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Madero 85 Friends of Dean Martinez 93 Gatling gun 95 Mexican standoff 100 Open world 101 PlayStation 3 104 Protagonist 129 Red Dead Revolver 130 Rockstar Advanced Game Engine 133 Rockstar Games 135 Rockstar Games Social Club 140 Rockstar North 144 Rockstar San Diego 149 Sandbox (video games) 151 Spiritual successor 154 Telegraphy 157 Third-person shooter 171 Western (genre) 174 Xbox 360 183 References Article Sources and Contributors 206 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 215 Article Licenses License 218 Red Dead Redemption 1 Red Dead Redemption Red Dead Redemption Developer(s) Rockstar San Diego Rockstar North Publisher(s) Rockstar Games Director(s) Ted Carson (technical) Josh Bass (art) Daren Bader (art) Producer(s) Steve Martin David Kunkler Josh Needleman John Ricchio Designer(s) Christian Cantamessa (lead) Leslie Benzies Alan Blaine Silas Morse Artist(s) Nick Trifunovic (lead) George Davis Writer(s) Dan Houser Michael Unsworth Christian Cantamessa Composer(s) Bill Elm Woody Jackson Various artists Series Red Dead [1] Engine RAGE [1] Euphoria Native resolution 720p (Xbox 360) [2] 640p (PlayStation 3) [3] Version 1.02 Platform(s) PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 [4] Release date(s) NA May 18, 2010 [4] PAL May 21, 2010 Genre(s) Sandbox, third-person shooter, action- adventure Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer Red Dead Redemption 2 Rating(s) [5] BBFC: 18 [6] ESRB: M [6] OFLC: MA15+ Media Blu-ray Disc, DVD Input methods Gamepad Red Dead Redemption is an open world action-adventure Western video game, developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in May 2010.[4] It is a spiritual successor[7] to 2004's Red Dead Revolver. Most of the game's story takes place in the year 1911 in the American Old West territory and follows John Marston, a former outlaw, while he sets out to hunt down his former gang members. Upon its release, Red Dead Redemption was met with universal critical acclaim with a 95/100 on both review aggregate websites Metacritic and GameRankings, making it one of the highest rated video games for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on both websites. Gameplay Red Dead Redemption gives the player a large open world environment allowing the player to explore. Players can interact with the environment and combat enemies with firearms. Different breeds of horses are the main forms of transportation. Swimming is not an option, as the protagonist John Marston cannot swim - he will drown if he [8] ventures too far into the water. As well as following the main storyline, players can take part in random events they encounter as they explore the West. These include public hangings, ambushes, pleas for assistance, stranger encounters, drive-by shootings, and dangerous animal attacks. For example, if a group of people ride into town firing guns in the air, the player can kill them, and will receive a bonus of honor and fame. Players can also take part in optional side activities ranging from standoffs, gambling, and hunting animals for pelts, meat and other various items. Red Dead Redemption makes use of a morality system where players have the ability to gain positive or negative 'honor'. Some of the ways to gain positive honor include taking an outlaw alive instead of killing him, or saving a kidnapped innocent. Negative honor can be gained for committing crimes including killing or robbing civilians. This works along with another system, 'fame,' showing and governing how people react based on Marston's honor [9] status. Combat and gunplay are major parts of the game. Gunfights in Red Dead Redemption are conducted using a third-person system. The player can take cover, target a specific person, blindfire, and free aim. Individual body parts can also be targeted, in order to take targets down non-lethally, who can then be lassoed and "hogtied" to capture individuals alive. When the player shoots an enemy, the game engine uniquely creates the AI reactions and movements. John Marston has an John Marston takes cover before an incoming arsenal of period-accurate weapons to choose from; these include horse carriage. revolvers, pistols, lever or bolt-action rifles, knives, explosives, lassos, [10] mounted gatling guns, shotguns, and cannons. A combat feature that Marston can utilize is the "Dead-Eye" targeting system. "Dead-Eye" is used in a bullet time-like manner, allowing the player to slow down time to place a precise shot or paint in multiple shots on the body parts of one or multiple enemies. When the targeting sequence ends, Marston will fire in extremely quick succession on targeted people and objects. Red Dead Redemption 3 Adopted from the Grand Theft Auto series, Red Dead Redemption has a modified wanted system. When committing a crime such as killing civilians near other people, some will run to the nearest police station as witnesses. The player can bribe them or kill them before they reach the station. If a crime is committed near a police officer, the wanted meter immediately appears along with a bounty count where it increases with more crimes committed. To evade law enforcement in pursuit, John Marston must escape a circular zone until the wanted meter disappears. Despite the chase being aborted, John is placed with a bounty which will cause bounty hunters to come after him in the wilderness. The police will continue to challenge him again unless he pays his bounty at a telegraph station or presents a pardon letter. When arrested, John pays off his bounty and is then released. If the player does not have enough money to pay back, the police will assign bounty hunting activities. Multiplayer Red Dead Redemption includes online multiplayer with a maximum of 16 players per session. Every multiplayer game, both free-for-all and team based, will begin with a Mexican standoff. Survivors of the standoff will be able to move to any part of the battlefield in preparation for respawning enemies. Crates in the environment will contain extra weapons, ammo, as well as recharge Dead-Eye powers, which has all the features of the single player version except for slow motion. Players can level up and complete weapon challenges giving rewards such as new character [11] models, golden weapon skins, and new mount breeds. Both regular and team versions of Shootout mode follows a traditional deathmatch scenario where players or teams must accumulate the most kills. Many Capture the Flag variants are also available. Hold Your Own is a traditional capture the flag, where each team has their own bag of gold to defend from the enemy team. Grab The Bag has both teams attacking one bag placed in a section of the map. Gold Rush is a free-for-all variant, trying to grab and keep as many bags, spawned all across the map, as possible. Like Grand Theft Auto IV's free mode, Red Dead Redemption has its own free roaming mode. All players in the server can form and join player parties, named "posses", of up to eight players and taking part in activities such as [12] attacking computer-controlled gang hideouts or other player posses, go hunting, and create in-server matches. Plot In the year 1911, John Marston, a retired outlaw formerly of a gang led by Dutch van der Linde, is taken away from his wife Abigail and his son Jack by government agents. The agents tell John that his family will be safely returned to him if he hunts down and kills the remaining lead members of his former gang. Left with no choice, John travels to the county of New Austin to capture or kill one of his old friends, Bill Williamson, who now runs his own gang of bandits out of Fort Mercer. John confronts Williamson at the fort, only to be shot and left for dead outside the fort. A rancher, Bonnie MacFarlane, finds him wounded, and brings him to a doctor to be treated. After recovering from his wounds several days later, John begins repaying the MacFarlanes for their help. At the same time, he recruits help for a plan to attack Fort Mercer.