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The Last Possible Player Review: Reviewing Old Games that you couldn’t afford New

For about six months now I have been playing Red Dead Redemption on and off, patiently waiting for the Undead Nightmare DLC to come down in price. Stupidly when I purchased Red Dead, I didn’t realize that you didn’t need to get Red Dead Redemption to purchase and Play Undead Nightmare. Anyhoo last night I finally took the plunge and downloaded some Old West Zombie Awesomeness.

Undead Nightmare is FANTASTIC. Redemption is a great game on its own; however this DLC crowns it as Rockstar’s best in my eyes. I have never been able to get into the Grand Theft Auto series as it just seemed too real to everyday life. Don’t get me wrong I’m not running down hookers and shooting pimps, but if I wanted to I probably could. It just wasn’t enough of an escape and it bored me.

Red Dead is different though. Take the mechanics and tremendous graphics of GTA4 add new bullet time features and the old west and now were talking.  You gallop across the west and even into Mexico to hunt down outlaws with your own brand of justice.  That’s a little background on the core game however Undead Nightmare takes all that and crosses it with Dead Rising.  (more…)