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Red Dead Redemption | 
| From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Rating:  255 reviews
Sales Rank: 26
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.3 x 0.1
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MPN: 37573
Model: 37573
UPC: 710425378263
EAN: 0710425375736
ASIN: B001SGZL2W
Publication Date: April 30, 2010
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| Features:
| • | The Dead Eye targeting mechanic, allowing the player to slow down time for shot accuracy, as well as ridable horses and more than 40 kinds of animals that you can hunt or be hunted by. | | • | Expansive open-world gameplay set in the final years of the American Wild West. | | • | Massive play area filled with NPCs, made up 3 unique regions composed of towns and outposts filled with characters with varying looks, accents, etc. | | • | Morality system based on honor and fame generated by the players actions throughout the game. | | • | Western themed mini-games including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet; and an assortment of period specific weapons. |
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Red Dead Redemption PS3
Amazon.com Product Description
Red Dead Redemption is an open-world, third-person, action-adventure game set at the tail end of the American West West era. Action takes place in the first few years of the twentieth century and revolves around the choices that the protagonist, former outlaw John Marston, is forced to make due to his blemished past. The game features a morality system assigning honor and fame points generated through the player's choices. It also features Wild West themed mini-games, new targeting and cover systems, extensive horse riding abilities, a wealth of period specific weapons and more than 40 huntable animals. Story
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. A follow up to the 2004 hit Red Dead Revolver, this game tells the story of former outlaw John Marston, taking players on a great adventure across the American frontier. Choose to fight for honor or fame as former outlaw John Marston.
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Red Dead Redemption is a third-person action-adventure game set a fictional open-world American Wild West environment for players to explore. Gameplay area types include frontier towns, rolling prairies teaming 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 elements and animals 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. In their travels throughout the territories of the gameworld players partake in a morality system built on honor and fame, where they gain or lose points in each area based on their actions. The game features an easy to use cover system, a variety of mounts and period specific weapons including a cattleman revolver, a mauser pistol, a repeater rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, a throwing knife, a lasso and more. Western themed mini-games are also available, including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet. Key Game Features - Expansive open-world gameplay set in the final years of the American Wild West.
- Massive play area made up 3 unique regions composed of towns and outposts filled with characters with varying looks, accents, etc.
- Morality system based on honor and fame generated by the players actions throughout the game.
- Loads of unique non-player characters to interact with.
- Western themed mini-games including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet.
- An assortment of period specific weapons including a cattleman revolver, a mauser pistol, a repeater rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, a throwing knife, lasso and more.
- The Dead Eye targeting mechanic, allowing the player to slow down time for shot accuracy.
- Ridable horses and more than 40 kinds of animals that you can hunt or be hunted by.
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Cover and targeting system.
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All the dangers of the period.
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Western themed mini-games.
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Realistic mounted combat.
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 red dead July 31, 2010
cow hat
not as fast paced as war games - HELLO ! i have not completed the game thus far. will admit i am a little frustrated with the location i am at. GOAL to rope the wild horse and then do what i have no idea.
oh well
 Wild West fun July 31, 2010
A. Griffiths (London)
This is the first Western Rockstar game I have played and I guess I was expecting the same amount of detail as Grand Theft Auto, but although I had a great time playing Red Dead Redemption, I never felt totally blown away.
The parallels between the two games are very obvious. Here, you play John Marston, a thug with a chequered past and some scores to settle...,you work your way through the Wild West by making alleigences with various corrupt officials, helping out folk and looking for old enemies. As in GTA, the game world is a giant, free-roamable space, with certain areas conveniently blocked off until the point in the game when you are allowed to move to a new region. In RDR this comprises of a large Southern US state, which eventually leads to going over the border to Mexico, and then finally into a northern mountainous region which holds the largest town in the game.
