User blog:Dead Man's Gun/No more zombies please.

Red Dead Redemption has a catalogue of brilliant features. It ticks all the boxes from a gameplay perspective, but that's not why I love the game. I love the game for the brilliant voice acting, the writing, the characters and above all the aching beauty of a story about a man with one last shot at redemption that is handled with astonishing maturity and wisdom. Then Rockstar announce a zombie mode that includes a single player portion that you play as Marsden. To me this is a blatant kick in the nads to the mature and evolved narrative that puts Rockstar games ahead of the pack. Come on Rockstar, zombies!? Mythical creatures?! These things have no place in the world of Red Dead Redemption. Seeing John and Rickets running around being chased by zombies is just cheap; it is an affront to the very core of what Red Dead Redemption is. If it where a simple multiplayer addition then I could live with that, but taking the heart and soul of this game and making him fight zombies is just plain silly.