20 Facts About Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games.

Red Dead Redemption is set during the decline of the American frontier in the year 1911 and follows John Marston, a former outlaw whose wife and son are taken hostage by the government in ransom for his services as a hired gun.

Red Dead Redemption was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May 2010.

Red Dead Redemption is a Western-themed action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective.

Red Dead Redemption uses an Honor system, which measures how the player's actions are perceived in terms of morality.

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Red Dead Redemption arrives at Williamson's stronghold at Fort Mercer, but fails to persuade him to surrender, resulting in John being shot and left for dead.

Red Dead Redemption explores themes of the cycle of violence, faith, governmental control, the loss of innocence and freedom, manifest destiny, masculinity, social change, and redemption; it received commentary for its representation of Native Americans and violence.

Red Dead Redemption explores the impacts of the cycle of violence, most notably represented through Jack's continuation of his father's failures by adopting the outlaw status.

Red Dead Redemption recognized that John's challenges reflected those of straight, cisgender men in the modern era.

Red Dead Redemption's identified that, while John is not overtly racist, his participation in an attack on an Indian reservation implicates him in "a micro-scale recreation of racist, genocidal violence".

Red Dead Redemption is one of the first games by Rockstar to use an original score.

Red Dead Redemption had been one of the most requested titles for the feature.

Red Dead Redemption received "universal acclaim" from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Simon Parkin of Eurogamer concluded that Red Dead Redemption was "a blockbuster video game: a string of cinematic set-pieces and flawed yet endearing characters nestled within an orthodox narrative structure, seasoned with generous pinches of extra-curricular tasks".

Red Dead Redemption felt that, despite being based on caricatures of Spaghetti Western films, the game's secondary characters were "interesting enough that they never feel contrived"; conversely, Paste reviewer Kirk Hamilton opined that the "cliched and unlikeable" supporting characters undermined the narrative.

Red Dead Redemption received multiple nomination and awards from gaming publications.

At the 11th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, Red Dead Redemption won four awards of five nominations, including Game of the Year and Best Game Design.

Red Dead Redemption was the best-selling game of May 2010, selling over 1.

Critics concurred that Red Dead Redemption was among the best games of the seventh generation of video game consoles.

Prequel, Red Dead Redemption 2, was released in October 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.