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Red Dead Redemption for PlayStation 3
Red Dead Redemption for PlayStation 3 is an action-adventure in an open Western world. You play John Marston, a former outlaw forced by the government to track down members of his old gang. His family is at stake. You ride across the American frontier and Mexico, meet local power brokers and delve ever deeper into a past Marston wanted to leave behind.
In firefights you use cover, switch weapons and activate Dead Eye to slow down aiming. Outside story missions you can help strangers, hunt animals, seek fugitives or sit down at a card table. Distances matter: a journey across open country has a different rhythm from a confrontation in town. Your horse gets you around quickly, but when urging it on you must account for its stamina.
Your behaviour affects Marston's honour and fame. Actions between missions therefore carry meaning without every encounter becoming a new main mission. You play the campaign alone; a second player cannot travel alongside you locally through the story. Here you play the original PS3 game. The standard release and Game of the Year Edition differ in content, as explained below. Undead Nightmare, offered separately, is a different product edition and is not automatically included with every version.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
This is the standard PS3 edition of Red Dead Redemption. Undead Nightmare's campaign and the other components of the Game of the Year Edition are not offered as included with this standard disc.
Manual
Red Dead Redemption for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Red Dead Redemption
Rockstar San Diego developed Red Dead Redemption and Rockstar Games released it for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010. The game followed Red Dead Revolver but used a different protagonist and a much freer world. John Marston's story takes place in the final years of the old West. Government power and changing circumstances therefore constantly press on the personal quest of a man trying to escape his former life.
The open environment made travel and chance encounters part of the story's rhythm. A long ride, an unexpected request for help and a duel could occur between fixed missions. That distinguishes its structure from a Western made only of successive shootouts. The manual also links the world to concrete systems: honour and fame, horse stamina, camps and Dead Eye. You use those rules while deciding how much time to spend exploring.
Expansions followed, including Undead Nightmare as a supernatural side story. The 2011 Game of the Year Edition bundled the original game with the additional content released. That explains why two similar PS3 boxes can represent different offerings. Later releases for other systems received their own technical features. Those are not attributed to the original PS3 version here. Marston's first Redemption adventure remains a story you can follow independently within the series' larger history.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Grand Theft Auto IV also uses an open world, story missions and encounters with the law on PS3. Niko Bellic drives through densely built Liberty City, while Marston rides between scattered settlements. Traffic and city streets give way to landscape and greater distances. Both follow someone burdened by the past, but their worlds' everyday rhythms differ greatly.
Grand Theft Auto V splits its PS3 story between Michael, Franklin and Trevor. You switch between their lives and prepare joint heists. Red Dead Redemption stays with Marston and his search for former gang members. Both let you roam outside missions, but vehicles, sports and modern city bustle give GTA V a different variety from horses and the frontier.
L.A. Noire lets you drive through a historical city and investigate criminal cases on PS3. You examine evidence and question witnesses as officer Cole Phelps. Red Dead Redemption puts gunfights, riding and free encounters more prominently in the foreground. Both use a past era for their story, but Marston does not conduct a series of police investigations with set interrogation moments.
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood also features revolvers, Western settings and loyalty on PS3. You experience the action in first person across more clearly bounded chapters. Red Dead Redemption places the camera behind Marston and provides an open world between missions. You therefore more often decide for yourself when to continue or investigate something else along the way.
Far Cry 3 combines an open landscape with animals, enemy camps and story missions on PS3. You fight in first person on tropical islands and develop new skills. Red Dead Redemption uses a third-person view and centres on Marston's Western journey. Both offer diversions along the way, but the setting, weapons and pace of travel give their exploration a different character.
