Red Dead Redemption 2 Saddles Up For Fall 2017

<p>After a couple days of teases which were not that subtle&comma; Rockstar has finally confirmed that yes&comma; they are working on a sequel to <em>Red Dead Redemption<&sol;em>&period; In fact&comma; it will be released in Fall 2017 for PS4 and Xbox One&comma; and be called <em>Red Dead Redemption 2<&sol;em>&period; The confirmation comes from their social media accounts and a press release with very little info&period; A trailer will be released this Thursday at 11 AM EST&period; You can find the official tweet below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2<br &sol;>Coming Fall 2017<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;RDR2&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;RDR2<&sol;a><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;ZacUJ48wvE">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;ZacUJ48wvE<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;lffZvn42pR">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;lffZvn42pR<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Rockstar Games &lpar;&commat;RockstarGames&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;RockstarGames&sol;status&sol;788363842329903104&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 18&comma; 2016<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An excerpt from the press release implies that this will be a heavily online experience&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America’s unforgiving heartland&period; The game&&num;8217&semi;s vast and atmospheric world will also provide the foundation for a brand new online multiplayer experience&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This also falls in line with the image of seven individuals that is very reminiscent of <em>Seven Samurai <&sol;em>and <em>The Magnificent Seven<&sol;em>&period; Sam Houser states that this will be a &&num;8220&semi;<em>living world<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi; and it&&num;8217&semi;s not surprising based on the success which <em>GTA Online <&sol;em>has had&period; Plus&comma; making a western for people to play with together is just a good idea all around&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As I said&comma; this follows a string of teases that began Sunday when Rockstar <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;RockstarGames&sol;status&sol;787639249864630273">posted a new logo drenched in Red<&sol;a>&period; It was hard not to figure out it was <em>Red Dead<&sol;em>-related in some capacity&period; However&comma; it could have been a tease for a re-release of last generation&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Red Dead Redemption<&sol;em>&period; The release of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;RockstarGames&sol;status&sol;788001608827281408">another tease yesterday<&sol;a> proved that this was going to be a new <em>Red Dead <&sol;em>game&period; Even today&comma; Rockstar <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vg247&period;com&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;18&sol;red-dead-online-domain-registered-by-gta-publisher&sol;">registered a domain for &&num;8220&semi;Red Dead Online&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Perhaps the most surprising things from this announcement are the lack of a PC announcement&comma; and the game being called <em>Red Dead Redemption 2<&sol;em>&period; Most would have assumed that the game would take on a new moniker since <em>Red Dead Revolver<&sol;em> had a different name too&period; However&comma; the two games were stylistically pretty different meaning <em>Red Dead Redemption 2 <&sol;em>may just fall so in line with its predecessor&&num;8217&semi;s mechanics and aesthetics that they decided to just number it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lack of a PC release is only surprising knowing that <em>Grand Theft Auto V <&sol;em>and other Rockstar titles have made their way to PC lately&period; The exception of course is that the original <em>Red Dead Redemption<&sol;em> has not&period; Perhaps this is the series that will never see the light of day on PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Regardless&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll know more when the trailer is released later this week at <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rockstargames&period;com&sol;">Rockstar&&num;8217&semi;s official site<&sol;a>&period; Are you excited for <em>Red Dead Redemption 2<&sol;em>&quest; Let us know what you&&num;8217&semi;re looking forward to most in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; Rockstar Press Release<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;