Red Dead Redemption 2 Revisted: 10 Awesome Details You Missed

10. Mexico Exists... Kind Of

Both RDR and RDR2 take place in the same Old West setting of fictionally recreated USA. While RDR2's map does feature a greater depth of real-world State comparisons, reimagining Louisiana all the way up to the Canadian border and beyond, you will inevitably end up right where RDR takes place in the Texas-ish New Austin.

Many of the first game's landmarks and towns are visible in some capacity, albeit slightly different to how we remember them. For example, Armadillo is a fiery shell of its future self, owing to a cholera outbreak, but they are there nonetheless.

After perusing John's future favourite spots, you may wonder about the current state of the Mexican region, Nuevo Paraíso.

Equipping the binoculars along the coast of the San Luis River will show fleeting images of the eventual Revolutionary War battleground in a less than 100% state, with much of the area not fully furnished, but plenty of the geography remaining.

The Mexican border is puncturable using chicanery and exploits, which curiously show the region with expanded borders. Coupled with information found by data-miners, it appears Mexico was at one point at least considered to be a fully traversable area in RDR2.