Is this a Western or a horror movie?
Is this a Western or a horror movie?
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Red Dead Redemption 2 — a scary mission

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic Western game set in the Wild West. But some of the missions stray from the normal gunfight among enemies.

I’ve completed all of the 105 missions in the campaign, and I thought that this one, captured in video embedded in this story, was one of the scariest. The pace is slow, and the music starts out that way too. Then, it ratchets up as the tension breaks loose.

It shows the storytelling skills of Rockstar Games, and it left me hankering for dry land. Check it out.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.