Red Dead Revolver is... the predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Redemption.
The game has you play as a total of 6 characters:
- Red Harlow [Main protagonist, the one you mostly play as] (Son of Nate Harlow {Bounty Hunter} and Falling Star {Native American} Bounty Hunter who's out for revenge against those who killed his family.]
- Jack Swift - (Englishmen out seeking proper retirement who becomes a good ally of Red Harlow)
- Annie Stoakes - (Farm Owner, needing money to maintain her land ownership)
- Buffalo Soldier- (African American U.S. Army Soldier)
- Shadow Wolf- (Native American, Cousin of Red Harlow)
- General Javier Diego - (Tritagonist villain)
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The simple story I'll just put in bullet points:
- Red is son of Nate Harlow and Falling Star being a mixed race boy. He takes after his father more than his mother. His Dad shows him a special revolver he got and only 2 in the world exist. Suddenly Red's family is gunned down by Colonel Daren and a bunch of men out finishing a job for an unknown client. Red's father and mother are killed, and shoots Colonel Daren's arm off.
- Years past and Red becomes a bounty hunter, doing jobs for Sheriff Bartlett in Brimstone, after helping out bunch. Red in one one of his missions has to kill "Pig Josh", this is where Red meets a strange Englishman named "JACK SWIFT."
Red rescues Jack and they team up to kill PIG JOSH.
-This is where we transition to Jack's side story where we learn Jack is taking care of a loose end from his past by killing a past colleague of his named Professor Perry. He does so and rescues a women that was captive by Professor Perry, the woman then tells Jack that a special competition will be held that has the best gunslingers duke it out in a stand off tournament winner takes all at Brimstone. Jack is interested and heads off.
- Red requests his money but is told he has to take it up with the Bank. This is where we meet Annie Stoakes and we transition to her side story. Annie Stoakes is denied longer time in order to accumulate the funds she needs to maintain her farm. Thats when she rushes back to her farm to see it's burning because of associates to the bank wanting to take Annie's land. She successfully fights them off and Red shows up and tells her about the Gold competition in Brimstone.
- We transition suddenly to the past where we play as one of the 3 villain's in the game, General Javier Diego. He's fighting a frontlines war, and destroys all the cannons of his opponents. Here we see that Diego captures a rebel and the rebel lets him know about the gold. Diego makes a deal where the 2 would be "partners" that would result in them both getting equal amounts of the 5000 gold. The man explains that him and his other partner (Nate Harlow) made a deal to split it, but now that Diego wants to be involved he can they could work a deal to become partners and eliminate the rebel's other friends. Diego agrees, however the rebel isn't seen in the present so 100% Diego or Colonel Daren killed him.
- After over hearing men in a saloon talk about a "Colonel missing an arm" this angers Red asking to know where the Colonel is, the men get angry and they have a saloon brawl. Red kills everyone and is put in the Sheriff's jail. This is where Red tells the Sheriff that he's the son of Nate Harlow. The Sheriff immediately releases Red and sends him out to the last seen location of Colonel Daren.
- Red goes out to where Sheriff Bartlett told him to go but is ambushed, knocked out, and captured by General Diego and Colonel Daren.
- Here is where we transition to playing as Shadow Wolf, Red's cousin who saves Red from his captivity. Along with Red, he saved a Buffalo Soldier who was also imprisoned. The 3 agree to escape separately to not cause issues or be overwhelmed. They all agree to meet back at Brimstone.
- This is where we play as Buffalo Soldier who returns back to Governor Griffon letting him know what General Diego did, the Governor however says that Diego is actually a collogue as now the Buffalo Soldier is held at gun point by an Irish Mercenary named Mr. Kelley.
- We go back to Red who finds the location of General Daren, both Red and Shadow Wolf go and attempt to draw him out of his hiding. Here is where Red get's revenge on the man who shot and killed his father. However sadly, Red's Cousin Shadow Wolf is killed... he honors his cousin my putting him in a peaceful resting pose for his journey into the afterlife.
