Alright, I'll buy the bread!

Okay fate, I get it. you've foiled me for the last time! I've been having trouble posting on a regular basis on Sundays. I've been shanghaied by friends, the sites been down I've forgotten it was Sunday (that last one's probably my fault). So I've decided that a Monday.Wednesday,Friday format would be better.That's right, my solution for not being able to post enough was to make a schedule that required me to post more what are you gonna do about it.Enough yik yakken' let's get to the proper blog stuff.

Red Dead Redemption
Sweet lordy loo! If you aren't playing this game right now you are failing at life, and I do mean right now. You should be reading this blog between shooting off the hat of that guy behind the rock taking pot shots at you and knife fighting that bear that's sneaking up behind you(bears are apparently the ninjas of the forest).

The Good: The graphics are clean and crisp and make you believe you are a cowboy in the old west. The vistas are beautiful and the sunrises and sunsets are just amazing. The weather patterns that flow around the game world are believable and realistic and you can see rain rolling in and ride out of it if you don't like a soggy gun slinger.

The world you ride in is wide open to you if you can see someplace, odds are you can get to it.There's obviously a barrier that prevents you from seeing outside the game world or worse escaping it but there's nothing that stands out as unrealistic or video gamey and the playable world is vast enough that it never seems cramped or restrictive.


The freedom they've given you to live out wild west fantasies is almost offensive in it's vastness. For instance; a man approached me in the wilds asking me to give him a ride into town because he was stranded. I acquiesced because I'm generally a nice guy and odds are an award would e coming as a thank you(I said I was generally nice not stupid). As the man reached me he promptly pulled me off my horse and rode away "stranding" me in the wilds. I ran after him but was obviously outstripped by a horse. That's when it struck me that wasn't my only horse. I whistled to call my extra horse and took chase. I found him standing in a ravine so I snuck up behind him and shot him in the knee, lassoed him and dragged him through the cacti until I came to some railroad tracks. I let him get up and then I shot him in the other knee, hogtied him and left him on the tracks never to be heard from again.(no one messes with the horse!)

The absolute tops though is the voice work. The voice work is so good it puts games like uncharted look like a big sack o' smashed raccoons.

Now there's still lots of good stuff to say about this game but it really would be way too long a blog if I didn't move onto....

The Bad: um...I'm sure there's something I can put here, Ah yes now I remember. There are some crazy bugs you can find. At one point I was in cover and a bandito took a shot at me which caused my cowboy to fly 60 feet into the air and plummet to his death. There's also the time I lost my horse until I looked up on the roof of a shack only to find him balancing on a crumbling wall, I had to lasso him and pull him down which killed him as he then fell off a cliff. My favorite though would have to be this (that's not me in the video).

The Verdict: All in all I'd give this game a 9 out of 10, It's not perfect but it's damn close. I'll be playing this probably for the rest of the year easily and with the amazing multiplayer it has; possibly longer. Rockstar finally put out a game that I've actually enjoyed playing the story from beginning to end and I hope this is the beginning of a trend for them. I'm pretty sure everyone's tired of running down pedestrians and beating hookers by now, yes?

Anyway I've just realized that due to a technical glitch with my computer causing me to have to restart from almost scratch I have missed yet another deadline and am posting this very early on tuesday instead of monday like I intended(Fate you are a tricky mistress) so I am forced to say later days for now and hopefully you're now all playing Red Dead Redemption.