Red Dead Revolver was released in 2004 for PS2 and original Xbox. It tells you the story of a gun handler named “Red”. It is actually the first game in the series of Red Dead games that featured also, later, Red Dead Redemption and a sequel Red Dead Redemption 2. Red Dead Revolver was published by Rockstar Games.
The game is formed around 27 stages. The website, “How Long to Beat”, states that it takes seven hours to finish the game. I have played this game for a bit over nine hours already. I have almost finished it. I got stuck to the last stage that has a duel battle against the final boss “Griffon”. The duel, and also other duels in the game, are a bit hard to go through. “Griffon” is the final person that “Red” has to defeat in his journey of a revenge. There is a somewhat deep plot in the game but the action, at least for me, seems to be the driving force for trying to beat the game.
There is a lot of shooting and lots of weapons in this game. You basically select a rifle and a hand gun and also a melee or throwing weapon, like a knife, for you when you start a stage. You achieve some money from taking down the enemies that you can spend to buy better weapons. There exists also some other items that unlock some more content if you are interested in these special features of the game. Toughest parts are duels in which you try to pull your gun and aim it and also trigger the shooting to try to kill your enemy before the enemy kills you. There are some of these parts, maybe three or four, in this game. It can get tricky and you might have to spend a lot of time in trying to get through these parts.
You can buy Red Dead Revolver from Xbox store for fifteen euros. It is also possible to buy the physical copy of this game. It is backwards compatible with Xbox Series X. It isn’t the most expensive game but it can cost even as much as 70 or 80 euros since the prices seem to be rising. There are only a bit over 60 games from original Xbox that are actually backwards compatible with Series X. It might be interesting to try to collect all of them. I just recently got one more game that is backwards compatible in this way. It was “Star Wars – Jedi Knight – Jedi Academy” and it cost only ten euros. I got also some PS1 games with this same purchase. I am hoping to have some time with these games, also. One interesting game that I bought was “V-Rally 2”.
Red Dead Revolver is 22 years old game. It can be considered a retro game. What makes it remarkable is that it is actually the game that inspired the development of Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2. These were released in 2010 and 2018. I will always remember the launch of RDR2. Back then I was working in a game shop as a customer servant. I wrote a blog post of the shop about the release on this game shops own blog. We also sold a lot of RDR2 games and had a launch moment that started at midnight when RDR2 was actually released. I don’t know the actual sales figures of that happening but I can estimate that there were hundreds of games sold back at that moment that lasted maybe three hours.
Red Dead Revolver reminds a bit of Max Payne. It features very similar action in the gameplay. Both of them are shooting games with a slightly detailed plot that does make the game deeper as a video game experience. Plot can be very important in a video game but it never is the driving feature when it comes to how I like to play my video games. I actually even think that Max Payne was a bit more advanced and more realistic although it was released already three years earlier than Red Dead Revolver.