I’m not the only one who’s been binge-watching old westerns since starting Red Dead Redemption 2 Multiplayer Dead 2 am I? No? Good! Well, you know how the characters often shoot into the air, firing off warning shots or clearing space using their shooting irons? You can do this too! Red Dead isn’t very good at telling you this, but it’s really easy. When you’re aiming, simply tap up on the D-pad, and Arthur will aim his gun into the air. You can make wildlife scatter, fire warning shots, and scare witnesses into stopping by doing

How do you fancy being able to circle strafe around enemies while riding your horse? If you want to channel your inner 90s FPS protagonist and combine power and maneuverability, you can! All you have to do is hold down Square/X and a direction on the X-axis. Another little bit of advanced equine tactics for you: if you want to do a sharp 90-degree turn, you can do so by holding down R1/RB and hitting a direction on the X-a

This side mission brings more exotic wildlife into the world of Red Dead Redemption 2 . Minding your own business doing cowboy things in Chapter 3, you’ll run into a crashed circus caravan. On discovering this caravan, you will meet a peculiar fellow, Marga

Marko Dargic will ask you to place lightning conductors in specific locations in a given area. These will light up once you get to the right part of the highlighted area. Once all three are placed and you have returned to Marko Dragic, he will send you up a tower to flip some switches in a specific order. Once you have completed these tasks you get to see the fruits of your labor, which has a very mad scientist tw

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

While you can unlock fast travel fairly early on by upgrading your tent, the game does have a pseudo-fast travel system built in. If you set a custom waypoint on your map, switch to cinematic view, and then set your horse running by holding down X/A, the horse will make its way to the waypoint. You don’t need to even hold the button down. You can go and make a cup of tea/coffee if you like, and when you come back, your horse should be at the destinat

One thing that actually really winds me up in Red Dead is that when you die, you don’t lose your bounty. Come on now. If you’re up for a bit of gaminess, there is a solution. Spend or donate all of your cash, go to the local sheriff’s office, wherever you have a bounty where you have a bounty. Antagonize him (call him a yellow-belly or something), until he turns hostile. Surrender yourself. You’ll spend time in prison, and your bounty will be gone. You lose all your money if you can’t afford the bounty, but if you’ve got rid of it all, no prob

On entering the bar, you will see a drunkard who has definitely seen better days and a man writing a book. This man will give you photographs of the most famous gunslingers and send you on a quest to find and challenge t

All that shooting, running, and wrasslin’ gets Arthur real dirty, real quick. If you’re too covered in dirt or blood, people won’t look upon you in a good light. To clean up, and also clean your clothes, go to a hotel. Get a bath, and wash yourself. If you’re not fancying doing the whole cleaning minigame, you can pay extra for a deluxe service, and get someone else to wash you. The best part? Doing this will somehow magically clean your clothes

Now that Red Dead Redemption II is out, Rockstar has more or less solidified their latest title as Game of the Year. With only Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to rival the long-awaited sequel to 2010’s hit, we can safely assume the latter will wind up the more revered multiplayer title while the former solidifies itself as one of the greatest single player experiences of our time. No game is perfect, however. For as critically revered as Red Dead Redemption II has become, it has some serious flaws. Granted, we all more or less choose to ignore them on account of the title’s high quality, but let’s shine a light on the masterpiece’s cracks for just a

Holding L2 or LT, depending on your system, and clicking in the left joystick will prod Arthur into giving your horse a reassuring pat on the head/neck, which keeps your horse reasonable and gains a little bit more of your horse’s tr

Are you enjoying your time in Red Dead Redemption 2 ? I know that I am. I’ve been chipping away at the game over the course of two weeks now, barely even playing the story. I know that I’m only about halfway through the story, if that, but that’s fine. This is a game that’s something of a miracle. Not only is it slow paced story-wise, but it’s made almost every player take their time with it. There are so many stranger missions, animals to hunt, fish to catch, gang hideouts to wipe out, collectibles, and more, it’s the closest that a game has ever come to making a real, living, breathing world. I don’t think that this game could ever have been made before this generation, and it’s nice to see a game that truly takes advantage of this generation, not just in its graphics, but in its sheer sc