Choices between being an overtly bad man and trying to tow a moral line are constant and Arthur himself comments regularly on such things when you’ve forced his hand one way or the other. Pathos and tragedy pervade in the life of Arthur Morgan, though how sympathetic you feel toward your protagonist might come down to the way you react to the world around him. The times are changing though… Dutch might be all that’s holding this group together, but what’s it all worth in the end? What’s clear though, above all else, is that it’s the gang’s leader, Dutch, who has captured their minds with talk of a life free from the law, living as they might on an endless wild frontier. The rag-tag crew around you is quite the mix of characters, each with a stunning amount of dialogue to share and nuance to quietly express to you about who they are and why they are running with this questionable group of misfits. Times are hard and getting harder, as an outlaw lifestyle has pushed the group to the edges of both civilization and their ability to survive. The year is 1899 as we join our avatar, Arthur Morgan, and the gang he’s desperately trying to survive with, Dutch’s Boys. Red Dead Redemption 2 takes place as an epoch creeps across the nation of America.
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Thankfully, Rockstar Games has finally brought it’s latest flagship game to PC and Red Dead Redemption 2 is ready to help wannabe cowboys and cowgirls get a taste of a fleeting and increasingly distant time and place. Thoughts of the inescapable creep of humanity into those spaces pervade, that there are no lawless, truly free places and that ultimately that notion is nothing more than a dream.
A moment later though, my rationale counterpoints with hard reality. Being a part of the land itself, making my way and appreciating nature’s bounty, no laws or rules of polite society to hold me back. Much as I’m a pasty white Englishman, when I see images of the great expanses of the American wilderness there’s a part of me that yearns to be out there just being.
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