Red Dead End

Soon it is coming. Rock Star's new offering at the Alter of Delusional Escapism. Red Dead Redemption looks set to satisfy the spiritual needs of the faithful through the ritual of Wasted Youth.

I can feel it coming. The game has spoken to me (through youtube) and I have seen visions (screenshots) of a digital heaven. In our masses we shall flock to purchase and devour and never be sated by a world that allows us to behave as in paradise; without abandon and in complete hedonism.

The coming release of Red Dead Redemption will in reality only be cataclysmic for a few; (16-28 year olds who indulge in emancipating fantasy and probably heavy masturbation). Freed from the shackles of reality and given the tools to unleash our wrath on the Wild West as a stubbly mensch who answers to no man or parent. A beast who has the social skills required to procure sexual pleasure from a second party. A monster who channels the mediocre impotence of the downtrodden, timid middle-class and their secret homicidal wishes.

The game as with Rock Star's other franchise GTA, wants to push the sandbox genre further than ever before creating an insane world for the nutcases that compose most of the gaming market to run free in, thankfully keeping them out of the real world. Based upon videos and screenshots the game looks as though it will be extremely immersive without being tedious. Taking your bitch girlfriend to play darts and her prefering Cluckin' Bell to some fancy restaurant started to drive me nuts. I hate it when my phone rings in real life so when my video game life starts to suck then all of existence starts to suck. There are no mobile phones in the wild west, only camp fires and crazy ol' coots spinning yarns.

This kind of story telling really adds to the atmosphere. The game design looks fantastic as well, which helps. All in all it looks as though this game will bring most people as close as possible to being a cowboy that you can currently be with today's technology. However as games become more and more convincing we have to worry about the toll it will take on the already predominantly schizophrenic gamer demographic. Lets just hope that they stay in doors hunched over their controllers, collecting, completing, levelling up and masturbating furiosly and without cessation for eternity.