How Red Dead Redemption 2 Attempts (and Struggles) to Emulate the Mode…

That makes it sound super simple and convenient, didn’t it? You might think that, after unlocking the feature, you can effortlessly hop into a menu screen and warp from one fast travel destination to another as you please click the next page. Sadly, friends, the Wild West isn’t that k

The moment you get lassoed, go into your weapon wheel and choose your melee knife. It cuts the lasso instantly, and if the lame griefer used it to try to get a closeup, clean headshot on you, you pop up and immediately stab them in the throat. There is little more gratifying in Red Dead Redemption Online than hearing some griefer genuinely baffled and upset at how you just did t

Taking control of an all-new protagonist - Arthur Morgan - players had to resist the lure of Blackwater following a heist-gone-wrong, and instead explore the rest of the available map. Thankfully it was an expansive and living open world, allowing you to sit down for a game of Dominoes with your fellow campmates when you needed a break from the chaos, or slip on a bandana before robbing a train if you're feeling up for the challe

Speaking of Mount Shann, it has a few mysteries of its own. Not only have players connected Mount Shann to Mount Chiliad from Grand Theft Auto 5, but they have also found several strange things around Mount Shann. For starters, there is a strange rock formation that can be found atop the mountain. The rock formation has what appears to be a compass or type of sundial on it. There are many other locations with the same markings making people think that Mount Shann holds more mysteries than it leads

You would think anyone who has ever played a PVP game online would know crouching ensures more safety, yet every time we play a PVP match, everyone is red but us. Suffice it to say, it makes ranking top in leaderboards far less difficult than it should be. Also, though it should be obvious to all by now, Red Dead Redemption Online 's shotgun is insane, and if you are playing with any other gun, you will probably lose, as it is a one-hit-kill for everyone online. Now saving up for the shotgun? Well, good luck with that, honestly. Only 600 hours of grinding required, no big d

There are plenty of little huts and shacks to explore if you're brave enough to travel off the beaten track, but one, in particular, has clearly been home to a witch! Inside, there's a bubbling cauldron full of mysterious liquid that the player is able to cons

Of course, all media finds its inspirations from what came before—just look at all of the "Westerns" that Quentin Tarantino has done in the past few years, such as Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight . Interestingly enough, some of the other staff of DualShockers found the harsh winter of the game's first chapter to be reminiscent of The Hateful Eight . But usually, that inspiration and reuse of imagery have to go further than "the director thought this looked pretty." With that, I remained confused about exactly what head writer Dan Houser was going for with Red Dead Redemption 2 , other than proving that he has a lot of thoughts about American society (as he previously demonstrated in Grand Theft Auto V , a game that felt like a sequel to Goodfellas from some alternate timeline) and that yes, he has indeed seen a lot of movies.

I always question what the role of the Western genre, with all of its baggage, can be in this day and age. Regardless of the answer, so many parts of Red Dead Redemption 2 's story felt like a pale imitation of more celebrated examples of the genre. If it hasn't come already, there will come a time where this modern tale will have been told too many times. What will result is an irony where media is overstuffed with Westerns arguing that the Western shouldn't die out.

When players reach St. Denis, they'll be able to converse with a monk who is convinced that some poor folk are being kept prisoner in a store, set to be used as human chattel. His information turns out to be correct, so go there and do the right th

This is another really simple method that new online gamers or people new to Red Dead don't know, but people are killing and hunting you because you are a giant dot on their menu (and a red one in PVP). But did you know that if you crouch when you run, it makes you a small, passive, gray dot on the mini-

Exactly what the potion does is STILL unclear; it may be the case that it does absolutely nothing at all, but with so many Easter Eggs scattered throughout the game, we can't imagine developers would let this one slide without ANY effec

Hunting them means you can approach the 'Feral Man' (as he's described in-game), and it'll be up to you what to do with him. Just make sure you read the diary inside the cave he calls his home to discover exactly why he is the way he

St. Denis has plenty of exciting things to discover, but one of the best has to be the vampire who has a taste for the locals. Searching the area allows players to come across graffiti hinting at the existence of the bloodsucker, but gamers are only able to actually trigger the encounter with the vamp at ni