Red Dead Redemption 2 is officially coming next year (well, we hope), and Rockstar have been masterfully whetting our appetites for their latest title throughout the week. A logo colour change on Sunday was followed by a more direct Red Dead tease on Monday, with Rockstar formally announcing the sequel on Tuesday. We’ve been eagerly awaiting the first look at it though, which is set to happen a little later today.
So bookmark this page. Bookmark it now. Go ahead. I’m watching you. Drag that mouse and hit the little bookmark button up top. Because when the trailer goes live at exactly 5pm local time today, we’ll have it right up here, for your viewing pleasure.
What’s it going to be about? Who knows! From past Rockstar experiences, we’re unlikely to get a clear picture of who we’re playing as, what the story is about or anything really specific. Grand Theft Auto V’s first trailer flew by Los Santos, giving brief glimpses into Rockstar’s open-world with a slight tease of one of the three protagonists. Given that the game is a year out, Red Dead Redemption 2’s trailer is likely to follow suit.
That’s still incredibly exciting though, because we’ll get to see when the game is set, and if it’s really going to revisit some of the locales of the first Redemption. Speculation will have you believe that this is aiming to be a prequel to John Marston’s story, with the seven figures in the teaser image perhaps pertaining to his former gang. I’d like to think that you’re maybe going up against seven notorious outlaws as a brand new character, but who knows if Rockstar will follow either route.
Either way, we’ll know a little more a little later today. And I for one cannot wait to see it.
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Last Updated: October 20, 2016
GooseZA
October 20, 2016 at 16:20
*waits
Lord Chaos
October 20, 2016 at 16:22
It’s not gonna be up at exactly 5. I’ll refresh at 17:02 and hope for the best knowing you lot. 😛
Geoffrey Tim
October 20, 2016 at 16:51
It’s already embedded. it’ll be live.
GooseZA
October 20, 2016 at 16:57
*waits
Lord Chaos
October 20, 2016 at 17:00
Nope. 😛
GooseZA
October 20, 2016 at 17:00
WHERE IS IT GEOFF?!?!?! YOU PROMISED?!?!?!
Geoffrey Tim
October 20, 2016 at 17:02
did you refresh, mate?
Lord Chaos
October 20, 2016 at 17:03
Started working. At 17:02. 😀
Have to say I’m underwhelmed.
GooseZA
October 20, 2016 at 17:04
Just watched it. Cried a little.
*sniff
It’s so beautiful…
ConquerGP
October 20, 2016 at 17:00
Not seeing nottin
Geoffrey Tim
October 20, 2016 at 17:02
Did y’all refresh?
Jonah Cash
October 20, 2016 at 17:01
It is 17:00… or so my laptop says! Where ma video at yoh?
Aries
October 20, 2016 at 17:01
Refresh
Aries
October 20, 2016 at 17:01
Mine sort of works
Aries
October 20, 2016 at 17:03
GooseZA
October 20, 2016 at 17:03
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!
GIVE IT TO ME NOOOOOOW!!
Looks so puuuurty!
Geoffrey Tim
October 20, 2016 at 17:03
What a disapppointing load of guff. After the VERY COOL Logan trailer, and the AWESOME AMAZING SWITCH REVEAL, that was a damp squib.
Mistake Not...
October 20, 2016 at 17:07
Hey, watch it. That right there is the holy grail.
On a more serious note, I think the game looks dank as fucc, boi.
Lord Chaos
October 20, 2016 at 17:07
Screw it, I’ll watch Dead 7, can’t get any more disappointed.
GooseZA
October 20, 2016 at 17:09
The only thing damp about that trailer is my underwear.
*waits until “fall 2017”
Spathi
October 21, 2016 at 08:24
Be patient young Padawan. This is the process to build hype! People are already hooked, you don’t have to hook’em with a trailer, so they will slowly start to bring out trailers showing more and more.
Was it the best trailer ever? No. Was it enough to make me damn excited and wanting more? Definitely!
Also, I down voted you because fuck you, RDR is the bestest!! 😛
Jonah Cash
October 20, 2016 at 17:04
Why must it fall in 2017, did SA students make the game?
Marc O Polo
October 20, 2016 at 23:16
These games are colonialist… Games must fall
Matthew Figueira
October 20, 2016 at 17:04
PEWPEW
Jonah Cash
October 20, 2016 at 17:06
So it basically showed RDR 1 with better visuals and a new voice actor… I can probably get behind that!
Mistake Not...
October 20, 2016 at 17:07
Why couldn’t they announce like, I don’t know, two days before release?
Johann
October 20, 2016 at 17:08
Well this is a “teaser” trailer, and it looks damn impressive. Sigh, just another 12 months more or less…
Jac7
October 20, 2016 at 17:43
Damn. Dit lyk kwaai.
Pieter Kruger
October 20, 2016 at 20:16
Forming online posses and battling it out with other gangs wild west style? YES PLEASE!
Viper_ZA
October 21, 2016 at 09:01
I am pre-ordering the sh*t out of this, thanks!
Sageville
October 21, 2016 at 09:38
I got a lot of “witcher” feels from that trailer…