Red Dead Redemption announced

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 05 February 2009 15:39

Your IT - Entertainment

Don’t take your guns to town son.  Rockstar Games announce the follow up to Red Dead Revolver with Red Dead Redemption.  Time to tie the horse up in the corral, and call out the yella-bellies onto the street.

Red Dead Redemption is the follow up to Rockstar San Diego’s 2004 gritty western styled first person shooter Red Dead Revolver.

Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age.  The story of former outlaw, John Marston, Red Dead Redemption takes players on a great adventure across the American frontier.

“The team at San Diego have massively exceeded our expectations with the sheer depth of experiences in Red Dead Redemption,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “The seamless combination of breathtaking beauty and intense action, all woven together with strong plotlines in a massive vibrant, rural environment is mind-blowing. We think this game helps to push the limits of what an open-world gaming experience can be.

Utilizing Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open-world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teeming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions. Along the way, players will experience the heat of gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the harshness of one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses, and ultimately pick their own precarious path through an epic story about the death of the Wild West and the gunslingers that inhabited it.

Redemption is due for release this [southern] spring on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. 

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