Remember when Horizon Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released in the same week last year? Despite Horizon being a phenomenal game– some would say the best of last year — Breath of the Wild still ended up dominating the conversation in the casual and broader gaming scene. I imagine that Red Dead Redemption 2 will end up being one of those conversation-dominating titles as well, which means it’s likely better for Activision to just stay out of its way after release.

Bigfoot has been synonymous with Rockstar games since 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . There is a picture in your house fans thought was a clue to its discovery, but it wasn’t in the game. This continued into the first Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto V and is back yet again for this g

Challenges in the first Red Dead Redemption were difficult, but tolerable for the most part. The latter challenges were demanding enough to give any player a headache, but never so overwhelming where they outright detracted from the game’s overall quality. The same cannot be said for Red Dead Redemption II , unfortunat

A Bright Bouncing Boy is a multi-faceted side mission in Red Dead Redemption 2 . In this side mission, you meet with Marko Dragic, a professor conducting bizarre experiments. The reason this side quest has two entries is due to the massively different and intriguing tasks in each of the two meeti

Your horse often can’t gallop too fast; your horse will occasionally crash into rocks and trip over, and your horse can be swayed by the course of a river to its doom. It’s real. It’s cool in that regard. But it makes riding an absolute chore at times. One wrong move will result in your horse collapsing and Arthur needing to waste one of his many Horse Revitaliz

For whatever reason, despite clearing setting up a meaningful arc for Kieran, absolutely nothing happens with him until his demise. He has no story relevance, his side missions never delve into who he is, and the gang never properly accepts him. The only weight he has is the implication that Dutch is deliberately using Kieran as a martyr to influence the gang. Other than that? Kieran is was

Activision isn’t going to take any chances launching their game after Red Dead Redemption 2 for good reason. The last title that Rockstar Games released– Grand Theft Auto V –went on to become the highest selling game of all-time . Even crazier is that it’s still charting on NPD what seems to be every month nearly five years after its initial release.

We’re in an unprecedented year where we’ll get to see gaming’s highest selling annual franchise face off against the developers behind history’s highest sold game. It’s going to be a fun fight to watch, but come October, I think I’ll put my money on the cowboy.

Margaret will ask you to track three escaped animals from their circus. These three animals are a zebra, tiger, and lion. Each of these animals has their own separate parts within this side mission, extending the mission out across the map and ending with a hefty rew

I’m quite proud to say I discovered this next anomaly on my own. It was fairly early on in the game. I was heading back to camp from Valentine on the main road when I discovered a red dead Redemption 2 fan theories trail leading up to a bridge. There you can start the serial destroyer’s quest, which is quite intense. He leaves clues using human bodies. If you figure out the clues you’ll get to see a pretty amazing discovery. I won’t spoil who it is though, but it’s worth

Which might explain why Dutch is so swayed by him, but keep in mind that Dutch is an intelligent man. There is no real way he would let Micah manipulate him the way he does. Micah basically orchestrates the entirety of Chapter 6 with Dutch acting as a playing piece. Dutch, the most charismatic man alive, has no influence on Micah and is instead influen

Surprise, surprise, there are UFOs in this game. It’s pretty easy to find once you know where to go. If you travel northeast of the second N in New Hanover, you’ll see a lake. Once you’re there you’ll find skeletons inside a cabin in a scene straight from Fallout 4. There’s a cryptic letter that talks about other beings coming back for them at 2 A.M. If you go back inside at that time, you’ll see a ship fly above. Is this a clue for the DLC? Will we see cowboys and aliens duke it out? I hope

There’s a lot of depressing discoveries in Red Dead Redemption II . A lot of which are even creepier when Arthur barely has a reaction. He just creepily scribbles cryptic notes. Anyway, another flying ruin you can discover is north of Big Val

These side missions usually take the form of aiding Albert Mason – from stolen bags to creating the best photo-ops. For a light-hearted and character heavy side mission, this one proves there is a lot of character progression even outside the main st

Bonnie MacFarland is the woman who saves John Marston’s life at the beginning of the first game. Once you get close you’ll learn she’s had many suitors, but nothing ever turns out well for her. If you go southeast of the first N in New Hanover, and follow the river, right about there you will see a man, presumably eliminated, next to a boat. If you try to loot him, he’ll gasp for air before eventually going in peace for real. In his clutched fist is a love letter for Bon