Rockstar is a company that likes to be in control, and with every demo of Red Dead Redemption that’s come along so far, they’ve kept a pretty tight reign on what I’ve been able to see. There was the mission and combat demo, the multiplayer demo, and even the open-world-aspects demo. But as a sandbox game, it’s hard to get a real feel for what’s in store when you don’t have the freedom to go and do whatever you want. Well, with a few weeks left before the game’s release, Rockstar finally lets me play the game for a few hours from the very beginning.
The only problem is, you already know about most of what I play. Through the other impressions and videos already out, we’ve covered a lot of the game, so for this final piece of preview coverage, I’m picking out five key events in the game’s opening hours.