![]() It has three regions: Cumberland Forest, The Heartlands and Roanoke Ridge. The state that appears second in-game but the majority of the missions take place here. New Hanover- (First appearance in-story: “Eastward Bound”). The mostly snowy region of the map, covering two regions: Grizzlies East and West. With Rockstar seemingly shelving their plans for a Red Dead Redemption Remaster, for now I'll have to content myself with exploring gaming's quintessential Western region in this small corner of Red Dead Redemption 2.Ambarino- (First appearance in-story: “Outlaws from the West”). While the scarcity of this region puts into perspective the massive progress made in the eight years between Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, it also made me yearn for the original game's more classical take on the Wild West. Gallivanting around it with no ties or obligations to anyone other than whoever offers you a good price for the region's bounties makes you feel like the classic western loner - Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name, whose true purpose and goals are a mystery. It feels like the Wild West through the lens of 1950s movies and popular culture. New Austin may not be as visually spectacular as most of RDR 2's other settings and states, but there's something distinctly 'Western' about this region that you just don't see in the rest of the game. More intrepid explorers will even find recognisable buildings like the Macfarlane Ranch and the house of the gollum-like Seth Briars, as well as all kinds of curious little easter eggs. Armadillo is not in a good way in Red Dead Redemption 2, blighted by a succession of plagues and disease outbreaks that have left the town in ruins, while Tumbleweed, the town abandoned in Red Dead Redemption (which is set several years later), is plodding along just fine, and you can even team up with the local sheriff to combat the local Mexican Del Lobo gang. In fact, the entire region is so scarce that it almost makes you wonder if it was going to contain more content before Rockstar decided to reel in the scope of the sequel a bit.īut while it's hardly fleshed out, some work clearly went into it. It was an incredible moment realising that Armadillo, along with the entirety of the original Red Dead Redemption map (outside Mexico), was here in RDR 2, even though it serves no meaningful purpose to the story. ALSO READ - Sadie Adler Should've Been Rockstar's First Female Protagonist.That was the New Austin region - the setting where much of Red Dead Redemption 1 takes place, and which is teased as a place you can go in the sequel. I wasn't massively compelled to keep going after the story ended and John was all settled in at Beecher's Hope, but there was just one thing left in the game that really pricked my curiosity. It was a game that, during the height of the pandemic, was a way for me to experience some semblance of nature and grand adventure, which me and everyone else was deprived of throughout 20.īut now that things have somewhat normalised, I've gone back to being an obsessive completionist (at least of a game's main story) and finally got round to finishing Red Dead 2. I put that down to the fact that the game's stunning world was far more engaging to me than the overly prescriptive cookie-cutter missions (which I wrote about a short while back). I only recently got to the end of Red Dead Redemption 2, some four-and-a-bit years after it came out.
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