Most significantly, Arthur can call out to and converse with any and all characters, whether they’re the named members of Dutch’s gang or townsfolk or strangers on the road. Characters have chores and conversations and conflicts that go on independent of Arthur-and that might change to include him if he’s standing nearby. Though traditional story missions come from the camp and other places like towns, these areas are most notable for the feeling of life they impart. This isn’t a small crew, encompassing as it does folks of different genders and ethnicities and ages who drag a few wagons’ worth of belongings behind them. The heart of Red Dead Redemption 2 is in the camp made by Dutch’s band of misfits, which shifts locations at different story points. The wide-open countryside gets less wide and open by the day, leaving fewer places to hide from the law and fewer places to be-as some of the characters bluntly put it-“free.” The protagonist this time around is Arthur Morgan, another stubbly white guy in a period-appropriate hat, albeit one of the few who seems aware that his way of life is approaching its end. Marston is still around, but in this prequel he’s just another member of the ill-fated gang of the charismatic Dutch van der Linde. Red Dead Redemption 2, then, is the ambitious game Rockstar has been building toward for some time now, another relatively serious tale that gets tangled in its lofty aspirations. The story of John Marston was still visibly a Rockstar Games joint in both its concern with American decay and its detours into juvenile caricature, but it reiterated the company’s desire, demonstrated prominently in Grand Theft Auto IV, to be known as storytellers as much as provocateurs. As Grand Theft Auto’s lampoon of American culture began to share space with more serious narrative aspirations and a desire for realism as great as-perhaps greater than-a desire for video game mayhem, here was a relatively straight-faced western. The original Red Dead Redemption is a fascinating, instructive point in the evolution of video game publisher Rockstar Games.
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