Red Dead Redemption was developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games in 2010 for Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s one of the highest rated games on Metacritic and is ranked as the fifth-highest rated PS3 and seventh-highest rated Xbox 360 game.
Fans have been clamouring for a remake of this highly-popular game and there were rumours that Rockstar is going to do that.
But alas, those rumours were not true because Rockstar just simply ported the game to PS4 and Switch. Rockstar didn’t remake or even try to remaster the game.
According to Rockstar Games, this is a “conversion” carried out by Double Eleven Studios. Their recent titles include Crackdown 3, Minecraft Dungeons, Rust, and Rimworld.
The game now includes newly supported languages such as Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Latin American Spanish.
Red Dead Redemption follows the story of a central character, John Marston, as he embarks on a voyage through the American frontier and Mexico to pursue the final surviving individuals of the infamous Van der Linde Gang.
The game also includes Undead Nightmare, the hallowed story expansion that reimagines the world of Red Dead Redemption as Marston fights to survive a relentless zombie horde and searches for a cure in a spooky, supernatural twist on the Western genre.
Rockstar has not provided any information regarding potential PC or Xbox versions. While Red Dead Redemption is presently accessible on Xbox One and Series S/X consoles through backward compatibility with the initial Xbox 360 edition, the absence of an official PC release from Rockstar, which has never occurred, is likely to be disappointing for fans.
Though fans can still play the game on PC via emulation such as RPCS3 for PS3 and Xenia for Xbox 360.
The game will be available starting 17 August 2023 on the Nintendo Switch eShop and the PlayStation Store for USD49.99 (approx. RM228.70), with physical copies arriving on 13 October 2023.
