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Sequel to PS2/Xbox Western shooter.

Rockstar has announced Red Dead Redemption for PS3 and Xbox 360, which is due out in autumn 2009.

Developed by Rockstar San Diego, it's a follow-up to 2004's Red Dead Revolver on PS2 and Xbox, and takes an openworld approach to the Wild West, using Rockstar's proprietary RAGE engine.

The publisher describes the game as "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".

You'll play as former outlaw John Marston, who traipses around frontier towns and mountain passes getting in gunfights and other battles, and, as with Grand Theft Auto, promises "an endless flow of varied distractions".

Check out our Red Dead Redemption screenshot gallery to see how it's shaping up.

The original game was inspired by the work of Sergio Leone and pals and included a Bullet Time-style mechanic called "Dead Eye", allowing you to take out multiple foes like Clint Eastwood. There were also proper duels among other things.

Check out our original Red Dead Revolver review to see what we made of it at the time.

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bioreit #1 3 years ago

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Woo!

Now THIS I was not expecting!

Happy days
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TafKas #2 3 years ago

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At last!! I like the original game, loved Gun despite its flaws and Call Of juarez was ok, but there just aint enough rootin tootin westerns in the video game world! Please dont let it be shit! Should I have also said 'First'?

Dammit, just beaten!

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mcbi4kh2 #3 3 years ago

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yeeehaaa!
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mikeck #4 3 years ago

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Excellent - with this and Damnation my dreams of old-school gun-slinging are coming true (although Damnation is more steam-punk, it still feels gun-slingery to me)!
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andywilkie35 #5 3 years ago

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excellent, the first one was quality i thought so i look forward to this

also good to see its coming to 360 and PS3, i was worried that it was gonna be Wii only for some reason
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Javier�de�Ass #6 3 years ago

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"Now THIS I was not expecting!"

What do you mean not expecting, they showed a trailer for it a couple of years ago D
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jerrymanu #7 3 years ago

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Looking forwards to some Deadwood style voice acting. Lovejoy for the lead!
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dadrester #8 3 years ago

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<a href = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a e/S_CustersRevenge_1.png">hot coffee mod</A>
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zedzee #9 3 years ago

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RDR got 6/10 here.

What makes Rock* so sure that the new one won't do just as bad?

Oh, and EG, calling the single-player mode of RDR a "campaign"...come on, really. Were guys playing too much war FPSes at the time to have used such terminology?!
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Santino #10 3 years ago

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nice, hopefully this captures some of the feeling of the leone westerns
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Mr_Dodger #11 3 years ago

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Wild West GTA? Looks cool. I enjoyed the first one pretty much, so a now-gen version could be really good.

Of course, if someone did a proper Deadlands/Doomtown game, now THAT would be amazing.
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jaluuk #12 3 years ago

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Gun was excellent, so let's hope this is essentially Grand Theft Gun!
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kangarootoo #13 3 years ago

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Quite liked Red Dead Revolver, though it was let down by some variable difficulty scaling and bad checkpointing. Not quite on a par with Call of Juarez for me, but then they weren't quite in the same ballpark so its a matter of taste really.

Looking forward to how this turns out.
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AlvySinger #14 3 years ago

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One of my favourite last gen games, this is great news.

/goes out to buy spurs and stetson
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AlvySinger #15 3 years ago

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One of my favourite last gen games, this is great news.

/goes out to buy spurs and stetson
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ademkermad #16 3 years ago

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@jaluuk

Except Gun wasn't a R* game...

Grand Theft Table Tennis? No
Grand Theft Manhunt? No
Grand Theft Red Dead? No
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mikeck #17 3 years ago

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"RDR got 6/10 here.

What makes Rock* so sure that the new one won't do just as bad? "

6/10 is not bad...not by any standard, it's above average. Sure it may not send the gibbering masses out to the shops like a 9 or 10 may do (or an 8 for something like Halo, sorry, had to shoehorn that one in, haha), but I would still give a game a go if I was interested in the concept regardless if it got a 6/10.

Edited by 2 at 04/02/09 @ 15:05
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dsmx #18 3 years ago

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if you read the review it got a 6/10 mainly because it was to short.
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mkreku #19 3 years ago

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Grand Theft Juarez!
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mikeck #20 3 years ago

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I'm not on about the review in particular, it was the fact that 6/10 is seen as 'bad', I wasn't defending the game, it was the perception that 6/10=bad. If the game was bad it would have scored lower surely?

Edited by 1 at 04/02/09 @ 15:10
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tomnol #21 3 years ago

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Please, this time no cousin for the main character.
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Monkey_Puncher #22 3 years ago

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Wahoo!

I loved the first once, didn't expect a sequel though.
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Agent_Llama #23 3 years ago

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Oh my! HOORAH!
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skillian #24 3 years ago

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@mikeck: Without getting all Bill Clinton, it depends what your definition of "bad" is.

EG is better than most other websites, but they still seem to use a 5-10 scale. Anything under 5 tends to be truly terrible, rather than below average.

edit: they do have a explanation of their scoring scale of course, but above is just my experience.

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mikeck #25 3 years ago

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@Skillian

The old Clinton argument eh?

Taken from the EG scoring policy though:

"A game scored six is 'good', and many of its audience will enjoy it, but approach with caution".

My argument was that 6/10 is not bad, so that does for me

"It's not good enough to consider rushing out and buying without a fair bit of research first, but worth a rental if your curiosity demands it, and, depending on taste and tolerance of certain issues, it might be something you wouldn't be ashamed to have bought. Six isn't a disastrous score by any means - it's the first score on the way up to represent what we'd deem as a 'good' game, that had the potential to be great but was sufficiently flawed in crucial areas. "

^this kinda sums up what I was talking about. 6/10 does not equate to a 'bad' game.

Edited by 2 at 04/02/09 @ 17:07
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funkyd #26 3 years ago

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\o/
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jaluuk #27 3 years ago

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@ademkermad

Yes, that's what I mean. I'm hoping they apply their GTA skills to Gun (i.e. open world shooter) and make an even better version.
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bloodflowers #28 3 years ago

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Nice to see people who liked Gun exist, I always thought it was a bit underrated. This could be really cool.
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XdarXideX #29 3 years ago

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Shit yes!! Want it now!
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TheEnd #30 3 years ago

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Finally... the open world western game I've always dreamed of
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mkreku #31 3 years ago

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I'm really hoping it's more like Call of Juarez than Red Dead Revolver or Gun.
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beckyh #32 3 years ago

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I didn't expect this news but it is indeed good news. Red Dead Revolver I really enjoyed and I think it didn't get the sales it deserved.
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