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This game looks insanely good. Its GTA set in the Old West.

Kraus · 03-11-2010, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

Wow, that's kind of a crappy deal.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com

Love it.

CAG FTW. I mostly buy through Amazon. Got GOWIII preordered for $36.99 thanks to credit I got from another game.

**Saulbadguy** · 03-11-2010, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Metrolike

Hmm, I might buy it if it goes down to like $15 or something. The only SP games I buy have to be very special (GTA and Bioware caliber). Other than that I'll only spend $60 on a game that I know will last (multiplayer, racing, sports).

I don't like to limit myself like that.

Pants · 03-11-2010, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

I don't like to limit myself like that.

That's because you're obvioulsy a baller. I don't have $60 to throw away on 20 hours of gameplay.

Archie Bunker · 04-09-2010, 09:55 AM

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/n...s-At-Dawn.html

Red Dead Redemption Multiplayer Hands On Preview – Pistols At Dawn
Written Thursday, April 08, 2010 by Richard Walker

We're cowboys at heart, not game journalists. We'd rather jump on the back of a horse, round up some bandits and then gallop back into town for a game of poker, then spend a warm night with a hooker, a tin bath by the fire and a bottle of bourbon. As it is, we get to write all day, then go to bed with a comic book and a mug of cocoa. It's not exactly a match for the cowboy lifestyle we were meant for.

As such, we've been itching to get some hands-on time with Rockstar's Western opus for months now, as it's about as close to living the Wild West dream as we're ever likely to get. So when the invite came through telling us that the first round of Red Dead Redemption multiplayer sessions were to take place at Rockstar's London offices, we naturally leapt at the chance.

In an international affair, we were pitted against games journos from all over Europe and were thrust straight into Red Dead's free-roam hub; the instruction not to shoot one another until we're given permission instantly goes out of the window. Like GTA, between multiplayer matches you're given the entire single-player map to explore, so pushing up on the d-pad to whistle for a horse is a good idea if you want to quickly get around the towns and homesteads dotted around Redemption's vast world. That being said, most of the time you're likely to find players just killing each other for shits and giggles. Kill an innocent non-playable pedestrian though, and you can expect to be hunted and executed by the law.

The opportunity to simply waste time messing around amongst the miles of desert and scrub is infinite, with random emergent events and the detailed animal ecology tossing up all manner of interesting distractions. But it's the host of game modes that provide the real meat of Red Dead's multiplayer and we got to check out four of them during our intensive hands-on play session.

Before we plunged into the competitive stuff, we start with a posse leader who sets a waypoint for the entire gang of sixteen players to follow. So saddling up and riding to a marked gang hideout where a group of bandits are holed up, we canter down the trail, taking care not to kick our horse to death. Upon arrival, a gunfight immediately breaks out, triggering even more undesirables to spill into the area from the surrounding ridge, which in turn leads to an ambush and an even busier, more frenetic gun battle.

It's great fun that eventually leads on to other criminal strongholds, such as an abandoned mansion where our foolhardy decision to sling several sticks of dynamite through the front door ends with us being sworn at by a French journo who gets caught in an errant explosion. Oops! As each mission ends, a statistics screen pops up giving you the lowdown on how well (or how poorly) you did, and as it happens, our dynamite-fuelled rampage pushes us to the top of the scoreboard. Ha! Take that France!

Back to the lobby area once more where activity descends into a sixteen-way fist fight, before it's time to sample 'Gang Shootout' – a straightforward Team Deathmatch that pits two warring factions head-to-head against one another. Lawmen, Miners, Rebeldes, Dutch's Gang and The American Army are some of the groups that feature, and each match begins with a standoff until there's only one man left standing. It's literally pistols at dawn, where the fastest gun wins and when we play the every-man-for-themselves Shootout later on, the action opens with all 16-players stood in a circle for a Mexican standoff that would make Quentin Tarantino cream in his pants.

Moving onto 'Gold Rush' – a game type that has you collecting and gathering bags of gold dotted around the map before depositing them into nearby chests to score a point – we start to get a feel for the game mechanics, pressing right bumper to gracefully slide into cover, dashing to green markers on the map to collect Deadeye pick-ups and hoarding as many weapons as we can from handy sparkling crates.

In single-player, Deadeye slows time, enabling you to paint red crosses on nearby enemies, and it works in much the same way in multiplayer, boosting accuracy without the aid of slow-motion. Weapons meanwhile, stay in your inventory (accessed via the left bumper and a twiddle of the right analogue stick) right until the end of the round, giving you a rather extensive cache of artillery to choose from, including numerous six-shooters, rifles, shotguns and projectiles like dynamite or throwing knives.

