Just because the Van der Linde Gang is a group of outlaws, doesn't mean they're averse to usury. Leopold Strauss is the member of the Gang who gives loans to people with extremely high interest rates. He then sends Arthur to collect the de

If you’re a Grand Theft Auto Online player (as much of the darn known universe has been over the years), you’ll know that, outlaw or not, you’ve got to work for your money. You can’t just boot the game up for the first time and rule the criminal underworld right from the start. It’s a rags to ill-gotten-riches st

Speaking of Mount Shann, it has a few mysteries of its own. Not only have players connected Mount Shann to Mount Chiliad from Grand Theft Auto 5, but they have also found several strange things around Mount Shann. For starters, there is a strange rock formation that can be found atop the mountain. The rock formation has what appears to be a compass or type of sundial on it. There are many other locations with the same markings making people think that Mount Shann holds more mysteries than it leads

He isn't exactly in Red Dead Redemption 2 as a character but a painting of him can be found in a cabin. If you continually visit the cabin throughout your adventure you will find that the painting gets increasingly more close to completion. If you visit the painting again as John Marston you will be face to face with the ' Strange Man ' painting and you can even see his reflection in the mirror behind

In a massive (and occasionally daunting) open-world game made by hundreds of people over thousands and thousands of work hours, I sometimes nestle into one or two areas or goals to make the game feel more manageable. It usually starts out as focus on the story and side quests that interest me; from there, maybe I focus on filling out the map or tracking down secrets. By the end of my time with a game on that scale, one of those tasks triumphs over the others and becomes my favorite element in the game.

This is another really simple method that new online gamers or people new to Red Dead don't know, but people are killing and hunting you because you are a giant dot on their menu (and a Red Dead Redemption 2 locations one in PVP). But did you know that if you crouch when you run, it makes you a small, passive, gray dot on the mini-

In RDR , John famously swam like a rock when he so much as put a toe into deep water. Not even his horses could keep him from sinking. In RDR2 , Rockstar not only has Arthur constantly make fun of John for it, but you will also lose the ability to swim when you play as John in the Epilogue. Talk about commitment to a charac

In short, fast travel is super convenient in Red Dead Redemption 2 , but it could’ve been far more user-friendly. It’s expensive to unlock, it’s unwieldy, and you may not even have known it was there in the first pl

When returning to his cabin you will see a giant mural on his cabin wall depicting different things like him stepping through a portal and the Empire State Building. This has led many to believe he is a time traveler and some even believe he is Lucifer himself! This accusation comes from his birthmark connecting him to the Epsilon Program in Grand Theft Aut

Who made it? Why did they make it? Is it supposed to come to life one day? Is it meant to be art? The origin of the Man-made Mutant is one of the game's biggest unresolved mysteries. It looks like the world of Red Dead Redemption will never k

Never fear, for you can always pay the bounty at the post office and erase your problems. It's a simple way to ease the pressure whenever you're in the area again. But...if that's the case, why can't we do that for the town of Blackwa

When you're playing as Arthur Morgan, you can bet that at some point, you are going to get into trouble. Whether you harm a person on purpose or accidentally run over them on your horse, eventually, a bounty will be placed on your h

Fortunately, all was well. It was a phenomenal sales success, one of the best-received games of the year by critics and players alike. Why? Largely because it’s a vast, ambitious title that sets new standards for open-world gamep

You can fight this fanged creature, but I was actually curious as to why the vampire existed. We got no answers as to how it was created. But I suppose it's not Arthur Morgan's job to question why vampires exist. He just has to slay t

It’s a rare and in-depth look that can be entirely ignored. This handwritten journal makes Arthur feel like a real man and breaks down the illusion of minute choices in Red Dead ’s world: Arthur’s character is predetermined. The honor system becomes a mechanic more so than a narrative pathway, unlike Mass Effect ’s infamous narrative decisions.

As I say, Rockstar have implemented a fast travel system that makes things much more convenient for the player, but also tries to keep things as in-universe and immersive as possible. What does this mean? It means that there are some real limitations to it, that’s what it me