Red now knows Daren kill his father under orders, so he wants revenge on the man who originally sent Daren to kill Red's father, and also the man who is in cahoots with the death of Red's family. That being General Diego and Governor Griffon.
- Red confronts and kills Diego after derailing Diego's train, Diego attempts to convince Red to make a deal, but Red shoots and kills Diego.
-We return to Brimstone where the Stand off Tournament is being held. It's a winner-takes-all situation that in each round will end in death. Red defeats all his opponents, as does Annie and Jack Swift. However the Mercenary Mr. Kelly is also in the semi-finals against Red. The tournament is interrupted by Governor Griffon, and says that Annie and Jack are disqualified since Griffon wants to be rid of Red. Red wins the stand off and Governor Griffin orders Mr. Kelley to kill Red, Red ends up permanently killing Mr. Kelley and goes after Griffon along with Annie and Jack.
- They all ambush and break into Governor Griffon's mansion and kill all of his guards. Jack Swift decides defend Red by sticking behind to fight off Griffon's elite guards. Jack wanting Red to confront the Governor.
Annie and Red now fight more guards and find Buffalo Soldier who's still alive who was just captured again.
- Buffalo Soldier helps Red confront the Governor but traps himself underneath the metal door he blew up in order for Red to confront the Governor on the roof.
-Red has a final shoot out with the Governor that transitions to a final stand off which ends with Red killing the Governor.
- The ENDING: Sheriff Bartlett arrives at the destroyed burning mansion and says he never liked the Governor.
Red comes out of the burning mansion and following behind him are Annie and Buffalo Soldier. Red looks confused and concerned as to where Jack is. Annie looks down in sadness essentially saying, "No", this implies either Jack was gunned down, or Jack after having taken care of the elite guards, decided to make a... "SWIFT" escape. Either way he got some form of retirement, either he's dead, or he escaped swiftly.
Sheriff Bartlett tells Red that even though he took care of the Governor by killing his rotten self, the Government of the United States will be asking questions and might go after Red. The Sheriff holds the 5,000 in gold in a bag and asks who wants it. Before answering, Red pulls out his revolver and give it to Buffalo Soldier who takes it, sort of signifying how they're all in a way a strange type of family/friends (Red, Buffalo Soldier, Annie, and Jack)
Red immediately grabs the Revolver of his deceased father, and holsters it, it's now back with it's rightful owner.
Red immediately says to give it to Annie and Buffalo Soldier. The game ends with Jack walking away from the Sheriff, Annie, and Buffalo soldier, his final words before the game ends being:
"It was never about the money."
As the game ends.
Red got his revenge for the sake of his Cousin Shadow Wolf, his Mother Falling Star, and his Father Nate Harlow. And the revolver that was the same as the one his father showed him as kid, who explained that there were only 2 in the entire world. The 2nd revolver that looks like the one from Red's childhood is now rightfully with Red.
Looking at the game critically, story wise the story is pretty generic, and I love it. I think they went over the top in the right ways with having cowboy clowns, magic cowboys, weird necro cowboys, weird abilities for each character. The game plays and has a western movie filter which is amazing. So while the story is generic, the characters in their own regard are really likable. The story is simple, generic, and enjoyable.
Really I give thanks to this one being so normal with it's revenge plot. But I also have to say it gave us the amazing stories for Red Dead Redemption 2 and 1.
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[Gameplay]
Gameplay wise the game plays like an early 2000s third person shooter that wasn't fully realized. The game is not open world it's actually linear in terms of each mission.
Throughout the game you'll mostly be fighting the camera and awkward controls when it comes to controlling anyone.
What's interesting is this game had something that was later reused in REDEMPTION 1 and 2 which is the DEADEYE.
In this game the Dead falls into the category of a special ability specifically only for Red. Each character within the game has their own unique special ability:
Red Harlow - Dead Eye
Jack Swift- Bullet Barrage
Annie Stoakes - Massive explosion shot with her rifle.