Finishing off with a bout of capture-the-flag, here called 'Hold Your Own' and featuring red and blue loot bags rather than flags, we get to blast a few riders off their horses with a huge cannon and even find time to line up a few headshots with a sniper rifle and then rush into the opposing team's base on horseback to grab the red flag and score a valuable point.

Actions like these grant XP, which persistently builds up throughout multiplayer, levelling your character up and enabling you to purchase new clothing and items to customise your badass bandito, sheriff or cowgirl. You're also able to acquire XP while free-roaming by executing special actions like killing a grizzly bear with a knife or shooting the hat off a wanted villain, for instance

Red Dead Redemption's single-player is shaping up to be unquestionably superb, but it's also heartening to see that a great deal of care and attention has gone into the multiplayer too. Rockstar has apparently learnt some valuable lessons from GTA IV's multiplayer, making the experience more focused, compartmentalised and therefore better suited to the 16-players that the game supports.

There's a clear, concerted effort that has been made in ensuring the multiplayer aspect of Red Dead Redemption is both meaningful and worth revisiting, and although there are still a few kinks to be ironed out, it's reason enough to make Redemption one of this year's most wanted games.

Red Dead Redemption is out May 18th and May 21st in North America and Europe respectively.

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**Saulbadguy** · 04-09-2010, 10:00 AM

The lobby looks hilariously fun. Can't wait for this to come out - got it pre-purchased on Amazon.

kcxiv · 04-09-2010, 11:57 AM

hehe, Deadwood meets Grand Theft auto. WHo the hell cannot like that?

**Munson** · 04-09-2010, 12:01 PM

I never played the first game, but this one looks awesome. It looks like I'm gonna have to buy it.

Kraus · 04-09-2010, 02:29 PM

The last few videos they have put out makes this look like a must buy.

chiefs1111 · 04-09-2010, 02:37 PM

I will be getting this for sure

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 04-09-2010, 02:48 PM

Holy ****. The first one was a good idea. This looks like a masterpiece. I'll be buying this on release day.

Pants · 04-09-2010, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Holy ****. The first one was a good idea. This looks like a masterpiece. I'll be buying this on release day.

360 or PS3?

kcxiv · 04-09-2010, 09:00 PM

imma pre order this next month. I just pre ordered Super Street Fighter IV. So when i get that one, i will pre order this.

**Saulbadguy** · 04-09-2010, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Metrolike

360 or PS3?

This will be a title, IMO, that won't really matter what system you buy it on. Rockstar is pretty committed developer that won't take too many shortcuts on either system.

**Saulbadguy** · 04-09-2010, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by kcxiv

imma pre order this next month. I just pre ordered Super Street Fighter IV. So when i get that one, i will pre order this.

I thought Q2 2010 would be a quiet time for me, when I would be able to finish the Q1 games I purchased.

However...I have on pre-order:

ModNation Racers (Mario Kart like game for PS3)
Red Dead Redemption
Nier
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Street Fighter IV
3D Dot Game Heroes (Quite a bit like the Legend of Zelda for Super Nintendo)
Record of Agarest War (A Strategy RPG for 360...check out the mouse pad you get with it)

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 04-09-2010, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Metrolike

360 or PS3?

PS3.

