Red Dead Redemption
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Red Dead Redemption is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. A successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver, it is the second game in the Red Dead series. Red Dead Redemption is set during the decline of the American frontier in the year 1911. It follows John Marston, a former outlaw who, after his wife and son are taken hostage by the government in ransom for his services as a hired gun, sets out to bring three members of his former gang to justice. The narrative explores themes of the cycle of violence, masculinity, redemption, and the American Dream.
Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption features a cover system that lets players hide behind objects and reach out to fire on people and animals.
Jack Marston's adoption of his father's outlaw status in the game's ending has been viewed as commentary on the theme of redemption: as a manifestation of it; the tragic irony of it; or of its absence and impossibility, and instead the inevitability to repeat the cycle of violence.
Part of Red Dead Redemption's leadership team: (left to right) technical director Ted Carson, art director Josh Bass, and producer Steve Martin at the Game Developers Choice Awards
Rockstar San Diego
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Rockstar San Diego, Inc. is an American video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Carlsbad, California. The studio is best known for developing the Midnight Club and Red Dead series.
Diego Angel (pictured in 2020) founded Angel Studios in 1984 and served as its president until 2005.