Robbing banks, playing poker, and living like an outlaw. Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally here!

Ricardo Fartura

October 30, 2018

Robbing banks, playing poker, and living like an outlaw. Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally here!

Rejoice! After eight long years, Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally here! If you played the original like I did, this has been a long time coming. The anticipation was so big, it was almost palpable. 

Red Dead Redemption 2 made $725 million over the weekend. Second biggest launch in entertainment history behind Rockstar’s other franchise Grand Theft Auto 5 raking in $1 billion in 2013 at launch. 

Red Dead Redemption 2 opened up to the biggest weekend launch in entertainment history at $725 million — yes, even bigger than Avengers earlier this year. Video games have gone from a niche hobby/pastime into one of the most profitable industries in the world.

Playing as John Marston was fun, seeking revenge and the eventual demise of Dutch’s Gang was rewarding but seeing the back story of the Van der Linde gang through Arthur Morgan’s eyes will bring a new perspective to the world of Red Dead Redemption.

And who doesn’t want to relive the wild west!? From committing bank heists, robbing trains, playing poker, setting up camps, and running from the law, you can live out your wildest fantasies. I’ve been waiting forever (eight years to be exact) to finally experience it!

Rockstar Games has spent such a long time developing the game that the level of detail in the world is... absurd. An example is the fact that you can drink a potion called “hair tonic” that’ll accelerate your hair growth for all those lumberjacks that want the best beard for Arthur Morgan, or that you sweat depending on how active you are, or that a horse’s “parts” erm… shrink or expand depending on the weather. Yes, Rockstar put so much detail into the game that cold weather will shrink horse’s genitals… I’m not making that up. 

 Nonetheless, I cannot wait to enter this world full of sprawling landscapes. From villages and towns to Rocky Mountains and dense swamps, industrial cities in the process of modernization to forests full of dangerous wildlife.

I’m looking forward to playing Red Dead Redemption 2. What are you looking forward to the most? Let me know, I can’t wait to hear what you guys think!

*Red Dead Redemption 2 released on Friday Oct. 26, 2018 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

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