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Red Dead Redemption: A Video Game Goes West

The latest offering from the creators of Grand Theft Auto is about an outlaw made good in the dying days of the wild frontier
Red Dead Redemption
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Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series has always had a twisted Horatio Alger touch: poor boy makes good through ceaseless, savage violence; immigrant makes his way in the new world through ceaseless, savage violence.

In , the team once again tackles brutal Americana, this time in a setting where constant gunfighting and random assault require less suspension of disbelief than they did on the streets of 21st century New York City: the Wild

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