Review of: Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare

 
Reviewer: Joe Ruffini

Title: Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare

System: Xbox 360

Genre: Sandbox Action Adventure

***Spoiler alert! There are possible spoilers in this review. Read at your own risk***

                So Undead Nightmare picks up in red dead redemption around after John Marston is reunited with his family. It starts with you returning home during a storm, and obviously meeting up with your wife and kid. Everyone goes to sleep and is awoken by Uncle who is now a zombie, but since you are in the Wild West, no one knows about zombies yet. So they are extremely puzzled and you have to end up killing him. But not before he bites your wife, who then in turn bites your son. So you have to tie them up and it’s a whole fiasco. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

 So you set out to find the source of this in Blackwater. Which is overrun by zombies, so you have to parade around town killing zombies until the town is determined “safe”. Then your search of why there are zombies is started to find the real reason as to why there is a zombie outbreak. You travel from town to town saving them from zombies (like the bad-ass John Marston is), and meet up with all your old “friends,” i.e. Seth, the grave digger, Mr. West Dickens, swindling merchant, and everyone else you encounter throughout Red Dead. They did a very good job of incorporating all the people in Red Dead into Undead Nightmare.

The new content that they put in the game was a definite selling point in my case.  A bunch of new mounts, new weapons, new characters, new missions, nearly a whole new game, but just smaller. But if I were to point out anything in the new stuff of Undead Nightmare it would definitely be the new weapon, the Blunderbuss. One of the best reactions comes from when you shoot this gun. It looks like a musket. What you do is, you have to go around searching anything you kill and getting undead parts. You take these parts and essentially stuff them into your gun. Then you shoot these parts at a zombie, survivor, and undead animal, whatever you so decide. Then the magic happens. POOF! Whatever you were aiming at is not in existence anymore. All that is left is a big cloud of red mist. No body, no bones, no nothing. It simply annihilates whatever it is in its way. Only sad thing is that you have to get super close, but once you pull the trigger they aren’t even a worry anymore.

Anyone who reads this and owns Red Dead Redemption MUST get this DLC. It is 100000099000% worth it. No doubt in my mind.

Graphics: B+

Sound: A+

Gameplay: A

Lasting Appeal: A

Overall: A