Red Dead Rebellion: 10 Essential Features It Must Have

4. A Complex Narrative - Multiple Protagonists

As Grand Theft Auto V proved, the introduction of multiple playable protagonists didn't derail the series. Michael, Trevor and Franklin each had radically different personalities and personal story experiences to feel unique from one another, with a switch between characters bringing with it a sense that anything could happen next. A third Red Dead can take this feature in a number of different directions to help expand its story and theme through a host of different possibilities. Playing as an outlaw and the lawman hot on his heels, allowing players to see both sides of the coin and be a part of moral dilemmas on both sides of the law? Swapping between different members of a gang, perhaps as the leader taking the group down a dangerous path, as a member trying to plan his own coup and as a member quietly planning to get out of it all? Following the journey of a free slave trying to make it in the West while simultaneously exploring the life of an ex-Confederate soldier? Perhaps a Native American fighting to preserve his family's land and belief system from a society eager to steamroll over it and as a government man torn over what he's being forced to do? And who wouldn't enjoy a smooth-talking con man or kickass women thrown in there somewhere for good measure? One of Redemption's greatest strengths was that it endeared us to John Marston; our time spent with him made how his story ended all the more tragic. Some may argue that following in the footsteps of GTAV may rob the next Red Dead of that connection, but with the old west as vast as the stories that can be told in it, it would be great of Rockstar to show a number of different historical perspectives about a time many only know from what they've seen in film and television.