We've previously included Red Dead on our Greatest Games Of All Time because of many reasons, but in particular one of the defining aspects of your time with John Marston is that it's eventually cut short by one Edgar Ross; a corrupt FBI director who riddles you with bullets just when the game feels like its drawing to a close. There's a great many factors that contribute to why blasting Ross' eyelids off feels so damn satisfying, primarily because up until the last few missions you'd always been playing as the aforementioned John Marston, a cowboy with a chequered past who always came across as wanting to do the right thing. However following his gunning down at the hands of Ross, gameplay switches over to son Jack, who after a few years of maturation and the acquisition of a rather fetching cowboy hat, is your window into tracking down Ross and his family in the game world. With no mission marker telling you where to go, it's pure instinct that drove many of us back to the town of Blackwater to find him, and lo and behold Rockstar set up a series of smaller missions that sees you visiting Ross' family as you attempt to track him down. You're also free to kill these people too if you so wish, but the real big finish comes when you finally track an older Edgar down to a fishing spot alongside a riverbank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpqXT9Akx7s#t=935 After some perfectly-scripted words are spoken it's down to you to return the favour and send him floating off down the ravine, walking away as the game's title card lands and you realise what the whole game's narrative was in service of in the first place. There are very few moments as brilliant as this, and it stands alone as one of the defining and most progressive in all of gaming. Which incredibly satisfying violent moments did you love from any title? Let us know in the comments below!
