The source of much criticism since its announcement, Red Dead Redemption — the freshly released PS4 port — admittedly isn't as half-arsed as we feared it would be. But at the same time, it's far from the remaster that such a beloved PS3 classic deserves. We've ran through the open world epic's opening hours in order to write this Hands On article, and our impressions are fairly mixed.
Let's start with the positives. First off, Red Dead Redemption has simply never looked this good on a PlayStation console. A significant resolution boost means that the often muddy world of the original PS3 title has been replaced with a much sharper New Austin across the board. The game's art direction is still great, and the improved resolution helps highlight its finer details. It's an attractive release, a whole 13 years after its initial arrival. This is also coming to the Nintendo swhitch and that is slightly cooler but we still deserve MORE. At the very least give it new menus or better lighting to fit the graphics update it should also be getting.