03-11-2010, 03:40 AM
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04-09-2010, 09:55 AM	#19
Archie Bunker The Wait Is Over Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Random Small Town Casino cash: $2048978	http://www.xbox360achievements.org/n...s-At-Dawn.html Red Dead Redemption Multiplayer Hands On Preview – Pistols At Dawn Written Thursday, April 08, 2010 by Richard Walker We're cowboys at heart, not game journalists. We'd rather jump on the back of a horse, round up some bandits and then gallop back into town for a game of poker, then spend a warm night with a hooker, a tin bath by the fire and a bottle of bourbon. As it is, we get to write all day, then go to bed with a comic book and a mug of cocoa. It's not exactly a match for the cowboy lifestyle we were meant for. As such, we've been itching to get some hands-on time with Rockstar's Western opus for months now, as it's about as close to living the Wild West dream as we're ever likely to get. So when the invite came through telling us that the first round of Red Dead Redemption multiplayer sessions were to take place at Rockstar's London offices, we naturally leapt at the chance. In an international affair, we were pitted against games journos from all over Europe and were thrust straight into Red Dead's free-roam hub; the instruction not to shoot one another until we're given permission instantly goes out of the window. Like GTA, between multiplayer matches you're given the entire single-player map to explore, so pushing up on the d-pad to whistle for a horse is a good idea if you want to quickly get around the towns and homesteads dotted around Redemption's vast world. That being said, most of the time you're likely to find players just killing each other for shits and giggles. Kill an innocent non-playable pedestrian though, and you can expect to be hunted and executed by the law. The opportunity to simply waste time messing around amongst the miles of desert and scrub is infinite, with random emergent events and the detailed animal ecology tossing up all manner of interesting distractions. But it's the host of game modes that provide the real meat of Red Dead's multiplayer and we got to check out four of them during our intensive hands-on play session. Before we plunged into the competitive stuff, we start with a posse leader who sets a waypoint for the entire gang of sixteen players to follow. So saddling up and riding to a marked gang hideout where a group of bandits are holed up, we canter down the trail, taking care not to kick our horse to death. Upon arrival, a gunfight immediately breaks out, triggering even more undesirables to spill into the area from the surrounding ridge, which in turn leads to an ambush and an even busier, more frenetic gun battle. It's great fun that eventually leads on to other criminal strongholds, such as an abandoned mansion where our foolhardy decision to sling several sticks of dynamite through the front door ends with us being sworn at by a French journo who gets caught in an errant explosion. Oops! As each mission ends, a statistics screen pops up giving you the lowdown on how well (or how poorly) you did, and as it happens, our dynamite-fuelled rampage pushes us to the top of the scoreboard. Ha! Take that France! Back to the lobby area once more where activity descends into a sixteen-way fist fight, before it's time to sample 'Gang Shootout' – a straightforward Team Deathmatch that pits two warring factions head-to-head against one another. Lawmen, Miners, Rebeldes, Dutch's Gang and The American Army are some of the groups that feature, and each match begins with a standoff until there's only one man left standing. It's literally pistols at dawn, where the fastest gun wins and when we play the every-man-for-themselves Shootout later on, the action opens with all 16-players stood in a circle for a Mexican standoff that would make Quentin Tarantino cream in his pants. Moving onto 'Gold Rush' – a game type that has you collecting and gathering bags of gold dotted around the map before depositing them into nearby chests to score a point – we start to get a feel for the game mechanics, pressing right bumper to gracefully slide into cover, dashing to green markers on the map to collect Deadeye pick-ups and hoarding as many weapons as we can from handy sparkling crates. In single-player, Deadeye slows time, enabling you to paint red crosses on nearby enemies, and it works in much the same way in multiplayer, boosting accuracy without the aid of slow-motion. Weapons meanwhile, stay in your inventory (accessed via the left bumper and a twiddle of the right analogue stick) right until the end of the round, giving you a rather extensive cache of artillery to choose from, including numerous six-shooters, rifles, shotguns and projectiles like dynamite or throwing knives. Finishing off with a bout of capture-the-flag, here called 'Hold Your Own' and featuring red and blue loot bags rather than flags, we get to blast a few riders off their horses with a huge cannon and even find time to line up a few headshots with a sniper rifle and then rush into the opposing team's base on horseback to grab the red flag and score a valuable point. Actions like these grant XP, which persistently builds up throughout multiplayer, levelling your character up and enabling you to purchase new clothing and items to customise your badass bandito, sheriff or cowgirl. You're also able to acquire XP while free-roaming by executing special actions like killing a grizzly bear with a knife or shooting the hat off a wanted villain, for instance Red Dead Redemption's single-player is shaping up to be unquestionably superb, but it's also heartening to see that a great deal of care and attention has gone into the multiplayer too. Rockstar has apparently learnt some valuable lessons from GTA IV's multiplayer, making the experience more focused, compartmentalised and therefore better suited to the 16-players that the game supports. There's a clear, concerted effort that has been made in ensuring the multiplayer aspect of Red Dead Redemption is both meaningful and worth revisiting, and although there are still a few kinks to be ironed out, it's reason enough to make Redemption one of this year's most wanted games. Red Dead Redemption is out May 18th and May 21st in North America and Europe respectively. [IMG][/IMG]
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04-09-2010, 10:00 AM	#20
Saulbadguy When a nightmare becomes real Join Date: Nov 2003 Casino cash: $2666966	The lobby looks hilariously fun. Can't wait for this to come out - got it pre-purchased on Amazon.
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04-09-2010, 11:57 AM	#21
kcxiv In Search of a Life Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Central Valley, Cali Casino cash: $8807996	hehe, Deadwood meets Grand Theft auto. WHo the hell cannot like that?
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04-09-2010, 12:01 PM	#22
Munson Roy E. Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Olathe, KS Casino cash: $11989646	I never played the first game, but this one looks awesome. It looks like I'm gonna have to buy it.
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04-09-2010, 02:29 PM	#23
Kraus Media Center Guy Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Blue Springs, MO Casino cash: $10005364	The last few videos they have put out makes this look like a must buy. __________________
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04-09-2010, 02:37 PM	#24
chiefs1111 In Search of a Life Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Parts Unknown Casino cash: $1573166	I will be getting this for sure
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04-09-2010, 09:00 PM	#27
kcxiv In Search of a Life Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Central Valley, Cali Casino cash: $8807996	imma pre order this next month. I just pre ordered Super Street Fighter IV. So when i get that one, i will pre order this.
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