Assignment #2: Red Dead Redemption 2

I choose this text because I am a huge fan of the game and the game developer Rockstar Games. Though this game is the second one of the previous versions that came out a long time ago on different gaming platforms, this game historically speaking (and timeline of the game series) is the one that came first. Open world game set in the late years of the 1890s to early 20th century. Story of the game advances from ordinary groups of people (sort of gang type) consisting of old and young, man and woman escaping a town (Blackwater) after a massive massacre shootout with the national police shortly after robbing town bank. We have our main character Arthur, a loyal member of the family/gang that survived the shootout along with others, following orders of the slightly older man named Dutch. Being the one that’s leading the whole gang with him, throughout the game he is in constant need of money to get his family/gang out of the current situation that they are in. Displacement is a key thing that the family has to go through throughout this game that keeps them safe for a short amount of time in a way that they are not safe forever. After escaping blackwater, the gang find themselves escaped to the snowy mountains with a shortage of food and supplies, it is up to Dutch and the man to find a suitable place for them to camp until they are on their feet. Wherever they are following the story, they find themselves in constant threat where it’s from the rural gangs, the police, the people that they worked for (temporarily), or robbed. There are chapter within this game that tells us where we are in the story, and in each chapter, they are forced to move camps/temporary living situations because of some horrible things they had to do to, forcefully to get out of a situation, or the ones that they choose to because doing so would solve their problem which is to get enough money to travel overseas and leave bad things behind. People that are within the family/gang aren’t immediate family members that started out together but rather picked along throughout each chapter, whether they had to save them or the ones that helped prevent them from getting into a bigger mess they are in. Throughout the story, we see Dutch, our big decision-maker for the family ends up in a situation that gets him to lose most of the money that they saved from (robberies, helping rival gangs, gamblings, etc.) to new consequences that the gets himself into, but isn’t going to stop him from getting more. After seeing/experiencing these reoccurring situations, his family starts to disobey him and start to part from the rest of the gang, Arthur being the one to know, he suggests its best for them without letting Dutch know. Eventually, after these reoccurring events nearly half of the family members either part themselves from the gang or get killed in situations that Dutch and his man get themselves into, and at this near finale we find out that Arthur is diagnosed with Tuberculosis that starts to rot his lungs over time. In the finale, after gathering enough money by Dutch and his remaining loyal crew, we see that one of Dutch’s suspicious man Micah (the antagonist) snitched on them to the Pinkertons (national police that he was involved with). Shootout breaks out, Arthur with his last few days left fights of the Pinkertons along with the rival gang to keep few of the remaining/innocent people like the women and Jonh’s family escape  (the main character and the one that is going to be played as in the first Red Dead game). In the final scene Arthur dies, Micah is left alone and Dutch fleeing the scene all by himself later to reunite with Micah once again. Prologue continues after a couple of years of the Finale, we play as John and his future with his family and the old member of the family.