It’s now over six years since players explored Red Dead Redemption’s Wild West. While we’ve been happy causing havoc in Los Santos with the numerous GTA 5 launches, many are yearning to don the cowboy boots and head into old America’s saloons once again.
Speculation was rife in 2014, with many expecting a Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement, but alas nothing happened.
Of course, we assume the next game won’t actually be called Red Dead Redemption 2 (considering we’ve had Red Dead Revolver followed by Red Dead Redemption, it will be some variant on “Red Dead”). Until we have solid confirmation, we’ll stick with RDR2 for now.
Until there’s an official Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement, we’re collating all the news, rumours and speculations in one place – so keep this page bookmarked.
RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 RELEASE DATE – WHEN IS IT COMING OUT?
Although there’s been no official word from Rockstar Games as to when the next installation in the Red Dead series will arrive, at least we know it is a case of “when” and not “if”.
In Take-Two’s latest earnings report, the company revealed its entire launch lineup for the upcoming financial year, and there wasn’t a title from Rockstar in the list. This means it will be 2017 at the earliest before we see GTA 6. Rockstar is, however, “working on exciting future projects that will be revealed soon,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said during the investors call (via VideoGamer).
Following this, the developer revealed it has been working on “the next version of a famous IP” since June 2010. Of course, this could refer to an entirely separate game series, but seeing as Red Dead Redemption was released in May 2010, it would make sense for Rockstar to start development on the next game just after release.
Getting ready to ride out onto the dusty plains of Red Dead Redemption 2? You can get ahead of the pack from today, as Rockstar has opened up pre-load downloads for the western adventure game.
And, if you're buying the game as a pre-ordered digital download, you should take advantage, particularly if your internet connection speed is slow. It's a huge install.
If you've bought the Xbox One version of the game you're looking at a 107GB installation, while it's a 99GB download on PS4 (as well as needing an additional 50GB of free space for the installation process itself). As far as we're aware, that makes it the biggest PS4 game ever.
Those install sizes remain the same if you've got the disc versions, though you don't benefit from a few days advance installation time. However, picking up a physical copy on PS4 also means you don't need to free up that additional 50GB of space, as the disc installation doesn't require it.
The Red Dead Redemption 2 release date is set for October 26, putting us exactly a week out from the launch of the game today.
Saddling up imminently, Rockstar has also treated us to one final trailer before the game hits our consoles. Catch it in action below: