Rockstar Games have teamed up with GameStop to offer fans a special pre-order
incentive.
Press release:
GameStop and Rockstar Games present the “Red Dead Referendum,”
a public vote to select the pre-order exclusive unlockable outfit for the
upcoming title, Red Dead Redemption. Polls are open now through Feb. 15 to
choose the outfit you like best for the game’s protagonist, John Marston.
Receive the winning in-game outfit and its special gameplay benefits as a
pre-order exclusive only through GameStop.
Anyone can vote up to once a day, but ballot box stuffing is encouraged since
each vote counts as an entry in a sweepstakes to win a trip to tour the old
west on the historic Grand Canyon Railway or daily prizes of $100 GameStop
gift cards.
The three outfits to choose from include:
The Savvy Merchant – buy guns and ammunition from
any gunsmith for half the cost The Deadly Assassin – regenerate your “Dead
Eye” targeting feature twice as fast The Expert Hunter – receive double skins and hides
when you kill an animal
Rockstar have released an accompanying video to show just what is up for offer:
Red Dead News | Gameplay Video Series: Weapons and Death
Rockstar have released the second entry in their Red Dead Redemption Gameplay
Video Series, this one titled "Weapons and Death". As you may have
guessed from the video subject title it covers many of the weapons featured
in the game, it also shows the games advanced cover system, "Dead Eye"
targeting and the games physic based animations.
Hands on previews of the game have been surfacing online over the past week;
I’d recommend the Eurogamer
and Video
Games Daily previews for those wishing to get caught up. Most previews are
already praising the games audio, characters and the environmental atmosphere,
a hallmark of Rockstar at this point.
Last and by no means least, Rockstar have finally announced that Grand Theft
Auto: Episodes from Liberty City will be making its way to the PlayStation 3
and Games for Windows Live on March 30th 2010. You can read the full announcement
here.
In just a few short hours we will be saying goodbye to 2009 and hello to 2010,
which is officially the future, we will all be whizzing around with jetpacks
and wearing hover boots, leaving robotic maids to look after our homes on the
moon.
But before all that, before we enter the future, we thought we should let you
all know that Rockstar have finally given a new release date for Red Dead Redemption,
it is now scheduled to be released during April 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and
Xbox 360.
Additionally they have released some in-game footage of the title for you all
to take a gander at.
It is strange to think that in just a few weeks time it will have been three
years since Rockstar made that initial announcement that Manhunt 2 was forthcoming.
Where did the time go? For some there still isn’t closure on the game,
as those outside of North America await a PC release of the title.
Does 2010 have an announcement regarding the future of the franchise? Will
it be the year that Rockstar finally cracks high-definition game releases on
schedule?
Regardless of what the future has in store, we hope that everyone has a safe
and happy new year!
