Early Preview: Red Dead Redemption Part 1

We continued into the town of Chuparosa, a small rundown Mexican town where we see civilians continuing on with their daily lives preparing chickens, making horse shoes and generally just milling around. Now if we had been really bad up until this point we could possibly see the civilians making for the doors but seeing as we had a pretty neutral fame and honour rating at this time we were largely ignored. Except, that is for the ladies on the first floor of the saloon who were calling out to us and offering their wares.

We stopped over at a local shop keeper and very quickly bought a bandana and upgraded our campsite, quickly enough for me not to see what else was on offer but there did seem to be quite a bit. As a guess we will be able to upgrade our weapons, outfits and pick up assorted items that could help us in our journey.

By this time more clouds had appeared over head and the sun was beginning to set over the horizon, Red Dead Redemption features full day/night cycles along with random weather (including rain and snow) and cloud formations. The sunset bathed everything in a warm orange glow and was a testament to how far we have come with lighting in video games.

Over in the corner a lawman is nailing a wanted poster to the wall, here is our first mission. We grab the wanted poster from the wall and accept our mission to return the wanted man… dead or alive. A red skull appears on our mini map and off we go.

Along the way we decide to save a man who is being hijacked by bandits. Once done we loot the bandits’ stage coach and the intended victim also thanks us by handing over a treasure map. This is second sort of mission in RDR. When we look at the map we can see a unique rock structure in the bottom left and in the top left a closer view of this structure with an arrow pointing to a certain spot.

We continue on our way to the wanted man and unsurprisingly (this is a demo remember) we come across that unique rock structure pretty quickly, up the mountain we go to where the arrow was pointing and we come across an obviously man made rock pile pretty much exactly where that arrow was pointing. While on the other side of the valley smokes trickles up from someone else’s campfire. We remove the rocks to uncover a chest with a gold bar inside and yet another treasure map.

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Last Updated: December 15, 2009