Shadow Wolf - Invisibility
General Diego - Cannon Flare
Buffalo Soldier - Grenade Barriage
The gameplay is... meh, I have to judge it a bit due to the fact this game came out in May of 2004, 5 months before GTA SAN ANDREAS in October 2004.
Maybe Rockstar put more resources into GTA than it did Revolver in refining the gameplay, but at the very least, this game gave way into RED DEAD REDEMPTION 1 and 2.
Along with the weird way of controlling the characters, the game features unlockable in terms of finishing a stage with a high combo, finishing stage quickly, not taking too much damage, and having consistent accuracy. If you did a mission correctly with all of these requirements (really only need 3 of 4) you get an excellent rating unlocking either health or ability upgrades, or new character/maps for SHOWDOWN MODE. Along with this is the ability to buy things in the town of Brimstone. If purchase items from the gunsmith, the clothing store, the bank, the saloon, they very in terms of different unlockables.
You can buy weapons to add to Red's arsenal. Before every mission the game allows you to pick what Revolver and Rifle you want to send Red out with. You also have to keep track after every mission with the currency you have left that you are able to repair your weapons so they are working at their highest capacity. (This returned in Red Dead Redemption 2)
You can buy random items that cost between 50-150 that are just for journal entries. You can also buy expensive items that usually are to unlock characters and Maps for SHOWDOWN MODE.
The game also has a "SHOWDOWN MODE" which is essentially a multiplayer mode where you and up to 3 friends face off against a bunch of characters from the game both main heroes, side characters, Main villains, side villains, and even random NPCs, all of them with their own special abilities. It's fine. Nothing too spectacular.
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Overall the game is flawed in terms of it's awkward controls, it's normal revenge plot story, and not talked about as much in terms of Rockstar's Classic PS2 line, but the game itself is a great seed that was planted... that later grew into the beauties that are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Redemption 1.
I highly recommend playing the game if you played Red Dead 1 and 2.
I have to give it 3.5/5 Stars because of the flaws. But I would still recommend a 1 time playthrough.
The game has you play as a total of 6 characters:
- Red Harlow [Main protagonist, the one you mostly play as] (Son of Nate Harlow {Bounty Hunter} and Falling Star {Native American} Bounty Hunter who's out for revenge against those who killed his family.]
- Jack Swift - (Englishmen out seeking proper retirement who becomes a good ally of Red Harlow)
- Annie Stoakes - (Farm Owner, needing money to maintain her land ownership)
- Buffalo Soldier- (African American U.S. Army Soldier)
- Shadow Wolf- (Native American, Cousin of Red Harlow)
- General Javier Diego - (Tritagonist villain)
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The simple story I'll just put in bullet points:
- Red is son of Nate Harlow and Falling Star being a mixed race boy. He takes after his father more than his mother. His Dad shows him a special revolver he got and only 2 in the world exist. Suddenly Red's family is gunned down by Colonel Daren and a bunch of men out finishing a job for an unknown client. Red's father and mother are killed, and shoots Colonel Daren's arm off.
- Years past and Red becomes a bounty hunter, doing jobs for Sheriff Bartlett in Brimstone, after helping out bunch. Red in one one of his missions has to kill "Pig Josh", this is where Red meets a strange Englishman named "JACK SWIFT."
Red rescues Jack and they team up to kill PIG JOSH.
-This is where we transition to Jack's side story where we learn Jack is taking care of a loose end from his past by killing a past colleague of his named Professor Perry. He does so and rescues a women that was captive by Professor Perry, the woman then tells Jack that a special competition will be held that has the best gunslingers duke it out in a stand off tournament winner takes all at Brimstone. Jack is interested and heads off.
- Red requests his money but is told he has to take it up with the Bank. This is where we meet Annie Stoakes and we transition to her side story. Annie Stoakes is denied longer time in order to accumulate the funds she needs to maintain her farm. Thats when she rushes back to her farm to see it's burning because of associates to the bank wanting to take Annie's land. She successfully fights them off and Red shows up and tells her about the Gold competition in Brimstone.
