![]() ![]() With any sandbox-style game, of course, the narrative is only part of the overall package - an excuse for playing in the sand, if you will. Though the new game, too, takes place in the American frontier, events here occur 50 years after those in Red Dead Revolver, in 1911 - the tail end of the Wild West. Players take on the role of John Marston, a former outlaw who goes on a mission to kill or capture his former gang members in order to protect his family after they are threatened by federal agents. The User Score is an average of scores assigned by Metacritic users on a scale of 0 (bad) to 10 (good).īelow, let's take a closer look at what game reviewers are saying about Red Dead Redemption. The Metascore weighted average of individual scores given by professional game publications on a scale of 0 (bad) to 100 (good). Games with fewer than seven reviews and downloadable expansions are excluded. Games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. ![]() What exactly are critics saying about this new release, and is it really one of the year's top games? We'll get to their comments in a moment first, let's see how Red Dead Redemption compares to other high-scoring releases from 2010. If you've ever wanted a chance to live inside a Sergio Leone movie (without any of the real-world consequences such a lifestyle would bring, of course), this is it. Like the Grand Theft Auto series from the same publisher (Rockstar Games) Redemption unfolds in a highly detailed, open-world environment - in this case, the American frontier in the early 1900s - which allows players to explore and engage at their leisure. And while not quite the game-changing jump that separated GTA2 and GTA3, this new title -which cost close to $100 million to make - certainly makes up for any disappointment caused by its much less immersive predecessor, Red Dead Revolver 74. The game-of-the-year candidate Red Dead Redemption ( 95 for Playstation 3 95 for Xbox 360) arrives in stores this week accompanied by stellar press, making it not only the top Western game of all time (admittedly, not a difficult feat) but one of the better-reviewed games, period. ![]() It's not exactly Grand Theft Horse, and it is certainly far more than just Red Dead Revolver 2. ![]()
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