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Red Dead Redemption 2: new information from recent previews

Continues the release of information about the highly anticipated Red Dead Redemption 2 ; yesterday afternoon various newspapers around the world have published articles in preview after you could attend a demonstration of the title played directly from the developers Rockstar. We therefore propose an extract of the most interesting information emerging from these articles, so that you can get a quick idea about the features of the game. Happy reading!


Interaction with the characters:

  • The game world will be much more alive and interactive than ever before. All the characters have their daily routines and day/night cycles, also react differently based on how to approach them. For example, if we walk with a gun in his hand, will tend to be cautious and thesis, or even hostile; If the gun will be holstered, will be more relaxed and friendly.
  • To interact with the characters we can press one of the three front buttons of the pad to approach them in different ways: for example can be used to triangle Y a salutation, B for a hostile approach and circle X is to rob them. The associated actions to buttons, however, change over the course of the game and are influenced by the context, for example with a fisherman will have actions and reactions other than those that we might have with another gunman or a drunk.
  • You can rob people without pulling out the gun, just threatening them verbally and assaltandoli so that you do not give us their money.
  • The characters treat us differently based on what we have done in the past, our reputation and our clothing.

Game world

  • The title will present a wide range of areas, from the marshes in snowy areas up to city in full industrialization.
  • The demo shown to reporters was set in the area of New Hanover, a mountainous area rich in forests and a town called Valentine.
  • The game world is described as very alive and visually impressive
  • The demo ran on a PS4, and journalists describing the art as the best you've ever seen on the platform.

Gang and camp:

  • Our Gang, the gang 's Van der Linde, will his camp consisting of wagons and tents in which will carry on the daily life. This will be in effect for a tiny community in which we can have different interactions on a daily basis.
  • The band will give us several secondary missions and challenges; for example as we walk to the camp one of the members might inform us that we're running out of supplies, which we will assign a mission to hunt to find new supplies.
  • The camp will have a management that will allow us to better manage life in the community, but this will be an optional aspect. If we decide to dedicate ourselves to this aspect we will get extra bonuses and rewards, but we can also decide to ignore it completely.

Hunting & supplies

  • Hunting activity was expanded and improved considerably compared to the previous title. For example you can now use different types of skinning on our prey, which will allow us to attract different resources.
  • The kills will be tied to the horse to take them sane at camp or in the city, or we can just take the skin to put in the inventory.
  • The animals will have a lot of different animations and their behavior appears extremely realistic.
  • The value of the kills will depend on how well we've torn down and with what weapons. A killed prey with an arrow to the skull will maintain a higher value than a perforated by a shotgun.
  • Prey that we decide to take with us, tied to the horse they decay over time and that you will notice both visually and in the decrease of their value. If we shoot with a rotting animal associated with horse, we will get disgusted faces reactions from characters.

Horse

  • This time we will be able to create a "deeper and emotional" connection with our horse, plus be able to interact in different ways in terms of gameplay. Rockstar explains that while in RDR the horse was a sort of "disposable vehicle", to be a real partner with whom we can RDR2 in a relationship much stronger. And stronger we will make this relationship, the better will be the characteristics of the horse.
  • Much of the equipment will not be transportable in our inventory but will be held on the horse. Then the greater the bond with our horse and we can recall it faster to get access to our equipment.
  • The horse may die. If he dies, we will have to start over the process of "bond" with the new steed. Developers explain that in this way our bond and affection with the horse will become even stronger and we do not want that understood anything wrong.
  • If the horse is injured, we can use bandages and medicines to cure him and save him from death.

Robberies

  • The game will have a system of robberies similar to GTA V, where we will have to plan the whole thing and decide the strategies. For example we may decide that a gang member will have to create a diversion in a Bank, so as to allow others to sneak up on the staff inside.
  • We will have several options on how to carry out robberies, with different risk and reward: for example try to crack the safe will take longer and be riskier but will allow us to have all the money, while blow it will be faster and sure, but some of the content will eventually burn up.
  • Every action taken in robberies, as the break in safes, will have very detailed animations.
  • In the case of robberies at banks, after leaving the Bank, there will be a shootout with security forces on alert, and will begin a stage further action of the robbery. And the clash will not terminate running with horses, because we will be pursued and will continue to shoot on horseback.
  • Some killings, if having a particularly spectacular, cinematic camera will be entered into.

That's all for now: stay tuned for more information about Red Dead Redemption 2 !