- We transition suddenly to the past where we play as one of the 3 villain's in the game, General Javier Diego. He's fighting a frontlines war, and destroys all the cannons of his opponents. Here we see that Diego captures a rebel and the rebel lets him know about the gold. Diego makes a deal where the 2 would be "partners" that would result in them both getting equal amounts of the 5000 gold. The man explains that him and his other partner (Nate Harlow) made a deal to split it, but now that Diego wants to be involved he can they could work a deal to become partners and eliminate the rebel's other friends. Diego agrees, however the rebel isn't seen in the present so 100% Diego or Colonel Daren killed him.
- After over hearing men in a saloon talk about a "Colonel missing an arm" this angers Red asking to know where the Colonel is, the men get angry and they have a saloon brawl. Red kills everyone and is put in the Sheriff's jail. This is where Red tells the Sheriff that he's the son of Nate Harlow. The Sheriff immediately releases Red and sends him out to the last seen location of Colonel Daren.
- Red goes out to where Sheriff Bartlett told him to go but is ambushed, knocked out, and captured by General Diego and Colonel Daren.
- Here is where we transition to playing as Shadow Wolf, Red's cousin who saves Red from his captivity. Along with Red, he saved a Buffalo Soldier who was also imprisoned. The 3 agree to escape separately to not cause issues or be overwhelmed. They all agree to meet back at Brimstone.
- This is where we play as Buffalo Soldier who returns back to Governor Griffon letting him know what General Diego did, the Governor however says that Diego is actually a collogue as now the Buffalo Soldier is held at gun point by an Irish Mercenary named Mr. Kelley.
- We go back to Red who finds the location of General Daren, both Red and Shadow Wolf go and attempt to draw him out of his hiding. Here is where Red get's revenge on the man who shot and killed his father. However sadly, Red's Cousin Shadow Wolf is killed... he honors his cousin my putting him in a peaceful resting pose for his journey into the afterlife.
Red now knows Daren kill his father under orders, so he wants revenge on the man who originally sent Daren to kill Red's father, and also the man who is in cahoots with the death of Red's family. That being General Diego and Governor Griffon.
- Red confronts and kills Diego after derailing Diego's train, Diego attempts to convince Red to make a deal, but Red shoots and kills Diego.
-We return to Brimstone where the Stand off Tournament is being held. It's a winner-takes-all situation that in each round will end in death. Red defeats all his opponents, as does Annie and Jack Swift. However the Mercenary Mr. Kelly is also in the semi-finals against Red. The tournament is interrupted by Governor Griffon, and says that Annie and Jack are disqualified since Griffon wants to be rid of Red. Red wins the stand off and Governor Griffin orders Mr. Kelley to kill Red, Red ends up permanently killing Mr. Kelley and goes after Griffon along with Annie and Jack.
- They all ambush and break into Governor Griffon's mansion and kill all of his guards. Jack Swift decides defend Red by sticking behind to fight off Griffon's elite guards. Jack wanting Red to confront the Governor.
Annie and Red now fight more guards and find Buffalo Soldier who's still alive who was just captured again.
- Buffalo Soldier helps Red confront the Governor but traps himself underneath the metal door he blew up in order for Red to confront the Governor on the roof.
-Red has a final shoot out with the Governor that transitions to a final stand off which ends with Red killing the Governor.
- The ENDING: Sheriff Bartlett arrives at the destroyed burning mansion and says he never liked the Governor.
Red comes out of the burning mansion and following behind him are Annie and Buffalo Soldier. Red looks confused and concerned as to where Jack is. Annie looks down in sadness essentially saying, "No", this implies either Jack was gunned down, or Jack after having taken care of the elite guards, decided to make a... "SWIFT" escape. Either way he got some form of retirement, either he's dead, or he escaped swiftly.
