7 Life Lessons You Learned From Red Dead Redemption

7. Always Try To See A Situation From Both Sides

Not all your mates, but sometimes those you thought were your pals are going to dick you about some day. It happens. That’s Red Dead Redemption’s first life lesson.

The main plot of Red Dead Redemption is this: Your wife’s been kidnapped by the government (is there no one we can trust anymore?). To get her back, a couple of snivelling G-men want you to bring your old gang to justice. And by justice, I mean inevitable death.

That lack of trust is ably showcased right near the beginning: You visit the Bond-like lair of a fort run by your ol’ gangmate Bill Williamson. And all he does is laugh at your stupid, snobby vocabulary, then shoots you and leaves you for dead.

That’s what friends are for, right?

You get pretty much the same welcome from your other ex-friends too, proving there’s no honour among thieves. And look at it from the other side: Your three former partners in crime thought they could trust you to, well not turn them over – which you don’t, directly; you just shoot them dead.

Wouldn’t happen like that today, mind. They’d just character assassinate each other on Facebook.