The Mexican chapter of Red Dead Redemption went about as I expected. You are looking for outlaw Bill Williamson and have to fall in with the local authorities. Because they are the government, the libertarian designers portray them all as corrupt monsters, obviously telegraphing their sudden and inevitable betrayal.
The revolutionary leader is not much better. In fact, he's even worse because, in addition to his being a womanizer and generally uncaring user of human beings, he is a poet and . . . *gasp* . . . an intellectual. The only good thing the rebel leader does is actual deliver on his promise to deliver Williamson up to you.
But wait, there's more. With Williamson dead, the evil American government has tacked on a new requirement that you go after your former boss, van der Linde. He is continually presented (by your own cut scene dialogue) as a Robin Hood character who went insane. Robbing from the rich to give to the poor. The ultimate libertarian patriot fighting the good fight to bring about the best America. It's all hogwash that's supposed to give you some sort of sympathy for the character who will, I predict, have one last chance to spout libertarian and freedom rhetoric before dying a noble death. No, you won't be given the chance to put a bullet into his brain pan during combat. In a cinematic cut scene you'll watch him fall to his death Disney-style or hold his bleeding body in your arms and he burbles his last breath after being gunned down by federal agents.
I'm glad I purchased this game second hand so that Rockstar didn't get a dime from me.
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Date: 2013-08-25 10:19 pm (UTC)The revolutionary leader is not much better. In fact, he's even worse because, in addition to his being a womanizer and generally uncaring user of human beings, he is a poet and . . . *gasp* . . . an intellectual. The only good thing the rebel leader does is actual deliver on his promise to deliver Williamson up to you.
But wait, there's more. With Williamson dead, the evil American government has tacked on a new requirement that you go after your former boss, van der Linde. He is continually presented (by your own cut scene dialogue) as a Robin Hood character who went insane. Robbing from the rich to give to the poor. The ultimate libertarian patriot fighting the good fight to bring about the best America. It's all hogwash that's supposed to give you some sort of sympathy for the character who will, I predict, have one last chance to spout libertarian and freedom rhetoric before dying a noble death. No, you won't be given the chance to put a bullet into his brain pan during combat. In a cinematic cut scene you'll watch him fall to his death Disney-style or hold his bleeding body in your arms and he burbles his last breath after being gunned down by federal agents.
I'm glad I purchased this game second hand so that Rockstar didn't get a dime from me.