Red Dead Redemption II: Ultimate Edition (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Red Dead Redemption II: Ultimate Edition

Red Dead Redemption 2 also includes the shared living world of Red Dead Online – forge your own path as you battle lawmen, outlaw gangs and ferocious wild animals to build a life on the American frontier…

26 October 2018

What Red Dead Redemption II: Ultimate Edition is

Red Dead Redemption II: Ultimate Edition is an adventure game developed by Rockstar Games and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

America, 1899. The end of the Wild West era has begun. After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive. As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him. Includes Red Dead Redemption II: Story Mode and Red Dead Online.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Red Dead Redemption II: Ultimate Edition launched on 26 October 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn, Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

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