With less than 40 days until Red Dead Redemption 2, we’re all getting more and more anxious to play it. Hell, we’re chomping at the bit to just see anything because Rockstar has been incredibly secretive with the marketing of this game with only a handful of brief trailers and some screenshots.
We have some leaks, some very minimal plot details, and plenty of speculation but today, Rockstar dropped some details about some of the key locations located in America’s heartland that we’ll be visiting. Ranging from mountains to towns with streets laid with brick all the way to murky swamps filled with predators. It looks like Red Dead Redemption 2 will have a number of distinct locations and towns like the first game and it’ll be great to finally sink our teeth into them next month.
VALENTINE, THE HEARTLANDS, NH – A raucous, rough-and-tumble town in the Heartlands, Valentine’s livestock auctions attract traders, ranchers, cowboys, gamblers, outlaws and prostitutes from far and wide, all looking to make some money, raise some hell, and have a good time.
ANNESBURG, ROANOKE RIDGE, NH – Life isn’t easy for the miners and their families in Annesburg, which has been providing coal up and down the Lannahechee River for almost a century. Working conditions are terrible for little pay, and many men have lost their lives down the pit.
SAINT DENIS, BAYOU NWA, LE – A key gateway into North America with a trade route that runs the length of the country, the bustling city of Saint Denis is a melting pot of cultures and people where businessmen, socialites, sailors, laborers, beggars and thieves all live side by side.
MOUNT HAGEN, GRIZZLIES, AM – One of the more well-known peaks in the snowy Grizzlies of Ambarino, Mount Hagen towers above Lake Isabella to the west and Beartooth Beck to the east, which provides the main pass through the western mountain range and joins up with the Dakota River further south.
RHODES, SCARLETT MEADOWS, LE – Prim and proper on the surface, tensions and corruption run deep in the Southern town of Rhodes, which for years has been caught in the crossfire between the Braithwaites and the Grays, two warring plantation families.
STRAWBERRY, BIG VALLEY, WE – Strawberry was little more than a small logging town until the arrival of its new mayor, an East Coast eccentric, who is obsessed with transforming it into a cultural beacon for wealthy tourists, much to the bemusement of the locals.
LAGRAS, BAYOU NWA, LE – A small, remote settlement out in the swamps of Bayou Nwa, Lemoyne, the people of Lagras live self-sufficiently for the most part, making a little money here and there from fishing and acting as guides for travelers wishing to navigate the region.
Red Dead Redemption 2 will release on October 26th, 2018 for Xbox One and PS4. Hands-on preview coverage is expected to drop later this week from a number of outlets as well.
