Red Dead Redemption

Set in 1911 at the decline of the "old west," Red Dead Redemption is one of the best open world games I've ever played. It's made by Rockstar Games, who are most famous for the Grand Theft Auto series, and, yeah, basically it amounts to Grand Theft Horse, but is that such a bad thing? Those games are smart, hilarious, and fun to play, and this one is all of those things set in an amazingly beautiful pastiche of America's old west territories, and manages to pull off a much better emotional story than any of those games, too, with all the classic movie western themes of revenge and familial duty that would make Peckinpah and Leone proud or crap their dead pants because some kid's toy is ripping them off.

RATING: 95%