A slow trickle of information and media on upcoming Old West-em-up Red Dead Redemption has been coming from developer Rockstar Games for some time now. And if it weren’t for the game’s somewhat unique setting – as well as our (admittedly strained) faith in the game’s developer – we might not indulge the it with so much attention. Alas, these screens, much like the screens and video that came before them, keep impressing us. Call it a predilection for Western-themed entertainment … we’re not sure. Peep the screens below and decide for yourself if the game is worth your time during the busy second holiday release season.
It appears from the industry jungle drums that Bully 2 is on the cards.
Composer Shawn Lee, who worked on The Getaway and the first Bully game let slip the news in an interview with The Gaming Liberty saying, “It looks like I will be doing the soundtrack for Bully 2 in the not so distant future.
Given the fearsome reputation of Rockstar’s PR engine, this was probably no accidental leak and may just prove to be the beginning of a drip feed of tantalising morsels building up to a proper announcement. Hopefully this means that Bully 2 could be hitting our shelves sometime next year.
With the release of this week’s second Grand Theft Auto IV expansion The Ballad of Gay Tony, the game’s developer has decided to update the online multiplayer statistics tracking in order to reflect the new multiplayer game types. The addition of “BASE Jump” to the mulitplayer as well as “new, tighter Deathmatch arenas” helped spur the leaderboard overhaul, according to the developer blog. The various new additions being made due to the DLC will even get their own section on the Rockstar Social Club, presumably for the four of you tracking your new GTAIV DLC stats after Modern Warfare 2 releases in a couple weeks.
Rather than offer interesting social commentary or moody atmospheric tone, the just-released Ballad of Gay Tony teaser instead teaches us that Luis Lopez is not a joking around kinda guy. He takes shots, tosses dudes off buildings – he even goes to the driving range!
In case it weren’t already glaringly obvious to you, the second Grand Theft Auto IV expansion will be taking itself quite a bit less seriously than the first digital release. Thankfully, the wait is nearly over and we can find out for ourselves tomorrow just how much Rockstar Games has twisted its latest opus.
New Red Dead Redemption screens showcase the finer things in (cowboy) life originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
