Red Dead Redemption 2: 18 Easter Eggs And References You Totally Missed
6. The Town Of Tumbleweed
Rockstar
Cast your mind back to the first Red Dead Redemption, and you'll probably recall the town of Tumbleweed. It's where you rescue Bonnie from after she's captured by a nearby group of bandits, and it's completely deserted - the very picture of a literal ghost town.
However, should the player opt to venture south to the town, they'll find it populated top to bottom. There's a sheriff who enlists your help to deal with raids from the vicious Del Lobo gang, and it has everything from a butcher, to a general store and gunsmith.
It's a neat little touch, and though Rockstar stop just short of explaining why the town was abandoned (theories range from settlers being run out by bandits, to the railroad bypassing it altogether), it's still great to see a different side to the locale in the prequel.
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.
