How are all of you guys and girls finding Red Dead Redemption 2 ? Are you tearing through the story or taking it slow? I think most people are taking the latter option. I know that I am. I’ve still not beaten the thing, despite playing it for about a month now. In fact, I’m just about halfway through the game, and that’s at a push. One thing that’s striking me about this game is just how much depth there is to it. Every single element of the game is a cog in this great interlocking system that forms the overall game. That brings with it a whole host of complexity, and a number of little touches that the game doesn’t even tell you about! In this article, we’re going to go through 30 of these, which should help you live out that wild west hero lifestyle just a little bit m

On entering the bar, you will see a drunkard who has definitely seen better days and a man writing a book. This man will give you photographs of the most famous gunslingers and send you on a quest to find and challenge t

Any game where I get to ride an animal automatically earns itself a boost in my esteem. If I’m playing a game set in the West, you can bet your buckles I expect to ride a horse. Red Dead Redemption 2 gives me plenty of opportunities to do just t

How do you fancy being able to circle strafe around enemies while riding your horse? If you want to channel your inner 90s FPS protagonist and combine power and maneuverability, you can! All you have to do is hold down Square/X and a direction on the X-axis. Another little bit of advanced equine tactics for you: if you want to do a sharp 90-degree turn, you can do so by holding down R1/RB and hitting a direction on the X-a

I don’t know if it’s on purpose or a happy accident, but the horse skinning skip is back. In the original Red Dead Redemptio n with our boy John Marston, there was a simple trick. The animation for skinning an animal was actually shorter back then but people were still impati

The side mission Killer Clue follows a gory trail of murder as you track down a serial killer that likes to show off their victims. Are you ready to turn in your cowboy hat for a detective one? Track down the perpetrator of these grisly murders to complete this qu

A Bright Bouncing Boy is a multi-faceted side mission in Red Dead Redemption 2 . In this side mission, you meet with Marko Dragic, a professor conducting bizarre experiments. The reason this side quest has two entries is due to the massively different and intriguing tasks in each of the two meeti

Margaret will ask you to track three escaped animals from their circus. These three animals are a zebra, tiger, and lion. Each of these animals has their own separate parts within this side mission, extending the mission out across the map and ending with a hefty rew

This particular gripe only works if you’ve been playing Arthur Morgan as an honorable criminal. For the most part, townsfolk will recognize your good deeds as Morgan if you’ve been chivalrous around t

Say you’re robbing a stagecoach or a train, one thing you really don’t want to happen is for you to lose your horse. Trying to make a quick getaway on foot is nigh-on impossible, and can be extraordinarily fatal if you’re being pursued by enough lawmen to arrest a whole county. There’s an easy solution: just hold up on the D-pad, and your horse will follow you along as you rob and slaughter your way about. Then, when you’ve got your cash, get off, jump on your horse, and hightail it into the sun

It’s not just the atmosphere that is so attractive. The gameplay of Red Dead Redemption 2 is dynamic and engaging. However, before my nose is properly browned from singing this game’s praises so much, there are certain factors of the game that are just ridiculous. Don’t misunderstand me; I adore this game. Though I have to admit, there are moments that just make no sense. Whether it’s the riding mechanics, the meticulous attention to realism, or the insane character decisions, Red Dead Redemption 2 is not exempt from the foibles of most video gam

There are many people to meet in Red Dead Redemption 2. The Van der Linde gang has some new faces to see and new stories to learn. It’s a bit of a shame that in all of these meet-and-greets, we lose the opportunity to delve into the personalities of characters we knew from the original Red Dead Redemption 2 Reviews Dead Redempt

So, maybe you’re still pootling along in Chapter 2, messing about in the world and trying to drink it all. It’s a commendable attitude, it really is, but there are good reasons to carry on. One of them being the Dead Eye upgrades you get through the story. Once you hit Dead Eye level 4, a fantastic ability unlocks: you’re able to see animals’ weak points as glowing red spots on their bodies. It works on people too! Shoot here to get a clean shot every single time, as long as you’re using a strong enough wea

This would also make for a really creepy quest in a paranormal DLC. So if you head west of Van Horn Trading Post, you will find a lone cabin in the woods. In it, you’ll find a bunch of unnerving experiments. The creepiest of which is, well, I don’t know how else to put it. Whoever lived in this house made a ManBearPig. Yep, this is a realistic version of the joke from South Park . That’s what a lot of people believe online any