Tijuana Escorts: Red Dead Redemption much more than Grand Theft Auto IV with horses
And mostly, I just wasn’t sure I’d be able to get behind a Wild West protagonist who jacked (recently invented) cars. Robbed trains, maybe. But definitely not one who killed prostitutes.
But anyway, I suppose I worried that RDR might end up being “GTA with horses” after all, and I was afraid the facade would fall off, and I’d lose interest halfway through.
Then the first sequence faded in: 1911. The tail end of the Old West. John Marston steps off a boat, and walks past a paperboy, who shouts the game’s first dialogue: “Extra, extra! Health benefits of smoking!”
Over the course of the next five minutes, I met a guide in a brothel, rode a horse to an ambush, was mocked for using the word “implore”, and got shot by my former best friend. My heart lifted.
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