Red Dead Redemption 2 has amazing visuals.

Red Dead Redemption 2 blooper reel — stuck wagons, tripped horses, etc.

When you finish the 105 missions in the single-player campaign for Red Dead Redemption 2, you’re bound to make some embarrassing mistakes. I’ve finished it, and I am not to proud to say I had many bloopers along the way.

It made me wish that I could rewind time just a little bit — like when you crash a car in a race and can rewind the gameplay to just before the crash. But that’s not possible in Red Dead so I made many regrettable mistakes. Like when I shot a dog accidentally during a preview, bringing down the wrath of an entire town upon me.

So much of the game involves long rides, and fast travel doesn’t work well. So, you get bored and try to do things fast, and that results in hilarious mistakes.

I’ve chronicled a bunch of my bloopers in a reel for posterity. Check them out below. I hope you enjoy them. As I have noted before, I’m not sure it’s a great idea to make the game so physically accurate. If you run into a sizable rock while riding your horse, you won’t jump over it. Rather, your horse will run into it, and you will go flying. Of course, to complicate matters, Rockstar’s developers put a ton of rocks in the scenery so that it’s a darn obstacle course sometimes.

I’ve enjoyed the game, but the bloopers remind me not to take it so seriously all the time.

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.