Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer: 9 Things Everybody Totally Missed
4. You No Longer Have To Be Afraid Of Water
Rockstar
Poor old Marston couldn't really handle the water in Red Dead Redemption. Sure, he could hop on a raft and peddle downstream to the Mexican border in one mission, dispatching banditos along the way (in one of the finest gaming sequences put to screen, I might add), but place him downstream without a paddle and the denim-clad bounty hunter would experience, shall we say... difficulties.
Not anymore, however, as it looks as though water is going to factor into Red Dead's ostensible prequel in a big way.
In one shot, we can see what looks to be two Native Americans rowing along a river in a remarkably picturesque location, which would seemingly suggest that the player too will get a chance at working their rowing muscles somewhere along in the game's vast open world. It's a minor improvement, but hey, at least we don't have to worry about getting our feet wet this time around.
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.
