Red Dead Redemption is far more that a great video game, it is a work of art. The enormous open world has many beautiful and fascinating areas, many of which you didn't know existed until you find yourself in the middle of them. No details were spared: you can even read the epitaphs on the gravestones, many of which mark the resting places of relatives of the colorful characters that you meet during the rich story. However, the details are not the most important factor in the beauty of the world, this title goes to the lighting of the landscapes, the pink-tinted clouds on the horizon during a sunset, and the endless stretches of plains, shadows streaming from the feet of the cacti. You find yourself in the midst of a truly beautiful world, and that world is the only permanent thing in the game.
The story is an incredibly intricate epic, in which you find yourself running into the most unusual and eccentric characters, including a grave robber and a "miracle cure" salesman. You will find yourself compromising your moral code so that you can protect your family, helping both sides, even when neither are right, and doing the bidding of those who you would much rather kill. Although this game allows more freedom than many others, you will always feel imprisoned by the forces of the government. The story is told in very cinematic cutscenes, with incredible voice acting, camera angles, facial animation, and screenplay. Although it is a gritty story, the cutscenes are peppered with amusing and subtle social satire. All of this creates a cinematic atmosphere as well as a sense of struggling against the tide; a world where there are a few good men who have there hands full fighting the evil people of the world, and are then slowly dragged down by the incoming forces of evil and government regulation. Thus, it does not come as a surprise when you find in the miscellaneous section of the newspapers (absolutly dripping with hilarious satire) that almost everyone you knew has met their ends, until you finally die yourself. The harsh reality that this game's realistic world is conveying is very simply that terrible things happen, and no matter what you do, they will continue to happen.
The story is an incredibly intricate epic, in which you find yourself running into the most unusual and eccentric characters, including a grave robber and a "miracle cure" salesman. You will find yourself compromising your moral code so that you can protect your family, helping both sides, even when neither are right, and doing the bidding of those who you would much rather kill. Although this game allows more freedom than many others, you will always feel imprisoned by the forces of the government. The story is told in very cinematic cutscenes, with incredible voice acting, camera angles, facial animation, and screenplay. Although it is a gritty story, the cutscenes are peppered with amusing and subtle social satire. All of this creates a cinematic atmosphere as well as a sense of struggling against the tide; a world where there are a few good men who have there hands full fighting the evil people of the world, and are then slowly dragged down by the incoming forces of evil and government regulation. Thus, it does not come as a surprise when you find in the miscellaneous section of the newspapers (absolutly dripping with hilarious satire) that almost everyone you knew has met their ends, until you finally die yourself. The harsh reality that this game's realistic world is conveying is very simply that terrible things happen, and no matter what you do, they will continue to happen.