Red Dead Redemption 2: Ranking Every Town From Worst To Best

This is the first major settlement the gang travels to, and as such, it's got a special place in players' hearts. A muddy livestock town with mountains on the horizon, Valentine is positively classic.

A muddy livestock town with wooden storefronts, spacious pens and sale barns, rocky buttes to the south and west, and snow-capped mountains to the north, riding through Valentine feels like you've been picked up and plopped down in the middle of a classic bit of Western cinema.

There are more than enough vantage points from which to get into a good gunfight, and escape routes are aplenty. It has every amenity you could ask for, and it's situated pretty equidistantly from every other major settlement.

Valentine is where the Van der Linde gang ventures early on. It's where Arthur bonds with Lenny in one of the game's absolute best sequences. It's where Arthur finds and reconnects with his star-crossed would-be lover, Mary Linton.

Valentine is everything a western frontier town should be. It's got it all.

Valentine is a classic.