Not only was there an impressively big open world to explore, but you could do it as a posse online too, prompting far too many hours spent shooting each others horses and generally dicking around rather than focussing on the challenges.
Coming out of the Rockstar stable as a successor to a little known gunfighting game Red Dead Revolver, many weren’t expecting an open world Western epic that mused on the passing of the wild frontier as much as it had you blasting bandits in the desert.
Red Dead Redemption originally released in May of 2010 to not only critical acclaim, but an element of surprise.
