Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 is out now on PC, two years after it was first introduced on consoles, and only one month after it was confirmed for PC. It’s on the Rockstar Games Launcher and Epic Games Store, and can mosey on over to Steam in December. So right here we’re, one of many largest games ever launched and it’s treating Steam like a lame mule.
We’ve seen earlier than how Epic can bag exclusives for their store, although this one lasts only a month and never a yr. Still, they solely take a 12% minimize of gross sales vs Valve’s share that begins at 30% and shrinks to 20% in accordance with gross sales. When you’re trying on the type of gross sales that Rockstar’s games garner, the worth of that shall be within the tens of tens of millions. So even a month of exclusivity to their very own retailer and Epic’s Games Store might make an enormous distinction within the variety of ivory backscratchers Rockstar and 2K Games purchase for Christmas. You can’t even wishlist it on Steam, but.
If you decide it up, you’ll placed on the chaps of Arthur Morgan and mosey round within the ultimate days of the wild west as a part of a gang that may’t let go of its itinerant freedom. It’s an unlimited game, in an exquisite world. Though I performed the single-player on console, the promise of multiplayer and mods is sufficient for me to make room on my laborious drive.
And make room I shall, as a result of the bottom game is within the area of 150GB, of which 140GB is Dutch’s speech recordsdata. I (Billy the) child, however he does go on at size about nothing. I’ll be avoiding him like a rabid raccoon, however that’s OK (corral) as a result of there’s a lot to do elsewhere. There are a great deal of bounties to hunt on-line, and I’m fairly eager to hunt collectables with the metallic detector and binoculars if it offers me the prospect to saunter by way of the scrub. The mods have been trickling in already, too. Just have a look at this, the place you could be a cougar.
So let’s undergo the guidelines. Have you pre-loaded? Did you put in the new game-ready driver? Did you go the entire hog and seize a new graphics card? Or are you ready for our verdict and efficiency evaluation, which the beautiful Castles shall ship tomorrow (hopefully)?
This simply in: I’m instructed we’ll be streaming it this afternoon, so tune in on YouTube at 2.30pm here.
