His n Hers

His n Hers

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Passing into legend

Good afternoon all! Last time I posted, I talked a little about the single player side of Red Dead Redemption (RDR). Today, let's talk a little about the multiplayer side. As you may remember, I think this may be one of the greatest games out to date! It's beautiful and meticulously thought out. One of my favorite parts of the game is the multiplayer sessions. When you get onto multiplayer for the first time, you are not the main character from the single player side (John Marston or his son Jack Marston), you start as a randomly chosen character. You can go to the outfitter and change your character, or better yet, start right up raising holy hell! There are lots of gang hideouts to clear out and you can shoot other players who are in your world with you. Don't want to play alone? Just posse up with your friends online too. As you move through the session, you gain experience points (XP) for everything you do and you level up. Every time you level up you get stuff, like another, better, weapon, and/or a better mount, new characters and more multiplayer game options. There are co-op games where you work together to make it to the end as well as free-for-all, where it's just everyone for themselves.
This game has won all kinds of awards and is just amazing. If you don't have it, at least rent it for a week and see how you feel about it then.
Oh! Right! When you get to level 50 for the first time, you get to ride a bull. That's pretty darn cool. He's fast and runs great over terrain that your mount has trouble with. At whatever time you choose, you can go to your multiplayer screen under the pause button and choose to pass into legend. This starts you over from level one and you have to get to 50 again to start accumulating legendary mounts and characters. Seriously, get this game! Then invite me to join a posse. MoriartysParty.