It's not just the players who are experiencing "Red Dead Redemption", many game designers and media outlets are also paying attention to this game.
At the beginning, most people's focus was on the extremely free gameplay of "Red Dead Redemption".
But as the game went deeper, the variety of gameplay was no longer the focus of their attention.
Because in the game, as the story goes deeper, it brings an unusual feeling.
It feels real and makes you think, especially for players who like Western stories, they feel really into the game.
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In the town of Rhodes, there are two plantation families who are enemies, one named Braithwaite and the other named Gray.
The sheriff is from the Gray family, and he asks Arthur and Dutch to help destroy the Braithwaite family's illegal alcohol business.
At that time, the United States had not yet implemented prohibition, but the taxes on legal alcohol were too high, so the illegal alcohol business was very popular.
Including the large-scale illegal alcohol industry during the Prohibition era, and the famous grape bricks, were built on a good base during this period.
In addition, Rhodes was originally a developed agricultural area, but with the abolition of slavery, the labor-intensive agriculture naturally declined, so illegal alcohol became the main source of income for these big families, and they secretly attacked each other.
Dutch saw that the local police officer he was working with was stupid, and felt that the people in this rural place of Rhodes were easy to fool, so he came up with an idea about the two families.
He decided to use the hatred between the two sides to benefit the Van der Linde gang.
So he started all kinds of sneaky actions, sometimes helping one family steal the other family's horses, sometimes helping the other family burn this family's fields, and playing happily with both sides with no pay.
However, during this time, something happened, which was that the O'Driscolls came to the door.
But what was surprising was that the O'Driscolls, as bitter enemies, said that they should arrange a place to have a meeting.
But Micah said that there would be no loss in going to see, if it was a trap, they could just fight, but if it was real, it would be even better.
Dutch adopted this plan, and the two sides held talks, while Arthur acted as a sniper to provide cover.
But what he didn't expect was that the other party's target this time was not Dutch, but Arthur.
Because the O'Driscolls had cooperated with the Pinkerton law enforcement department, he believed that Dutch would bring the gang to rescue Arthur, and then they could set up an ambush in advance and wipe out the Van der Linde gang in one fell swoop.
In the end, Arthur took advantage of the other party's carelessness and escaped alone. When Arthur returned to the camp, he was half dead. His companions quickly took care of him.
A few weeks passed, and Arthur's injuries finally recovered, but then things completely got out of control.
The Gray family invited Arthur and the others to the town, but suddenly attacked and opened fire.
Caught off guard, Sean, who was sometimes foul-mouthed but was the life of the team, was shot in the head.
After fighting all the way, the group finally escaped from Rhodes back to the camp, but they received another bad news.
That is, the Braithwaite family found the camp and kidnapped: Little Jack.
Sean's death, Little Jack's kidnapping.
This time, the anger of Arthur, Dutch, and all the Van der Linde gang members reached the top.
Including Hosea too.
No one thought about keeping a low profile.
Dutch, Hosea, Arthur, John Marston, Charles, Bill, Lenny, Javier.
A total of eight people, aggressively killed the Braithwaite family. Just looking at their backs, you could feel the fierce and heroic spirit of the Van der Linde gang back then.
They turned into a group of bad people. After a big battle, they caught Mrs. Catherine and learned that Little Jack had been sent away, to a big man named Bronte in Saint Denis.
So the group set fire to the house and left, leaving the crazy Catherine watching the raging fire of the century-old mansion.
But one problem after another arose. The next day, when everyone was discussing how to rescue Little Jack, the two Pinkerton detectives who had found Arthur before also found them. They said some harsh words, saying that if they had the guts, they shouldn't run away. The Pinkerton detective, who said he would bring 100 people next time, patted his butt and left.
For Dutch and the others, they obviously couldn't stay here any longer.
Under Dutch's leadership, the group came to an abandoned house in the swamp not far from Saint Denis.
After settling down temporarily, everyone began to ask about Bronte's residence in order to rescue Little Jack.
And here, players finally stepped into the most prosperous and largest city in the game: Saint Denis.
The prototype of this city is New Orleans. It was built by French colonists and later sold to the United States, so the city uses the French pronunciation Saint Denis.
There are also many French buildings in the city. The trade and industry of Saint Denis are very developed. It has exquisite streets and rich goods, as well as dirty and crowded slums, and a hazy sky brought about by high industrialization.
After wandering around the city, Arthur finally got Bronte's location from the street gangsters, who make players hate them so much.
Dutch and Arthur brought John to Bronte's house.
But unexpectedly, Little Jack did not seem to have suffered any abuse.
He was even taken care of with good food and drink.
After helping Bronte deal with a group of tomb robbers.
Dutch seemed to have become good friends with Bronte.
And after that, Bronte also invited them to attend a high society party in Saint Denis.
At the same time, he hinted that Dutch should help him eliminate a business competitor.
But Dutch prides himself on being the Robin Hood of the West, so he naturally wouldn't help Bronte, but refused directly.
So at the banquet, Bronte asked Dutch what their real purpose was in coming to Saint Denis.
And after learning that Dutch and the others wanted money, he told Dutch that there would be a large sum of money at the train station.
During this period, players will also trigger many important tasks.
For example, another date with Mary.
Help Mary find her mother's belongings. The two had a great time. Arthur even watched a movie with Mary. In the movie theater, Arthur wanted to put his hand on Mary's shoulder, but he reached out countless times and finally retracted it.
Finally, when he was about to leave, Mary did not hesitate as she had done before, but spoke.
She wanted Arthur to leave with her, to leave the Van der Linde gang together and live a new life.
But obviously this was in vain, because Arthur still cared about the gang in his heart, and he couldn't abandon the gang.
He said to Mary that as long as the gang was settled, he would definitely go to Mary.
At the same time, in the city, Arthur also met the Indian chief Rains Fall and his son Eagle Flies.
This was originally just a side job, to get some more wool from an old friend, Cornwall, and steal the oil refinery bills.
But in this action, Eagle Flies saved Arthur's life, and this also established their friendship.
It is from here that the pace of the game begins to speed up.
(End of this chapter)
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