I hate westerns. I've always just despised them. I don't like the setting or characters or any cowboy BS. It just doesn't sit well with me. I literally get a nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach when watching anything with a western theme.

That said, Red Dead Redemption has piqued my curiosity. My wife feels the same way I do about westerns and when I told her how this made me interested despite my distaste for westerns she was quite skeptical.

Then we watched some videos (part II) over on Gametrailers and she was pretty much instantly sold.

Normally I probably would've given this one some time, especially because it's multi-plat and those make me nervous about choosing early. But Amazon has quite a deal on pre-order with a $20 gift card which essentially makes the game $40 instead of $60 (not to mention no tax on Amazon whereas a 60 dollar game is closer to $65 with tax at a retailer). To make it even nicer, with Amazon Prime I'm getting release-day delivery for free.


Anyone else pretty excited about this game? And if you're not because you hate westerns I suggest you at least give it a look.