Spiderman… Whos’that?!?

Yes… this is not a post about the new Spiderman game.

Lately, the gaming community has been buzzing about an insanely hot new game, Spiderm-, nope it’s the newer Rockstar game, Red Dead Redemption II. Released on October 26,2018, the game had found major success and had a gross profit of upward $725 million during the week following its release. The third game in the saga, Red Dead Redemption II has no relations nor does it continue the storyline of the previous game, Red Dead Redemption. Much like other games such as the Assassin’s Creed saga or Grand Theft Auto V, also developed by Rockstar Games, it features a first/third person storyline along with a multiplayer open-world option. Similar to Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption has an excessively long storyline that could last up to 60 hours. The gameplay centers around on an outlaw named Arthur Morgan; takes place in the western frontier of America in 1911.

Development:

The production of Red Dead Redemption II was disclosed with the public by Rockstar Games and had been delayed multiple times in the past seven years whilst being developed. The company had stated that the size of their workers were more than 1,000 employees. According to these data and calculations from “The Deanbeat“, Rockstar Games invested an estimated $944.2 million including employees’ salary along with expenses for marketing/advertisement. This is certainly a substantial amount compared to previous games such as GTA V or the first Red Dead Redemption game. This has raised the assumption that the game wasn’t funded primarily by Rockstar Games but instead by its parent company, Take-Two Interactive. But, all this investment would prove worth it considering the revenue that it is earning for Rockstar Games.

Revenue:

Only released for a few weeks, Red Dead Redemption II shows an extremely high prospect with critics claiming that the game could make more than $2.55 billion in the next year. The reason that I named this blog post “Spiderman? Who’s that?” is that prior to the release of Red Dead Redemption II, Spiderman and even God of War were the main discussions of the gaming community. With merely a week of released, Red Dead Redemption II had found its way on the nominee list of 2018 Game of the Year. With such astonishing and remarkable payoff, it is arguable that the game is one of the company’s most warranted success following Grand Theft Auto V.