Dan Houser, that guy from Rockstar Games, has revealed multiplayer for Red Dead Redemption will involve charging on ”horses and stagecoaches and trains”.
Blasting the crap out of one another online hasn’t been ”finalized” yet, with Houser admitting they’re ”still learning a lot” about multiplayer. Had ”quite a leap” from GTA IV to DLC.
”Charging around on horses and stagecoaches and trains, shooting each other in a multiplayer world,” Houser tells IGN, presumably wiping a tear from his manly eye.
”It’s pretty epic, but it’s not finalized to talk about in any more detail than that. We’re still learning a lot as we learn how to do multiplayer games successfully.”
Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned DLC have taught them quite a few things about multiplayer he says. ”We definitely feel there’s something really fun about third-person multiplayer games, just as we feel there’s something really fun with third-person single-player games.”
”Even between GTA IV and the Lost and Damned we made quite a leap forward in how the games were structured and how they played and I think we’re looking to do that again with everything we do going forward.”
As for the structure of the singleplayer experience, ”it’ll work similarly to how Bully or GTA worked,” he said. ”You’ll have a load of missions open at any one time, so you’ll have the choice of ‘do I go and do a mission for him or do I go and do a mission for them’…”
”There’s a couple of points when you have choices that you can make in that story but not that much… Our main goal with a game like this or with any game is giving the player freedom over what they do next. There’s always a ton of other activities, both mission-based and non mission-based to go and do.”
Red Dead Redemption is sounding more and more like a cool bastard child of the Wild West with each passing day. See the trailer below for why the six-shooter WILL be fashionable again.
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