The first thing to praise is the look of the game. I was hugely impressed by the landscape that you are free to explore and admire as much as you like. Great sprawling prairies, rocky mesas, cactus strewn deserts and snowy mountain forests, it really does live up to expectation. The weather and night/day lighting effects are also pretty awesome. You will never tire of the scenery around you in this game.
Next comes the actual gameplay. Well I have to announce my first disappointment here in that is is not really that challenging. The missions are almost all the same thing: ride somewhere on your horse and shoot down a load of bad guys. That really does make up about 75% of the gameplay here. I really enjoyed the few changes of pace such as facing a large fire in a neighbouring ranch, and a couple of missions spent riding a moving train were good fun (the train looks great, I could have had plenty more of this). The reason for the repetition is partly because of the transport: horses. Now I read that there are different horse breeds in the game with different abilities, but in practice this makes 0.01% difference to playing the game. All you have to do is find a horse and jump on. The difference to the variety of transport to GTA (many different cars, trucks, bikes, boats and helicopters) is very obvious, and I honestly never cared which horse I was ever riding, they were just a means of getting from A to B.
The fighting element is pretty well worked out though, there are several different guns of different types, although why there are quite so many of the same class (all those rifles?), I don't know. The game's gimmick of Dead Eye (like Bullet Time) is fun but it was never the make or break part of winning a fight for me. Duels were a different matter, though - I was terrible at them, they really should have made a clearer turorial for doing these, or maybe I just didn't get it.
Other disappointments were that the game was a bit glitchy, I often found items and/or people floating in mid air or trapped in an animation loop. Sometimes I lost missions becasue of glaringly unfair glitches - at one point a bunch of about 4 enemies spontaneously materialized almost on top of me and shot me down before I could even aim at them! There are several mini games but the rewards for doing them are not great and they weren't that interesting. Picking up herbs or shooting various types of wildlife is only mildy diverting. Although I did try and do all the "stranger" missions (meeting random people who ask you to do small quests/chores for them), as the characters you meet throughout the game are fantastically realised. Voice acting is spot on, and the appearance and animation of the people in the game is very realistic. There are a lot of weirdos in the world, so it was definitely worth doing all the "stranger" missions to have a laugh and/or see some quite creepy goings-on.
In a change from GTA, you can pretty much decide whether to play as good or bad in RDR. In GTA, the Police were ALWAYS your enemy, but here you can choose to be honourable and help the law, or be a low down criminal and make everyone hate you. This is very similar to "Infamous", which also had a "saint or sinner" scale that was affected by your choices in the game.
To sum up, this is a breathtaking game to look at, but the missions all seemed slightly mechanical. The random trials of everyday life spiced things up, things like passing a hold-up and deciding to help out, escorting lost people found in the desert to safety, or saving passers-by from attacking wild animals. This all added up to a fuller experience. I also enjoyed playing Texas Hold 'Em and Liars Dice at the various saloons, and breaking in wild horses. So I was never bored, but all in all I never felt like I was eagerly awaiting the next mission to see what new challenges awaited me - they were all pretty much alike. But the sounds and scenery mean the game really oozes authentic atmosphere so I definetley recommend the experience of playing it to everyone.
 Amazing!! July 30, 2010
andre_masc
This game is simply exquisit!! Product was perfect, no damages at all! Quickly delivered!! I recomend!
Excellent July 29, 2010
BlackDragon (Panama)
This game is GREAT, a pice of art. Since you gai control there are too many things to do. There are a couple of missions that are plain stupid like the cow herd mission with bonny or shoot some guy's hat with west dickens (this mission teachs you how to use dead eye though) I love the side missions (personas, night watch, helping people on the road) didnt understand the liar's dice game at the beggining but i managed to beat some guys anyhow. Riding the horse is so much fun. Getting all the outfits takes a lot of time and you wont be bored for a while.
I'm feeling in the far west right now July 29, 2010
elobelix
amazing story line... nice action scenes... its just like GTA but in the far west...
If you liked GTA, you will love this one.
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