[Official] Red Dead Redemption

[Pablo2008jedi]

Think I'll be avoiding this thread soon, hate having to wait 3 extra days for a release!

[Spookie]

Invested over 10 hours in RDR over the weekend and... Yeah it's

not

poop. :p

Getting a bit ****ed off by the

marksman quest though. Being required to shoot 5 birds from a moving train doesn't sound that much of an issue. But when there is only one train which covers the entire map. It's a pain in the arse to keep up with it! :p

Think I'll be avoiding this thread soon, hate having to wait 3 extra days for a release!

I'd say I'm fairly invested in to the game and there hasn't been much that is spoilerific yet. It's very methodical in comparison to GTA IV.

[Pablo2008jedi]

As long as people use the spoiler tags its Ok, but I just soo want to play this game I cry when I read people are already playing it :cry:

[Spookie]

I'd say you're not missing much... But then I'd be lying!

[Jimmy0]

Report ? Red Dead Redemption banned in UAE

According to MEGamers, Red Dead Redemption?s the latest title to be banned in the UAE.

A retailer in the region?s apparently confirmed a ban for the Rockstar San Diego western, but a ?no comment? was given by the game?s distributor in the region, Red Entertainment.

Neither Rockstar or parent company Take-Two have commented on the situation as yet.

If true, the game joins Heavy Rain, Dante?s Inferno, Darksiders and others as being prohibited in the Arab state.

RDR?s due out in the US tomorrow, with a UK and European release on Friday.

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2010/05/17/report-red-dead-redemption-banned-in-uae/

[Pablo2008jedi]

Red Dead Redemption, meanwhile, releases tomorrow in the US, with a UK release on Friday for PS3 and 360. FYI, watch the skies at 4pm today: reviews will start to go live at that point.

Sauce

[Spookie]

4pm today? Jesus as if the game needs any more hype. People are going to be disappointed if they big it up any more!

[Jimmy0]

Reviews are in.

Eurogamer – 8

The Guardian – 5/5

CVG – 9.5

Boomtown – 10

Multiplayer.it – 9.6

IGN UK – 9.8

GameReactor Sweden – 10

Gamer.nl – 10

NowGamer – 9.3

Eurogamer Germany – 10

PSM3 – 9.4

Game Informer – 9.75

[Massiveterra]

New York Times -

Of all the world?s game developers, only Rockstar would even dream of a passage of such relevant hilarity. No other game developer has been so willing, and quite so able, to riff on the real world rather than sticking to elves or dragons or aliens or fantasized battlefields.

In the more than 1,100 articles I have written for this newspaper since 1996, I have never before called anything a tour de force. Yet there is no more succinct and appropriate way to describe Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar rides again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/arts/television/17dead.html?pagewanted=all

[Corris Veteran]

Sounding pretty good.

I wasn't too interested in the game, but after a few videos and the advert, I am totally in the mood for getting it, lol.

[Razorwing]

picking this up tommorow!

[Massiveterra]

[Spookie]

Choo Choo! All aboard the hype train! Next stop paid off reviews.

[Lamp0]

That's actually wrong you know.

[Razorwing]

9.7 on IGN.

[Spookie]

9.7 on IGN.

MP wasn't enabled, online streams have been pulled day & night by Rockstar lawyers, SP gameplay was limited and they give it a 9.7?

Jesus reviews are so bull**** these days. :(

[Corris Veteran]

Choo Choo! All aboard the hype train! Next stop paid off reviews.

MP wasn't enabled, online streams have been pulled day & night by Rockstar lawyers, SP gameplay was limited and they give it a 9.7?

Jesus reviews are so bull**** these days. :(

*sigh*

No doubt R* sent them all giant cheques of millions of ?/$/?, or could it not just be a good game that these reviewers have all enjoyed?

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

You guys are such cynics when it comes to R* lol

Maybe the high marks are actually justified. It's not like it's a new IP or studio making the game. They do have some very good experience you know..

[Spookie]

*sigh*

No doubt R* sent them all giant cheques of millions of £/$/€, or could it not just be a good game that these reviewers have all enjoyed?

GTA IV: heralded as the "BEST THING EVARS" by reviews. Turned out to be a turd.

The game is good but it is no way deserving of such high scores. I'm allowed to say this since, you know, I played this without being paid and/or had restrictions on my play through time. ;)

You guys are such cynics when it comes to R* lol

I'm always a cynic when people are forced to jump through hoops to review a game, another case in point: MW2.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Who is reporting they were limited to the amount of time to review RDR?

Moving an embargo time is nothing new and certainly not a reason to lynch a company over review scores. You think R* is going to order them to change the embargo time and that will push review scores up?

[Corris Veteran]

GTA IV: heralded as the "BEST THING EVARS" by reviews. Turned out to be a turd.

The game is good but it is no way deserving of such high scores. I'm allowed to say this since, you know, I played this without being paid and/or had restrictions on my play through time. ;)

GTA4 turned out to be a "turd" for you, not for everyone.

Same for this, just because you don't agree with the scores from reviewers that might actually really enjoy the game, doesn't automatically mean they have been paid for a higher review.

[Spookie]

Same for this, just because you don't agree with the scores from reviewers that might actually really enjoy the game, doesn't automatically mean they have been paid for a higher review.

But if your parent company is pushing a major pre order bonus and running the magazine with a tonne of the marketing for the game that's just a coincidence right? I'd take word of mouth from a friend over some illiterate over paid hack.

Though I have to admit being able to hogtie a nun then putting her on the train tracks to get gibbed by a passing train gets an instant point from me. :F

Who is reporting they were limited to the amount of time to review RDR?

There has been a few tweets from disgruntled staff.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

There has been a few tweets from disgruntled staff.

Specifically mentioning they've had limited time? Would like to read them if you can link them

But at the end of the day that still has absolutely no effect on the score. If Barbie's Horse Adventure was **** and they had 3 hours to play & review, you think they'll give it 10/10?

No, it doesn't work like that.

If money exchanged hands then yes you'd have something to go on here with your rants. Paying off the entire publishing industry? Yeah, not a chance.

[Spookie]

Specifically mentioning they've had limited time? Would like to read them if you can link them

She says bad thing about Apple, you'd get upset. :p

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Ah thought as much. You're scrambling to make fake Twitter accounts now to back yourself up eh :p

Or maybe there was a sudden twitocalypse that just happened to wipe those tweets out and nothing else ;)

Trash a game that deserves it, like Lost Planet 2 or Skate 3 :yes: