I was not pleased with the end.

Gameplay
RDR is an open game where you can go anywhere, do anything, and react with anything you see. You can help someone on the side of the road being mugged or shoot some coyotes chasing you. When roaming around there are things like wild horses which you can try to chase down and rope them and break it in. Some mini games or side missions include things like duels, bounty hunting, herb collecting, gambling, and hunting animals for pelts, meat and other various items. The gameplay for this game is by far some of my favorite and very realistic.

Graphics
Graphics where great and i would rate them 9/10. It looked very real(for a video game) and i was super pleased. I dont really see why people dont play this game more often it used to be popular i think its quite fun but i dont enjoy the multiplayer.

Overall Rating 9/10