Red Dead Redemption 2: 8 Things It Must Fix From GTA Online
5. Ditch The Weapon Wheel Altogether
Rockstar
For Red Dead Redemption 2's single player Rockstar have opted to lose the weapon wheel altogether. Gone are the days of your protagonist being able to pull out an RPG from their coat pocket - now, players genuinely have to think about what kind of weapons they want to carry, and about what play-style they want to use.
But while this may be the case for the game's single player, we're yet to learn if the same approach will manifest in its online component. One of the biggest issues with GTA Online was that each player was effectively an army of one - they could do so much, and with a weapon for every occasion, it made confrontations dull, repetitive, and fatally boring.
Imagine this though: you assemble a posse of all your friends, and each one has their own speciality. There'd be a marksman, someone who preferred close-quarters fighting, and potentially even a gunslinger - giving players the scope to taylor their own experience and not only providing a more gratifying style of co-op gameplay, but one that seamlessly translates the vision of the single player to the multiplayer too.
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.
