According to Britain's Daily Mail, the final price tag for the development and release of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption is over 100 million dollars. Specifically, the British paper writes: "Makers Rockstar Games are thought to have spent up to $100 million on the long-awaited project."
I hate to seem cynical, but an unsupported quote (who, exactly, thinks Rockstar spent that much?) of a huge, round number sets off my BS detectors a bit. Any number thrown out by any arm of the entertainment industry needs to be looked at skeptically, plus, Supposedly, Grand Theft Auto 4 cost the same amount, and Red Dead uses the GTA 4 engine, which would suggest it could have been made cheaper.
In any case, the game is out now, and analysts expect it to top 4 million units sold. At $60 a throw, that's still a hefty profit, even if the game did cost $100 million to build and market.
Are you one of the four million expected purchasers? I am. I only got to try it out for an hour or so last night, but I am on the hook for this game. It starts pretty slowly, but even the "boring" tutorial missions where you're learning to ride a horse and shoot a gun are captivating in their own way, and the graphics are mind-blowing. There is such a sense of place in the game and a feeling of a real world there. Just amazing.
Source: Daily Mail
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bolo73
First I enjoyed Red dead revolver. I lost many hours playing that game. I know there were flaws but to play in the old west rocked. Now you pimps are shoveling part two at me. No fair. You guys make the game sound great and it looks like a blast to play.
DukeOfNYaNumba1
Maybe part of the costs mentioned included stuff like advertising. I started seeing theater adds the other week, maybe those cost a bit. Or maybe Rockstar really wanted this done quickly, gave milestone bonuses as incentives to crack the whip on the staff. Who knows.
learnedfist
I've only had the chance to play for a couple hours, but my initial reaction is that it is outstanding. I actually got sucked into playing Texas Hold 'Em for about 20 minutes trying to make some money to buy a safehouse, and had a good time doing it. It's a big improvement over the dreaded cell phone harrassment of GTA IV - you know: "Hey Cousin, you want to go bowling?!?"
spicypooptastic
This game is the best game I have played all year! Even better then Mass Effect and I normally hate westerns, but its that good.
Rockstar is by far the best developer.
FuzzofPekinopolis
Does anybody know if the system link is co-op campaign or versus or both? Wondering the same about the soon to come DLC?
hawkeye1010
This game is incredible! Only got to play it for a few hours last night and I did not want to turn it off. I can't believe how sucked into the story and game I've already become...can't stop thinking about RDR! I'm leaving work early to go home and play!
iamedd
Red Dead Redemption offers something you can't get in most games, and that's in it's setting.
Honestly that's what I like the most about this game. Riding out alone in the open world, just a man and his horse. Few other games I've played really capture that sense of loneliness so well.
CFenix
I'm purchasing it as soon as the game store opens on friday
MartinJohnstone
Ha you see the problem here is in the first line. with the British Daily Mail a notoriously ill-informed and reactionary newspaper. Seriously jack Thompson has more credability with gaming facts than the Daily mail.
And yes i am British and occasionally read the Daily Mail.
FuzzofPekinopolis
Sure they could have spent $100M
Long development cycle, delays, all the online components.
FuzzofPekinopolis
@freeshotkilla
He never said anything specific!
He had an interesting experience and wanted to share it.
I suggest if you don't want to know anything about the game then don't click on anything regarding RDR.
Moron
Servcrow
Spent about 4 hours playing last night with my wife...yes, she's a gamer too...and our early verdict is simple. The game is amazing. Superlatives are tossed around far too often, but this game deserves the praise. I'm poised to say it's Rockstar's best game ever.
IamtheBat
The multiplayer on the 360 was touch and go last night, with servers dropping and friends not being able to get into games.
But when I got on today it was alike a miracle had happened, everything I had wished that they would fix, was. The Public Free Roam was deploying players far enough away from each other that they wouldn't kill you, but close enough that in a 2 minute ride you could go reach other players spread out over the map. The free-for-all mode was exclusively playing shootout with no bag games, and load times were quick.
They did in less than one day,what Modern Warfare has never been able to accomplish in 8 months.
BONERJAM
After spending a couple of hours playing it last night I have to say it was money well spent.
I had a few issues with the social club, my DLC code and online play but they all seemed to be fixed this morning before I left for work.
I cant wait to get home and play more.
quesadia
Got it, haven't played it though. :o
kdc2g
Man... I pre-ordered the game through Amazon, but because of Lost last night, I haven't had a chance to play it. But everything I am reading today is screaming "awesome game."
duhreetoh
Never quite experienced anything in a video game like in Red Dead Redemption last night...it was intensely surreal: I spent a good amount of time wrangling wild horses in the beautiful wild west sunset...very few game environments are as convincing or immersive. I finally captured a wild stallion for my good friend, who I very much felt like I owed for bringing me in. With all her mighty hospitality she soon gifted me the rare horse.
I hopped on the newly broken stallion and rode around the countryside, enjoying the sights as it became twighlight hour. On our ride back to town, we were ambushed by bandits. I get off the stallion and gun down a group of them, but then a second group off in the distance starts firing at me.
I get separated from my stallion, and so I whistle for him to come running to my side. I line up my rifle sights with the last of the bandits, and right as I pull the trigger, my prized stallion comes galloping in front of me and I VERY accidentally shoot the horse in the head. My jaw dropped. It was a VERY powerful emotional response. Needless to say I didn't immediately kill the last bandit, I hog tied him and dragged him from his own horse at breakneck speed till he died.
Good show, Rockstar.
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