Sheriff Bartlett tells Red that even though he took care of the Governor by killing his rotten self, the Government of the United States will be asking questions and might go after Red. The Sheriff holds the 5,000 in gold in a bag and asks who wants it. Before answering, Red pulls out his revolver and give it to Buffalo Soldier who takes it, sort of signifying how they're all in a way a strange type of family/friends (Red, Buffalo Soldier, Annie, and Jack)
Red immediately grabs the Revolver of his deceased father, and holsters it, it's now back with it's rightful owner.
Red immediately says to give it to Annie and Buffalo Soldier. The game ends with Jack walking away from the Sheriff, Annie, and Buffalo soldier, his final words before the game ends being:
"It was never about the money."
As the game ends.
Red got his revenge for the sake of his Cousin Shadow Wolf, his Mother Falling Star, and his Father Nate Harlow. And the revolver that was the same as the one his father showed him as kid, who explained that there were only 2 in the entire world. The 2nd revolver that looks like the one from Red's childhood is now rightfully with Red.
Looking at the game critically, story wise the story is pretty generic, and I love it. I think they went over the top in the right ways with having cowboy clowns, magic cowboys, weird necro cowboys, weird abilities for each character. The game plays and has a western movie filter which is amazing. So while the story is generic, the characters in their own regard are really likable. The story is simple, generic, and enjoyable.
Really I give thanks to this one being so normal with it's revenge plot. But I also have to say it gave us the amazing stories for Red Dead Redemption 2 and 1.
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[Gameplay]
Gameplay wise the game plays like an early 2000s third person shooter that wasn't fully realized. The game is not open world it's actually linear in terms of each mission.
Throughout the game you'll mostly be fighting the camera and awkward controls when it comes to controlling anyone.
What's interesting is this game had something that was later reused in REDEMPTION 1 and 2 which is the DEADEYE.
In this game the Dead falls into the category of a special ability specifically only for Red. Each character within the game has their own unique special ability:
Red Harlow - Dead Eye
Jack Swift- Bullet Barrage
Annie Stoakes - Massive explosion shot with her rifle.
Shadow Wolf - Invisibility
General Diego - Cannon Flare
Buffalo Soldier - Grenade Barriage
The gameplay is... meh, I have to judge it a bit due to the fact this game came out in May of 2004, 5 months before GTA SAN ANDREAS in October 2004.
Maybe Rockstar put more resources into GTA than it did Revolver in refining the gameplay, but at the very least, this game gave way into RED DEAD REDEMPTION 1 and 2.
Along with the weird way of controlling the characters, the game features unlockable in terms of finishing a stage with a high combo, finishing stage quickly, not taking too much damage, and having consistent accuracy. If you did a mission correctly with all of these requirements (really only need 3 of 4) you get an excellent rating unlocking either health or ability upgrades, or new character/maps for SHOWDOWN MODE. Along with this is the ability to buy things in the town of Brimstone. If purchase items from the gunsmith, the clothing store, the bank, the saloon, they very in terms of different unlockables.
You can buy weapons to add to Red's arsenal. Before every mission the game allows you to pick what Revolver and Rifle you want to send Red out with. You also have to keep track after every mission with the currency you have left that you are able to repair your weapons so they are working at their highest capacity. (This returned in Red Dead Redemption 2)
You can buy random items that cost between 50-150 that are just for journal entries. You can also buy expensive items that usually are to unlock characters and Maps for SHOWDOWN MODE.
The game also has a "SHOWDOWN MODE" which is essentially a multiplayer mode where you and up to 3 friends face off against a bunch of characters from the game both main heroes, side characters, Main villains, side villains, and even random NPCs, all of them with their own special abilities. It's fine. Nothing too spectacular.
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Overall the game is flawed in terms of it's awkward controls, it's normal revenge plot story, and not talked about as much in terms of Rockstar's Classic PS2 line, but the game itself is a great seed that was planted... that later grew into the beauties that are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Redemption 1.
I highly recommend playing the game if you played Red Dead 1 and 2.
I have to give it 3.5/5 Stars because of the flaws. But I would still recommend a 1 time playthrough.