Red Dead Redemption 2: 14 Pointless Details That'll Blow You Mind
11. The Way Terrain Transforms
Rockstar
Judging from what we've seen so far, Red Dead Redemption 2 has to be the most stunning game on current-gen consoles. The world map boasts a stunning array of different environments, all of which boast their own unique challenges.
Take the snowtopped mountains found in the northernly region of the game - they look gorgeous, with snow blanketing paths, hills and more. Said snow has been rendered immaculately, melting in some spots, but several inches deep in others. These deeper areas slow the player and their horse down, providing another challenge to traversal.
So far, we've seen several locations in Red Dead's map, including the urbanised districts of the east coast, the aforementioned wintery areas of the north, the great plains of the midwest, and the swampy marshes of the bayou located down south. The arid, baking heat of Mexico is also set to feature at one point, providing players with a veritable troff of different locales to sit back and admire, as opposed to just one colour pallet all the time.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
