Most times I tend to find a game that I want to go back and play most times when I try and play a video game, I tend to get bored or the game play isn't all interesting so, like most gamers I would assume would do, I play a Rockstar game which produced two of the greatest western games ever made. Usually yes, I'd play the original Red Dead Redemption game but this time I decided to play the Prequel to Red Dead Redemption though it's a sequel to the original? Either way, it's mostly the same thing that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg did when they made Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Set in 1899 just twelve years after the first Red Dead Redemption game, where the Dutch Van Der Linde Gang is on the run from the Law. All the characters you remember from the first game come into play, especially John Marston. This time you play into the reigns of Arthur Morgan one of the founding members of Dutch's gang. Through the course of the game, you begin to witness the decline of the Wild West, as well as fellow gang members picking sides before the Pinkertons pick them off one by one.
It's always kind of an interesting thing when you play Rockstar's heavy hitters like Red Dead and the Last Grand Theft Auto, which is that you see a massive difference between each of the games. Grand Theft Auto Five you're free to go crazy and do all terrible things that you can't do in the real world, basically channeling your inner Trevor. First Red Dead game has the same meaning you can make choices but sometimes those choices have consequences. With this game you do have to make tough choices but then you kind of feel badly as a person, and through the course of the story I tend to be more concerning with myself in at least being a decent person rather than shooting up a town. When I first played the game, I do remember maybe making some bad choices, but I think with this game I knew what my choices were going to be especially after finishing the story the first time around. Having gone back and replayed this great game I am grateful that we haven't gone to the Westworld steps yet hopefully when I’m not around that’s for sure. Mainly because if I was in Westworld upon which I may of said this a bunch of times if I did all the horrible shit in that world I don't think I would ever forgive myself, also I quit drinking so I wouldn't be any fun, that's why when replaying Red Dead 2 once I found my cigarettes and cigars I just smoked them constantly and became a heavy drinker. Though more importantly this is one of those few games that gives you as a gamer to really feal for the main protagonist as he struggles between doing the right thing or the wrong thing and at times can be mean but has a good heart when it comes to caring for the people around him and it shows when you play the final part of the chapter six mission where you have to make a choice, I always choose helping Marston because sure I would love to take an eye away from Micah Bell for what he's done but to me it just didn't seem right to leave Marston and go for the money and I believe if I played that level a hundred times I would always choose helping John just because to me as a human being it's the right thing to do, that shows how years of CCD catholic teachings can really improve your humanity. For going back and replaying the game I did try and make in improvement by searching for all side missions through the course of the story as well as the epilogue for many reasons, the first time I played the game through I was more concerned with the story as well as going out and hunting and through the course of the game I do remember playing the game constantly and it taking a huge tole on me in desperately wanting to finish the game then hearing you have to complete the epilogue I was just "ugh". And so, playing the game the second time I made a goal to myself that I would make a point and finish a good chunk of the side missions and I believe the first important lesson I've learned is when you improve the camp site for your gang you can get access to a fast travel so instead of counting down hours you've been on a horse almost like driving your car for a three hour drive or being stuck in a traffic jam, you can just use the fast travel to limit the minutes or hours on your horse, unfortunately when I was in the search for some dinosaur fossils I couldn't be able to use the fast travel on the waypoint. Unfortunately I didn't finish all of the side missions because yet again I was still in this burnt out phase where I just wanted to finish the game, but more importantly when I talked about finding fossils well, there down in places like Armadillo and I have to cover that ground for which really that's just to me felt like a real pain so, I decided to press on and give the game a rest. I'm still not sure about wanting to replay the first Red Dead game mainly because I love the times you play as John and his family for which some of those memories reminisce with Arthur and his lost love and it would seem sad to replay the first game know what's going to happen in the end. And even though I didn't finish at a hundred percent completion for this amazing western game for the ages I will come back to this game for certain in the near future, for a gillion reasons it has the best human story that keeps you caring for these characters and as well as gives you reasons to hate the antagonist for the original game when you next meet them. There's a ton of amazing great Western's in the cinema land, but no doubt both Red Dead Redemption games still stand the test of time as being one of the greatest video games of all time.
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