Those with loaded guns, and those who dig

I must say - there is no better game than Red Dead Redemption. Computer games may be beyond my craft threshold but I am 100 % certain and positive that when it comes to Red Dead Redemption and its exceptional storytelling, other games just don't stand a chance. Even now, in the age of higly praised Grand Theft Auto 5,  I still believe that John Marston's story has not been matched yet. I finished the game 3 years ago but the only thing I can hear in my head each and every single morning  is the song "Exodus in America". What a brilliant job with the soundtrack composed by Bill Elm and Woody Jackson. Morricone must be proud.

The sounds of the game might be a pivotal aspect for my assessment, but nope, this game has many other things and remarkable features to offer. The storyline is touching and very deeply elaborated like never before. From my point of view, just a look at the raw, vast swath of a southern american countryside is a glittering lure enough.  If there is any negative criticism I could level at the game, it is perhaps the playable character of Jack Marston. And that's just because of the fact that I can't see by any stretch of the imagination anybody  filling the shoes of his great father.

"I'm many things, most of 'em bad."

(picture courtesy of ps3blog.net)

The old bar set by RDR is still at its highest. It's a standard upcoming games must strive to reach. Rockstar Games are like American Movie Classics. There is simply no mediocrity. The best or nothing. As far as the story is concerned, the latest western movie blockbuster Django Unchained is nowhere near compared to this soon to be called masterpiece. The game of Marston's redemption will never be rendered obsolete. Ever.